2007 holds many new and exciting projects in store that will yield new features in i-Dialogue based on both customer feedback and internal innovations.

Here is the 2007 feature roadmap (sans delivery dates) in no particular order:

 

Salesforce Winter '07 gives us the ability to "Mash-up" Salesforce Campaigns with i-Dialogue campaigns in a single user interface. A new inline S-Control added to the Salesforce Campaign page layout gives authorized users the ability to create target Campaign Members from Reports in Salesforce, select a desired email launch date, and within the embedded SControl, directly edit the email campaign template and send test emails.

 

Also in Winter '07 is the ability to replicate/manage Email Communication Templates via the Salesforce API. i-Dialogue email templates can now be derived from Salesforce and vice-versa.

 

Online eCommerce will be come much easier in 2007 as i-Dialogue i-Store combines the publication of Products, creation of Assets, and integration with Payflow (Link and Pro) into a single application. Additional payment gateways, such as Authorize.net, will be added over time.

 

Similar to Web-to-Lead and Web-to-Case, i-Dialogue Web-to-Object provides the ability to publish publicly accessible web forms that create Salesforce records in real-time on form submit.

 

Support for complex forms with multi-object Lookup JOINs will follow-up later in the year (Hopefully before Dreamforce '07).

 

For web sites that require the publication of near real-time custom objects, a new i-Dialogue web service is available for use by the Salesforce Winter '07 Outbound Messaging feature.

 

When a Salesforce record, such as a property listing or job requisition is created or updated, i-Dialogue is notified by Salesforce to immediately "phone home" and get the latest information for use on the web site.

 

Did you delete that web content or email template too soon? No problem. i-Dialogue '07 includes a Trash Bin that can recycle/restore any deleted object back to their original condition.

 

Any Salesforce object replicated in the portal can be viewed with a configurable summary data grid with links to detailed record information. This feature allows for the rapid development of web applications that extend access to Salesforce data beyond internal Salesforce Users; such as Partners, Suppliers, or Employees that only need intermittent access to data.

 

The i-Dialogue Content Management System will get a fresh update with a new Page Management menu that utilizes more AJAX callbacks and dynamic pop-up boxes. The goal is to replicate the functionality of a rich web page designer, such as FrontPage, directly in the browser.

 

Our library of data management utilities (de-dupe, bulk record update, bulk record delete, etc...) will be re-written in Apex and made available as packaged library.