One significant feature is the ability to run polls through Salesforce.com's Chatter social collaboration software.

"For example, you are in charge of planning an annual sales meeting and need to find out when most people are available to attend the meeting," the notes state. "Instead of emailing everybody in the sales organization, you could create a poll in the Sales Chatter group that lists possible dates and ask people to vote for the date that works best for them."

The vendor also affirmed that a new Communities feature, which was , will be available in pilot form with Winter '13.

Salesforce.com developers are getting some new features as well, with a key one being Canvas Framework.

This feature, which will be available in pilot form, "enables you to easily integrate a third-party application in Salesforce," according to the notes.