Posts Tagged ‘Communities’

With Summer ‘15 preview in sandboxes and the production release around the corner, it’s a great time to dive into some of the key features we’ve been waiting for! Let’s look at 5 new features that will make your system administration a little easier so you can kick back and enjoy summer. Match Production Licenses to Your Sandbox […]

  Successful Salesforce implementations have several key defining features: deployments need to be done quickly, collaboratively and must be business-driven.  With these key features in mind, project managers and implementation teams need to consider the best methodology to ensure success with a Salesforce project.  There are various methodologies that have been described extensively, but which one […]

No secret or surprise that Informatica and Salesforce have been closely aligned and work very well together. Both are cloud solutions which free you from having to manage on-premise networks and access to your business. The ability to schedule jobs and easily identify the changes and connectors for all major data applications means that it […]

In my earlier blog, Salesforce and Predictive Analytics, I was making a point why Salesforce has taken a keen interest in predictive analytics software.  Salesforce has turned the market inside out by taking the complexities of IT and infrastructure delays, and not to mention out-of-the-box implementation features, easy enough for small companies to implement with minimal budget and external help. […]

Salesforce is a boon for companies which can’t take a number and wait for IT to prioritize the implementation. However if adequate data architecture planning is not done, it can end up as a siloed application with Data Quality issues. Many companies don’t have the time to engage the Enterprise team for CRM implementation besides […]

Have you ever had challenges trying to include a Visualforce page from another application (e.g. a managed package)? You are not alone! The proliferation of creating managed packages (a collection of Force.com components made available to others through the AppExchange) in Salesforce, and the impact to the UI/UX experience in trying to incorporate a page […]

  Technology continues to disrupt almost every facet of every industry. The world has moved beyond a world of just standalone mobile devices. Consumers are connected to the “Internet of Everything”. We’ve entered into an era where smartphones are connected to everything – beacons, fitness trackers, smart TVs, LED lights, homes, cars and so much more. Welcome to the digital […]

  For those of you who don’t have time to read the Salesforce Spring ’15 Release Notes, here are the top three new Salesforce Communities features that you need to know about: Create a Case from a Question in your Community  Let’s say that a member of your self-service community posts a question about a […]

Many of us in the marketing profession have been watching #saleforce.com and many others try to rationalize the use of all the different tools at our disposal to reach our markets better, while at the same time, gain more insights into what is trending, where and with whom so we can make better decisions. Not […]

On December 19th I published the results of a poll we conducted with our expert Salesforce consultants about the apps we like to use when implementing a solution for a customer. While it was a very close race, Informatica, DocuSign, Conga, DemandTools and FormsAssembly bubbled to the top. The next “favs” reported by our team […]

I found the following local egov infographic from Civic Plus somewhat relevant to understanding how to build and gain adoption of a customer or partner #Community in the private sector with a few important differences: With today’s technology from #salesforce.com, you can go from “emerging” to the “fully engaged” state in a matter of a […]

The official announcement about Salesforce connecting to files stored in Microsoft’s SharePoint Online was made official this morning. Rich Wood, Director at Perficient,  put together a synopsis of what this romance means for each of the involved partners: This is two giants connecting like to like– the dominant platforms for CRM and file-sharing, respectively– and […]