Posts Tagged ‘salesforce’

Adoption of cloud computing and SaaS applications continues to increase as advances in technology address concerns with security, privacy and customization limitations. The global SaaS market is projected to grow from $49B in 2015 to $67B in 2018, attaining a CAGR of 8.14% (Roundup of Cloud Computing Forecasts and Market Estimates, Forbes, Sept 27, 2015) […]

Driving Forces Impact CRM Investments Cloud is now seen as mainstream in all areas of customer relationship management (CRM). In fact, Gartner forecasts that software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-based deployments will dominate the CRM market in 2016. What’s the driving force behind this rapidly growing trend? Organizations of all sizes are moving toward easier deployments and faster-ROI alternatives to modernizing legacy […]

Today’s successful enterprises measure progress with more than just balance sheets. They count the number of top-notch people who can say the company’s nurturing environment enabled their talents to flourish. For nearly two decades, Perficient’s entrepreneurial mindset has attracted the kind of self-motivated and inspiring people who enable our company to expand and prosper year […]

I came across an article that celebrated Genentech’s 40 years in business with a few fun facts and stories about the biotechnology pioneer: Founded on April 7, 1976 The name Genentech stems from GENetic ENgineering TECHnology The company was founded with a $1,000 investment in 1976 by Robert Swanson, a venture capitalist, and Herbert Boyer, […]

Apps have quickly transformed the way your customers interact with your products and services in a digital world. Apps are also the conduit to the experts and information your employees need in order to take action. The rapid pace of digital change means businesses don’t have the luxury of time on their side and need to react quickly. To meet new business […]

  Now that March is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in February – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. 

  Gartner forecasts that the business intelligence (BI) and analytics market will increase 5.2% over last year, reaching $16.9 billion by the end of 2016. Ian Bertram, managing vice president at Gartner, believes “The shift to the modern BI and analytics platform has now reached a tipping point.” He urges the organizations that are lagging […]

While you can create a Salesforce Community using the Community Builder directly in your production environment, I would not recommend it in the majority of cases. Fortunately, it is quite easy to deploy your templates into production by following these three simple steps: Step 1: Use Change Sets Use change sets to move all custom lightning […]

I am marrying a man who happens to dislike the Salesforce1 mobile app. Over the past few days, it has been a big subject of debate as he tried to figure out ways to work around using it on his iPad mini, such as using Opera as his mobile browser which does not support Salesforce1. Being […]

On Oct. 9, Perficient colleagues Mary Jo Schweitzer, email marketing manager; Elizabeth Dias, senior Salesforce marketing manager; and I gave a presentation at the Salesforce User Group Meeting held at World Wide Technology in St. Louis, Mo. The presentation was framed as a ‘fireside chat’ with Perficient’s Marketing and Demand Generation teams. Our goal was […]

Since the Salesforce Winter ’16 release notes came out in late August, we have seen customers eager to use the now extensible Napili template in the Salesforce Community Builder. Why? It offers companies a way to quickly setup an attractive, engagement-centric self-service community that is built on the modern Lightning framework and it is fully […]

  As many of you know, Perficient has a practice devoted to Salesforce.com solutions. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that a bunch of my colleagues are at this year’s Dreamforce event and furiously blogging about what they’re hearing. One of the posts that caught my attention was from Mike Porter, who sat in Dr. […]