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Forecasts & Quotas in Summer '12 Release of the Salesforce.com Sales Cloud

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:49

Salesforce.com issued the following blog today on the upcoming Forecast and Quotas feature about to be released. The post can be viewed here. http://blogs.salesforce.com/product/2012/05/test.html
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How to create a system job (Cron Job) in Force.com for Salesforce

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 19:02

This blog will show you how to schedule a System job in Salesforce via a custom button.

Situation

In our example we want to schedule a System Job of an update of Vendors with the click of a button on any of the Vendors detail page. However, we want to update one our Vendors, Vendor X, separately from the others.
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Merge Accounts in Salesforce

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 02:10

Introduction

This blog will show you how to merge two similar accounts within Salesforce.

Scenario

In our scenario, we notice that we have two separate Accounts that have very similar names Exciting Energy and Exciting Energy Inc.:
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Great Forbes.com Article - "The Secret To Successful CRM"

Submitted by administrator on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 23:21

One of the problems many companies have with CRM is that they try to do too much too soon. With your Salesforce.com or Dynamics CRM Partner, figure out what you need to better do your job, and make sure everyone else does their job right away, this often means starting with reports and going from there. This should allow you to pick out what fields and categories you want without having to put much thought into it. As you grow, you will know what to add to make it work better for the company as a whole.

The article can be found here. http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2012/04/16/the-secret-to-s...
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Microsoft finally switches from Siebel CRM to Dynamics CRM

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 20:47

One of the many interesting revelations that came out of Microsoft's recent Convergence user conference was that Microsoft has successfully weaned itself from its massive Siebel CRM deployment, in favor of its own Dynamics CRM. It was an interesting comment on the viability and scalability of Dynamics CRM that's worth exploring, particularly in light of the some of the post-hoc analysis of the back-story behind the switch.
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