Blog
September 18, 2015
Here’s what we learned and heard yesterday:
- From “The Internet of Things: Delivering Customer Data on Salesforce,” a single platform harnessing data about your customer from beginning to end will provide the ability to predict customers issues before them. Happier customers, better business!
- From “Salesforce for Nonprofits Live Demo: Analytics and Big Data,” Salesforce Wave lets you analyze data from external sources alongside your own data in Salesforce. Plus much of Wave’s functionality is now available on your mobile device. For example, if someone emails you a spreadsheet, you can push it into Wave with just a click on your smartphone and then proceed to build a dashboard from it right on your device. You can also annotate a dashboard component and email it back out to others.
- From “Salesforce Products for Nonprofits: What We Have and Where We’re Headed,” the Nonprofit Start Pack is generally compatible out-of-the-box with the new Lightning Experience for Sales Cloud (with some exceptions). Organizations can try it out in a Winter ’16 sandbox. In terms of NGO Connect (NGOC), the team is testing new functionality against tens of millions of records to ensure support for data on a larger scale. NGOC is moving towards push upgrades and an NGOC user group is in the works.
- From “Wave Analytics Roadmap: A Sneak Peek at New Features and Future Roadmap,” Service Wave is in pilot come Winter ’16 release, You’ll be able to develop and test out Wave in dev orgs and the new trailhead module.
- From “Data Pipelines: Big Data Meets Salesforce,” data pipelines are currently in pilot with expected release in Summer ’16. Data Pipelines are designed to process massive amounts of data to/from Salesforce Sobjects/BigObjects/Files.
- From “Admin Tips and Tricks,” Workato allows you to easily build a custom API with an easy user interface.
- From “AppExchange for Higher Ed: Top Apps to Make You Even Smarter,”; Features of the best apps according to four higher ed. Admins.
- Form Assembly: (1) Web forms, (2) Multiple objects, (3) Public or private, (4) Dependency logic
- TaskRay: (1) Project management, (2) Salesforce data: Events, Contacts, custom objects
- AddressTools: (1) Autocomplete, (2) validate, (3) standardize from Country down to street
- Conga: (1) Composer for mail merge, (2) Courier for reporting
- Map Anything: (1) map routes, (2) map contacts in a region/route
- From “Data Cleansing and Analysis with Cross-Filters,” Tips and tricks on using cross filters, including how to think about the cross filter logic to get what you want and exclude what you don’t want AND how to use an object formula and a custom report type to find all records that don’t have attributes on related records
Here’s what we’re looking forward to today in the Foundation Zone:
- ACF client Joel Claseman of The College of St. Scholastica will participate in the session “With Great Platforms Comes Great Responsibility: Best Practices in Governance,” at 9:30am in Yerba Buena Salon 13-15.
