Archive for Technology
Show Your Salesforce Chatter Love!
The big game may be over, but the inevitable battle of Superbowl commercials has only just begun. Last night marked a fundamental moment in salesforce.com history as Marc Benioff introduced chatter.com to a new audience through the company’s first televised advertisement during the biggest Sunday in television. As exciting as these times are with social [...]
The low down on the new FbD Michigan branch office
Wow! December was an amazing month for us here at Force by Design. We publicly announced our intention of starting a new branch of our practice in East Lansing Michigan. We simply could not be more excited about the opportunity to bring the wonders of salesforce.com and cloud computing to the mid-coast! In mid-December the [...]
DreamForce ’10
It’s that time of year again! DreamForce ’10. A little later than usual, in years past the event was held in Oct or Nov, DreamForce is now in early December (12/6- 12/9). Ahhh, a salesforce.com holiday in San Francisco! Interesting timing but not altogether a bad thing. The year is winding down, companies are looking to [...]
Cloudforce 2 Tour: San Jose
Join the Force By Design team at this event on Tuesday, June 22nd at the San Jose Convention Center. The agenda includes a Keynote speech delivered by Marc Benioff, followed by 18 breakout sessions for sales, customer service, developers, IT executives, ISVs, and entrepreneurs. Lunch is included. It’s a great place for networking with peers, [...]
Vote for our Dreamforce Presentation
Our client Spencer Bolles and one of our founders, Micaiah Filkins, are trying to get on stage at Dreamforce! Would you help us? We just need you to sign into the Ideas Portal with your standard salesforce.com user login and vote for the paper below. https://sites.secure.force.com/dreamforceideas/ideaView?c=09a30000000GzZs&id=08730000000HZT0&returnUrl=/apex/ideaList%3Fc%3D09a30000000GzZs%26sort%3Drecent Please send this to everyone asking them to vote [...]
It’s that time again: Dreamforce ’10
Mark your calendars! It’s the event that all of us Cloud fanatics look forward to every year! Be a part of the experience: hear the latest in Salesforce.com news, interactive sessions, guest speakers, a great place for networking! Where: Moscone Center, SF When: December 6-9, 2010 Take advantage of Salesforce.com’s special early bird offer: $799 [...]
AppExchange gets an upgrade!
Salesforce.com introduces Aloha Apps! Aloha Apps have special permissions that allow them to run without encountering Object and Tab limits among other advantages. We highly recommend searching through these apps and installing a few of them! Some of our favorite Aloha Apps include: FinancialForce – An online accounting system built completely on Force.com platform. What [...]
Salesforce ServiceCloud 2
The announcement from salesforce.com this week regarding the new Service Cloud functionality is very exciting. We have been working with a number of clients that will benefit greatly from the new Salesforce Answers and Salesforce Knowledge offerings. The big win with Salesforce Knowledge is dimensions. Specifically the ability to further refine the taxonomy of a [...]
Useful Salesforce.com Short Hand and Keyboard Shortcuts
Many of us spend our entire work day in Salesforce.com. Since we create and update so many records in a day, small time savers really add up over the course of a work day. These tips will help you save valuable time inside the system. Phone Number Formatting Short Hand Type any domestic US phone [...]
Creating year-over-year-to-date Comparison Forumlas
Have you ever had a metric that you wanted to see on a graph showing where you are this year versus lastyear?
