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Update: it is confirmed. INXS (wikipedia) will be performing at the Gala at DreamForce. Here is the email I received from Salesforce.com to verify it: inxs-email.jpg
It got out! George Lucas (wikipedia) will be the keynote speaker at the general session and Barenaked Ladies Foo Fighters Journey INXS (wikipedia) will be performing a private concert for DreamForce ‘07 attendees at the Monday night Gala. This information, although not verified, was leaked through Facebook and is reported on other blogs like Salesforce Watch and CRM FYI.
Here is a list of 10 things you can do to make your DreamForce experience a success:
A test environment for salesforce.com is crucial to change control. Salesforce.com provides the tools needed to test anything in a test environment before you implement it in your live instance. You can either test in a Sandbox environment or in a Developer environment. What is the difference? I will share what I know…
Do you or your users have a long list of folders in Outlook for storing emails? Is it hard to search for/find the email you need? Is it tedious to have to look in Outlook and in salesforce.com for your emails and sales history? Do you wish you had one place where all of the information could be stored?
Searching in salesforce.com seems easy…until you don’t find what you are looking for. Here are a few tips to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your searching:
Search vs. Advanced Search
Are you looking for a quick and easy way to increase adoption? Enter Dashboards!
Dashboards are the most visual and fun part of salesforce.com. End users love the way they can see their data immediately represented in colorful and graphical form. They are excited to use the system knowing that their information will change the dashboard’s graphs and metrics in real time for their managers to see.
As the admin of salesforce.com, you are responsible for the integrity of the system for your organization. That means that you need to make sure that your system is up and running properly at all times. Sometimes it is out of your control because salesforce.com might be experiencing a rare problem. But for the most part, how accessible your data is and how it is viewed by your users is up to you.
If you are an admin for your salesforce.com instance, then there is no were else you should be on September 16-19 than in San Francisco. Each year, salesforce.com puts on a global user conference titled DreamForce. This is a conference full of education and best practices in managing and using salesforce.com. I have gone for the past two years and am planning on going this year. There has been no other place where I have gathered so much information that directly affects how salesforce.com can help my business.
I am no professional blogger. I only created this site to share information about how I manage my companies Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is growing rapidly and so the more information on how to use/manage it, the better. I am going to attempt to share ideas, tips and best practices that I have and hope to get help from others comments.
I have been using Salesforce.com for over two years and have grown to love it. It’s interface really takes businesses to the next level in standardizing their internal processes. That allows them to see directly into their business and make accurate decisions from the data. Any application can do this really, but Salesforce.com is so user-friendly that the end users actually use it. That’s its advantage.
I have gained some knowledge and experience over the past couple of years and will share what I know. Feel free to share what you know also.
