Visualforce for One Screen Data Entry in Salesforce

Salesforce users who have come from the single entry screen environment of a contact manager find that they have to go through more clicks and screens then they are used to in order to add a new Contact for a new Account and then schedule a Task to call the new contact at some point in the future.

Even though Salesforce provides considerably more power than a contact manager, salespeople in particular are not fond of having to spend any more time than they think is necessary to key data into a CRM system. Read more

Salesforce.com for Small Businesses

Salesforce.com is now promoting a suite of editions for small business, with the launch of the small business page.  The three, offered editions provide an easy way for small businesses to get started with the world’s leading CRM solution.  While the small business editions have feature limitations compared to the higher end, Enterprise Edition, users can still benefit from solid, core functionality and from all of the of the Force.com platform’s physical security, application security controls, and high availability. Read more

Force.com Sites Explained

Force.com Sites provides an all-in-one method for creating database driven, standard Web pages.

What are “database driven” pages?  These are pages with a normal Web site look and feel, except that certain elements of the pages are retrieved from database tables rather than being maintained in the Web page as HTML text. Read more

Twitter Salesforce Interaction for Customer Support

The following video shows how a customer inquiry from within Twitter can be added as a Case in Salesforce.com and how a customer service representative can easily reply to the inquiry.

With Salesforce for Twitter, tweets related to a specific Twitter account or to a specific search term can be pulled into Salesforce.com and a Case can be automatically or manually created. Read more

Force.com VAR Program Launches

Program for Force.com Resellers Announced

Salesforce.com has recently launched a new VAR program for Force.com.  Read the full press release here.  Lexnet signed on as a charter partner along with a dozen other VARs.

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The Cloud: Providing Golden Opportunities

The cloud has opportunities for developers big and small.

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Can you save your company millions of dollars and two years in time-to-market on your next product? If you think it’s impossible, maybe you should look to the cloud.

While reading this article on the promise of cloud computing, one of the article’s examples really stood out to me. CODA, a UK-based financial management services provider, built their latest product entirely on salesforce.com’s development platform Force.com. Read more