As a consultant there is nothing better than a small piece of config that delivers massive results for the client. One of the most common reasons companies initially move to Salesforce is to save time. They want to cut out exhaustive manual processes and make use of task automation all in the name of cutting […]

Does this picture look familiar when speaking about your CRM application? Most software implementations, even if initiated by the business – end up in the IT department. While not always the case, this transfer of responsibility for the CRM deployment starts a chain reaction that becomes increasingly difficult to stop. First, when requirements are gathered and […]

One of my Sales Directors has a motorbike.  Not any old motorbike; one of those huge motorbikes I’ve always dreamed of owning, the sort that make many women go weak at the knees if you offered them an opportunity to ride pillion. The sadness is I’m now in the bracket of middle age where I’m […]

Firstly, my genuine apologies are due to many past clients! It seems that all of those ERP integrations I have implemented over the years, nightly batch jobs, middle-ware syncronisations and roll-yer-own data-syncs… were all sub-optimal solutions! I’m sorry! Salesforce aligned with OData (Open Data Protocol) about a year ago with its introduction of External Data […]

As we have come to expect around this time of the year Salesforce.com has recently announced the general availability of their Summer ’15 release: The Ice Cream Van release. Some of these new features will feel like vanilla flavoured ice cream, nice but not special; in fact you may even think that it was high […]