Salesforce for Google AdWords retiring
On May 1st 2013 Salesforce for Google AdWords will be retired, and any customers currently using this functionality need to be aware that they will no longer see AdWords information added to leads and opportunities after this date. Customers currently using this feature have been sent an email detailing the change with recommended actions to take. Full technical support will …
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New Force.com IDE now available (v27)
As of last week the very latest Force.com IDE is now available (API version 27) and if you’re a Salesforce Developer you’ll probably want to upgrade to take advantage of the very latest features. The upgraded IDE follows the recent upgrade of all instances to the Spring ’13 release. To upgrade the Force.com IDE from eclipse simply go to Help …
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Salesforce.com acquires Entropysoft
Salesforce.com has reportedly acquired the French startup Entropysoft, a company offering content integration solutions for enterprise customers. A spokesperson confirmed the deal although it’s been reported that Salesforce will not be making a formal announcement, and questions are directed to this email address: [email protected] Entropysoft technology is used by software vendors and large organisations to simply the integration of their …
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James Caan endorses cloud computing
James Caan, best known as a former investor on the BBC television programme Dragons’ Den recently endorsed the use of Cloud Computing in an interview with one of the UK’s largest independent professional bodies. Harness the power of the cloud James was asked to offer his advice to SME’s on how to succeed this year, and here’s what he had …
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Get ready for Spring ’13
Starting on the 1st February Salesforce.com will be rolling out the new Spring ’13 release to production environments as well as the remaining sandbox instances that haven’t already been updated (http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/maintenance/). The roll-out is expected to take just over a week with the final instances being updated on the 9th. The expected downtime is just 5 minutes meaning that you …
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Salesforce surpasses 1 billion transactions
Last week saw Salesforce surpass another milestone by processing over 1 billion daily transactions on November 27th. The exact number of transactions (as reported by trust.salesforce.com) was 1,018,557,795. Each transaction took an average of 0.268 seconds, not bad considering they had over 1 billion of them to process! Just two days later another “billion transaction” day came along on the 29th …
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Cloud TCO Tools
Smart businesses around the globe are thinking about how they can use the cloud to their advantage. The benefits of moving to the cloud are lower IT expenditures, access to data anywhere and anytime, and less hassles by not having to worry about IT infrastructure. However, a lot of businesses have been slow to migrate to the cloud because it …
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Salesforce.com joins G-Cloud
Salesforce.com last week announced that they have joined the G-Cloud framework here in the UK. Public sector organisations in the UK can now procure salesforce.com’s trusted social and mobile cloud computing technologies through the G-Cloud CloudStore (http://gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk/) As a London based salesforce consultancy, we welcome this announcement and are excited about the possibilities for the future. For many years private …
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Chatter Desktop Upgrade v3.1
Chatter Desktop Upgrade! Salesforce.com are upgrading Chatter Desktop to version 3.1 on Thursday, November 1, 2012. The upgrade will include the following new features: Attach file to comments Sort chat favorites by availability View your chat list by full name View multiple chats more easily Drag-and-drop files to the publisher with a new icon New Chatter feed icon View last activity …
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Winter ’13 – Favourite features
The standard approach following any salesforce release is to write a blog post focusing on the latest and greatest functionality. This isn’t going to be one of those posts, rather than sticking with the “status quo” we’re going to buck the trend and write about one of the most boring (yet infinitely useful) new features introduced by Winter ’13 – …
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