Google Drive launched, not yet ready
Following on from the rumours and anticipation, today Google launched a new service called “Google Drive”. Although this is a consumer offering, we see no reason why SME’s cannot use the service to help expand their business without having to worry about physical storage hardware or data redundancy (backups). Given that the service scales to 16TB it should be plenty to keep …
Read MoreEnhanced Analytics now FREE (EE and UE only)
What a great start to February, Salesforce just announced that the new Analyics ‘Edition’ functionaltiy is to be included FREE OF CHARGE for Enterprise and Unlimited Edition Customers as part of the Spring ’12 release. For those of you that don’t know what this is all about, back in December Salesforce announced that they were going to be brining out …
Read MoreSandbox service disruptions August 2011
Back in August there were a number of lengthy outages on CS3 and CS8 Sandbox instances – following a root cause analysis, the email below has been sent out to customers with details of what caused this problem and the measures salesforce are taking to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. Executive Summary At salesforce.com the trusted success of our customers is …
Read MoreSalesforce’s latest acquision – Rypple
This week salesforce announced details of their latest acquisition, Toronto based firm Rypple. Rypple are specialists in human resource (HR) / workforce management and have an existing product which is heavily focused on social goals, collaboration and could perhaps be described as a “facebook for performance management”. Rypple was founded in 2008 by Daniel Debow, David Stein and George Babu “We started Rypple …
Read MoreFormula Field to Calculate Week Number
I recently had a reporting requirement where I need to show (and plot graphically) which week number of the year it was, rather than just the standard date. Standard SFDC functionality allows us to group by week, but this does not display the actual week number but rather the start date and end date for that range – not what …
Read MoreMaking sense of the Case Thread Id
For those using salesforce for service & support and email to case you may already be familiar with the thread Id. The thread Id is included in the subject and body of email’s sent from salesforce (relating to an existing case) which acts as a unique identifier in order to automatically relate replies to the correct thread in salesforce. This …
Read MoreForce.com Quick Access Menu – Winter ’12
A fantastic new feature due out in the Winter ’12 salesforce release is the “Force.com Quick Access Menu”. If you’re a developer or salesforce admin, the chances are that you’re gonna love this! A bug bear for many of us working with custom objects / customisation / development has been that the navigation options are buried deep in the setup …
Read MoreCloudforce London 2011 – Highlights (Day 1)
I’m just back from a great event and a great day out at Cloudforce London! Registering early paid off as I managed to get there on day 1 (the event was heavily oversubscribed leading to salesforce holding an additional day tomorrow, the 15th). Following the huge success of Dreamforce in the states this year it was great to see that …
Read MoreCool Infographic – Public vs Private Cloud
An interesting infographic on Public vs Private Cloud, not sure about the accuracy of the Cloud Costs Breakdown section but would be interested to hear your thoughts. Enjoy!
Read MoreGet additional graphics for your salesforce org
A handy new Force.com Labs Appexchange listing called ‘Graphics Pack’ was recently published allowing administrators to quickly and easily add a number of new images to their salesforce org over & above those provided as standard (everybody loves nice new, shiny icons!). The images will come in handy when creating: Image formulas Visualforce Pages New Tabs The images are available …
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