The Silverline Blog
Industry insights, Salesforce news, and more
Industry insights, Salesforce news, and more
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In case you missed it yesterday, registration opened for Dreamforce 2017 November 6-9, 2017. Our team is really looking forward to the 2,700+ sessions to help every role in every industry succeed, the opportunity to get hands-on with the latest product innovations, and 170,000 Trailblazers to learn from! If you plan on attending, we have...
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We here at Silverline have been struck by Lightning. It’s all about the Salesforce Lightning Experience all day, every day! One of the most frequently asked questions we hear from our clients is “Which are the top Lightning Experience features we should roll out?” After dozens and dozens of projects, we thought it was high...
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I’ve been working with marketing automation tools for a little over 5-years and have had exposure to several tools, each with unique pros and cons. One question I am most often asked is “what is the difference between Marketing Cloud and Pardot?” I thought I would take some time and write-up one ladies opinion. I’ll...
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I have been working with Marketing Cloud (aka ExactTarget) for about 5 years and decided it was finally time to take my Marketing Cloud Email Specialist exam, but had no idea where to start. While Salesforce provides great materials for those who choose to take the exam, most people find that combining those materials with...
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Recently, Salesforce (SF) introduced two new features that will become part of a developer’s arsenal, SF DX & The Lightning API. While Salesforce’s main focus is to improve and create new features on the Salesforce platform itself, it also makes the effort to make custom development easier and extend the platform to other frameworks. Previously,...
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When we engage with new clients that are considering rolling out Salesforce for their users, we field tons of questions related to data. It’s one of the top concerns of users and executives alike – and it should be! It’s one of the most important aspects of planning for your implementation. When your users and management...
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Spring is almost here and with it the Salesforce Spring ’17 Release. Here is a countdown of my top 5 favorite features. 5. ConnectApi (Chatter in Apex) Much of the functionality available to the Chatter REST API has been made natively available to Apex through the new ConnectApi class. While developers could previously make SOQL...
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In my last post, I talked about some great reasons on how you should use Salesforce Lightning Components. Our Foundry team has been hard at work on some awesome components and I’m excited to share one of my favorites with you. RSVP is a free Lightning component that allows users to register for events on...
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Salesforce has made a huge investment into the new Lightning platform and we believe it represents innovative, next-generation opportunities for our clients. Lightning includes the Lightning Component Framework and some exciting tools for developers; using these technologies you can seamlessly customize and easily deploy new apps to mobile devices running Salesforce1. Why use Lightning Components?...
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Silverline continues to see a large demand for heavy custom front-end development. To tackle these projects, we have adopted the ReactJS framework for building our applications’ views and Redux for managing their state. For an intro to using ReactJS and Redux on Salesforce, take a look at Bryan Anderson’s article, How-to Use ReactJS and Redux...