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Lightning
What is Salesforce Lightning Connect?
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Salesforce Lightning Connect allows you to setup an external object (which is like an actual object in Salesforce, but is ReadOnly and cannot be used in reports, among other limitations) but the data is not stored in Salesforce. Instead, when a user views a list, related list, or detail page of records of that object; Salesforce Lightning Connect...
Salesforce News
Top 5 Features of the Salesforce Winter ’16 Release
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September is here and with it the Salesforce Winter ‘16 Release. Here is a countdown of the top 5 favorite features: 5. The Sales Wave App Brings the Power of Wave to Sales Cloud Data (Generally Available) The Sales Wave App allows administrators to build Wave Charts and Dashboards using Sales Cloud data. Wave provides powerful...
Help & Training
Salesforce Hack: How-to Add More Fields to Related Lists
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Let me start by saying that this hack is not mine. Somewhere along the way I was provided with this solution when a client asked to have more than 10 fields in a Related List. Unfortunately I can not remember who exactly provided this solution so I cannot give credit where credit is due however...
Dreamforce
Are You a Banker Heading to Dreamforce? Don’t Miss Out on these Sessions!
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Dreamforce is almost here! This is going to be an awesome year for breakout sessions dedicated to banking. I remember the first time I attended Dreamforce a couple of years ago, a banker from a small town in New Hampshire at the largest technology conference on earth, that was not quite sure where to go...
Healthcare
Silverline Q&A: The New Salesforce Health Cloud
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Silverline’s CEO, Gireesh Sonnad, speaks with our Healthcare Practice Director, Matt Gretczko, to get his thoughts about Salesforce Health Cloud; its first industry product built specifically for Healthcare. Gireesh: Salesforce announced a new Health “Cloud” – how does this differ from other functionality for Healthcare? Matt: Many people, especially within the Healthcare industry, still believe...
Healthcare
Leverage Salesforce to drive customer engagement and accelerate sales of Medical Devices
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Managing and growing sales across multiple channels, geographies, and product offerings is a challenge. It’s even harder as Medical Device companies seek to find creative ways to improve their service offerings to both partners and customers, enhance their sales team effectiveness, and at the same time maintain the appropriate governance. Learn how leading-edge Medical Device...