The New Trailhead
A write-up on the latest way to learn Salesforce from Salesforce.com: Trailhead.
Syncing Prices - Episode #172 of CloudFocus Weekly
Some experience with tools to sync Salesforce with Outlook and Gmail, Google cuts cloud storage prices in a war of the clouds and Salesforce1 heads to bean town.
Summer 14 - Episode #179 of CloudFocus Weekly
We have passed the date so we are deep diving into our favorite big and small features of Salesforce Summer 14.
Sum It Up - Episode #178 of CloudFocus Weekly
A series of banking blog posts, as much as we can talk about the MVP Summit and what we are excited about from Apple's WWDC.
Success Community + Wellness = Like
A quick look into the topic of Wellness and the Salesforce.com Success Community.
Starter Pack Heroes - Episode #186 - CloudFocus Weekly
Reporting on attachments, what is new in the Non Profit Starter Pack 3.0, the power of the Power of Us Hub and 30 days of community heroes.
Stand Excited - Episode #201 of CloudFocus Weekly
Getting users excited about adoption, 3 AppExchange apps every Admin should have, Hubspot launches CRM and a Steve Jobs story.
Spooky Tech - Episode #198 of CloudFocus Weekly
Round up of Dreamforce 14 and onto news from Amazon and Apple, including firsts and lasts.
Spoiler Free GTD® - Episode #174 of CloudFocus Weekly
Getting started with GTD®, GOT crashes HBO Go as Netflix talks about raising prices, the cloud titan clash over charitable giving.
Speaking Out - Episode #181 of CloudFocus Weekly
Work.com enhancements in Summer 14, a trio of new Dreamforce speakers and the World Cup technology.
Sell Low - Episode #166 of CloudFocus Weekly
Google sells Motorola and we speculate why, Beats starts a streaming service and we speculate why also five trends from CES 2014.
San Fran Dreaming - Episode #193 of CloudFocus Weekly
All about Salesforce.com Dreamforce 14, from communities to new wearable tech being announced including some Winter 16 pre-pre-pre news.
Salesforce.com Service Enhancements in Summer 14
This Summer 14 Release is bringing us more exciting Service Cloud features that will make the agents lives easier and give customers the best and most efficient support.
Salesforce Winter 15 Release Notes Rapid Reaction
It’s that time of the year once again where we get to dig in and read some Salesforce.com release notes.
Salesforce Two-Factor Authentication - A Test Drive
The good, bad and ugly of the Salesforce two-factor feature; higher security but at a price.
Salesforce Summer 14 Release Notes Rapid Reaction
It’s that time of the year once again where we get to dig in and read some release notes.
Salesforce Spring 14 Release Notes Rapid Reaction
Once again Salesforce has a large release scheduled for Spring 14 - here are some of my favorite features.
Salesforce.com Summer 14 Release & Permission Sets
Taking a look at Permissions and Permission Set changes and enhancements in the Summer 14 Salesforce release.
Salesforce.com Service Enhancements in Winter 15
It’s all about enhancing and refining the service cloud features in this Winter 15 release.
Salesforce.com Service Enhancements in Spring 14
This Spring 14 Release has some super exciting Service Cloud features that are truly, as Marc Benioff highlighted in his keynote at Dreamforce, making it all about the customers.
Salesforce Change Sets for System Administrators
Change Sets provide the ability for a System Administrator to deploy changes from a connected sandbox to their production Salesforce environment.
Salesforce 15 Origin Story - Episode #171 of CloudFocus Weekly
The blog is full of Dataloader.io and Conga Composer 8 with some sneak peaks at the next few weeks, we tell our Salesforce 15 origin stories and question why Spring 14 has been so delayed.
Work.com, Summer 14, and What is in It For You
At Arkus we are really seeing a lot of value in Work.com and getting very excited about where this tool will go with each new release of Salesforce. Work.com licensed organizations have already seen the value in motivating and evaluating employees within Salesforce. Let's review some of the specific features coming in Summer 14.
Runneth Over - Episode #180 of CloudFocus Weekly
Some quick talk of permission sets hitting Summer 14, our take on Google IO, Amazon Fire Phone, Songza to our hearts and Facebook Emotion-gate.
Rock, Scissor, Paper - Episode #167 of CloudFocus Weekly
The Permissioner has competition, so we break it down, Facebook redefines the UI in Paper, Salesforce kills off Blackberry support and is Bill Gates back at MSFT a good thing?
Review: Dataloader.io
Here is a review of Dataloader.io by MuleSoft, a Salesforce.com data loading tool.
Reporting on Attachments via Dataloader.io
A process for exporting and reporting on the attachments within your Salesforce org using dataloader.io.
Referral Management Options for Banks in Salesforce
Let’s take a look at some options for tracking banking referrals in Salesforce.com.
Real Exploration - Episode #175 of CloudFocus Weekly
The blog this week covers evaluating Clicktools, the huge new IE exploit, Netflix gets a real channel and Dreamforce 14 registration opens up.
Rant & Rave - Episode #182 of CloudFocus Weekly
Some tips on managing referrals in Salesforce, some inter-galactic Dreamforce 14 news, NFL streams and being a customer company (rant style).