The Spring 12 pre-release of salesforce is officially out and it offers a peak at some of the new features coming out. One word of note is that the release notes are still not out (if they are, I can't find them), so in theory none of this is official. But, if…
On the heels of Dreamforce 11, salesforce has just published the Winter 12 release notes. If you were at Dreamforce, it won't come as a surprise, but this is a big release. All in all, there are 150 new features in this release, and a lot of big ones. Here are…
Salesforce has opened up the pre-release of Summer 11 and with that come therelease notes describing all of the new features. We haven't seen a release date yet, but here's a look at what's coming in Summer 11: Chatter Enhancements - Lots and lots of new Chatter changes. This is the third release in…
Empower your Sales Representatives to be aware of everything happening related their accounts. Whether it's a high priority case being opened for their account, or a new opportunity being created by an overlay sales team, or even a maintenance contract expiring, they need to know of these changes so when…
Right on the heels of wrapping up Dreamforce, Salesforce has begun to make official some of the new features that will be part of Spring 11. This list is evolving as salesforce flags some of the Ideas posts (a few new ones were added today), so be sure to keep checking. Some…
After a long day of break-out sessions, kick off your Tuesday evening at our Dreamforce Happy Hour at the B Restaurant and Bar above Moscone North. Drinks and food will be on us, along with our partners CodeScience and Glance. This will be a great opportunity to relax, meet the GearsCRM team, and also get…
There are several ways to handle lead scoring in salesforce, including using formula fields or building apex triggers, but one of the easiest is the Force.com Lead Scoring App. This is a terrific app that Salesforce Labs have built, and best of all, it's free. How does Lead Scoring work?…
Salesforce has begun updating their Ideas site and tagging some requests as coming in the next release (which is Winter 11). On their official blog, they have announced this is real, and are showing off a few of the features coming out. This isn't the full list, but a few big…
Today, Salesforce revealed a sub-set of the new features we can look forward to in the Summer 10 release. Most of these are smaller features, the larger ones will probably be revealed as the release gets a little closer. Even with these being smaller features, there's some good ones in here…
Spring 10 started to roll out last night to a few of the instances. One of the big enhancements with Spring 10 is the upgrade to the Salesforce mobile lite edition. The biggest enhancement is that you can now edit and delete records from any standard object from your mobile device.…
I've been playing around with the Spring 10 Pre-release for Salesforce when I've had some time and one of the features I glossed over in my first post, is the enhanced table dashboard component. This is actually a nice little enhancement. Basically, you can now add another row of data to the…
The next Salesforce release - Spring 10 - is coming in early February. Details are starting to come out about what's in there, but the easiest way to see is the free pre-release trial. To sign up, go tohttps://www.salesforce.com/form/trial/prerelease_spring10.jsp. Some of the top features seem to be: Quotes - The…