Even though Salesforce's Summer 20 is delayed a bit (coming out in mid-July now), the release notes are out which means it's time for our release write-ups. Before jumping in, I just want to say I hope everyone is healthy and hanging in there with the pandemic and all of…
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and I hope everyone has a terrific upcoming New Year. It's hard to believe the year is almost over, let alone the decade. The 2010's were a big decade for us at Gears (it's hard not to be when all but 6 months of our existence…
May the 4th be with you! I feel like the last week has been geek heaven. I can't remember a better geek weekend then last weekend with both Endgame and Game of Thrones's Battle of Winterfell both dropping - and neither disappointed. To add to it I spent most of…
Happy Holidays everyone. I hope you had a nice relaxing holiday these past few weeks and that you're about to have a terrific New Year. The last couple of years, the Spring release notes have been coming out right before Christmas and this year was no different as they came…
I hope everyone had a terrific summer. This one went quick, but nothing makes you realize it's over quicker than having Dreamforce around the corner and the Winter 19 release notes already being out. Winter 19 is coming in early October, so even though it feels like Summer 18 just…
Even though for those of us in New England it feels like Winter just ended, Summer 18 is right around the corner and the release notes are out. (I have to admit, I am not sure about the Summer 18 logo though. First, I'd never want to go snorkeling with…
Happy Holidays to everyone and I hope you're all getting ready for a great New Year and ready for an exciting 2018. It's been like clockwork now for 3 straight years in that Salesforce unveils the release notes right before Christmas - delivering a great present to all of us…
Amazingly summer is over and September is here already. I hope everyone had a good summer and you're enjoying the last long weekend for a bit. With the end of summer, means Salesforce's next release is coming soon and sure enough, the Winter 18 release notes are out. I actually…
Hope everyone is having a terrific summer. We are adding a bonus updates to our Summer 17 blog series (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud & Communities updates) as Salesforce CPQ Summer 17 was just recently made generally available. This is a big release with some cool new features. This release incorporates…
Summer is almost here with Memorial Day right around the corner and just on time is the new Summer 17 release. Summer 17 will be hitting your instance in early June, and as always we're digging into the release notes discussing all the cool and exciting features. Summer 17 is…
When most people think of Lightning Experience they think mostly about how it's a new look and feel for Salesforce and that's about it. Lightning Experience is much more than that. The past few Salesforce releases have been packed with features aimed at helping sales users to work smarter, faster…
The past few Salesforce releases have been packed with features aimed at helping sales users to work smarter, faster and be more productive – but these features are exclusive to Lightning Experience (LEX). If you’ve been considering migrating to LEX, now is the perfect time to take advantage of the…
Happy New Year everyone! Hope your New Year celebrations were fun and safe and that you're up for a terrific 2017. Salesforce is kicking off 2017 with their Spring 17 release and the release notes are officially out. It's another big one - with 452 pages of features - Lightning…
Hope everyone had a great summer. Can't believe this is already Labor Day. I feel like I just wrote about all of the Summer 16 features to kick-off the summer, and here I am again. We need another month of summer. Well, the one positive of summer wrapping up is…
Summer 16 is actually salesforce's 50th release (I've been a customer or partner for 45 of these so this is officially making me feel old) and the release notes are out. With Summer 16, we're now 3 releases deep into the Lightning Experience roll-out, and it's starting to get to…
Yesterday at a special broadcast for the FY17 kickoff, salesforce made a bunch of announcements about new products coming, but also announced upcoming changes to their license editions. Some interesting changes here that will impact both future customers as well as all of the existing customers. Basically, on 5/1/16, existing…