It's a full-on blizzard over here in New England so I find myself yet again hunkered down in a snowstorm blogging about the Spring 22 release. At least this time I'm in the comfort of my home and didn't need to do a last-minute shopping spree to stock up with…
Salesforce's Winter 22 is almost here - it will start hitting production instances this weekend and wrap up on 10/9. With the release getting close, we're right in the middle of our blog series covering it. Our first post was all about the Sales Cloud and core platform updates. After…
Summer 21 is already live, but we're still going with the update write-ups. This will be Part 5 for Summer 21 and we're going to focus on the new Field Service and Salesforce Scheduler. While we're talking about Field Service, I did want to mention a great resource for discussions…
In part 1 of our Effortless Field Service post, we spent some time explaining how the core concepts of the excellent book The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty by Matt Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick DeLisi don't stop at the call center but also extend to…
I'm a pretty avid reader, but I tend to read mostly science fiction, fantasy, and weird fiction (although during the pandemic I've broadened out a bit into more standard fiction). For me, reading is the way I shut off my brain from work and exercise it a different way. Due…
We're 2 weeks away from Spring 21 beginning to hit everyone's Salesforce instance and we're down to our last two blog posts about it. This is a pretty monster release and we're doing more break-outs than we typically do. We've already done the main posts around Sales Cloud and Service…
As customers make the move to Salesforce Field Service, the initial focus tends to be on the meat and potatoes of field service - creating work orders, managing the assignments and routing of those work orders and appointments, and then making sure the technician is able to do everything they…
In our first Winter 21 post, we covered the Sales Cloud and general features that are coming out in what is a monster release, with dynamic page layouts and Salesforce Anywhere being the two big ones and a slew of other enhancements. For this post, we're going to focus on…
I hope everyone had a great weekend. Even with the social distancing, it was good to get out of the house a bit as we are finally getting some good weather out here in New England. We actually hit a local state park and hiked in the trails with the…
For most field service teams, getting to the destination to perform the service is priority one, two and three. There's a lot of logic that goes into getting the right person to the right place at the optimal time, but not being able to get to that right place breaks…
Happy 2020 everyone! Hopefully, this year and decade is a terrific and productive one for you. I thought it was going to be annoying have Christmas and New Years on a Wednesday, but it actually wound up working out where the traffic wasn't as bad and the re-entry on 1/2…
Gorgeous day out here in New England (finally) and it makes you actually feel like summer truly is around the corner. Right along with the real summer is the Summer 19 release which is another big one. In our first post, we covered all of the Sales Cloud, Sales Cloud…
Hope everyone had a terrific New Year. 2019 is already shaping up to be an exciting year in the Salesforce world and Spring 19 is a big part of it. We covered the Sales Cloud, Einstein Sales Cloud and Platform changes coming in our first post and it was clear…
Winter 19 is out to the last of the instances with this weekend's releases, so everyone can now get at all of the features. Normally by now we've already finished our release write-ups but I had a ton of travel with Dreamforce (which unfortunately wipes out most of two different…
Happy Memorial Day everyone and I hope you're enjoying the weekend. The Summer 18 release is just a couple of weeks from going live and this is part 2 of our release write-up. In Part 1 we focused on the Sales Cloud, Einstein Sales Cloud and some of the general…
I hope everyone had a terrific New Year and that you're staying warm in this deep freeze. Hopefully things start thawing out soon and a good precursor to the real spring coming is that Salesforce Spring 18 is just a few short weeks away from going live. The release notes…