Is a Salesforce Admin Certification validation that you can make SFDC Dance?
I have debated on blogging about the general idea that just because someone has a certification it doesn't validate their skill. Controversial I know, especially to my friends at Salesforce. Don't get me wrong the exam to achieve the anointing status of "Salesforce...
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end
Over 2 years ago I committed to moving 450miles away from the comfort of my home, for the experience of something new and exciting. Jim Roberson , Todd Mezrah and Vincent Cabral interviewed me multiple times and in turn I interrogated them to the point of exhaustion....
Salesforce Trailhead is Transformational
Salesforce Grand slam - No Doubt About it I think most people can agree that we Salesforce Fans are always excited for each new release that the wizards in San Francisco dream up. It is clear to me that Trailhead is one of the single most significant products...
Salesforce beat Apple to the “App Store”.
In 2006, I was contemplating continuing on the path using Filemaker for my real estate business United Pacific Assets or ditching it and going to the "Cloud". Late 2006 or early 2007 I signed up as a customer with Salesforce. There are a number of reasons I choose...
New App Review – SmartClient for Office 365 Excel
SmartClient by Celigo, Inc this is a heck of a free app. If you are an Office 365 (online) user, you will love it. Install the add in app into Excel 365 and you are able to load any of the Salesforce data you select. The power is that you are able to edit your...
Process Builder and a trigger
My client Meras engineering has some really fun stuff going on in their field service org. A combination of standard and custom objects. Over time they have adopted more and more automation around scheduling their field service activities. They have objects called...
Custom Map “App” – Field Service
Here is a great use of a myopic UI + Google Maps. We needed 1 type of user to have a limited record set, field set and operations while in the field in addition it had to be designed for use on an Ipad with cellular connectivity. We have referred to this as the "Map...
Salesforce World Tour – Seattle 2015
This World Tour stop is probably my 5-6th that I have been to in the last two years. It's a great place to meet with partners, customers and talk to new prospects. Yes it was raining, a lot and this time it was pretty cold. This time I stayed in a part of...
Paris November 2015
Paris - I have been here for 4 days, as we landed I had no expectations on what to see during personal time. The primary focus of this trip was for me to attend the Servicemax.com event called MaxLive at the Intercontinential Le Grand Hotel. I landed Sunday morning,...
Generational Diversity @ Work
A recent post on Salesforce.com/blog entitled "A Post About Millennials in the Workplace, By a Millennial in the Workplace", got me thinking a bit more deeply about a multi-generational office. In 2007 I started by first business, one of the most difficult...