Every company wants to have a part of SAAS Pie. Salesforce.com is a clear leader at this point of time but faces stiff competition from some of the prominent well established or very Niche Players.
Some of the key one's are:
Microsoft Dynamics:- A company which charges 25% of what SFDC charges per license and even do not charge for initial 6 months. I am sure they are giving Sleepless nights to Salesforce.com.
Sugar CRM:- This is a CRM which is available Free of cost and that's the only thing which goes against It.
Siebal On Demand / Oracle on Demand, Sage Software, Right Now Technologies
Net Weaver and Business By Design are always seen as the next big thing. Net Weaver has started to prove the point where as people have still big expectations from SAP BByD.
And Be aware about the GOOGLE, They have started looking at the application business very seriously and that's not a good sign for Salesforce.com
*Please add any other key player which I have missed :-)
Monday, October 25, 2010
SFDC Unique fields Limitation
Salesforce.com has put some silly restrictions and one of those is limit on No. of Unique fields per object. It allows only 3 External ID fields per object and considers Unique fields as type of external Id's only.
So, you can create maximum 3 Unique fields per object but can get this limit extended by requesting the salesforce via raising a Case.
ADM 201 Question:- Only 3 External ID Fields can be created on an Object.
ADM 201 Question:- Only Text, Email, Number fields can be made External Id fields.
Note:- You can not make a field unique if it contains data which is not unique.
So, you can create maximum 3 Unique fields per object but can get this limit extended by requesting the salesforce via raising a Case.
ADM 201 Question:- Only 3 External ID Fields can be created on an Object.
ADM 201 Question:- Only Text, Email, Number fields can be made External Id fields.
Note:- You can not make a field unique if it contains data which is not unique.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
SFDC Reports Explained (Diff b/w Tabualr, Summary, Matrix Reports)
There are 3 kinds of reports in salesforce.com
1) Tabular Reports
2) Summary Reports
3) Matrix Reports
Each Report has a specific use and I am listing down the scenario's in which each type of Reports will be used :-
Tabular Reports:- These kind of reports are used when the requirement is just to view the data.
Some of the examples are:-
Summary Reports:- These reports are used when the requirement is to summarize only X Axis. In short if you need to do the sum or calculate the average on even one parameter then summary report is the answer.
Some of the examples are:-
Some of the examples are:-
1) Tabular Reports
2) Summary Reports
3) Matrix Reports
Each Report has a specific use and I am listing down the scenario's in which each type of Reports will be used :-
Tabular Reports:- These kind of reports are used when the requirement is just to view the data.
Some of the examples are:-
- Show me all Open Opportunities
- Show me List of all Accounts which do not have any closed opportunity
- Show me top 10 Opportunities by revenue
Summary Reports:- These reports are used when the requirement is to summarize only X Axis. In short if you need to do the sum or calculate the average on even one parameter then summary report is the answer.
Some of the examples are:-
- Show sum of all Open Opportunities
- Show opportunities sub total bu my Team
Some of the examples are:-
- Show Accounts grouped as Customer or Prospect depending on the opportunity stage
- Show monthly performance of salesteam on closing opportunity by Geography for current year
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Activity Attachment
Finally, Thanks to Salesforce Communities... Activity Attachment has arrived
SalesForce mentions it in their Winter'11 release and I quote
“You can now add attachments to events and tasks. After you add the Attachments related list to the Activity page layout, your organization can attach files using the task and event edit pages. Activity attachments can't be private and don't sync to Outlook”
Just to simplify it means now you can add Notes and Attachments to your Tasks and Events. You do not need to enable it for your entire organization and can restrict it to a certain set of users with the help of Profiles and Record Type combination. Attachments will be visible to the Owner of Task and Events or to the users who have access to the object to which the task or event is related to.
For any thing else feel free to Comment and I will try to answer back.
SalesForce mentions it in their Winter'11 release and I quote
“You can now add attachments to events and tasks. After you add the Attachments related list to the Activity page layout, your organization can attach files using the task and event edit pages. Activity attachments can't be private and don't sync to Outlook”
Just to simplify it means now you can add Notes and Attachments to your Tasks and Events. You do not need to enable it for your entire organization and can restrict it to a certain set of users with the help of Profiles and Record Type combination. Attachments will be visible to the Owner of Task and Events or to the users who have access to the object to which the task or event is related to.
For any thing else feel free to Comment and I will try to answer back.
SFDC Winter'11 Release
Salesforce has come up with some cool features in Winter'11 Release.
To know them in detail please see the following 2 Video's
Video #1 :- To know more about Platform and Chatter
Video #2:- To know more about Sales & Service Application
To know them in detail please see the following 2 Video's
Video #1 :- To know more about Platform and Chatter
Video #2:- To know more about Sales & Service Application
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Contract Management in SFDC
If you want to have contract management in SFDC then Apttus is an option available on AppExchange. See the below video for further details on it's capability.
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