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How can an Operations department leverage Salesforce?
By: Jaime Brown Salesforce can be very misleading for people who are not familiar. Many assume that because Sales is in the name, the tool must only be for salespeople. In reality, the most successful companies leverage Salesforce across all departments within the company such as Marketing, Sales, Operations and Customer Support. By bringing each […]
Why use Appluent as an Implementation Partner?
By: Nicole Kane There are many benefits for organizations to utilize a certified Salesforce partner, like Appluent, to implement their new Salesforce platform instead of self-implementing. Here are a few reasons why you should work with Appluent when implementing a new Salesforce platform: #1. Appluent is fluent in the Salesforce language As a certified Salesforce […]
Introduction to Apex Triggers
By: Ankita Rustagi Apex trigger is a script that defines functionality and will execute before or after DML operations on a record. DML operations such as: insert, update, delete, undelete of a record. For example, when we want to update a field on a child record upon save of a change on the master record […]
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How can an Operations department leverage Salesforce?
By: Jaime Brown Salesforce can be very misleading for people who are not familiar. Many assume that because Sales is in the name, the tool must only be for salespeople. In reality, the most successful companies leverage Salesforce across all departments within the company such as Marketing, Sales, Operations and Customer Support. By bringing each […]
Introduction to Apex Triggers
By: Ankita Rustagi Apex trigger is a script that defines functionality and will execute before or after DML operations on a record. DML operations such as: insert, update, delete, undelete of a record. For example, when we want to update a field on a child record upon save of a change on the master record […]
How to Bake a Lightning Component that Reads CSV Files?
By: Tejender Mohan Spoiler Alert! If you are visiting this blog just to get the code to copy-paste, you should go do some more Google searches! In this blog, we will discuss the implementation process and logic to build a lightning component that reads a CSV file and creates/updates records on a custom object based […]
3 things I love… and don’t love about the new drag and drop email builder in Pardot
By: Amanda Zacharias Salesforce recently released a highly anticipated new feature to Pardot – the drag and drop email builder! This new feature is optimized for the lightning version of Pardot. Now, marketing automators across the Salesforce platform can finally utilize this new feature. Here’s my take on what I like – and don’t – […]
Tips and Tricks for Salesforce Lightning
By: Marissa Every Salesforce’s Classic UI will soon be a thing of the past. Companies are quickly adopting and migrating to the Lightning interface. With a new UI, comes a bit of a learning curve for users on how to navigate. I have compiled the top tips and tricks that I have learned through the […]
New Screen Component: Lookup Screen Component in Salesforce Lightning Flow
By: Shashank Parashar Lookup Screen Component in Salesforce Lightning Flow: Salesforce released a new screen component – Lookup. As the name suggests, this new screen component allows users to search for a record in a flow similar to a lookup field in Salesforce. Prior to this function, the only option to select a record in […]
Getting Started with Knowledge Base in Your Org and Why
By: Raisa Gupta Having a knowledge base implemented in your org is the best way to handle simple questions frequently asked by customers. You can save time and energy with a knowledge base by having questions and answers readily available for your customers. It’s easy to create for Org owners and easy to use by […]
Should you move from a Salesforce Administrator to a Salesforce Developer Role?
By: Tejender Mohan Are you a Salesforce Administrator who loves his/her job? When you graduate with a technical degree and work as a Salesforce Admin, you come across forums / blogs / videos or suggestions from colleagues that you should try to move from a Salesforce Administrator role to a Salesforce Developer role for better […]
Boost your Sales with Salesforce CPQ
By: Pratik Pawar In the competitive world, Sales and Operation teams need to be quick enough to present an effective quote to customers. Their primary focus is on customer-facing activities, not spending hours within the system to do operational tasks. Such tasks may stop them from doing their actual work: Identify an exact set of […]
Exploring the Difference Between Aura Component and Lightning Web Components
By: Shashank Parashar Salesforce has been on a fantastic journey with the use of Lightning components. Years ago, Salesforce developers used a unique HTML tag-based, mark-up language, known as VisualForce and used Apex as the controller for logic. In 2014, Salesforce launched the Lightning Component framework, supported by the Aura programming framework, it changed Salesforce […]
A guide to Exposing REST API from Salesforce
By: Urmila Pawar Why do we need to build an API in Salesforce? We customize and automate the functionality within Salesforce. But what if the external system wants to communicate with Salesforce and utilize these functionalities? In order to solve this barrier we create API, so that the external systems can read data from Salesforce, […]
Pardot Social Connectors Saved My Relationship💞
By: Amanda Zacharias Tuesday night at 7:00pm my alarm goes off reminding me to post to my company’s social media account about an update from that day. But I’m sitting on the sidelines of a softball game for my boyfriend and I miss a triple he hit because I was too busy getting the post […]
How much will a Salesforce Implementation cost?
By: Nicole Kane Salesforce is a complex tool that has the capability to be customized in many ways to adopt organizations’ business processes. Because of its complexity, a lot of organizations utilize 3rd party Consultants (such as us Appluent) to stand up and implement the platform for them. As a Sales Professional working with clients […]
A Guide to Avoiding Technical Debt by a Salesforce Consultant
By: David Kyurkchyan So, you’re planning on implementing a new feature for your organization on Salesforce? The good news is that Salesforce provides a multitude of options when it comes to customizing and extending the platform to meet your organization’s needs. However, on the flip side, if you don’t carefully evaluate each of these options […]
Using Salesforce as a Sales Professional
By: Patrick Walker As a sales professional I live and breathe everyday through my CRM system. Regardless of what industry, type of sales or my title within an organization, a good CRM system is necessary. I host my clients contact information, notes on previous conversations and phone calls, contracts and current workloads that I have […]
Basics of Lightning Components
By: Ankita Rustagi As you might already know, the recent big change in Salesforce is the introduction to lightning components. As technology rapidly changes, Salesforce strives to stay ahead and continues to take advantage of cutting edge innovations in web technology. Lightning framework allows you to build responsive applications with a much better user interface […]
Appluent at Your Service – 3 Reasons Why Managed Services is Worth the Investment
By: Marissa Every, Certified Salesforce and Conga Consultant At Appluent, we are here for you, our clients, and our goal is to make your job easier. Through our Managed Services program, we can help you maintain and improve your Salesforce ecosystem. We take a consultative approach and challenge you to think outside the box, offering […]
Rookie’s Guide to Being a Successful Salesforce Consultant
By: Raisa Gupta With every season’s Salesforce release, comes a fresh set of consultants eager to get started. This lot, especially the ones straight out of college, are ready to spread their wings and soar, while still missing a strong professional perspective. We at Appluent, pay a lot of attention to training our team, moulding […]
Why should you use an Implementation Partner?
By: Jaime Brown Companies do a ton of research when it comes to enhancing business processes and finding products to fit their needs. With so many options that exist in today’s marketplace, it can be hard to understand what types of platforms should be implemented for your business. For example, Salesforce can be use to […]
3 things I wish I knew before using Salesforce
3 things I wish I knew before using Salesforce By: Amanda Zacharias What I wish I knew before starting my Salesforce journey:1) I wish I knew that Salesforce was more than a way to store data – provides actionable information for planning and collaboration2) I wish I knew that it can be integrated with just […]
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The Greatest (Document) Generation : A Choose Your Own Adventure Story
By: Chris Coello As the wisest fool Michael Scott once said, “Real Business is done on paper.” While that quote is laughable in the world of Cloud ecosystems, the truth is that we’ve modeled nearly everything we do after the OG, paper. An updated (and less funny) version of the quote would be “Real business […]
Real Life Magic- A CLM Memoir and How Conga Changed the Game
By: Chris Coello As a former SaaS Account Manager, renewals were a big part of my job. I used to live in the“Renewal Contract bottleneck” because we had a broken CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) system in place. Each contract was manually put together in Word and I spent a lot of time there (not to […]
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Why use Appluent as an Implementation Partner?
By: Nicole Kane There are many benefits for organizations to utilize a certified Salesforce partner, like Appluent, to implement their new Salesforce platform instead of self-implementing. Here are a few reasons why you should work with Appluent when implementing a new Salesforce platform: #1. Appluent is fluent in the Salesforce language As a certified Salesforce […]
WHY PLEDGE 1%
By: Jared Every An overall desire to give back helps drive us here at Appluent! It is important our team feels like we are not only making an impact in our day-to-day jobs, but also in our local community. This is why we became a part of the Pledge 1% movement. “Pledge 1% is a […]
Sshh!! Appluent’s Happy Customers’ Insider Secret is out: Yes, It’s Our People!!
By: Sounderya Raghav When one of our customers asks us what our foremost strategy of doing business is, our first response is nothing complicated and as simple as: Happy Staff!! At Appluent, we truly believe in creating a culture of happiness, investing in high-performance teams, and believe satisfied employees create satisfied customers. Leaders at Appluent […]
Confident is Key for Women in the Tech Industry
By: Jaime Brown Technology, while constantly trending in the right direction, is still known as a male-dominated industry. This can be intimidating for women and can discourage them from making a career change. (source: https://builtin.com/women-tech/women-in-tech-workplace-statistics) A little over five years ago, I was sitting at my previous job making phone calls, creating quotes, and closing […]
Appluent Encourages Businesses to “Envision More” with Launch of Re-brand
With a surge in remote workforces seen across industries, Appluent has chosen to rebrand as it continues to initiate ongoing innovation for customers through strategic enhancement of digital workflows. PHOENIXVILLE, PA – June 09, 2021 – Since 2013, Greg Brown of Appluent Business Solutions, and his team have been finding ways to improve customer business […]
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