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, or write data to Salesforce. API Basics An API is a way to communicate with a component without bothering with its...

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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 shared on all of our accounts. The game ends and he comes rushing over asking if I saw the play and I had to say no because I was distracted with work. He...

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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 daily for Salesforce Implementations, one of the most common questions I hear is – “how much will the...

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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 and the current state of your Salesforce implementation, you may be setting yourself up for huge...

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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 with my clients. You name it, it lives within my CRM. It just so happens that here at Appluent, I have found the...

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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 that people love to interact with. Lightning components give you a client-server...

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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 best practice advice and ways for you to digitally transform your business.Managed Services can be a huge benefit...

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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 them in a way which helps them gain personal and professional growth, that is aligned with company culture.As a...

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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 organize client data and put new processes in place. Conga allows for more effective document generation and includes a CLM...

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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 about everything digital - no more silos of information, it’s all in one place; a single source of truth3) I wish I knew there were so...

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