The moment we have been waiting for: The Lightning Experience is here… And we’re breaking it down for you. Take a look at our blog and you will learn the new features that come with it.
1) Say Welcome to Salesforce Lightning
Salesforce Lightning is a ground-breaking release platform promising greater flexibility in customization and better mobile integration, along with more third party options.
With the Lightning Experience, Salesforce adds style and innovation to their old platform with new icons, colors and fonts; but there is so much more. Salesforce Lightning further frees up data for interaction, designed completely to maximize productivity and accelerate user adoption.
When designing the Lightning Experience, the goal was to improve the core sales features sales people use every day. In order to do so, Salesforce did extensive research performing surveys and talking to thousands of salespeople about how they use Salesforce and what could be improve to make them more productive.
After considering all the feedback they finally put together a completely new CRM set out to have a point of view on sales and that drive new levels of efficiency, versus just a database for contact information.
Some of the New Features:
- Activity Feed: The Activity Feed tells Salespeople what just happened in an account and what they need to do next.
- Customizable Dashboards:Dashboards are available with up to nine columns.
- Opportunity Board:This new feature gives you the complete picture of all your deals; additionally, it gives you the opportunity to drag-and-drop deals from stage to stage easily
This is just an overview. There are 25 completely new features launching with this release.
http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2015/08/150825.jsp
2) Forbes Named Salesforce one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for the Fifth Year in a Row
Salesforce has been named by Forbes Magazine as the World’s Most Innovative Company. This is the fifth consecutive year that Salesforce has received this recognition. It comes on the heels of the company being chosen by Fortune as the World’s Most Admired Software Company for the third year in a row and being ranked 8th on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list.
(Forbes rank includes only industries that are known to invest in innovation; excluding industries that have no measurable investment in R&D, so banks don’t make the list.)
This year Forbes recognized Salesforce for its approach towards gender equality and its plans to start closing the gender pay gap. In April 2015, CEO Marc Benioff committed to eliminating the gender pay gap at Salesforce.
Forbes had interviewed Cindy Robbins, Executive Vice President of Employee Success, and Leyla Seka, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Desk.com, about how Salesforce is empowering everyone at the company to drive towards a fully inclusive, diverse culture.
https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2015/08/forbes-salesforce-most-innovative-companies.html?d=70130000000tP4L
3) Introducing Salesforce Financial Services Cloud
Salesforce Financial Services Cloud is a brand-new product (Salesforce first industry specific product), that will transform the advisor-client relationship, helping advisors be more productive and collaborate with their clients in new ways. The new cloud leverages Salesforce Lightning Experience.
According to a Salesforce survey, 55% of investors want the opportunity to collaborate with their advisors, yet very few are able to do so. That’s why this product has the ability of making engagement more precise, proactive, personalized and available on any device. It allows advisors to see all of their clients’ information in one place, with access to tear sheets, financial accounts and goals; it also automates administrative tasks, aggregates information from multiple systems and creates to-do lists and alerts.
“With Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, advisors now have the technology to build deeper, one-to-one relationships with their clients, helping them make the right financial decisions to achieve their life goals,” said Mike Capelle, Chief Strategy Officer at United Capital, in a statement.
The Salesforce Financial Services Cloud will have general availability in February 2016.
http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2015/08/150825-2.jsp
4) Play the #DataDash
In 2014, the Data.com team launched the #DataDash at Dreamforce. It was a fun social media charity benefit that was aimed to engage people with Data.com, Dreamforce and a good cause; at that time the goal was to raise $20,000 for the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals.
Last year was a success and that’s why this year they are doing it again! They want to raise $20,000 for a nonprofit organization that is called “Girls Who Code.” find out more about this event, follow this link: http://www.data.com/df15/testTwitter.jsp. You might be eligible to win prizes by participating.
5) The AppExchange at Dreamforce ’15
Did you know that over 70% of Salesforce customers have installed apps from the AppExchange? If you didn’t and you haven’t downloaded an app yet, you can know all about it at Dreamforce since the AppExchange now has a Mega Session.
At this session, you will hear firsthand from AppExchange experts and customers about the 2,800+ apps and components on the AppExchange, including how businesses are leveraging this to power solutions for every department.
In addition to the Mega Session, the AppExchange will also have 30 other sessions to choose from. Get the complete list here.
If you want to learn more, visit Salesforce Appexchange web-page, or Contact us for more information by clicking here