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Post Your Questions about the Excel Connector on the Discussion Boards
Our earlier post about the Excel Connector has attracted a steady stream of comments about it's usage, so we decided to create a new discussion board just for it:The Excel Connector Discussion.
For all three of you who don't know about it, the Excel Connector is a useful tool to easily import data, insert new records into both standard and custom objects, query data from salesforce and perform mass updates in Excel. It's available for both, Professional and Enterprise Edition cutomers. Though it's not officially supported, several Salesforce.com gurus, including Benji Jasik and Ron Hess (the original author of the connector), frequent the Successforce boards, making it a much better place to discuss it. I've also copied the comments from the earlier post onto the board so that everything is in one place.
Technorati Tags: salesforce.com, excel, open source, integration
Post Your Questions about the Excel Connector on the Discussion Boards
Our earlier post about the Excel Connector has attracted a steady stream of comments about it's usage, so we decided to create a new discussion board just for it:The Excel Connector Discussion.
For all three of you who don't know about it, the Excel Connector is a useful tool to easily import data, insert new records into both standard and custom objects, query data from salesforce and perform mass updates in Excel. It's available for both, Professional and Enterprise Edition cutomers. Though it's not officially supported, several Salesforce.com gurus, including Benji Jasik and Ron Hess (the original author of the connector), frequent the Successforce boards, making it a much better place to discuss it. I've also copied the comments from the earlier post onto the board so that everything is in one place.
Technorati Tags: salesforce.com, excel, open source, integration
Partner Recruitment Mash Up with Google Maps
One of Salesforce's Partner Management subject matter experts, Todd Janzen, has created a day in the life for a channel manager trying to recruit more partners. (Thanks Todd!) This demonstration is available for you to review. Click here to access the demonstration. Besides the business value of being able to more effectively and efficiently recruit more partners using Salesforce, Todd has creatively enabled a real cool feature. 
He's created a channel map showing the number of partners that have submitted an application to become a partner. How many of you have wished you could easily create a channel map or white space analysis? He created the channel map using Google Maps. Here is an example of how new partner prospect registrations show up on a Google Map. Visit the Partner Management feature page for full details on Salesforce.com's Partner Management and Partner Portal solution.
Partner Recruitment Mash Up with Google Maps
One of Salesforce's Partner Management subject matter experts, Todd Janzen, has created a day in the life for a channel manager trying to recruit more partners. (Thanks Todd!) This demonstration is available for you to review. Click here to access the demonstration. Besides the business value of being able to more effectively and efficiently recruit more partners using Salesforce, Todd has creatively enabled a real cool feature. He's created a channel map showing the number of partners that have submitted an application to become a partner. How many of you have wished you could easily create a channel map or white space analysis? He created the channel map using Google Maps. Here is an example of how new partner prospect registrations show up on a Google Map. Visit the Partner Management feature page for full details on Salesforce.com's Partner Management and Partner Portal solution.
Salesforce.com Search Widget
Yahoo! Widgets are tools that live on your desktop and
allow you to get to information quickly.
Recently one was posted by an independent developer for searching inside salesforce. Just type in what you’re looking for and it automatically logs you into salesforce, returning the result set.
This free tool has been downloaded 395 times and
has gotten good reviews. Give it a try and if it seems useful, forward it onto
your team.
Salesforce.com Search Widget
Yahoo! Widgets are tools that live on your desktop and
allow you to get to information quickly.
Recently one was posted by an independent developer for searching inside salesforce. Just type in what you’re looking for and it automatically logs you into salesforce, returning the result set.
This free tool has been downloaded 395 times and
has gotten good reviews. Give it a try and if it seems useful, forward it onto
your team.
SkypeForce - Skype integrated with Salesforce.com
One of our amazing Sales Engineers has built an incredible integration from Salesforce to Skype
What can it do for you?
- Automatic search and navigation for inbound and outbound calls from Skype
- Clean popup handling and close when dialing out from Salesforce to Skype
- SSO web links. A link on the home page can share a users session with SkypeForce, saving the need for double login.
- May be hidden in the Windows system tray
You can download it here: http://sforce.sourceforge.net/skypeforce.html
We hope you enjoy it!
SkypeForce - Skype integrated with Salesforce.com
One of our amazing Sales Engineers has built an incredible integration from Salesforce to Skype
What can it do for you?
- Automatic search and navigation for inbound and outbound calls from Skype
- Clean popup handling and close when dialing out from Salesforce to Skype
- SSO web links. A link on the home page can share a users session with SkypeForce, saving the need for double login.
- May be hidden in the Windows system tray
You can download it here: http://sforce.sourceforge.net/skypeforce.html
We hope you enjoy it!
Add Salesforce to Your Firefox Search Bar
For those
of you who haven’t made the switch to Firefox, this is yet another
incentive to do so. Paul Constantinides created a very simple plug-in which
allows you to run a Salesforce advanced search or a Supportforce solution
search, right from the Firefox search bar.
This is also exciting because it demonstrates the
extendibility and open nature of both salesforce.com and Firefox. For all the
developers reading this post, what other types of Firefox Extensions could you
build? Who’s going to be the first to design a salesforce widget?
Add Salesforce to Your Firefox Search Bar
For those
of you who haven’t made the switch to Firefox, this is yet another
incentive to do so. Paul Constantinides created a very simple plug-in which
allows you to run a Salesforce advanced search or a Supportforce solution
search, right from the Firefox search bar.
This is also exciting because it demonstrates the
extendibility and open nature of both salesforce.com and Firefox. For all the
developers reading this post, what other types of Firefox Extensions could you
build? Who’s going to be the first to design a salesforce widget?
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