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Apps for Good: Nexternal
(This blog post is part of the “Apps for Good” series where awesome AppExchange providers guest post about their applications.) Looking for a way to take orders, receive donations, and have Order, Customer, and Product data flow into Salesforce’s CRM system? Nexternal’s eCommerce platform and shopping cart system automates how this data flows into the Salesforce CRM system using the eCommerce Connector. The eCommerce connector is an application in the Salesforce.com Appexchange that you can download for free here:...
read moreApps for Good: Cirrus Insight
Cirrus Insight seamlessly integrates with Gmail, where constituent communication happens, and brings in contextual information from Salesforce, where vital constituent information is stored.
read moreCRM is Exactly What Your Nonprofit Needs
If you find that Excel cannot support your mission anymore, Salesforce can probably meet your organization’s needs. It can easily scale up or down depending on your needs and business processes. We work with variety type so of nonprofit organizations from very small (all volunteer based) to multi-million dollar international organization (such as Connell University and United Way).
read moreApps for Good: Cloud2You
Cloud2You makes it easy for users to upload via Salesforce, their own creative print materials and supports many standard business physical print formats such as Letters, Greeting Cards, Postcards and Brochures.
read moreApps for Good: AppExtremes
AppExtremes is the company behind the Conga suite of solutions: Conga Composer, Conga Mail Merge, Conga Courier, Conga Conductor, and Conga Workflow. Our flagship product, Conga Composer, is the most popular document generation app on the Salesforce AppExchange and has consistently been in the AppExchange Top Ten since Conga Composer launched in 2007. Conga Composer makes it easy to retrieve your data from salesforce.com and merge that data into sophisticated documents, whether Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF. You can then print it, store it locally or in Salesforce, or send it via email. Conga Composer will also log activities, create follow up tasks and even update fields.
read moreApps for Good: Apsona
As an application, Salesforce has a lot of breadth and depth to it. There are some areas, though, where enhancements make Salesforce even more easy to use, and Apsona for Salesforce endeavors to fill those gaps. Apsona is a browser-based application that creates a layer on top of Salesforce, and adds many features that make Salesforce more usable. Here are some examples of situations which are handled more easily with Apsona for Salesforce.
read moreApps for Good: Click and Pledge
Nonprofits are transitioning in droves from expensive, closed, legacy-based donor management software to the free, open, feature-rich cloud platform available from Salesforce. They have discovered its easy integration, its far-reaching applications and its performance features that benefit the entire organization. No more silos of data; everyone works from the same database.
read moreApps for Good: Vertical Response
IDEX is a San Francisco based non-profit organization that promotes sustainable solutions to poverty by providing long-term grants and access to resources to locally run organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Like many NPO’s, IDEX leverages technology to help their small staff promote their message and engage their supporters. And, of course, they must do all this while also keeping costs down and maximizing their return. Using the combined power of Salesforce CRM and VerticalResponse for AppExchange, IDEX is able to maintain a successful email marketing program that contributes to a large increase in their online fundraising efforts and supporter engagement. Even better, IDEX is able to take advantage of VerticalResponse’s non-profit program, enabling them to send up to 10,000 emails per month absolutely free (a monthly savings of $120).
read moreApps for Good – Salesforce Applications for Nonprofits Series Kick Off
This blog post kicks off a series of posts called “Apps for Good” where awesome AppExchange providers like Click and Pledge, Cirrus Insight, Vertical Response, Affinaquest, and AppExtremes (the Conga Composer guys) will guest post about their applications and how nonprofit and educational organizations can use them to collect online donations, integrate with Google Apps, or send mass emails.
read moreAnalytics Edition – Improved Insight to Your Data
The spring’12 release notes contain 181 pages of many new Salesforce features – but I am excited about one in particular, Analytics Edition. Furthermore, I am thrilled by Salesforce.com’s recent announcement that this awesome feature is going to be available at no additional cost for nonprofit and educational organizations!
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