The Community’s Salesforce Hidden Gems
In an effort to unveil “hidden” best features of Salesforce I asked people on the Hub recently to share their tips. The responses I received were so good, I decided to curate and share them on this blog. If you have any additional hidden gems, please post them in the comments section of this post.
Evaluation: Business Intelligence Tools for Salesforce
This post includes a comparison of different reporting and BI tools for Salesforce: Conga Queries, BI OnDemand, Crystal Reports, GoodData, and Birst.
Apps for Good: Apsona for Salesforce
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.
Analytics 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!