Friday 16 October 2015

#SALESFORCE PLATFORM APP BUILDER CERTIFICATION : SHARING EXPERIENCE

Few days ago, cleared Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Transition exam, its my 7th Salesforce Certification, I have DEV401 so for me its was 30 minutes exam, having 20 questions, but if you don't have DEV401 then it will be 60 mutliple choice questions for you for 120 minutes, if you have DEV401 and ADMIN 201 then it will be easy for you to clear the exam. Even though I would recommend to study before appearing in the exam. To know more about the exam click here.

Key topic to cover before appearing in the exam :

1. Field Type change affects ( 1 question )
2. Relationships and their properties ( *Master Detail, lookup ) ( 3 questions )
3. Lightning components (*Global Actions, Object Specific Actions) ( 3 questions )
4. Record Types ( 3 questions )
5. External objects ( 1 question )
6. Types of Sandbox ( 1 question )
7. Unmanaged and Managed Packages ( 1 question )
8. Social Accounts, Contacts and Leads ( 1 question )
9. Salesforce1 ( 1 question )
10. Trailhead ( **Salesforce Practice )

I don't remember the questions, but the above topics are more than enough to clear the exam, please do go through the study guide. Passing percentage is 65% that means at least 14 questions should be correct.

Suggestions :

1. Read the questions carefully and the options, many question were TRUE and FALSE and Multiple answer questions.
2. Don't know the right answer, no worries, search for the wrong one, it will clear off your confusion.
3. Easy exam, but don't take it lightly, prepare yourself then go for it.

All the best.

Thursday 8 October 2015

Reasons Why #Salesforce is the best technology to work with

Many times I felt to share my thoughts for Salesforce and what I feel while working on force.com platform, their are many things in the list and I tried to cover most of them. Might be something got missed because they are allot.


Starting with the best : Connectivity

Salesforce has connected just everything that is working with them or working on Salesforce, salesforce have Partner Programs, in which they help other companies who work on Salesforce, to make it easier for them to do business.

Connects every one with their largest tech-fest DREAMFORCE. This df'15 was also the biggest one. Saleforce helps their customer at everyone point. They work with the society as well, as in this dreamforce they donated 1 Million books to read more click here
There are many things happened at this dreamforce , I got an awesome link to get everything at one place about the dreamforce go to this link, Dreamforce Content Guide



Salesforce hearts : Salesforce MVPs

Salesforce have like 190+ MVP, which are nominated by others, they are the one who utilize there knowledge and experience of salesforce and their work with other to help them learning in Salesforce, this is also a best way
to acknowledge the person who are truly dedicated to their work, few MVPs I know are just awesome and happy to help others, normal example you can have in the communities of Salesofrce they are every where and making Salesforce geeks everyday, they inspire others with their work helping other in learning of the new things of the Salesforce. Salesforce MVP's are truly hero's the way they encourage other, Lauren Jordan is great example of this initiative she encourages the girl power by writing about womens working on the technology by this she inspire others as well (https://saasyforce.wordpress.com/)
And the other one is "Admin Hero" this guy is really a hero, writes about the awesome stories of those guys who have been delicately worked on Salesforce (http://www.adminhero.com/) This blog is by Brent Downey, this is his way of encouragement.


Trailhead : Place to play and learn Salesforce

Trailhead is a place to learn and explore your knowledge with Salesforce platform, it has their Modules and step by step learning tutorial.
This is the year where everybody got to know that how easy is salesforce to learn,
this happened because of the Trailhead, people just started it to learn salesforce and end up becoming a fan of the way they teach you Salesforce, Trailhead is free for everyone, and even kids are learning Salesforce with it. As of now Trailhead has 66 + badges which you will get by completing the modules, the modules of the trailhead covers almost all the part of the Salesforce from Admin to Development to Mobile app to Heroku. Recently they appreciate who all are new to trailheal by sending them an awesome Salesforce t-shirt. If you have still not tried trailhead please go right now and start Trailhead


Salesforce Certifications

Salesforce certifications is a way to show of your expertise in Salesforce, whoever is working on Salesforce have their own madness for the certifications I only know one person who have the maximum no. of Ceritifcations and that is Keir Bowden This is his blog link http://bobbuzzard.blogspot.in/ He is an inspiration, Salesforce have many certifications, each certificate have it definition and defined for a particular expertise. Recently salesforce added few new certifications and Transition exams as well. Companies also looks for the proven expertise which is Salesforce certification, the biggest one is Salesforce Architect (my dream). Become Salesforce Certified Professional and get your dream job.


Salesforce have many more things that will make you crazy to work on Salesforce or get connected with Salesforce, Salesforce in one fastest growing cloud based platform in the world. So come join us.

Thanks

Saturday 3 October 2015

Mobilize small business at its best with #SalesforceIQ

This dreamforce 2015 many new things were introduced by Salesforce and one of the best and new things from the list is SalesforceIQ, at the same time I thought of using it and listing out its features, SalesforceIQ has utilized it well, it was formerly RelateIQ, Salesforce in July 2014 salesforce acquired the company .

Overview

I basically a mobile app for your emails integrated with your Salesforce org, with some extra feature using which you can utilize your Salesforce Leads, Contacts and Opportunities. You can create tasks as well. New SalesforceIQ for Small Business delivers SMBs a smarter and easier way to supercharge sales. SalesforceIQ is for Small Business, the smart, simple CRM to grow your business.
Here is the pricing, for more details about the pricing go to SalesforceIQ



I am just going to give a step by step, small tutorial of SalesforcIQ.

1. Go to the app store download SalesforceIQ app from there, install it in your phone.


2. Configure your email with SalesforceIQ, you can use gmail or outlook as well and then enter you salesforce Credentials.


4. After all the configuration done, you can access your emails with folders as in gmail you have created.


5. On menu SalesforceIQ have as of now 5 options, its continuously updating, by the time you install it can have more.


6. When you will receive an email you can right from that email you can create a Lead or Contact or Opportunity in Salesforce.


This is how a contact created from the mail is shown, on click on right corner check it will create a contact.


7. Feed in SalesforceIQ

8. Creating Task in SalesforcIQ, Click on the Task option from the navigator, click on right corner + button to add a new task, enter the information then click on check on the right corner to save.




9. In the setting option of the navigator, you can create you signature and sync your phones contacts with SalesforceIQ


for sales reps it will be too helpfull, they can utilize salesforceIQ at it best, thats why it is called as made for small business. I guess this is enough as it will keep on updating as it a salesforce product.