#DF14 Links

Just a few links and notes from things I found interesting at #DF14 and in the Winter '15 release. 

• New Name - Sales Cloud1

• New Mobile Features

  • Today

  • Tasks 

  • Notes 

  • Actions from the lists

  • Sales Path

• Service Cloud is also renamed Service Cloud1

• Referral Program

http://blogs.salesforce.com/company/2014/10/10-dreamforce-annoucements-that-will-shape-sales-2015-new-salesforce-e-book.html or direct download https://secure2.sfdcstatic.com/assets/pdf/misc/10-Dreamforce-Announcements-That-Will-Shape-Sales-2015.pdf

http://www.cirrusinsight.com/blog/sales-cloud1-and-service-cloud1

• Forget about it for a while. 

• First release only uses Data.com. 

• But it will be cool eventually. 

• Don't leave deduping until then. Get started now. Even with the free Dupe Catcher. But see Deduping Tools

• A suite of services for the Salesforce1 platform

  • Process Builder

  • Components

  • App Builder

  • Lightning Connect

  • And they have stuck Schema Builder in there (have you ever used it?)

https://www.salesforce.com/form/conf/platform-lightning-process-builder.jsp?leadcreated=true&landing_page=%2Fform%2Fdemo%2Fplatform-lightning-process-builder.jsp&videoId=&redirect=true&d=70130000000lzTlAAI&DriverCampaignId=70130000000sUVb&playlistId=&__element=pre&FormCampaignId=70130000000lxJn

• Was named Aura before release

http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/53232/what-is-the-difference-between-aura-and-lightning-frameworks

https://help.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=015300000035wMDAAY

• Also known as External Objects

• Cool - get data from other systems into Salesforce

• Uses OData

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data_Protocol

• Next release will be read only and no reports, but writing and reporting will come later. 

http://appirio.com/category/tech-blog/2014/09/integration-friday-episode-6-overview-odata/

• Aka Wave (no, not Google Wave). 

• You are unlikely to afford it - apparently $250/user/month to build and $150/user/month to view. 

• But get prepared for it anyway

http://blogs.salesforce.com/company/2014/11/4-tips-become-analytics-ready-gp.html?d=70130000000tP4G

• There is a new feature coming to surface Salesforce data in Excel - get started with that. 

https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Salesforce_Reports_for_Excel

http://cloud4good.com/announcements/salesforce-microsoft/

• Plus there are third party apps that do pretty dashboards if you want to start with that (even though Analytics is way more than dashboards). 

• Trailhead

https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead

• Go back and find the new release items that you may have missed recently. 

http://cloud4good.com/announcements/salesforce-hidden-gems/

• Look at your processes. Define them on paper. Get ready for Process Builder. 

• Know that you don't need a developer to do cool stuff. 

• Get into Chatter. 

• Start using Mobile. 

• My favourites recently are:

  • State and Country Picklists

  • Publisher Actions

  • Flows

• Upcoming interestingness

  • Tasks and Notes

  • Today

  • Process Builder

    • Create Chatter Posts

  • Headless Flows / Flow Triggers

  • New UI

  • Deduping