COVID19 is forcing change at Lightning pace Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 4 May 2020 Categories In Change Intelligence Speed and relevance are the most important currencies during a crisis. That means adapting quickly and leveraging technology. EXEC SUMMARY Industry leaders have identified 3 phases that all organizations are going to go through: Stabilize, Reopen, Grow. Organizations are currently adapting in the phase, which is about reacting to crisis. Forward thinking leaders are digitally…
Ian Gotts, Founder & CEO Elements.cloud: Maximum Impact Minimum Expense Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 29 April 2020 Categories In Article Ian Gotts, Founder & CEO Elements.cloud discusses #MIME: Maximum Impact Minimum Expense blog https://elements.cloud/2020/04/03/mime-maximum-impact-minimum-expense/ It describes 3 quick and impactful ways to improve your Org – for FREE. Verify what fields are feeding your most important Reports Clean up Page Layouts Remove unused Managed Packages You’ll need to install Elements.cloud and do the “Proof of…
Gillian Bruce, Principal Admin Evangelist: Best Salesforce Admin Podcast Moments Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 16 April 2020 Categories In Article Gillian Bruce, Principal Admin Evangelist, Salesforce, talks about life as a new mom, getting back to work and her favorite Salesforce Admin Podcast moments. She says it’s hard to choose from so much good stuff, but having Zac Otero on her show is her top memory. He’s now a Golden Hoody. https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazers/zac-otero Another top memory…
Top 5 #elementshitfeatures for #WTF in 2020 Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 31 March 2020 Categories In Product Updates As we all come to terms with prolonged period WFH (working from home) we thought we’d get the team together and highlight our Top 5 Elements hit features. You’ll probably have a different view, based on your role or objectives. So let us know success@elements.cloud. BTW We were inspired by the amazonshitcarshow video 1.…
Andrew Davis, Senior Director Product Marketing at Copado: What is DevOps Anyway? Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 31 March 2020 Categories In Article [spb_row element_name=”Row” wrap_type=”content-width” parallax_image_height=”content-height” parallax_image_movement=”fixed” parallax_image_speed=”0.5″ bg_video_loop=”yes” parallax_video_height=”window-height” parallax_video_overlay=”none” row_overlay_opacity=”0″ row_col_pos=”default” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [spb_text_block animation=”none” animation_delay=”0″ simplified_controls=”yes” custom_css_percentage=”no” padding_vertical=”0″ padding_horizontal=”0″ margin_vertical=”0″ custom_css=”margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;” border_size=”0″ border_styling_global=”default” width=”1/4″ el_position=”first”] [/spb_text_block] [spb_text_block animation=”none” animation_delay=”0″ simplified_controls=”yes” custom_css_percentage=”no” padding_vertical=”0″ padding_horizontal=”0″ margin_vertical=”0″ custom_css=”margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;” border_size=”0″ border_styling_global=”default” width=”2/3″ el_position=”last”] Andrew Davis, Senior Director Product Marketing at Copado, 16x Certified…
Dashboard Validation Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 28 March 2020 Categories In Impact Analysis, User Adoption Dashboard Validation is based upon the idea that most execs run their business based upon a few simple dashboards. Are you certain that the data driving them is accurate? How important would you be if you could validate that it is? How important would you be if you could prove it is not and fix…
Evaluating Managed Packages Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 25 March 2020 Categories In Change Intelligence, Impact Analysis Get free access to the tools you need Evaluating managed packages is very straight forward. Leveraging the “Managed Package Impact Report” within Elements Catalyst, one can determine in seconds which managed packages are being utilized and the impact of removing them. The savings would be self-evident.
Kristi Campbell, 4x MVP and Principal Salesforce Admin at ACN: The Power of the Simple Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 3 March 2020 Categories In Article Kristi Campbell, 4x Certified, Salesforce MVP and Principal Salesforce Admin at ACN, a multi-level marketing company in North Carolina, explains the power of the simple. She has 10 years of Admin experience, working on Orgs from all angles. It’s always tempting to do the expedient thing and build quickly using the resources available at the…
10 reasons why NOT to use XLS as metadata dictionary Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 18 February 2020 Categories In Change Intelligence, Documentation FREE DOES NOT MEAN FREE It looks so easy and quick. There are free tools out there to dump all the metadata into an XLS. So we’re done, right? Not so fast. You wouldn’t use an XLS as a CRM. So, you shouldn’t use an XLS as a meta data dictionary, for many of the…
