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 Andrew Davis, Senior Director Product Marketing at Copado, 16x Certified Salesforce Architect, defines DevOps and why it’s important for Admins and Consultants to understand. He also discusses his unusual path into Salesforce and into DevOps after being a Buddhist monk for 15 years. For a long time, he deployed releases for Appirio, which he says…
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…
Brian Kwong, VP Delivery and Ops: A wizard’s guide to running an agile org Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 22 January 2020 Categories In Article Brian Kwong, VP Delivery and Ops at Better Partners, talks about how to have better implementations. In fact, he hates the word implementation because it implies a one-and-done, when Orgs are constantly changing. Better Partners wants to partner with customers for the long term, to ensure their success. One of Salesforce biggest strengths is that…
Top 25 OrgConfessions of the decade Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 30 December 2019 Categories In Business Analysis, Impact Analysis, Metadata management We’ve reviewed all 603 confessions. And the results are in. Originally we intended it to be the Top 10, but there were SO many hilarious (and educational) confessions we could only narrow it down to 25. How we decided We didn’t just pick the scariest, worst or funniest. We tried to pick a range of…
Melissa Hill-Dees, HandsOn Connect: The Definition of a Sandwich Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 19 December 2019 Categories In Article The definition of a sandwich – Melissa Hill-Dees, HandsOn Connect
