Blog – Salesforce

With its recent acquisition of Demandware, a B2C retail e-commerce cloud platform, Salesforce is now positioned to become a definitive competitor in the e-commerce space.

Custom settings give your Salesforce users more control over their applications, but they do have some drawbacks. Custom metadata types attempt to solve many of these issues.

With Facebook Messenger opening its API, Salesforce for Messenger now allows companies to communicate directly with customers on Facebook.

A rising buzzword in CRM and marketing circles, Predictive Analytics is a growing practice that will help companies really understand their customers. Learn more about it and what moves Salesforce.com is making.

Building scalable solutions is a team sport involving the Business Analyst, Stakeholders, the Architect and Developers. Building scale isn’t restricted merely to the development phase but starts as early as the needs definition phase.

We’re excited to see Enhanced Email in the Salesforce Summer ’16 Release and other Lightning Experience features. Read our impressions in our blog.

If you’ve ever built an Apex class that required multiple test classes, you might want to use a test suite to group the tests and run them all at the same time. Taylor gives an example of when to use Test Suites.

If you use Chrome as your browser of choice, there are many different Salesforce Chrome extensions you can add to enhance your Salesforce experience.

In this post, Caspar demonstrates how to embed a lightning component in a Visualforce page, using a simplified technique and incorporating a callback.

Krystian shows how to use the new Salesforce SandboxPostCopy interface to help automate invalidating all email fields in the system to prevent any email automations from accidentally reaching your customers.