Book description
Discover the administration fundamentals and challenges of Salesforce CRM
In Detail
Salesforce is one of the leading platforms for developing cloud-based applications. Primarily, Salesforce is designed for managing the sales processes of an organization, but the platform can be leveraged to develop custom applications. It runs on the Force.com platform. With the advantage of having reduced development costs, we can deliver applications in a very short time span. With this book, administrators will learn to tackle a lot of things that pop up in their daily routine.
This book is a comprehensive guide that explains user management, profile management, and the basic building blocks of an application. The book proceeds by explaining the troubleshooting skills needed for an administrator. The best practices and disciplines of data loading are discussed in detail. The book concludes with an overview of sales and service cloud features so that the reader is ready for the advanced configurations of this module. By the end of the book, you will be a competent administrator who can manage and maintain the Salesforce data of your organization successfully.
What You Will Learn
- Understand how licensing, profiling, and security settings are set for users
- Perform data modeling and use Salesforce components such as workflows, approvals, validations, layouts, and record types to solve business problems
- Get to know the reporting basics and use Salesforce analytics to build reports and dashboards
- Troubleshoot common challenges that administrators face in real-time businesses
- Get to grips with the Sales Cloud and Service Cloud features provided by the platform
- Utilize tools such as the data loader to load data into Salesforce
- Load data using an external ID and understand the importance of Excel VLOOKUP
- Get familiar with the overall administrator responsibilities for real-time applications
Table of contents
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Salesforce Essentials for Administrators
- Table of Contents
- Salesforce Essentials for Administrators
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. User Management and User Profiling
- License management
- User management
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Profile management
- Objects and fields
- Tabs
- Applications
- Page layouts
- Configuring a profile
- Delegated administration
- Salesforce A
- Summary
- 2. Configuring Salesforce
- 3. Reports and Dashboards
- 4. Record-level Access, Security, and Audit Features
- 5. Session Management, Data Loader, and Data Loading Best Practices
- 6. Troubleshooting Common Problems
- 7. An Overview of Sales and Service Cloud
- Index
Product information
- Title: Salesforce Essentials for Administrators
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781784398071
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