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App of the Week – Give Salesforce a facelift for the holidays with Skuid

App of the Week – Give Salesforce a facelift for the holidays with Skuid

Skuid

One of the best things about Salesforce is the ease of customization. Your page layout isn’t working for you? Click Edit Layout, drag and drop fields where you need them, click Save, and your life just got easier. However, if you need a fully custom UI, it’s not so simple. You’ll need a developer every time a field is out of place or a margin is a hair too narrow. That’s where Skuid comes in.

Build a killer user interface for any app on any device with Skuid: the scalable kit for user interface design. Drag & drop prebuilt interface components to create powerful desktop and mobile apps. Boost adoption & productivity and lower your costs.

Check out Skuid and start building your own awesome custom apps today!

Tip of the Week – Summer ’14 is coming and Salesforce Canvas is coming to a page layout near you

Tip of the Week – Summer ’14 is coming and Salesforce Canvas is coming to a page layout near you

Salesforce Canvas is one of the most powerful new tools in your arsenal. With Canvas, you can integrate your existing web applications directly into Salesforce, allowing the app to interact with your data as the logged in user. The use cases are literally endless, but unfortunately placement is currently not. Up to now, you could only place a Canvas app within Chatter or a Visualforce page, forcing you to add some extra code every time you wanted to drop it on a page layout. Well no longer!

Summer ’14 is coming, and with it, you’ll be seeing a lot of great updates from Salesforce. Among them, you will now be able to add Canvas apps directly to page layouts, mobile cards, and Salesforce1 navigation. This means less code and more possibilities. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities, and this update makes Canvas more awesome than ever before!

-Jared and the Salesforce Guys

App of the Week – Give your Salesforce Dashboards a makeover with MyCharts

App of the Week – Give your Salesforce Dashboards a makeover with MyCharts

MyCharts

Time and again, we at CloudMyBiz have returned to visuals. Whether it’s leveraging formulas to display images, showing outside content on a record, or using charts to help your team understand the data in your org, visuals are a powerful tool for helping you review, relate to, and act on data. Dashboards are the bread and butter here, but if your team needs something more dynamic, prefers a hyper modern HTML5 appearance and user interface, needs solid access across all platforms including Salesforce1, or if you are more familiar with Google Charts and want to leverage that experience to quickly create a powerful dashboard, MyCharts has you covered.

MyCharts is a Visualforce package that works on both desktop browsers and the new Salesforce1 mobile experience. MyCharts provides a simple and dynamic interface for creating charts that can be easily modified and shared with others in your organizations.

Not only does MyCharts give you some powerful new tools, but being an unmanaged package built on the latest Salesforce Analytics APIs, you can leverage it as a “reference implementation for your own customized solutions” and jumpstart your first Salesforce1 application! Check out their listing today!

App of the Week – Salesforce1, a game changer!

App of the Week – Salesforce1, a game changer!

Over the years, Salesforce has offered a number of apps to keep your team connected even while they’re on the go. Salesforce Classic let you connect to your data, and the Chatter app put collaboration in the palm of your hand, but there was no one-stop solution to bring you the full power of Salesforce.

Well, Salesforce1 has landed in the app store, and it’s ready to take your mobile experience to the next level. Watch the video (below), download the app, and get ready for the latest in Salesforce technology!

Along with the release of Salesforce1, Salesforce has released two new apps designed specifically for admins, SalesforceA and Salesforce#.

For the first time, Salesforce is releasing two mobile apps that enable administrators to manage their own instance from anywhere. These apps will provide real-time updates and allow admins to remotely reset user passwords if needed. It will also manage who has access to the Salesforce CRM and can review the maintenance and upgrade schedules at any time.

Read more here, click here to download Salesforce1 and here to download SalesforceA from the iTunes app store, and see all the power Salesforce is bringing your way this season!

App of the Week – Trello-ify Salesforce with the Opportunity Planning Wall

App of the Week – Trello-ify Salesforce with the Opportunity Planning Wall

Got lost in you sales pipeline? Do you need a more visual and interactive tool for sales planning? The Opportunity Planning Wall displays sales opportunities as cards on a virtual wall and lets you filter, group & modify on one simple screen. It’s free.

In my office, Trello is everyone’s favorite tool. Easy to learn, easy to update, easy to understand, and just plain easy to fall in love with. Salesforce, on the other hand, can sometimes feel like a big jumble of unrelated data. List views and reports can help tame the madness, but as your company grows, entropy can begin to creep in. Custom Visualforce pages may do the trick, but if you need to make any updates, you’ll have to go back to your developers. You need a cheap, easy, customizable solution, and the Opportunity Planning Wall may be just the thing you’re looking for.

The Opportunity Planning Wall brings a little taste of Trello to your Salesforce with easy-to-read lists and a drag-and-drop interface. You can group and filter records by any criteria, and double-click on their cards to make updates on the fly.

Check it out and Trello-ify your Salesforce today!