An old sway and a new sway.
Some growth would appear to have taken place.
Go figure. Here’s the new one.
And this next one from 3 years ago is worth it if only for the tall schema shot towards the end.
More on Podio, Globiflow & Procfu Scripts
Anything You Can Do I Can Do Meta
A Sway about Meta Management Triggers and Actions Across the Major Codeless Integration Platforms
It would only be a matter of time before the API economy set sights upon itself. See what it means in this Sway.
Adding Workato to my List of Code-Less Integration Platforms
Just started a long-term project with a consulting firm specializing in integrating Salesforce to Sage Intacct Accounting. And they wrote a custom connector on Workato, whose $10,000 annual starter pricing suggests the difference in customer strategy from, say, Zapier.
User interface for the design canvas is crisp, even if the display optional fields part takes some getting used to.
The dependency visualization is a particularly nice trick and should prove useful in team collaboration contexts beyond 3 or 4 members.
I was perhaps the tiniest bit taken by surprise by the way that all your Recipes are shared with the community unless you explictly opt-out. (Need to see whether there is a global configuration setting to address this).
Still, this is a good development.
My client’s book of business is quite full, so this looks to be a rewarding long-term relationship with some crisp people on top of their game. In the meanwhile here are some screenshots, and one can definitely see the enterprise targeting of their offering through features like lifecycle management with manifests and common data models.
Take a look in the gallery.
More soon when I can say more.
Podio + Globiflow & Procfu: Extracting PDF Content for Subsequent Analysis & Automation
My biggest client these days is a real estate investor who monitors Open Data feeds for investment ideas to add to the funnel and evaluate on the basis of reported information.
We’re using Podio to house all the data, and Globiflow, Procfu Scripts, and integromat to acquire, transform, and move data around.
Open the Sway below for more…
And I guess it’s about time to update this Podio Overview from a few years’ back. How much I’ve learned since then.
Custom Workflows & Integrations: Studying for Salesforce Certification
Studying more effectively, courtesy of cloud integrations with some of my favorite vendors.
And it helped — along with years of experience – with this.
#Tableau 8.2 Business Intelligence & #Salesforce dynamically Linked
It Feels Good. And you can really see the dramatic difference in productivity now that my client’s team has some focus.
#CirrusPath Raises the Bar & Brings Google Closer to Salesforce
I’ve been playing with Yesware for a bit, where I’m a member of a Yesware team provisioned by a client. I like the Yesware interface, and its easy integration with Salesforce. And of course, the control freak in one gets addicted to the intel on when your missives are read (and re-read because they’re just that good). But just as I was getting ready to subscribe, I diligently took one more look through the app exchange, where I found that Cirrus Insight basically matches Yesware feature for feature (with the added bonus of having experience and opinions on both offerings).
Adding an Opportunity to Salesforce from within Gmail
Tasks for You
The Record Overview/Snapshot
How to Reach one’s Client
See how addictive all that activity tracing is? One feels semi-NSA
Lots of Related Lists of Custom Objects
With information-display real estate appearing as needed. Bravo.
Syncing with Google Calendar (and by extension Android)
Help, thoughtfully InApp
What really stood out, however, was Cirrus GoogleDrive<–>Salesforce integration: unimaginatively named Cirrus Files.
As they pointed out somewhere in their mess of a site (the worst part of the entire experience is their website’s rather incoherent information architecture, with menus changing unexpectedly and rather jarring shifts in graphic design style: see contrasts below) Salesforce storage is costly; Google Drive is dirt cheap, and is easier to configure for collaboration with parties external to your organization. So, intrigued, I downloaded yet another package and set it up. (Kudos, kids: your video instructions are really in a pedagogical sweet-spot)
It only took a few minutes to deliver this result:
