Salesforce.com launches – Salesforce Einstein – Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Cloud

Salesforce.com has unveiled its offering in Artificial Intelligence (AI) space – Salesforce Einstein. With Salesforce.com Einstein – Salesforce adds remarkable AI features to its flagship products – Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud. The best part is Salesforce Einstein can be used by anyone in the organization as platform is customizable using both code or clicks.

In a world of interconnected things  – PCs, Mobiles, cars, refrigerators, aircraft engines – Salesforce.com offered Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud in last year’s Dreamforce. With IoT resulting in vast amount of data – Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the natural extension of Salesforce platform. [Read more…]

Odd Even Assignment of Records in Salesforce.com using Workflow Rules

Odd Even Assignment in Salesforce.com using WorkflowsHave you encountered the requirement where you want to assign all Even numbered records to one person and all Odd records to another? Here is a simple solution using the workflow rules that can help. You can use this on custom objects or even on objects that do not have Assignment rules. The requirement can also mean assigning the alternate records to two persons. This is similar to Round Robin assignment to two persons using workflow rules.

Lets define the requirement as:

Assign all records of an object that are of even number to “Joe” and odd number records to “Mary”. The odd or even number can come from a custom field “Record Number”.

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Salesforce.com Summer 12 New Features for End Users / Functional Enhancements

Salesforce.com Summer 12 New Features for End Users / Functional EnhancementsSalesforce.com Summer 12 has been released recently and there are some of the new features that are noticeable. In this post we will discussing about some of the new features that may be of interest to ‘End Users’.

General Enhancements

  • Chatter Messenger: Chatter Messenger allows people in your organization to chat securely with people in Chatter without using external chat clients.
  • Upload Multiple Files: In Summer ‘12, you can upload multiple files at the same time from the Files tab and Drag-and-Drop Files. [Read more…]