Best Practices for handling a Lightweight Salesforce.com Project and Management Issue?  By Kesava Gollapalli When managing Salesforce.com projects, organisations should have a framework in place to ensure that the projects are handled efficiently. Salesforce.com projects are often tricky to manage as the approach followed to manage these projects differs slightly from typical project management approaches used for other applications, methodologies. [...]

What will the Salesforce.com Spring Release 2013 mean for you? By Finbarr O’ Donoghue Recently all of our Salesforce org’s automatically witnessed a number of changes, all part of the Salesforce.com Spring Release. I have outlined some of the main elements to help you, The User, take advantage of the new features and functionality. 1. Chatter Enhancements Real-time collaboration within [...]

How to Delete “Test” Leads that have been Converted. By Stephen Bellhouse When initially setting up a Salesforce system users often create practice ”Test” Leads. They will in turn convert these “Test” Leads so as to establish and understand what would happen if it was an authentic Lead. These “Test” Leads may later taint your Lead Conversion Reporting so therefore it [...]

                                     Cloud Consulting Newsletter, December, 2012 Top Tips 1.Prevent Web to Lead Spam – Eliminate 80-90% of Spam – Find genuine leads fast – Save time and storage Learn How HERE 2. Increase user Adoption of Salesforce – Create views of valuable records – Create access to most recent files – Create email [...]

How is Cloud working for you and how will it work in the future? As we know Cloud services are all about being available 24/7; accessible on a self-service basis to cater for changes in demand, irrespective of where you are. So a number of years on; with the evolution of Cloud services, are you seeing these characteristics in your [...]

Last Thursday 27th October, Agile Tour organised a seminar in Dublin entitled “Imagine an Agile World“. Richard Bowden from Cloud Consulting was asked to talk about “The Good, the Bad and the Cloud in Agile”. The objective of the talk was to speak about the postive and negative aspects of each of the roles and workflows in an Agile project [...]

In all of Cloud Consulting’s cloud based projects, we work with clients to understand the business drivers for a project and suggest and configure different technologies to deliver practical business benefits. On a regular basis, we find that project discussions include how to increase the quality and range of information available via reporting and other methods. From the numerous project [...]

Have you experienced Cloud Fatigue yet? I have. I first felt it coming on last year when as a company we ran 3 Cloud events in 1 month (in London, Belfast and Dublin just to give ourselves a challenge!).  As a new company this is what you do in order to build your market.  That made a total of 15 [...]

The recent outage in Amazon’s North Virginia Data Centre and the resulting disruption to Cloud services that were run from that Centre demonstrated one thing – that risk planning and management is as important with Cloud Computing as with other technology delivery models including On-Premise or Hosted.

Cloud Consulting not only works with a wide range of companies to roll-out cloud based solutions, but we also work with helping companies plan their IT requirements. The basic rule of thumb that we use is that the IT requirements are driven by the businesses requirements. To help plan out both sets of requirements, we use a combination of an [...]