Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fourth Edition - Softcover

Goodey, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786468964 ISBN 13: 9781786468963

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Learn how to successfully administer, build, and manage Salesforce CRM and Salesforce mobile solutions using real-world and best practice techniques

Key Features

• See the latest best practice Salesforce administration principles, gain real-world advice, and understand critical design considerations to set up and customize Salesforce CRM
• This is a pragmatic guide to the key functions of customizing and setting up the application for enterprise security, user and data management, process automation, analytics, and mobile features
• Step-by-step navigation and descriptions of the features of Salesforce CRM platform and clear guidance on the customization and administration of the application
• Identify what is covered to create your own improved study guide for the certified administrator examination

Book Description

Salesforce CRM's Winter '17 release offers a host of new features for CRM designed to transform your sales and marketing requirements. With this comprehensive guide to implementing Salesforce CRM, administrators of all levels can easily acquire deep knowledge of the platform. The book begins by guiding you through setting up users and the security settings and then progresses to configuration, data management, and data analytics. We swiftly move on to the setting up of organization wide features that affect the look and feel of the application. Process automation and approval mechanisms are covered next, along with the functional areas of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Salesforce Chatter. This book details Salesforce CRM system administration in a practical way and is an invaluable reference for both new administrators and experienced professionals.

At the end of the book, techniques to further enhance the system and improve the return on investment Salesforce mobile apps and mobile administration are covered, along with Salesforce Adoption Manager. Every chapter is complete with a section containing example questions of the type that you might encounter in the certification examination.

What you will learn

• Manage and administer user records and password policies
• Configure and control the various organization-wide user interface features in Salesforce CRM
• Set up and maintain users, profiles, and permission sets and administer appropriate security and login access mechanisms
• Apply organization security
• Understand the capabilities of the Salesforce CRM sharing model
• Create, delete, and customize fields, page layout, and list views for custom and standard objects
• Find out how Apex and Visualforce coding can be used in Salesforce CRM
• Implement the mechanisms for data management
• Discover the tools to import, update, transfer, and mass delete data

About this title

About the Author

Paul Goodey s the author of Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook by Packt Publishing. He has over 20 years of experience in developing web technology solutions for companies of all sizes across a variety of industries, and has been building solutions with Salesforce CRM since 2006.

Paul has enjoyed a variety of roles while working with Salesforce CRM, having worked as a system administrator, developer, business analyst, and consultant to provide solutions for both in-house and consultancy-based end users. Based in the UK, near London, Paul's professional qualifications include Salesforce.com Certified Developer DEV-401.

In his spare time, he is a keen runner, having run several marathons and half-marathons since 2001.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786468964
• ISBN 13: 9781786468963
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 644