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Spring ’15 Release Preview
Connect with your customers anywhere with the Customer Success Platform With the Spring ’15 release you can now build meaningful connections with your customers, partners, and employees on any device. Leverage the power of the Customer Success Platform to engage with customers in a whole new way.
Note: Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Dec 19, 2014
Sales Cloud
Service Cloud
Marketing Cloud
Community Cloud
Analytics Cloud
Salesforce1 Platform
Sales Path (Beta)
Salesforce Email Connect
Duplicate Alerts and Blocking
Smart and Simple Console for Service
New Listening and Analytics for Social
Studio
Community Management
Console
Now Available!
Lightning Process Builder
Spring ’15 Favorite Features 250+ New Features
Sales Path (Beta) Notes (Beta) Flexible Forecast
Adjustments Salesforce
Email Connect Duplicate Alerts and
Blocking Get tips at every sales stage to push deals forward, faster
Seamlessly add notes to every customer interaction
Top down, bottom-up adjustments for accurate
forecasts
Supercharge productivity Improve the quality of your data by preventing duplicate records
The new Sales Path helps sales reps advance a prospect through deal stages in the sales cycle by guiding them and recommending sales engagement tools.
Any change to a company's sales methodology is automatically reflected in Sales Path so both new and experienced sales reps can stay focused on selling.
Target User: Sales Reps How to Enable: Admin-Enabled
Sales Cloud is introducing a brand new consumer-like note taking experience, optimized for sales. Sales reps can now quickly capture notes on the go with Salesforce1 — and even create tasks directly from Notes.
Users will be able to keep the content private or relate it to multiple Salesforce records and keep their team informed.
Target User: Sales Reps How to Enable: Contact Salesforce
Collaborative Forecasts continues to get better. Reps now have the power to make adjustments to their own forecasts without changing the underlying opportunity value.
And sales managers can save time by adjusting the rolled up forecast number instead of each individual forecast number for every rep.
Target User: Sales Reps, Sales Managers How to Enable: Admin-Enabled
Bring the Salesforce experience into Outlook Web App on Mac and Windows-based computers via the browser and on any mobile device.
And with Salesforce App for Outlook, keep Contacts and Events in sync.
Target User: Sales Reps How to Enable: Admin-Enabled
Immediately improve the quality of your CRM data with real-time duplicate alerting, reporting, and blocking. Check for duplicates with new or edited accounts, contacts, leads, and custom objects.
Now, it is included for all customers with Sales and Service Cloud Professional Edition and above (powered by technology from Data.com).
Target User: Sales Reps How to Enable: Admin-Enabled
Sell in a whole new way
Check out the Release Notes for the complete list of new features…
Sales Cloud Favorite Features
Smart and Simple Console for Service Macros
Social Customer Service Starter Pack Question-to-Case
Continuous Data Connect
Resolve cases faster and improve agent productivity
with a smarter console
Take action faster with pre-built responses
Get Social Customer Service up and running
quickly and easily
Ensure no question goes unanswered in
your community
Sync critical data to deliver always-on
customer service
The Smart and Simple Console for Service is now more intuitive and streamlined. Similar cases are served up to agents, providing insight into how to close the case quickly and save agents time by allowing them to work on multiple cases with the same issue at the same time.
The console also features customizable sidebar components, smarter search functionality, and keyboard shortcuts to help reduce clicks.
Target User: Support Agents, Console Users How to Enable: Admin-Enabled (Keyboard shortcuts are Auto-Enabled)
Macros are pre-built responses that allow users to perform multiple actions in one click, saving agents time and allowing them to respond with consistency and accuracy.
Target User: Support Agents, Console Users How to Enable: Admin-Enabled
Social Customer Service Starter Pack enables customers to easily and quickly deliver social customer service by connecting Facebook and Twitter accounts directly in Service Cloud without a separate Radian6 contract. Target User: Service Managers How to Enable: Admin-Enabled
Easily create a case from any Question in a community to ensure every question gets the right answer. Save time with declarative processes — similar to workflow rules — that automatically create cases from unanswered questions.
Without leaving the console, an agent can also easily see the entire conversation in order to answer the question or mark the best answer.
Target User: Community Moderators, Service Managers How to Enable: Admin-Enabled
Business Continuity delivers an additional level of availability by allowing customers to keep a critical subset of their data synchronized between two separate instances of Salesforce. Target User: Admins, Service Executives How to Enable: Contact Salesforce
Service in a whole new way Service Cloud Favorite Features
Check out the Release Notes for the complete list of new features…
New Listening and Analytics
for Social Studio Content Builder
Content Canvas
Journey Builder Mobile Activities
Email Campaign Member Status in
Sales Cloud Understand what's being said
about your company, products, and industry on social media
Easily create great content that drives engagement
Easily store, search, edit, and personalize content
— all from one place
Connect mobile messaging and apps to customer journeys
Understand customer engagement behavior within
Sales Cloud Campaigns
New Social Studio adds social listening and analytics capabilities to content marketing and engagement — all within a single application.
It also extends social data across the Customer Success Platform: Marketers can run social campaigns, engage with customers, and use social insights to drive marketing decisions. Service teams can delight customers with social customer care. Also, sales teams can connect to new customers faster with social lead generation.
Target User: Marketers How to Enable: Auto-Enabled
With Content Builder’s simple drag-and-drop tools and ability to let users create and edit email content, marketers can easily drive engagement with their customers.
Also, marketers can quickly create robust emails without any coding or design experience that render beautifully across all devices, including mobile.
Target User: Marketers How to Enable: Admin-Enabled
Content Canvas gives users a single place to manage email content with drag-and-drop creation, personalization, and dynamic offers — across the Marketing Cloud.
With robust APIs, Content Canvas connects to a user's existing CMS and allows for the creation of customized content blocks, in addition to the built-in smart content blocks.
Target User: Marketers How to Enable: Admin-Enabled
Marketers can now connect with customers on any device for a truly personalized 1:1 customer journey. Journey Builder users can plan, personalize, and optimize customer interactions with SMS messages created in the MobileConnect app.
Also, easily extend customer journeys to apps and connected products to deliver personalized communications based on real time, data-driven triggers.
Target User: Marketers How to Enable: Contact Salesforce
Now, marketers can define and map events to subscriber status and get a single view of a subscriber (Contact or Lead) at the Campaign level in Sales Cloud.
With engagement detail directly within a Campaign, marketers can create Opportunities or other actions, based on their subscriber status and ultimately understand their customer’s engagement behavior.
Target User: Marketers How to Enable: Auto-Enabled
Market in a whole new way Marketing Cloud Favorite Features
Check out the Release Notes for the complete list of new features…
Community Management Console
Community Builder and Templates
Feed Actions
Salesforce Records in Chatter Groups
Files Connect for OneDrive
Monitor and manage communities more
efficiently
Quickly create and deploy highly customized
Communities
Make your business processes social by taking
action in the feed
Improve visibility by associating Salesforce records
with Chatter groups
Easily connect any Microsoft business file directly
into Salesforce
The new Community Management Console includes Community Analytics, which enables community managers to track community growth and activity. This allows companies to tailor community structure and programs to more effectively drive usage and signups.
Also, included is Community Moderation where community managers can quickly and easily review and address all flagged content in one location.
Target User: Admins How to Enable: Auto-Enabled
Community Builder enables companies to quickly create and deploy customized Communities with minimal time and cost. Community admins can easily change widgets, images, and colors to match their company brand or other design objective.
Admins can easily connect service cases to the community, as well as articles from their knowledge library. Communities built with Community Builder are mobile optimized and look great on any screen — from laptop to tablet to smartphone.
Target User: Admins How to Enable: Auto-Enabled
Feed Actions enable customers to use the community to truly extend business processes. Managers can now create custom actions to support any process in the community, right in the feed, so that customers can quickly submit support cases, partners can be trained on new products, and employees can submit expenses faster than ever.
Community managers can also drive members to specific groups, files, or actions with recommendations that are prominently displayed in the feed.
Target User: Community Users How to Enable: Auto-Enabled
Now, Salesforce records are more integrated with Chatter than ever before. Users can create records in groups and add existing records to groups so that it's easier than ever to find important information.
Easily see which groups are talking about a record or see which records are associated with a particular group.
Target User: Chatter Users How to Enable: Auto-Enabled
The Spring ’15 release adds Microsoft OneDrive for Business integration to our already successful Microsoft SharePoint integration. Now, any Microsoft business file, whether stored on-premise or in the cloud, can immediately be connected to Salesforce.
This makes these files immediately mobile and social, enabling them to be attached to records, shared with groups, or placed in the feed.
Target User: Community Users How to Enable: Contact Salesforce
Engage in a whole new way Community Cloud Favorite Features
Check out the Release Notes for the complete list of new features…
Everyone Mobile Platform can easily find insights insight to action open for any data and customer app
The Salesforce Analytics Cloud is designed for everyone. Whether you are a business user, analyst, or developer, Analytics Cloud enables you to access any data, get answers to any questions, and act immediately.
Now, anyone can access powerful insights and let the data tell a story.
Insights are not and should not be restricted to the desktop. With the mobile-first Analytics Cloud, you can explore all types of data from your mobile device.
No matter where you are, you can collaborate and share insights with colleagues and know your customers like never before.
Native to the cloud and built on the Wave platform, Analytics Cloud makes integration with your Salesforce data, as well as any other data source, simple and seamless.
The Wave platform enables you to design custom analytic apps and deploy them to users five times faster than the competition, all while ensuring the highest levels of security and easy administration.
Meet the New Analytics Cloud Analytics for the rest of us
Understand your customers in a whole new way
Analytics Cloud Powered by Wave
Check out the Release Notes for the complete list of new features…
Lightning Process Builder Event Monitoring
Identity for Customers Lightning Connect
AppExchange Store Builder
Automate complex processes, improve productivity, and
drive business forward
Gain complete visibility into the security, performance, and usage of Salesforce
Connect with your customers from any device,
app, or website
Deliver a seamless customer experience across
all apps and devices
Build your own app ecosystem
Lightning Process Builder allows anyone to build enterprise workflows and visually automate complex processes in just a few clicks.
From daily activities, such as sending follow-up email reminders, submitting pricing approval requests and assigning tasks, to more complex processes, like employee onboarding, vendor procurement and order fulfillment, Lightning Process Builder helps companies go faster.
Target User: Admins How to Enable: Admin-Enabled
Event Monitoring gives customers detailed performance, security, and usage data on all their Salesforce apps. Every interaction is accessible via API so customers can connect it to the data visualization app of their choice.
Information Security can see who is accessing critical business data when and from where, IT can troubleshoot and optimize performance, and Salesforce admins can assess usage patterns, increasing adoption.
Target User: Admins, IT, CISO How to Enable: Contact Salesforce
Identity for Customers helps companies turn every customer interaction into an opportunity to grow their business.
Create a single customer identity across brands and businesses, capture richer customer profiles, and connect customers in CRM with their online digital personas, all while providing customers with personalized apps and content.
Target User: Sales, Marketing, IT How to Enable: Contact Salesforce
Lightning Connect helps companies connect legacy data with Salesforce in minutes using point-and-click tools. It accesses data by reference in real time, so data is not copied to Salesforce.
Lightning Connect brings the power of the Salesforce1 Platform to external data, helping customers build custom apps, map data to Salesforce objects, and access external data via Salesforce APIs.
Target User: Admins, IT, Enterprise Architects How to Enable: Contact Salesforce
With AppExchange Store Builder, you can build a completely customized app store to distribute any app, on any device, to partners, customers, or employees using the same technology that powers the #1 business app marketplace — AppExchange.
Customize your store with your branding and modify functionality to meet any requirement.
Target User: Admins How to Enable: Contact Salesforce
Engage customers with apps Salesforce1 Platform Favorite Features
Check out the Release Notes for the complete list of new features…
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