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Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fifth Edition

By : Paul Goodey
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Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fifth Edition

By: Paul Goodey

Overview of this book

Salesforce’s winter ’19 release offers a host of new features for CRM designed to meet your sales and marketing requirements. With this comprehensive guide to implementing Salesforce CRM, administrators of all levels can easily get a thorough understanding of the platform. This Salesforce handbook begins by guiding you in setting up users and security and then progresses to configuration, data management, and data analytics. You’ll discover process automation and approval mechanisms, while also exploring the functional areas of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Salesforce Chatter. This book covers Salesforce CRM system administration in a practical way, and it’ll serve as an invaluable reference for both new administrators and experienced professionals. Furthermore, you’ll also delve into Salesforce mobile apps and mobile administration, along with Salesforce Adoption Manager. You’ll gain insights into Lightning Experience, Salesforce's new app, and learn how its modern design and sleek interface helps you to build customizable components. Finally, we'll see how the two versions compare and help manage the transition from Salesforce Classic to Lightning Experience. By the end of the book, you will have mastered the techniques to configure and control various user interface features in Salesforce CRM.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Getting Started with Salesforce CRM
5
Section 2: Managing Data in Salesforce
9
Section 3: Business Processes, Cloud Development, and Lightning Experience
16
Section 4: Salesforce CRM Certification

Section 1: Getting Started with Salesforce CRM

In this section, we will look at the options for establishing a profile for your company and a user and the organization-wide UI settings within Salesforce CRM. We will describe the settings within the setup menu, and we will outline the mechanisms available for searching records, record sharing, and storage.

This section contains the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Setting Up Salesforce CRM and the Company Profile
  • Chapter 2, Managing Users and Controlling System Access
  • Chapter 3, Configuring Objects and Apps