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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

Preface

Salesforce's industry-leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application is 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 moves on to configuration, data management, and data analytics. 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. You'll also be taken through the techniques to further enhance your system and improve your return on investment. Salesforce mobile apps and mobile administration is covered, along with Salesforce Adoption Manager. You'll be taken through Lightning Experience, Salesforce's new app, along with how the two versions compare and the facilities that 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 the various organization-wide user interface features in Salesforce CRM.