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Salesforce for Beginners

By : Sharif Shaalan
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Salesforce for Beginners

By: Sharif Shaalan

Overview of this book

Salesforce is the world's leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, helping businesses connect with their constituents and partners. This book will give you a comprehensive introduction to managing sales, marketing, customer relationships, and overall administration for your organization. You'll learn how to configure and use Salesforce for maximum efficiency and return on investment. You'll start by learning how to create activities, manage leads, and develop your prospects and sales pipeline using opportunities and accounts, and then understand how you can enhance marketing activities using campaigns. Packed with real-world business use cases, this Salesforce book will show you how to analyze your business information accurately to make productive decisions. As you advance, you'll get to grips with building various reports and dashboards in Salesforce to derive valuable business insights. Finally, you'll explore tools such as process builder, approval processes, and assignment rules to achieve business process automation and set out on the path to becoming a successful Salesforce Administrator. By the end of the book, you'll have learned how to use Salesforce effectively to achieve your business goals.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Salesforce for Sales, Marketing, and Customer Relationship Management
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Section 2: Salesforce Administration
16
Section 3: Automating Business Processes Using Salesforce

Summary

In this chapter, we learned what Process Builder is and how it is different from a workflow rule. We learned how to create a process and define the object that the process will fire off of. We learned how to add multiple criteria to a process, thus allowing us to capture multiple use cases within one process.

Next, we understood how to add immediate and scheduled actions to a process in order to meet business requirements. Finally, we learned how to activate and test the process to make sure it is working and meeting our business use case.

With these skills, you should be able to come up with technical solutions for the business process automation requirements that come from your users. In the next chapter, we will cover a few basics of approval processes.