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A Focus on Salesforce1 Platform: Customizing and Multi-org Architecture

A Focus on Salesforce1 Platform: Customizing and Multi-org Architecture

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Customize the Platform to Engage Students and Staff: The Salesforce platform has many strengths, including its flexibility. However, in reality, to use it as an environment that engages students and staff, some customization is needed. Learn how UC Hastings used third party tools and development environments to take advantage of the solid schema developed to produce informative, timely, and, most importantly, attractive pages that are designed to foster a lively community. Architecting the Force.com Platform at Yale: A Multi-Org Challenge: Discover how Yale Information Technology Services is learning from past experiences and planning for future growth on the force.com platform in a decentralized, multi-org environment. Hear about completed and current projects, efforts around defining a standard architecture and roadmap, and get a glimpse into what the future holds for force.com at Yale.

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A Focus on Salesforce1 Platform: Customizing and Multi-org Architecture

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Jake Hornsby CIO, UC Hastings

Cell: 415 518 5396 Email: [email protected]

Customize the Platform to Engage Students and Staff

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Marc Benioff Chairman & CEO

Customizing Salesforce for Education • Current project vision • Solutions • Clicks vs. code • Challenges

• Employee onboarding • Portal

• Things to think about First Last Name

Title

Foundation Pres – PowerPoint Template – 16x9 FY14.pptx

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Vision: Kaleidoscope

• Vision: “to create a positive experience for students when conducting their business transactions and reduce the effort spent on processing non-value added transactions and to provide tools for collaboration and communication, thus unifying the community in support of the student”

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Solution and Challenges

•  Overarching solution set –  Salesforce (portal, CRM, automation) –  SpringCM (doc mgmt, automation) –  Concur (expense mgmt.)

•  Sample challenge cases –  Employee onboarding –  Academic portal

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• Clicks—Not Code – Requires commitment to changing business processes

– Reduces on-going development/maintenance

– ROI can be much higher using native development

• Custom Development – Full control over workflows, logic, etc.

– Possibly faster in some cases – Easy to apply branding

The Decision Point

But can we do something in between?

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• Need – Visibility of arrivals/exits – Identity management – Reduce administrative burden – Enforce initial requirements

• Training/development • Evaluations • Logistics (e.g. facilities/IT/etc.

• Challenges – Complicated workflow – Numerous employee types – Lack of existing process – Culture – Data

Challenge Case #1: Employee Onboarding

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Solution #1: Out of the box

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Solution #2: Basic Visualforce

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• Need – Attractive, intuitive interface – Place for collaboration – One stop shop for resources – Potential for external portal

• Challenges – Path chosen (communities/force.com) challenging • Lack of branding capabilities • Standard objects ugly • Gap between ‘portal’ and internal platforms

Challenge Case #2: Employee Portal

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Solution #1: ???

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Final word: Things to consider

• Top Level – Skillsets – Standard vs. Custom – Force.com/sites, Site.com, Drupal or ?

• Workflows/Actions – Flows, triggers, etc. on objects

– Visualforce – External API

• Communities vs. Internal – Who lives where? – Chatter – Access to objects – Licensing

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Questions? Cell: 415 518 5396 Email: [email protected]

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Architecting the Force.com Platform at Yale: A Multi-Org Challenge

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Dave DeMichele Application Architect

@DaveDeMichele

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Marc Benioff Chairman & CEO

Architecting the Force.com Platform at Yale: A Multi-Org Challenge

Foundation Pres – PowerPoint Template – 16x9 FY14.pptx

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•  2009 - 2010 –  Organic use and growth –  Primarily stand-alone CRMs

•  2014 –  Nearly 500 licensed users –  16+ applications

•  CRM •  Service Cloud •  Chatter collaboration •  Custom Force.com apps

The Growth of Force.com at Yale Evolving from point applications to enterprise solutions

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Scare Factor: Force.com Orgs on Campus

Photos/Characters Courtesy of the Disney/Pixar Film Monster’s Inc.

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ITS Managed

Current Force.com Org Landscape

HR ITS

OIA

YSS

AYA

YUP

YCEI SOM2

AORTIC

YCA

OSA

WHIFF

LAW

SOM1 UPRES

S

MTL

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Success with Clicks: HR Service Cloud

•  Products: –  Service Cloud / 8X8 VCC / Qualtrics

•  Project highlights: –  3 months planning to launch –  Implementation team of 6-8 ITS / 2-4 HR –  165 licensed users –  Reach: University-wide

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Success with Code: Yale College Reunions

•  Product: –  Force.com

•  Project Highlights: –  9 months planning to launch –  Implementation team of 1 ITS / 6

AYA / vendor –  30 licensed users –  Reach: alumni and reunion staff

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Successful “Failure”: Academic Hub POC

•  Products: –  Service Cloud / Salesforce

Communities (pilot)

•  Project highlights: –  3 months to prove concept –  POC team of 8 ITS / Vendor –  Target audience: students, faculty

and academic admin staff

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Evolving from Point Apps to Enterprise Solutions

•  Bluewolf Best Practices Engagement

–  Set up a COE –  Standardize release processes –  Establish support models

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Three Flavors of Support

Centralized •  Centralized admin,

support and development

•  Standard method of change and release management

Hybrid •  Shared control of

admin, support and development

•  Optional central change and release management

Decentralized •  Local admin, support

and development •  Local change and

release management

•  COE can offer best practices

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Force.com Projects on the Horizon

•  Continued support model rollout •  Force.com Yale community of

practice •  Alumni gap applications •  Workday gap applications •  Replatform legacy apps •  Org consolidation / domain

centers

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Future Force.com Org Landscape The idea of hubs or domain centers

Admin DC Academic/Alumni DC

Finance DC

Independents

HR

Main Org

AYA/ODD

YCA

LAW

SOM

Main Org

AORTIC

OSA

Main Org

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Scare Factor: Apps Supported by ITS

Photos/Characters Courtesy of the Disney/Pixar Film Monster’s Inc.

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