The next meeting of the CT Salesforce.com User Group will be held Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 3 p.m. at Open Solutions in Glastonbury, CT. 

Ted Bienkowski, Business Development Manager, Dow Jones & Company, will be joining us to preview Dow Jones Companies & Executives, the only sales optimization tool that delivers information about millions of companies and executives and then actually propels the sales process forward by identifying those prospects that are more likely to buy by giving sales and marketing professionals the ammunition to get the appointment and close the deal.

With Dow Jones Companies & Executives, Salesforce.com users save time, are more productive and gain a competitive advantage because Dow Jones account intelligence seamlessly and easily integrates, making workflow more efficient and enabling sales professionals to make better decisions, faster.

The Dow Jones Companies & Executives Salesforce.com integration allows you to…

• Integrate company data and automate entry of leads within your CRM to save time and improve the quality of the data.
• Map company information using D&B D-U-N-S® numbered company database.
• Improve prospecting with comprehensive executive and company information.
• Find new opportunities with business-critical news from world-class information providers.
• Instantly access company profiles, competitive analysis and industry news to understand customers’ business needs and issues.

Alan Slutsky - Senior Sales Engineer at Salesforce.com - will also join us to discuss the Winter 2010 release and answer any burning Salesforce questions from the group.  And we would love to hear about Dreamforce from those of you who made the trip to San Francisco. 

Please RSVP by emailing me at Susan.Beauregard@Opensolutions.com or call me at (860) 815-5827.  I look forward to seeing you all on December 3^rd!

About Dow Jones & Company

Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Companies & Executives, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services.

Directions to Open Solutions Inc. are below or click here for a map.

455 Winding Brook Drive

Glastonbury, CT  06033

860-652-3155

Upon arrival, please go to the 4th floor and the receptionist will direct you to the meeting room.

·        Interstate 91 South to Interstate 84 East (left exit in Hartford)

·        Interstate 84 East to Route 2 East (exit 55)

·        Route 2 East to Exit 8 (Hebron Avenue)

·        Turn Left onto Hebron Avenue

·        At second light turn left into Salmon Brook Park

·        Turn left onto Winding Brook Drive

·        455 Winding Brook Drive is the first building on the right 

·        Interstate 84 East to Route 2 East (Exit 55)

·        Route 2 East to Exit 8 (Hebron Avenue)

·        Turn left onto Hebron Avenue

·        At second light turn left into Salmon Brook Park

·        Turn left onto Winding Brook Drive

·        455 Winding Brook Drive is the first building on the right

·        Interstate 84 West to Route 2 (just before Hartford, CT)

·        Route 2 East to Exit 8 (Hebron Avenue)

·        Turn left onto Hebron Avenue

·        At second light turn left into Salmon Brook Park

·        Turn left onto Winding Brook Drive

·        455 Winding Brook Drive is the first building on the right

·        Interstate 91 North to Route 3 (Exit 25)

·        Route 3 North to Route 2 East

·        Route 2 East to Exit 8 (Hebron Avenue)

·        Turn left onto Hebron Avenue

·        At second light turn left into Salmon Brook Park

·        Turn left onto Winding Brook Drive

·        455 Winding Brook Drive is the first building on the right

The next meeting of the CT Salesforce User Group will be held Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 3 p.m. at Open Solutions in Glastonbury, CT. 

Mark Whiteside will be joining us from AppExtremes, Inc - the leading developer of software-as-a-service solutions that compliment Salesforce.com.  Come learn how to bring out the best in Salesforce.com with the most popular document generation and reporting solution on the AppExchange – quotes, proposals, account plans and more from custom objects, related lists and images! 

Alan Slutsky - Senior Sales Engineer at Salesforce.com - will join us to discuss the out-of-the-box capabilities of the Partner Portal and a demo of a completed portal.

As always, we'll save time for discussion.   Please RSVP by email at Susan.Beauregard@Opensolutions.com or by phone at (860) 815-5827.  I look forward to seeing you all on October 1st!

The next meeting of the CT Salesforce User Group will be held Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 3 p.m. 

Mark Whiteside will be joining us from AppExtremes, Inc - the leading developer of software-as-a-service solutions that complement salesforce.com.  Come learn how to bring out the best in Salesforce.com with the most popular document generation and reporting solution on the AppExchange – quotes, proposals, account plans and more from custom objects, related lists and images! 

Conga Merge easily retrieves and merges fields from one or many related objects or lists into Word, Excel or PDF form templates – without programming. From a simple quote or proposal to complex account plans and activity reports, one click generates and delivers output to the desktop, email, attachment, or electronic signature systems.

Template options include dynamic repeating tables, conditional hide/display tools and on-the-fly currency formatting. New template storage secures sensitive templates, allows pre-defined template selections and Template Groups for specific subsets.

Beyond merging, a rich array of process-management features include a Merge-Edit-Resume mode to let users polish Word merge output before finalizing, non-stop merge-to-email and updating fields in source records. A new workflow-enabled option can execute merge operations with no user intervention at all (priced separately).

Alan Slutsky - Senior Sales Engineer at Salesforce.com - will join us to discuss the out-of-the-box capabilities of the Partner Portal and a demo of a completed portal.

As always, we'll save time for discussion.  I will get back to you with a location for the meeting.  If anyone in the greater Hartford area would like to host the meeting at their facility, please let me know. 

Please RSVP by emailing me at Susan.Beauregard@Opensolutions.com or call me at (860) 815-5827.  I look forward to seeing you all on October 1st!

About AppExtremes

AppExtremes, Inc. is the leading developer of software-as-a-service solutions that complement salesforce.com through the generation of complex documents, spreadsheets and associated process automation. 

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, AppExtremes support hundreds of customers ranging from small businesses to the Fortune 500, including Andersen Windows, CNN, Kaiser Permanente, Procter & Gamble and Salesforce.com.

AppExtremes solutions are widely deployed by many of the leading Salesforce Consulting Partners aiming to enhance the quality of their client implementations, including  Acenture, Acumen Solutions, Astadia, CRM Manager, Fujitsu Consulting and InfoWelders.

Since the release of its first solution in 2007, AppExtremes has been an avid supporter of nonprofit organizations through deep discounts and technical support for organizations including American Red Cross,  Council on Foreign Relations, Heart and Stroke Foundation Of Ontario, Make-A-Wish, Stop Hunger Now and  Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The company also has a strong commitment to support of the environment through the purchase of alternative-energy credits to offset its energy use.

The next meeting of the CT Salesforce.com User Group will be Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 3pm.  Details will follow shortly.  Please save the date!  

The next meeting of the CT Salesforce User Group will be held Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 3 p.m. at Open Solutions, Inc. in Glastonbury, CT.

John Schiess from Gryphon Networks (one of our fellow group members) will be joining us to discuss how to Increase sales efficiencies and marketing effectiveness while eliminating contact compliance risk.  

Gryphon Networks enables customers to increase sales efficiencies and marketing effectiveness, while outsourcing the risk, cost and complexities of supporting consumer compliance legislation. A pioneer in this field, the company delivered the first automated, on-demand Do Not Call management technology. It was the first company to extend contact governance to include phone, FAX, email and privacy channels and was the first to implement a complete, configurable contact governance solution integrating compliance and preference management to deliver global competitive advantage to clients. Established in 1995, Gryphon now serves more than 500 enterprise clients with hundreds of thousands of users, processing billions of transactions every month.

Gryphon Networks and Salesforce.com have partnered to deliver Privacy Advisor, a composite application that eliminates Contact compliance risk. Certified as an AppExchange solution, Gryphon Networks’ Privacy Advisor seamlessly integrates with Salesforce.com to offer real-time contact compliance across all marketing channels -- phone, fax, email and mail -- supporting all Federal, state, local and other enforcement entities.

As always, there will be time for group discussion.  It's important I get a headcount in case we need a bigger space!  Please RSVP by emailing me at Susan.Beauregard@Opensolutions.com or call me at (860) 815-5827.  I look forward to seeing you all in April!

The next meeting of the CT Salesforce User Group will be held Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 3 p.m. at Open Solutions, Inc. in Glastonbury, CT.

 The theme of the meeting is Creating Meaningful Dashboards.

Judy Maclean will be joining us from Corda Technologies to discuss best practices for creating dashboards.

Corda Technologies is the leading provider of enterprise solutions for creating dashboards and interactive data visualization solutions that enhance performance management and smart decision-making. For more than thirteen years, Corda has led the evolution of data visualization from static charts and graphs to interactive, intuitive strategic dashboards. Its award-winning solutions include developer tools, enterprise server products and professional services that improve business performance and enable customers worldwide to enhance bottom-line results

As always, there will be time for group discussion.  Please RSVP by emailing me at Susan.Beauregard@Opensolutions.com or call me at (860) 815-5827.  

Job Board

Director of Program Management for Order Management/CRM will be the point person responsible for managing the client relationship with the sales organization.

- Define and develop a Salesforce.com solution

- Effectively partner with the sales business

- Relationship management, project initiation, demand management

- Manage a team of Project Managers

- Provide strategic IT direction to all levels of the organization

- Ensure the execution/delivery of projects

- Ensure client expectations are appropriately set and met

- Manage application vendors and consulting partners

- Some international travel

Qualifications:

+ 5+ years leading large CRM projects

- Experience implementing Salesforce.com

- Effective communication skills

This position is located in San Antonio, TX.

If interested, please contact:

Somer Sexton, Associate, CTPartners

1166 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10036

(P) 212.209.5748

(F) 212.688.5754

(M) 646.825.0952

ssexton@ctnet.com

www.ctnet.com

http://www.ctnet.com/CTNet/Practices/CIOTechnologyOperations.htm

The next meeting of the CT Salesforce User Group will be held Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 3 p.m. at Open Solutions, Inc. in Glastonbury, CT.

AGENDA:

Kyle Brown, Manager, Corporate Sales New England, DreamFactory

Before DreamFactory, organizations had to choose between bloated, expensive, complex packaged software applications and thin on-demand applications that did not fully meet their needs. DreamFactory provides a third option that offers the agility of on-demand software with the functionality of packaged software.

Salesforce.com Administrator Certification Discussion

Please RSVP by emailing me at Susan.Beauregard@Opensolutions.com or call me at (860) 815-5827.   See you on the 25th!

Save the Date!  Our next Salesforce.com CT User Group meeting will be held on 9/25/08 from 3-5 pm.  All are welcome!  The agenda and location are forth coming.

Do you have Salesforce questions?  Are you trying to integrate Salesforce with other with other applications?  Are you planning on rolling out new features and want to know best practices?  Do you want to know what your peers are doing? 

                                     Then ... Save the date!

The next meeting of the CT Salesforce User Group will be held May 8, 2008 at 2:30 PM at Open Solutions, Inc. in Glastonbury,  CT.

AGENDA:

·  Jon Beaulier from Cast Iron Systems will teach us how to reduce integration time by 80%!  (Cast Iron Systems is AppExchange partner providing an appliance-based solution specifically for integrating Salesforce with other applications.)

·  A representative from Salesforce will be joining us to answer your specific questions and give ideas for best practices.  Please bring your questions and your issues and we’ll get to the bottom of it!

If you are interested in becoming a member of the CT Salesforce User Group, please click this link to join:   http://usergroups.salesforce.com/connecticut/

Please RSVP by emailing me at Susan.Beauregard@Opensolutions.com or call me at (860) 815-5827.   See you on May 8th!