The next Salesforce.com Raleigh User Group will be held on Thursday, September 24, 2009. Location is An Restaurant at 2800 Renaissance Park Place • Cary, NC 27513 • Phone: 919.677-9229 www.ancuisines.com The meeting time will be 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM. The meeting is being sponsored by Ping Identity and Astadia. Astadia will be presenting.

Topic is listed below:

Leveraging salesforce.com and the salesforce.com ecosystem for demand

generation:

* Campaign and Lead Management

* Contact Management and Data Quality

* Marketing Automation

* Marketing Resource Management

* Sales Enablement

* Demand Generation Analytics

Have a great day!

Please contact Mike Desai with any questions:

• Lunch
• Introductions
• Topic Discussion: Analytic Snapshots
• Topic Discussion: Sites
• Open Discussion
• Networking

The next Salesforce.com Raleigh User Group will be held on Friday, May 29, 2009 at the Red Hat office.  The meeting time will be 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM.  Lunch will be provided so please arrive a little early.  Red Hat's address is 1801 Varsity Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606. 

Here is the agenda:

• Welcome and Introductions - Raleigh Co-Leaders
• DreamFactory presentation by Kyle Brown / Adam Buxbaum
  • "Snapshot demo"
  • Q&A Session on "Change & Release Management" and "Deployment"
• Salesforce.com Summer '09 release
• Networking

Please RSVP to Angela Daniels at adaniels@redhat.com if you can attend.  I look forward to seeing you there!

Welcome: 11:00 - 11:15
Introductions and Icebreaker: 11:15 - 11:30
Co-Sponsor Presentation: Appirio-  11:30 - 12:00

Brief Appirio overview
Sales Call Centers - Call Scripting
SITES, APEX, VisualForce
PRM and Customer Portal - Implemented SFDC at Google
Newly Released SF Functionality Overview

Q&A: 12:30-12:45
Networking: 12:45 - 1:00

Lunch will be served through out. . . .

The Select Group of

Raleigh

Primary Responsibilities:

Debug software products through the use of systematic tests (manual and automated) to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards for company products. Develop, modify, and execute software test plans and test cases.

Maintain documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software.

Analyze test results to ensure existing functionality and recommends corrective action. Consult with development engineers in resolution of problems.

Requirements:

5+ years experience in software verification, including Java web applications and Oracle databases

Direct experience testing the Salesforce.com application

Experience working as a member of an Agile software development team

Must be able to work both independently and within the Scrum methodology; will be a member of a team consisting of software developers and architects, business analysts, and project managers.

Value-Adds:

Experience with test automation using the Selenium open-source web application testing system or the Fitnesse testing framework

User of the Linux operating system - preferably the RHEL distribution :)

Exposure to the OpenOffice office productivity suite

Qualified candidates should contact:

George Williams

The Select Group

919-459-8133

George@selectgroup-rtp.com

The meeting will be co-hosted by Red Hat and David Vivian from Appirio.

Please contact Kelly Crum (kcrum@redhat.com) if you have any questions about this upcoming meeting.

The meeting will be co-hosted by First Citizens Bank and Mark Loveless from Bluewolf. The topic will be "Open Support - How to Cost Effectively Support SalesForce". 

Please contact Deborah Martin deborah.martin@firstcitizens.com if you have any questions about this upcoming meeting.

Red Hat is currently looking for Sr & Jr Business Analysts - to begin immediately.  These are contract-to-perm positions.  Need Salesforce.com Admin experience.  Please send resumes to Angela @ adaniels@redhat.com.

There will not be a User Group meeting in December.  Our next meeting will occur in January 2009.  Happy Holidays!

Raleigh User Group Co-Leaders

We had a great meeting and good turn out for the Raleigh October User
Group meeting. Thank you to Genworth and Erica Stinson for hosting. We
benefited from hearing about Genworth's use of Exact Target for their
marketing campaigns. Jennifer did a super job of helping us learn to
Navigate DreamForce. First Citizens Bank will be hosting the next
meeting. Please email Deborah.Martin@FirstCitizens.com with ideas for
the main topic of discussion.