The next Ottawa User Group meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 17, 2009.

If you have topic ideas or you are able to present a topic please contact Greg at greg.flick@tundra.com.

Enjoy the summer.

Don't forget about Dreamforce. Worth while event!

Regards,

Greg

Hello,

Please join us for our next Ottawa Salesforce User Group meeting on Thursday, April 23rd between 8:30-10:30am.
The location of this meeting is:
                                                   Tundra Semiconductor Corporation
                                               603 March Road, Ottawa, ON K2K 2M5

    For directions to the Tundra office, use this google maps link.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=603+March+Rd.,+Ottawa,+ON+Canada+K2K+2M5&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=44.847503,79.101563&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=A

   Host: Gregory Fick: email greg.flick@tundra.com phone (613) 592-0859 ext. 1842

We will start on time, so please arrive by 8:25 am.
The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

• Welcome
• Salesforce 101: Salesforce Presentation.
  Using the Product Schedule to Forecast Opportunities by Greg Flick of Tundra Semiconductor.
• Deep Dive Presentation:  Protus - Campaigner Overview and Demo by Melanie Attia of Protus.
  You will not want to miss this presentation.
  Campaigner is an affordable, reliable, easy to use email marketing service that provides small and new to email marketing businesses with all the features necessary to send professional bulk newsletters, grow opt-in lists, and improve permission-based marketing results.
• Networking Break
  Group Think - Open Questions & Answer. Please bring your Salesforce related questions. Hopefully others in the meeting will be able to help you in finding an answer/solution to your questions.
• Next meeting date, topics and location
  If you are able to host an Ottawa Salesforce User Group meeting, or present a topic in the future, please contact me and let me know.

Please confirm your attendance no later than Monday, April 20th via email to greg.flick@tundra.com as accommodation plans must be confirmed.
Please contact me if you would like to do a presentation or if you have any presentation ideas. Additionally, if you are able to host an Ottawa Salesforce User Group Meeting in the months ahead, please let me know.
Should you wish to be removed from the Ottawa Salesforce User Group Members Distribution List, email me here at greg.flick@tundra.com

Hope to see you on Thursday, April 23rd at 8:30am.

Please join us for our next Ottawa Salesforce User Group meeting on Thursday, March 26th between 8:30-10:30am.

The location of this meeting is:
   Tundra Semiconductor Corporation
   603 March Road, Ottawa, ON K2K 2M5
   For directions to the Tundra office, use this google maps link.
   Host: Gregory Fick: email greg.flick@tundra.com phone (613) 592-0859 ext. 1842
The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

• Welcome
• Salesforce 101: Salesforce Presentation.
  Force.com 
  Either way, this will be a very interesting presentation. 
• Deep Dive Presentation:  Forecasting more than the "One and Done" Forecasting Model by Dave Dagger of Right 90.
  You will not want to miss this presentation. Especially if your business follows a "Unit of Time" or "Service over Time" offering to your customers. Right 90 offers increased insight to your sales activities and target markets. Better equip your company with the tools to increase sales and understand your data through Forecast Analytics and Change Insight.
• Networking Break
  Group Think - Open Questions & Answer. Please bring your Salesforce related questions. Hopefully others in the meeting will be able to help you in finding an answer/solution to your questions.
• Next meeting date, topics and location
  If you are able to host an Ottawa Salesforce User Group meeting, or present a topic in the future, please contact me and let me know.

Please confirm your attendance no later than Monday, March 23rd via email to greg.flick@tundra.com as accommodation plans must be confirmed.

Please contact me if you would like to do a presentation or if you have any presentation ideas. Additionally, if you are able to host an Ottawa Salesforce User Group Meeting in the months ahead, please let me know.

Hope to see you on Thursday, March 26th at 8:30am SHARP!

Ottawa Salesforce User Group Meeting

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Host: Tundra Semiconductor

Congratulations to

Introductions:

Greg Flick opened the meeting and reviewed the agenda.

Round Table

Kevin Caputo, Evolving Sales Solutions

• Using Salesforce for Marketing, lead generation and e-marketing
• Interested in learning more about handling duplicates

Greg Flick, Tundra Semiconductor

•  Senior administrator; using leads, opportunities, contacts etc
• New implementation for work-in-progress (partner and Tundra); live updates, replacing excel workbooks

Nash Zgonjanin, Rove

Mobile

• Enterprise

  user; integrations done with .net, c-sharp, SQL db; synchronizing data
• Not using Salesforce support

Eric Hollebone, Sitebrand

• Issues – legacy information management
• Interested in lead scoring and twitter www.twitter.com

Phyllis Cross, Terrapoint Inc

• Professional Edition; 10 user licenses; focus on reporting and data integrity

Carolyn Kernohan, Pleora

•  Sales coordinator, using orders and contracts

Karim Ouechni, Pleora

• Application support specialist; email to case reporting
• New application – customer satisfaction survey

Christina Abraham, Pleora

• Marketing coordinator, mailings; interested in learning more about effective reporting

Nik Panter, Xlerate

• www.xlerate.ca Salesforce consulting partner

Joane Hauser, Kinaxis

• Marketing manager; interested in Lead Scoring – considering Eloqua, are there others?

Peter Smith, OnPath

• CRM call center and SFDC partner

Irene Brodt, Xlerate

• Interested in personal use of CRM

Tracey Kealey, Autoskill International

• Uses Salesforce for order processing, support and account management
• Recently added ‘premier support and admin’

Carol Gardner, Pika Technologies

• Used for marketing and support
• Uses web to lead

Kim Orr,

Inverness

Don Henderson, Advanced Software Concepts

• Modest users of SFDC
• Interested in contract generation using Salesforce

Deb O’Brien, Plasco Energy Group

·         Moving from Professional to

Enterprise

·         Looking to optimize

Tim Rees, Nexient Learning

• 120 users across

  Canada

• DBM – turns SFDC into SQL db

Diane Cole, Tundra

• Does marcomms, new user
• Lead generation, and qualifies leads for sales

Adam Mills, Plasco Energy Group

• Administrator, interested in web to lead

Roger Egan, Intersol

• Interested in SFDC as a proof of concept to replace back office applications

Travis Doherty, GWAVA

• Using

  Enterprise

• Running out of API calls?

Salesforce 101

Lead Assignments presented by Irene Brodt, Xlerate www.xlerate.ca

• A granular view of quickly and efficiently dealing with incoming leads (a little heavier than a 101 discussion)

Deep Dive

Latest Features of the Spring ’09 Release by Nik Panter, Xlerate www.xlerate.ca

1. Campaign enhancements
2. Partner portal enhancements
3. Enhanced page editor
4. Email to case as a service

Also, Successforce has been revamped www.salesforce.com/community

Spring ’09 Release Notes available at: https://www.salesforce.com/community/spring09/spring09.jsp

Group Think

Eric - Examples of workflow processes

• Nik – check www.salesforce.com/community

Tracey – APEX survey tool

• Nik – try Pollster (it’s free)

·         Whatever you select, go with ‘pay per use’ not ‘pay per month’

Next Meeting

Thursday, March 26th, 8:30am to 10:30am

Location:         Autoskill International in Kanata North (to be confirmed)

If you have a topic to present or have a facility large enough to host a meeting, please contact Greg Flick at greg.flick@tundra.com

Please join us for our next Ottawa Salesforce User Group meeting on Wednesday December 10th between 8:30-10:30am. The meeting will be held at AutoSkill office at 555 Legget Drive in Kanata (Tower B 9^th Floor).
For directions to AutoSkill, click on directions.

The agenda for the meeting is as follows.

•  Salesforce 101 Presentation & Discussion will be a presentation from Salesforce on “what’s new in Winter 09”.
•  Deep Dive Presentation & Discussion will be a presentation from Craig Kasperski of ExactTarget on their AppExchange tools to create, deliver and track high-impact emails that leverage your Lead and Contact data. Their unique approach lets you deliver dynamic content − unique content (copy, images, links) to each individual Lead or Contact − and send messages on behalf of your Lead, Contact and/or Account Owners to drive a one-to-one relationship. With ExactTarget, there is no data synching. Instead, you keep your data where you want it. ExactTarget access your data directly from Salesforce to create, deliver, and track your email messages.
•  Networking Break
•  Group Think - Open Questions & Answer. Please bring your salesforce related questions. Hopefully others in the meeting will be able to help you in finding an answer/solution to your questions.

Please email Kevin @ kevin.caputo@sympatico.ca if you are planning to attend.

We will need to know if you are able to attend by end of day Friday December 5^th.

Hope to see you on Wednesday Dec 10^th! 

Kevin Caputo

Phone: (613) 591-7509

Cell:     (613) 864-0477

Email: kevin.caputo@sympatico.ca

To download the minutes to the meeting, click ==> Download Salesforce User Group Meeting Notes 12_10_08

To download the Salesforce “What’s new in Winter 09” presentation, click ==> Download Salesforce Winter 09 Highlights for Ottawa SFUG Meeting Dec 10 08

To download the ExactTarget presentation, click ==> Download ExactTarget presentation for Ottawa SFUG Meeting Dec 10 08