Date:  August 25, 2009

Time:  5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 

Location:  Scottsdale Mustang Library (Auditorium)

10101 N 90th St
Scottsdale, AZ 85258

Light refreshments will be served.

The theme for our next meeting is "Partner collaboration using Salesforce.com". We will explore and demonstrate several key features of Salesforce.com that facilitate selective sharing of information with business partners. This meeting will feature the following presentation topics:

• Partner Portal, presented by David Gildar, DFG Solutions.
• Salesforce to Salesforce, presented by Brad Phillips, Salesforce.com. 
• Content, presented by David Gildar, DFG Solutions.

Please RSVP to David Gildar at dgildar@dfgsolutions.com with "will attend" if you have not already done so.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, DFG Solutions, Inc.

At our April 23, 2009, Phoenix User Group meeting, we had three good presentations on current topics related to Salesforce.com.

Barry Duncan, from iLinc, presented an overview of iLinc, a web conference tool offered through AppExchange. Barry demonstrated how iLinc is integrated with Salesforce.com contacts, and how iLinc can track which contacts participated in a webinar.

Dan England presented a functional overview of his company's award-winning AppExchange data integration application named Informatica On Demand. Informatica On Demand provides configurable data integration between Salesforce.com and other external databases, such as Oracle and SQL Server.

Jesse Lorenz, platform evangelist from Salesforce.com presented a basic introduction to VisualForce for customizing the Salesforce.com user interface. Jesse highlighted the benefits of VisualForce as a superior customization tool when compared to the old method of developing S-Controls.

Our next meeting is planned for sometime in August; however, the agenda is not set yet, so I welcome suggestions for volunteer speakers or potential presentation topics.

Best Regards,
David Gildar, DFG Solutions Inc.
Phoenix User Group Leader
dgildar@dfgsolutions.com

Date:  April 23, 2009

Time:  5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. (Please note new time)

Location:  Scottsdale Mustang Library (Book Discussion Meeting Room)

10101 N 90th St
Scottsdale, AZ 85258

Light refreshments will be served.

This meeting will feature these presentations:

• VisualForce Basics, presented by Jesse Lorenz, Salesforce.com.
• iLinc Sales Webinar Integration, presented by Barry Duncan, iLinc Communications. 
• Informatica On Demand Data Integration, presented by Dan England, Informatica.

Please RSVP to David Gildar at dgildar@dfgsolutions.com with "will attend" if you have not already done so.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, DFG Solutions

At our January 22, 2009, Phoenix User Group meeting, we had three good presentations on current topics related to Salesforce.com.

Brad Phillips, from Salesforce.com, did a great job as usual presenting an overview of Force.com Sites, which was unveiled at DreamForce.  Brad also followed later with a brief preview of key new features coming out in the Spring '09 release.

Brian Falkner presented a functional overview of his company's award-winning AppExchange application called BigMachines Configured Price Proposals (CPP). BigMachines appears to be a strong add-on to Salesforce.com for organizations selling complex configurable products.

Zack Cramer presented SalesGenie.com inside Salesforce.com, their new AppExchange offering which provides contact names for the small to medium sized business market and the consumer market. Zack highlighted how Salesgenie can push purchased leads seamlessly into Salesforce.com.

If you would like to download a copy of the slide presentations, please click on these links:

Download Force.com Sites

Download Spring '09 Feature Highlights

Download SalesGenie_SFDC_workflow

Our next meeting is planned for sometime in early April; however, the agenda is not set yet, so I welcome suggestions for volunteer speakers or potential presentation topics.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, DFG Solutions

Phoenix User Group Leader

dgildar@dfgsolutions.com

Date:  January 22, 2009

Time:  4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Please note new time)

Location:  Scottsdale Mustang Library (Auditorium)

10101 N 90th St
Scottsdale, AZ 85258

Light refreshments will be served.

This meeting will feature these presentations:

• BigMachines Configured Price Proposals, presented by Brian Falkner, BigMachines.
• Force.com Sites Overview, presented by Brad Phillips, Salesforce.com. 
• SalesGenie on Force.com, presented by Jessica Webb, SalesGenie.com.

Please RSVP to David Gildar at dgildar@dfgsolutions.com with "will attend" if you have not already done so.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, DFG Solutions

For those of you who were not able to attend DreamForce this year, Salesforce.com has recorded webcasts for many of the sessions presented at DreamForce.  Please feel free to visit the links posted below to learn from this year's DreamForce.

DreamForce Webcasts Home Page:

http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF08/. 

Watch the Archived Webcasts & Track Sessions:

• View all the top-rated track sessions now in the Dreamforce Success Center
  
  
• Monday, November 3rd, 9:00 am (PST)
  Watch Monday's Keynote featuring salesforce.com's New Cloud Computing Technology,  as well as Facebook and amazon.com relationships.
• Tuesday, November 3rd, 9:00 am (PST)
  Tuesday's Keynote featured salesforce.com's New CRM Product Lines, as well as Google and Dell.
• Tuesday, November 3rd, 3:15 pm (PST)
  Tuesday's afternoon keynote featured featuring Larry Brilliant, the director of Google.org, who gave a tremendous talk on philanthropy.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, DFG Solutions

Phoenix Salesforce.com User Group Leader

At our October 21 Phoenix User Group meeting, we had a lively but small group turnout again. My thanks go to Joy Daniel from Morris, Hall & Kinghorn (Law Firm), for hosting our meeting at her facility. Also I thank Brad Phillips, from Salesforce.com, for his presentation of "Winter '09 New Feature Highlights", and Ethan Zoubek, from ExactTarget, for his presentation on "1:1 Marketing with Email". If you would like to download a copy of either of these slide presentations, please click on these links:

Download winter_09_new_features.ppt

Download marketing_with_email.ppt 

Our next meeting is planned for sometime in January. We plan to have a platform evangelist from Salesforce.com present an introduction to VisualForce. I am also currently seeking volunteers and/or suggestions for other potential presentation topics for January.

I am also always eager to hear from any members who would be willing to share a brief case study of any significant success achieved within their own organization using Salesforce.com.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, DFG Solutions

Phoenix User Group Leader

dgildar@dfgsolutions.com

Date:  October 21, 2008

Time:  12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location:  Morris, Hall & Kinghorn (Law Firm)

3300 N. Central Ave., Suite 900
Phoenix, AZ 85012

Sandwiches will be served.

This meeting will feature these presentations:

• Salesforce.com Winter '09 New Features Highlights, presented by Brad Phillips, Salesforce.com.
• 1:1 Marketing with Email, presented by Ethan Zoubek, ExactTarget. 
• LinkedIn with Salesforce.com, presented by Katja Godenitz, CopperState Business Systems. 

Please RSVP to David Gildar at dgildar@dfgsolutions.com with "will attend" if you have not already done so.
Seating will be limited to RSVP's.

Parking Instructions:

The 3300 Tower is located on the southwest corner of Central and Osborn (south of Indian School). You can access the parking garage from 2nd Ave and Osborn, head south, and follow road around to left. The garage is the first garage straight ahead, be sure to park in the one marked “3300 Tower” (we cannot validate for any other garage). You can park in any “Visitor” or non-marked space. Make your way to the building and use the left bank of elevators to go to the 9th floor. We will be meeting in the first room on your left as you exit the elevators.

At our August 26 Phoenix User Group meeting, we had a lively but small group turnout again. My thanks go to Joy Daniel from  Morris, Hall & Kinghorn, for presenting Conga Merge, and to Brad Phillips from Salesforce.com for a live demo of Access Hoovers. If you would like to download a copy of these slide presentations, or my own regarding PeopleImport, please click on these links:

Conga Merge presentation: Download conga_mail_merge_presentation.ppt

Access Hoover's presentation: Download HooversUserGroupPreso.ppt

PeopleImport presentation: Download peopleimport_presentation.ppt

For our next meeting, sometime in October, we plan to have one of our members discuss demand generation using Salesforce.com and ExactTarget, an AppExchange product. We also plan to present new feature highlights in the Winter '09 release. For our next meeting we plan to try a new location somewhere in central Phoenix to attract more members who work closer to that area.

I am also always eager to hear from any members who would be willing to share a brief case study of any significant success achieved within their own organization using Salesforce.com.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, Phoenix User Group Leader

DFG Solutions

dgildar@dfgsolutions.com

Date:  August 26, 2008

Time:  6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Location:  Scottsdale Mustang Library (Auditorium)

10101 N 90th St
Scottsdale, AZ 85258

Light refreshments will be served.

This meeting will focus on AppExchange and include the following member demonstrations of several popular AppExchange applications:

• Access Hoover's, presented by Brad Phillips, Salesforce.com.
• Conga Merge, presented by Joy Daniel, Morris, Hall & Kinghorn 
• People Import, presented by David Gildar, DFG Solutions.

Please RSVP to David Gildar at dgildar@dfgsolutions.com with "will attend" if you have not already done so.