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How dependency reports saved a Strongpoint customer hours of work 

There's no question — 2020 was a year unlike any other. But amidst all the uncertainty, many of our customers have achieved some significant milestones. And as this crazy year draws to a close, we think it’s worth celebrating those successes!

Here’s a confession from the Strongpoint marketing department: We’re not that good at celebrating ourselves. Most of the time, we’re working hard, alongside our customer success and dev teams, to help companies improve their change management and compliance processes. We rarely have time to look back and recognize our successes. 

Last week, our resident Salesforce expert, Rick Roesler, hosted a crash course on auditing profiles and permission sets in your Org. If you missed the webinar, you can check it out here.

In this post, we’re sharing a short video from the session demoing some of the ways you can dig deeper into your access controls — and prove compliance to auditors.

No one knows what things will look like in six weeks, six months or six years’ time — in our newly uncertain world, the only constant will be constant change. Given this, it’s easy to look at the news and feel powerless. Our ability to deal with the small things — to make informed, effective decisions about our everyday processes — shapes our resilience to the big historical forces that are beyond our control”

In a 2019 report, HolonIQ predicted that the EdTech sector would grow to $10 trillion by 2030. And while there’s no telling what impact the current economic uncertainty will have on these numbers, there’s reason to be optimistic — with more people working from home, being proactive about growing their skills, or taking the opportunity to transition to a new industry, it’s likely we’ll see an even larger investment in technology that helps people learn remotely.

With so many of us working from home, there’s never been a better time to invest in ongoing education. We’ve heard from many Salesforce admins that our webinars have helped them speed up their Orgs and get more done in a day. So we’ve decided to collect our recent presentations in one convenient post!

Without the appropriate knowledge and guidance, Salesforce programs are more likely to accumulate technical debt, require future rework and never realize their full...

This year’s Florida Dreamin’ was a big one for the Strongpoint team — not only was it our first year as a Gold sponsor, but we actually took first place in the annual Demo Jam!

I spend a lot of time thinking about ways to maximize the productivity of the Salesforce teams at our customers. In fact, those of you who know me would agree that I am obsessed with it. After all, every one of our customers from startups to some of the largest companies in the world are trying to balance two competing objectives: Moving forward quickly while keeping data and processes safe. When I am not thinking about Salesforce centers of excellence, my other obsession is my home town soccer (my dad will kill me for calling it soccer) team Liverpool FC.