The next London User Group Meeting will be held at The Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall on Tuesday 28^th October – registration from 5.45pm, event starts at 6.15pm with a drinks reception afterwards.

The meeting will focus on leveraging SFDC for Sales Performance and Forecasting requirements. I’m very pleased to announce this meeting will be hosted by is being hosted by Xactly Corporation.

Xactly offers an award winning sales performance management system, offering an application suite capable of managing all sales compensation, compensation modelling and incentive rewards programs for clients including a brand new analytics capability for reporting purposes.

Numbers are limited, so please respond via email confirming your attendance at this event.

See you on 28 October

James McGill

salesforce.com

Hi All

Thank you to those who attended and to SofiaWorks, our event sponsor for your participation in the last meeting.  Attached to this post is the presentation from the event which I hope you will find useful.

We plan to host our next meeting after Dreamforce Europe, watch this space for further information.

Thanks
James

Download focus_on_apex_code.ppt
 

First there was ‘Software as a Service’(SaaS), now there is 'Platform as a Service' (PaaS)!

The next London User Group Meeting will be held at The Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall

Date: Thursday 13 March from 6pm

Force.com is the world’s first Platform as a Service, enabling developers to create and deliver any kind of business application, entirely on-demand and without software.

Focus On Apex Code
User Group members have expressed an interest in Apex Code, so this will be the focus for the meeting. Apex is the world’s first on-demand programming language, enabling customers to extend their use of salesforce.com to create and run any business logic and application on the Force.com platform. With the ‘Spring ’08 release’, all Salesforce Enterprise & Unlimited Edition customers will have access to Apex code.

I am very pleased to announce this event will once again be hosted by SofiaWorks. As always drinks will be taking place after the event to enable time to network and meet with other SFDC users and partners.

Agenda

• Review of S-controls
  • What they are and what do they do?
  • How do they fit in to the Apex mix?
• Introducing Apex Code
• Why use Apex Code?
• What can you do with Apex?
• Apex Code in action: Customer Business Cases
  • BrightGen – using Apex to ease integration pain
  • Xerox – Using Apex in conjunction with Strategic Account Planning
• How to get started with Apex Code. In-house developer or outsourcing?

Break Out/Discussion Sessions –

Technical QA session

How does Apex work?

Examples and walk-through

Daniel Belwood

Sofia Works Director of Technologies

Business QA session

How can my business benefit from using Apex code?

Requirements and Solutions

Stephen Brown

Sofia Works Director of Consulting

I look forward to seeing you on 13 March

James

The presentation from our last meeting, is here

Download focus_on_email_marketing_ppt

The next London User Group Meeting will be held at The Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall

Date: Tuesday 19 February 2008 from 6pm

As always drinks will be taking place after the event to enable time to network and meet with other SFDC users and partners.

Focus On Email Marketing

A growing number of you are expressing an interest in how your Marketing department can leverage salesforce.com; specifically with respect to integrating with Email Marketing tools.

I am therefore pleased to announce that Exact Target has agreed to sponsor this event.  Over six-thousand customers worldwide rely on Exact Target to harness the power of one-to-one marketing and achieve outstanding business results.  Their extensive feature set addresses every part of the email management process.  Regardless of the size or industry of your organization, Exact Target ensures you can create, target, deliver, integrate, track, and manage sophisticated email campaigns. 

Appexchange

Exact Target For Appexchange provides you with tools to be a better email marketer. The combination of Exact Target’s industry leading email marketing solution with Salesforce enables marketers to send targeted, relevant email leveraging CRM data.

Agenda

• An introduction to Email Marketing and Exact Target  - Jeff Barnes, Joint Founder Keymail Marketing
• Customer Case Study.  Massimo Ghislandi, Global Marketing Initiatives Manager for SDL Trados
  • Business:       Discuss business issues you want to address around salesforce.com and email marketing
  • Technical:       Deep Dive into Exact Target and integration with salesforce.com
• Each track will provide feedback on their findings to the whole group, the aim, as ever, is to demonstrate and share good practice.

I look forward to seeing you on 19 February

Kind regards

James

I wanted to extend to London User Group Members salesforce.com’s invite to attend the Christmas Club Event taking place on Tuesday 4th December at the Bloomsbury Club, London, between 1800 and 2200.

Enjoy the opportunity to meet the local salesforce.com team and network with your peers in an informal, relaxed environment as we celebrate the launch of Winter 08. You’ll also get to network with salesforce.com partners in our On Demand expo.

:: Visit the Genius Bar to get your Salesforce questions answered
:: See demonstrations of Salesforce Winter '08
:: Discover the Salesforce partner solutions in our On-Demand Expo
:: Enjoy great entertainment, food and drinks in a unique venue

To register please click on this link http://www.salesforce.com/uk/form/event/london-christmas-event-04-12-2007.jsp?d=70130000000DSq7

We look forward to welcoming you along.

James McGill

Salesforce.com

The Christmas Club Event

04 December 2007

18:00 — 22:00

The BloomsburyClub,

Guilford Road

London

WC1N 1DN

Hi All

Apologies with the delay in getting this info to you, and thanks to all those who've been chasing this down, I guess it means this was a really valuable session!  Please see the attached presentation from Daniel Bellwood, Sofia Works.

Hope to bring you news of our next meeting soon.

Thanks

James McGill

salesforce.comDownload user_group_presentation_scontrols_tech_session.ppt

Thanks very much to Sofia Works for sponsoring our meeting on 06 September, and walking us through S-Controls.  Thanks also to fellow User Group members, Kerry Townsend from Flowmaster and Joe Feltham from Teach First, for your valuable contributions and insights into how S-Controls have helped you to resolve business process issues within your respective organisations.  Thanks also to Mia Farlam for Chairing the meeting.

The feedback from the meeting has been extremely positive and I’m happy to point out the presentations from the meeting are attached to this post.

We are now looking for suggestions on topics for our next meeting scheduled for October; please do let me know what you want to cover.

Kind regards

James McGill

jmcgill@saleforce.com

Download finalsofia_works_scontrol_overview.zip

The next London User Group Meeting will be held at The Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall on:

Thursday 06 September from 4pm until 6:30pm

I am very pleased to confirm that Mia Farlam from Xerox will be chairing the meeting.  As always drinks will be taking place after the event to enable time to network and meet with other SFDC users and partners.

At the last meeting, a number of requests we’re made to understand more about S-Controls, what they are and how they can solve business process issues.  I have therefore secured the sponsorship for our next event with Sofia Works.  Sofia Works is a Professional Services organisation which consults on salesforce.com and specialises in S-Controls.

Here is the meeting agenda

• An introduction to S-Controls
• 2 customer presentations on using S-Controls to solve Business Process Issues
• Break Out Sessions
  • Business:       Discuss business issues you want to address using S-Controls
  • Technical:       S-Controls Deep Dive

Each track will provide feedback on their findings to the whole group, the aim, as ever, is to demonstrate and share good practice.

Once again the IOD is the central London location for this event, although I am looking for User Group members to host these meetings in the future.  If anyone would like to host an event, even if outside of London it would be much appreciated.

I look forward to seeing you in September.

Kind regards

James

The Summer Holidays are upon us, so we've decided to take a break of own and schedule our next meeting for the first week in September.  Dont forget to send me your agenda requests.  Once the meeting details are confirmed I'll be in touch.

James McGill, salesforce.com