Administrators Best Practice Sessions - Dreamforce 2012

The Customers for Life organization uses analytic applications to continuously monitor our customer's usage patterns, ensuring they leverage Salesforce in the best possible way. Join us to learn how you can take advantage of the Early Warning System(EWS) and other tools to improve your own salesforce usage, and take away some ideas you can leverage with your own customers.

The greatest systems in the world are only as good as the people using them. Educating your users on how to use what youve deployed, whats expected of them, and how to be proficient is one of the most important and most overlooked areas of an implementation. Join us for in-depth content from companies like Verizon and Williams-Scotsman and learn how to create a training plan that ensures you have the skills to be successful.

Salesforce allows you to easily scale up from small to large amounts of data. Mostly this is seamless, but as data sets get larger, the times required for certain operations may grow too. Join us to learn different ways of designing and configuring data structures and planning a deployment process to significantly reduce deployment times and achieve operational efficiency.

Do you have a global enterprise with several business units, or have you recently acquired other companies that also use salesforce.com? Join us to learn methods and strategies for rationalizing whether a multi or single salesforce.com organization is the right approach. This session reviews key decision criteria, as well as strategies for handling roll-up reporting approaches for merging, consolidating, and dividing orgs.

Our most successful customers tell us that training and support accelerates their success and greatly increases their ROI with salesforce.com. Join us to learn from customers just like you who use training and support to drive their salesforce.com implementations, increase user adoption, explore new features and functionality, prepare for certifications, and stay release current. In this session, we will discuss best practices, provide use cases, and showcase a variety of training and support tools that will help you get the most out of your investment in salesforce.com.

Join us to learn browser tips and tricks that will take your salesforce.com experience to the next level. Implement these shortcuts when you return from Dreamforce to get your job done faster, and more efficiently.

You've been at it for a while, but want to learn how to be even more of an admin rockstar. Join us to learn the best of the best admin tools for advanced users. We'll focus on benefits and use cases for each, and share tips to get you up and running quickly.

The role of Salesforce Admin has expanded over the years and a stellar admin is highly sought after. Join us to learn how to make sure you are putting your best foot forward in the Salesforce Admin world. Team up with experts to tweak your resume, update your LinkedIn profile, and snazz up your overall online persona so you are positioned the best way possible. NOTE: This session is Community-Led: created BY the Salesforce community FOR the Salesforce community

Profiles dragging you down? Join this 30-minute mini-profile workout to review the mass profile editor, target the Enhanced Profile Manager, and cool down with profile management using the API.

You know Portals exist but are unsure which Portal can help grow your business? Join us to learn about Customer, Partner and Service Cloud portals, including Authenticated Sites, and learn how you can bring customers to you.

New to administering salesforce.com? Overwhelmed or overworked, or want to be more efficient? Join us to learn about the many popular, accessible, and easy-to-use tools that can make your admin life easier.

Large, small, or somewhere in between, governance MUST play a role in your salesforce.com success. Join us to learn how other customers have implemented their own governance models to drive success, and how you can build a model that works for you.