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1. Spring ‘12 Release -
Features Speed Date!
Ingo Fochler
Sr. Support Account Specialist
Salesforce.com
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3. Agenda
The Ground Rules: Spring ‘12 Release Milestones and Release Types
Meet the Hand-Picked Participants:
– Collaboration Cloud Enhancements
– Sales Cloud Enhancements
– Service Cloud Enhancements
– Analytics Enhancements
– Data.com Enhancements
– Force.com Enhancements
This presentation does not include all the new features of Spring‘12!!
Please review the release notes to review all the features…
4. Spring ‘12 Release Milestones
Release Training Available R2 – Staggered Release
Friday, Jan 20 Friday, Feb 10
Saturday, Feb 11
Release Preview Available
Thursday, Jan 5
Pre-Release Available R1 – Staggered Release
Externally Friday, Feb 3
Friday, Dec 16
December 2011 January 2012 February 2012
Sandbox Available
Saturday, Jan 21
(CS5, SR1, SR2)
Sandbox Available
Friday, Jan 20 (CS0, CS3,
CS4, CS7, CS9, CS11, CS12)
5. Definitions of Release Types
GA: Marketable feature set ready for all customer production use and all functional,
quality and performance requirements are complete.
Beta: Minimum customer feature set made available to a set of customers on an opt-in
basis, to gain early adoption and minor feedback on product that the team will be
making minor, known enhancements to in order for product to meet marketable feature
set. Must go GA within two releases.
Pilot: New feature or function available by invitation-only to a limited set of customers.
The purpose is to gather feedback and data on product functionality, scalability,
performance and usability, which will influence the direction, continued development, or
roll out of the feature.
Developer Preview: Provide early testing opportunities to Developer Edition orgs on
upcoming developer technologies. The purpose is to solicit feedback for features that
are not ready for a production release (Pilot, Beta, or GA). The Developer Preview is not
backwards compatible.
7. What is Chatter Influence?
Chatter Influence:
Measures who is driving collaboration with their Chatter contributions.
Gives users a score based on posts, comments and likes received.
Displays a hovering score on the profile.
8. What are the Enhancements to Chatter Recommendations?
Recommended based on popularity of the file, determined
by number of views and downloads.
Once you’re following someone, Chatter recommends you
follow others who also follow that person in common.
What to
Appears above recommendations and shows one
recommended action at a time. Complete or skip a
do next? recommended action to see the next one.
More relevant recommendations are made based on your
user information.
9. What are the Enhancements to Chatter REST API?
In the Chatter REST API we’ve:
Extended the functionality for some
existing chatter features.
Added support for new chatter
features. Likes on Comments
Files on Comments
Case Comment custom field item
Dashboards custom feed item
Bookmarking
Favorites
Rechat
Additional payload in group and
user detail
Photo version fields in payload
Organization and User settings
User Influence
Search on private messages
10. Additional Chatter Enhancements
Coworker Invites now support up to 200 domains – up from 5
Customer Invitations are free until Dreamforce 2012
− Customers can keep licenses they’ve used after Dreamforce 2012
Send an invite link to your email distribution list right from Chatter Settings.
Delete Chatter Messages via the SOAP API
Criteria based feeds, e.g. ‘Open Leads’ view can be added to your favorites
list.
Bookmark posts in your Chatter feed!
Attach a file to a comment in Chatter.
Share text, links, and video posts from users’ and public group feeds through
“Re-post.”
YouTube videos now show and play inline, and display the title you submit
when publishing.
CUSTOMER IDEA: 200 Domains, Attach Files to Comments,
and Re-post were submitted by a customer via the Idea
Exchange.
11. Collaboration Cloud Enhancements Summary
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Release visible to all visible to all visible. Feature salesforce.co Salesforce Salesforce
Feature
Type users. No Admins. No is available m to enable Edition License
setup required. setup required. but requires this feature.
some setup.
Smart Search GA P GE, PE, UE,
EE, DE
n/a
Co-worker CM, PE, GE,
Invitations to 200
Domains
GA P DE, UE, EU,
DE
n/a
Free Customer
Invitations
GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
n/a
Chatter REST API GA P GE, PE, UE,
EE, DE
n/a
Chatter Influence GA P GE, PE, UE,
EE, DE
n/a
Chatter
Recommendations
Enhancements
GA P GE, PE, UE,
EE, DE
n/a
Chatter Bookmarks GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
n/a
Re-Post GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
n/a
REFERENCE: For a full list of Collaboration Cloud features and
enhancements, please see the release notes.
13. What are the Enhancements to Forecasts
In Spring ‘12 you can now do the following with Forecasts:
1. Select your own date range to display in forecasts.
2. Hover over a subordinates forecast detail and click Details to view their
forecast detail.
14. What are the Enhancements to Salesforce for Outlook
Choose whether to sync items you mark as private.
Create cases in Salesforce from emails in Outlook.
Every unresolved email address on emails added with Salesforce for Outlook
will be appear in Unresolved Items as a separate row .
Specify email domains to ignore (not associate) when adding emails with
Salesforce for Outlook.
Due date will be the date when the email has been sent, not when it has been
added
+ =
15. What are the Enhancements to Social Accounts and Contacts?
Social Accounts and Contacts is now Generally Available!
See social content about your customer directly within Salesforce.
– Facebook integration for Accounts
– YouTube integration for Accounts/Contacts/Leads/Person Accounts
16. Sales Cloud Enhancements Summary
Not automatically
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visible. Feature
Release visible to visible to all salesforce.com Salesforce Salesforce
Feature is available
Type all users. No Admins. No to enable this Edition License
but requires
setup required. setup required. feature.
some setup.
Forecasts
Enhancements
and Updates
GA P PE, EE, UE,
DE
n/a
Sync Items marked
as Private
GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
n/a
Create Cases from
Salesforce for
Outlook
GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
n/a
Social Accounts
and Contacts
GA P *GE, PE, EE,
UE, DE
n/a
Salesforce CRM
Content
Enhancements
GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
n/a
REFERENCE: For a full list of Sales Cloud features and
enhancements, please see the release notes.
18. What is Chatter Answers?
A pre-packaged Service Cloud portal application.
Accessed publicly on your site and doesn’t require login.
A blend of community answers (crowd sourced), corporate answers (KB
Articles), and case management (Agents) into a unique feed for customers.
Merges the search of Q&A from the community with the search of public
Knowledge articles to streamline and increase questions and cases deflection.
Unresolved
Question
Knowledge
Base (KB)
Articles
Resolved
Questions
19. How will Chatter Answers be Used?
Support Reps can:
Customers can:
Reply, sort, filter, remove and escalate customer questions
from the Service Cloud Console. Q&A, KB articles, and
Post questions and quickly access
receive crowd sourced feedback. Remove or
Respond privately or publicly to a customer depending on the escalate a
informationreputation by providing responses and popular
Build their in the post. post.
answers.
Moderate and take action on the quality of the posts added by
customers. to ensure quality of comments and feedback.
Flag posts
Certify
as best
reply.
Reply
within the
console.
20. What is Live Agent?
A way for you to communicate with customers via
your website, public knowledge base or Customer
Portal.
A real-time, text-based chat channel that allows your
Match your
customers to contact your support agents instantly.
website’s
Custom Place chat
branding
branding buttons
in
your chatanywhere
Save chat window
transcript
Real time Buttons are
customer dynamic
service based on
agent
availability
OFF-CYCLE RELEASE: Live Agent will be released outside of
the regular release schedule. See the release blog for specific
dates.
21. What is Case Feed?
Important case
information stays at
the top of each page
in the highlights panel
Communicate with
customers, log calls,
write internal notes A list of case
and view case detail followers to see
from within the feed other agents who
are involved in
An Articles tool makes it resolving a
easy to search for and customer issue
Filter case
activities attach articles to a case
by type or email
Feed optimized for
case management
shows updates to a
case
22. What are Console Push Notifications?
Visual indicators that show a record has changed
Show the most up to date information
Available on a variety of objects and fields on the service cloud console
Available in pilot program
Yellow
when a
record
changes Blue if it’s
the last item
you viewed Bold and italic texts
indicates a field
specified by an
Administrator has
changed.
23. What are the Enhancements to Knowledge?
Validation Status field on Salesforce Knowledge articles
– Select values to show whether the content is validated
– Show the state of an article in the publication lifecycle
Capture and author articles from Cases
Article versioning let’s you keep previous versions and see which version is
associated to a case
Knowledge Actions let you publish articles automatically using approval
processes
Spell Correction for Knowledge Search:
– Automatically searches for potential corrected spellings.
– Notifies the user if results for the corrected spelling are found.
Enhanced HTML rich text editor
Search will automatically search on
alternate spellings and return results for
both original and corrected terms.
Navigation shortcuts
Draft icon to indicate an Article is being edited
Corrected terms that do not appear in
the org’s indexes and therefore do not
have matches will not be shown to the
user as spelling correction.
24. Service Cloud Enhancements Summary
Feature Release Automatically visible Automatically Not automatically Contact Salesforce Salesforce
Type to all users. No setup visible to all visible. Feature is salesforce.com to Edition License
required Admins. No setup available but requires enable this
required some setup. feature.
Chatter Answers GA P UE, EU,
DE
Chatter
Answers
Live Agent GA P EE, UE,
DE
Service
Cloud
GE, PE,
Case Feed GA P EE, UE,
DE
n/a
Console Push
Notifications
GA P EE, UE,
DE
Service
Cloud
Validation Status Field GA P EE, UE,
DE
Knowledge
Article Versioning GA P EE, UE,
DE
Knowledge
Knowledge Actions Pilot P EE, UE,
DE
Knowledge
Spell Check for Article
Search
Beta P EE, UE,
DE
Knowledge
Capture and Author
Articles from Cases
GA P EE, UE,
DE
Knowledge
Enhanced HTML Rich
Text Editor
GA P EE, UE,
DE
Knowledge
Navigation Shortcuts GA P EE, UE,
DE
Knowledge
25. Service Cloud Enhancements Summary (cont.)
Not automatically
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visible. Feature
Release visible to all visible to all salesforce.com Salesforce Salesforce
Feature is available
Type users. No Admins. No to enable Edition License
but requires
setup required setup required. this feature.
some setup.
Sharing Service Cloud
Console Links
GA P EE, UE, DE
Service
Cloud
Custom Logos
for Service
Cloud Console
GA P EE, UE, DE
Service
Cloud
New Methods for
Console Integration
Toolkit
GA P EE, UE, DE
Service
Cloud
REFERENCE: For a full list of Service Cloud features and
enhancements, please see the release notes.
27. What is an Analytics Edition?
Bucketing gives you on-the-fly segmentation and filtering
based on custom data groupings you create in your report
rather than the data model.
Cross filters help you perform sophisticated analysis and
exception reporting.
Joined reports let you create and run reports containing
data from different objects.
NOTE: Analytics Editions is only included in EE and UE.
28. Additional Information about Bucketing
With Bucketing:
Quickly categorize report records without creating formulas or
custom fields.
Define multiple categories (buckets) to group report values.
Sort, filter, and group your report, just like any other field.
Add up to five bucket fields per report, each with up to 20
buckets.
29. Additional Information about Cross Filters
With Cross Filters:
Specify inclusion or exclusion of records using a WITH or
WITHOUT condition.
Apply cross filters by themselves or in combination with
field filters.
– Filter logic only applies to field filters—not cross filters.
– Create up to three cross filters per report.
– Add up to five subfilters for each cross filter.
30. Additional Information about Joined Reports
With Joined Reports
Easily view different types of activities and information in a
single report.
Combine data from multiple standard or custom report types
– Add report types to a joinedAdd report they have relationships
report if
with the same object or objects.to
Type
bring in
Add report blocks to your reports to create multiple views of
more data
your data.
Search Filter each
through result block
compatible separately
report types
Result view
shows result
from both
report types
CUSTOMER IDEA: Joined Reports was submitted by a customer
via the Idea Exchange.
32. What are the Enhancements to Dashboard Filters?
Spring ‘12 dashboard enhancements include:
Three filters per dashboard – instead of one
Filters for dynamic dashboards
Post snapshots of filtered dashboards to Chatter
Additional operators available on dashboard filters
– Between operator to filter on ranges of values (between + contains, less
than, etc.)
33. Additional Analytics Enhancements
Customize your view of Dashboards and Reports in the Reports tab
Delete Report and List Filters with Filter Logic
Up to 20 field filters on a report – filters on dashboards count against this limit
Drag-and-Drop Report Filters
34. Analytics Enhancements Summary
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visible to visible. Feature
Release visible to salesforce.com Salesforce Salesforce
Feature all Admins. is available
Type all users. No to enable Edition License
No setup but requires
setup required. this feature.
required. some setup.
Bucketing GA P EE, EU
Analytics
Edition
Joined Reports GA P EE, UE
Analytics
Edition
Cross Filters GA P UE, EE
Analytics
Edition
Additional
Scheduled
Reporting
GA P PE, UE, EU
Analytics
Edition
Dashboard Filters
Enhancements
GA P PE, EE, UE,
DE
n/a
Customize
Your View
GA P PE, EE, UE,
EU, EE
n/a
Deleting Report
and List Filters
w/ Filter Logic
GA P PE, EE, UE n/a
Enhancements to
Dashboards
GA P GE, PE, EE,
UE, DE
n/a
Enhancements to
Dashboard
Component
GA P GE, PE, EE,
UE, DE
n/a
Snapshots
Increased Report
Filter Limits
GA P GE, PE, EE,
UE, DE
n/a
Drag-and-Drop
Report Filters
GA P GE, PE, EE,
UE, DE
n/a
REFERENCE: For a full list of Analytics features and enhancements,
please see the release notes.
36. What are the Enhancements to Data.com?
Data.com now includes data from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)
– Over 2.5million company records from Data.com include key data sourced
from D&B.
Data.com Corporate licenses provide additional D&B account and lead data
beyond the basics.
Purchase additional Data.com licenses right from the Data.com Licenses and
Limits page.
Overview comes from
D&B for thousands of
account records
Additional D&B
data visible to
users with
Corporate license
37. Data.com Enhancements Summary
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Release visible to all visible to all visible. Feature salesforce.com Salesforce Salesforce
Feature
Type users. No Admins. No Is available to enable this Edition License
setup required. setup required. But requires feature.
Some setup.
Data.com Corporate GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
Data.com
Purchase Data.com
Licenses and record
additions from the
Licenses and Limits
GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
Data.com
page
Additional Account
Fields now Enabled for
Data.com Data
GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
Data.com
Associate or create an
account when you add
Data.com contacts from
GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
Data.com
the Data.com tab
Get company overview
information and
additional data on the
GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
Data.com
enhanced account
Additional prospecting
enhancements
GA P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
Data.com
Data.com Clean Beta P CM, GE, PE,
EE, UE, DE
Data.com
REFERENCE: For a full list of Data.com features and
enhancements, please see the release notes.
39. What is the Force.com System Overview Page?
A place to see important usage data and limits in your organization.
See messages that alert you when you reach 95% of your limit.
Drill into each
item for details
Link to Checkout
to purchase more
40. What are the Enhancements to Visual Workflow?
Use the Metadata API to create,
access, and edit cloud-based flows.
Include Flows in change sets and
managed and unmanaged packages.
Up to 50 versions per flow.
Use Record Delete in the Cloud Flow
Designer to delete one or many
records.
Customize labels in the Cloud Flow
Designer with the rich text editor.
Choices and dynamic choices are
standalone resources.
Value and resource drop-down lists
now include Global Constants.
Route users through multiple
outcomes from any decision element.
NOTE: Visual Workflow will be "included" in all EE and UE
editions for free starting in Spring ‘12.
41. What are the Enhancements to Field Update Actions?
Re-evaluate Workflow Rules as a result of field
update action settings
Cross-object field updates in workflow rules now
support standard objects.
Custom-to-standard and limited standard-to-
standard relationships are supported.
42. What are the Enhancements to Global Search?
Search
Chatter feed Set the “Exact
Refine search Phrase” and other
posts.
terms and search options.
again.
Take a guided
Objects display tour.
in the order that
you search/use
the most. Pin
the objects you
want at the top Corrected terms that do not
of your results.
appear in the org’s indexes
“Search All” to and therefore do not have
see objects that matches will not be shown
weren’t selected to the user as spelling
for you.
correction.
43. Additional Force.com Appforce Enhancements
Tab Bar Organizer automatically arranges tabs in the main tab bar to prevent
scrolling.
44. Appforce Enhancements Summary
Not
Automatically Automatically automatically Contact
Release visible to all visible to all visible. Feature salesforce.com Salesforce Salesforce
Feature
Type users. No Admins. No is available to enable Edition License
setup required. setup required. But requires this feature.
Some setup.
Force.com System
Overview
GA P CM, GE,
EE, UE, DE
n/a
Configuring
Force.com System
Overview Messages
GA P CM, GE,
EE, UE, DE
n/a
Visual Workflow
Enhancements
GA P EE, UE, DE n/a
Field Update
Actions
GA P EE, UE, DE n/a
Standard Cross-
Object Field
Updates
GA P EE, UE, DE n/a
Global Search
Enhancements
GA P CM, GE, EE,
UE, DE
n/a
Visualforce
Components for
Chatter Answers,
Live Agent, Chatter,
GA P GE, PE, EE,
UE, DE
n/a
Social Accounts
and Contacts
45. Appforce Enhancements Summary (cont.)
Not
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Automatically
visible to all visible. Feature salesforce.c
Release visible to all Salesforce Salesforce
Feature Admins. No is om to
Type users. No Edition License
setup required available but enable this
setup required
requires some feature.
setup.
Dynamic Visualforce
Components
GA P EE, UE, DE n/a
Tab Bar Organizer GA P Personal, CM,
GE, PE, EE, UE
n/a
Force.com Quick
Access Menu
Enhancements
GA P Personal, CM,
GE, PE, EE, UE
n/a
App Quick Start
Enhancements
GA P Personal, CM,
GE, PE, EE, UE
n/a
REFERENCE: For a full list of Appforce features and
enhancements, please see the release notes.
46. What are the Enhancements to Schema Builder
Create and Edit custom objects, fields, and relationships.
Drag-and-drop elements into the schema.
Drag and Drop
new fields onto
the canvas
Double Click on
custom fields to
edit them
47. How will Schema Builder be Used?
Administrators and developers can:
View how the Salesforce objects in their organization are
related.
Filter, expand, and focus their view of the schema.
Quickly add custom objects or fields with the drag and
drop interface.
48. What are the Enhancements to Security?
Enable Alpha, numeric, and special characters passwords.
Session timeout values increased to 12 hours.
Set Service Providers from the Identity Provider page for any profile.
A full copy sandbox can include the encryption keys for encrypted fields.
49. What are the Enhancements to Sharing?
Criteria Based Sharing for Leads and Campaigns
Metadata API Support for Roles, Groups, Queues
Territories and Sharing Rules (includes Change Sets)
API Function to Query User’s Record Access