Start exploring salesforce analytics for free

With growing demand for bigdata, analytics professionals around that world many cloud firms have made decision to come up with free version of their analytical cloud solution that will give very good feel of products to the end user. One such initiative is the release of salesforce analytics cloud palyground as they brand it the free salesforce analytical solution from salesforce.com If you are a newbie looking forward to learn the way a typical analytics solution works this playground can be the place to go. Follow these simple steps to explore this interesting analytical solution today 1) Navigate to salesforce analytics cloud playground website 2) Start with taking a tutorial for free. This interactive video provides simple example of how this analytic solution can be used to cater our needs 3) The salesforce analytic cloud dashboard offers singleview of data from multiple datasources. This is presented as data visualizations in single view 4) As a next step try uploading data from your own datasources that can be salesforce.com account, csv, google docs, spreadsheets to name a few As this is a free solution there is no provision to save the visualizations we create during demo. Only possibility is to download visualizations as demo.Here is the salesforce analytics cloud playground website: https://www.salesforce.com/analytics-playground/ Salesforce Interesting Technology Facts: Salesforce the most popular CRM is the billion dollar company launched in 2000. Salesforce admins will be in great demand. We will be updating plenty of interview questions that can be used by salesforce administrators for clearing salesforce administration certification track and salesforce administrator interview Salesforce force.com create New CustomApps Step By Step:- Salesforce is a CRM and most popular cloud computing platform is force.com. Force.com have got their own set of tools to develop applications.They can be used to develop enterprise class business applications. The first step in using the force.com development platform of salesforce.com CRM is to create a free trial account which is valid for 30 days. Once the account is created we'll get an email with password and activation link.We can click on the link and logon using the password. The moment we land in the page, we will be forced to change the old password to New Password as the old password automatically expires. The new password must be alphanumeric and force.com makes our development experience more secured. Upon setting appropriate password, we can click on the profile name that gets displayed at the top right corner. Once we click it, we'll get a drop down. We can click on Setup and we'll land in Salesforce Personal Setup page. We can Click on Create in the left hand side bar. We can choose Apps. Creating a custom apps in force.com is a 3 step process. There are some preconfigured apps. We can choose to create our own apps 1) Enter details on Apps name, Apps label, description 2) We can upload an image that will serve as logo. Read the size of image to be uploaded as logo 3) Choose the tabs. By default Home is the landing page. We can choose from list of tabs 4) We can save the information and our custom apps is successfully created Salesforce Force.com Enable Development Mode:- As a salesforce force.com cloud developer we make use of components like visualforce for building Presentation layer of applications. We need to explicitly enable development mode for developing visualforce pages and components. Here is how we enable development mode. We assume that you login using free trial account 1) Click on the account name at top right corner 2) Click on Setup 3) Click on My Personal Information->Personal Information 4) We see two columns. In second column below Color-blind palette on charts we see development mode option with a check box. Click on it to enable development mode 5) Below this is the show view state in development mode. It is optional to choose this. 6) Click Save button at the bottom Salesforce CRM is the most popular cloud platform launched in 2000 and is a 1 billion dollar company now. It is a popular CRM. Force.com is the cloud computing development platform. Salesforce developers will be in demand and it is predicted to be the hottest technology by 2014. We will update interview question and answer. Also, this can be used for salesforce developer track exam preparation. What is the development platform from Salesforce? The force.com is the deevelopment platform from salesforce. It is a cloud development platform. Salesforce Chatter Collaboration Cloud Nomore Emails:- Technology has revolutionized the way we work and live. One such interesting technology is the collaboration solution from many different vendors. Originally Oracle corporation's oracle APPS had a collaboration platform that made the team interaction easy to manage. The most popular cloud computing platform is the Salesforce. The development platform from salesforce is force.com. Force.com can be used to develop and deploy web applications. This is a SaaS (Software as a service) and PaaS(Platform as a service) architecture that helps us develop, test and deploy over the web. All we need is a browser and internet connection. The entire infrastructure is taken care of by salesforce. Salesforce chatter is the brand new collaboration technology from salesforce. It is integrated as a tab in the top menu list of the force.com user interface. Chatter helps us to share information with as many people as we could. This can be restricted to our project team or we can add more people. It is interesting to note that all updates including change of profile information, profile name change will be shared with your followers. It is a mini twitter inside the force.com environment. This chatter can also be treated and used as a micro blogging platform. If we want to call up every team member for a urgent meeting it is now possible to send it across via chatter. See, how simple it is. No more email baggage and overhead hereafter.Chatter from salesforce has a pricing structure depending upon the usage. Following sales cloud and service cloud it is the chatter collaboration from salesforce which again runs on top of the force.com platform of salesforce. Salesforce Chatter Collaboration Cloud Architecture:- Chatter is the collaboration cloud available on the top of the force.com cloud development platform. Force.com is the cloud development platform from salesforce. Chatter is the collaboration solution in cloud. It has many interesting features that make collaboration easy including file sharing, content sharing, profile updates sharing and many more. Chatter collaboration has been integrated on the top of the existing force.com cloud infrastructure and is easily accessible at click of the mouse. It is the second menu in top menu link of the profile page. Once you log into force.com with your account(developer free, developer premium etc) you click on setup and you'll land in setup page. On the top is the chatter button with a link to the collaboration system.We can use the existing profile (profile created during initial login) or we can edit and make changes to it. We can complete profile by describing about ourselves. We can create new groups, join existing group, share links, files and any other content we want to.It is so simple and easy.If you own a existing licence it is for free.If not it comes at cost of $15/user/month Salesorce force.com chatter pricing features:- Salesforce's force.com is the development platform upon which we can build and deploy web applications, public websites, intranet websites, portion of websites etc. Chatter a new tab in the force.com GUI top menu is nothing but an interesting collaboration solution from salesforce. It runs on top of force.com cloud development platform. Here are some interesting features of chatter that helps us collaborate among the team members in a better way : 1) Profile - Create your own profile, add details about you(bio), your description etc 2) Share ideas 3) Ask questions and answer questions 4) Get status updates - any changes in profile and any updates from your followers will be available instantly 5) People directory - Network with many people 6) Contacts - List of people in network. It is termed read-only maning you ca't access their information without their permission. This makes chatter a safe place to collaborate 7) Accounts - which is again read-only.Safe chatter 8) File sharing, content sharing - important for collaboration. we can send reports to 100+ team members at click of mouse instead of lengthy email 9) Dashboards, reports 10) Groups - you can create new groups, join existing group, invite friends to join group 11) 1 custom app 12) Security and sharing model 13) 10 custom objects - In salesforce force.com term custom object is equivalent to a table in the database which is used to store the information. We can have upto 10 tables(10 custom objects). Pricing - All these features come for an interesting price of $15/user/month. It is interesting to note that if you already have salesforce force.com licenses you can use chatter for free using these licenses.