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Salesforce Sales Cloud – An Implementation Handbook

You're reading from  Salesforce Sales Cloud – An Implementation Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804619643
Pages 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Kerry Townsend Kerry Townsend
Profile icon Kerry Townsend

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Building the Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Preparing for Success 3. Chapter 2: Defining the Approach 4. Chapter 3: The Core Sales Process 5. Chapter 4: The Lead Generation Process 6. Chapter 5: Design and Build: Sales User Productivity 7. Part 2: Preparing to Release
8. Chapter 6: Bringing Data into Sales Cloud 9. Chapter 7: Getting Sign-Off 10. Chapter 8: Executing Testing 11. Chapter 9: Executing Training 12. Part 3: Beyond the Fundamentals
13. Chapter 10: Deployment Planning 14. Chapter 11: Territory Management 15. Chapter 12: Modeling Additional Processes with Sales Cloud 16. Chapter 13: Common System Integrations 17. Chapter 14: Extending with the AppExchange 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reports and forecasting/reporting metrics

Forecasts are an important part of business planning. They are used to inform when parts and resources are needed so that products can be manufactured and delivered on time. They also predict when revenue will be available to hire employees, run marketing programs, and invest in product and system improvements.

It is important to identify the metrics that an organization wants to measure and track early in requirement gathering so that the system can be designed in a way that allows these to be reported on. The data required to generate these metrics needs to be included in the data model and additional calculation fields might be required to allow the metric to be reported on in the desired way.

Every organization has a combination of metrics that they track and also have a way of preparing their forecast that is unique to them.

Sales Cloud capabilities

We will now explore the capabilities in Sales Cloud, first with Dashboards...

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