Why Manual Document Generation in Salesforce is a Big Challenge?
In business, we come across several critical and sensitive documents that are being created for several verticals. With the lawsuits and protocols getting tighter each day, documentation has now become more of an obligation. Hence business users have a busy time creating documents for each operation undertaken in the verticals. Hence to power up your Salesforce experience in your business, document generation plays a major role in streamlining the process. When it comes to having your sales decks, business proposals, sales pitches and several other documents to be automated, that is when you realize the use of automated document generation. To create highly manual content for your business that is using Salesforce as its CRM, with each business operation being highly data-driven, it is sometimes very much necessary to have a no-code document generation application to perform the data retrieval process from several Salesforce objects. Manual document creation just increases the time to value alongside presenting several other concerns such as wasted time, data silos, human errors, non-compliance, and so on. If you are looking for a detailed understanding of automatic document creation in Salesforce, then this datasheet is going to help you. By creating several documents manually, the chance of getting things muddled is a common thing. If you look closely at your Salesforce org, you will understand how the data is scattered in several Salesforce objects. Getting your data from each object and then putting it into your required templates is going to be an error-prone and time-consuming job. For starters that itself is one of the most detested challenges. Apart from that, there are several other challenges that are associated with manual document generation as below: The cumulation of important information There will be times when you are juggling multiple documents to create. Given this time-squandering process, each document will have a different set of requirements to convey different messages. In any case, the facts and figures to be represented will be presented in different fields of Salesforce records. Hence there are high chances you miss out on relevant data. As mentioned earlier, data scattered over several Salesforce objects is the major issue for this concern. Pro tip: XfilesPro DocuPrime, the most preferred auto document generation application for Salesforce facilitates collecting data from different fields and appropriately includes it in the document as per the requirements. It not only fetches the data but also populates them into your desired document template like a breeze. Say goodbye to Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V as you can stay in your system of record of your Salesforce and continue with your document automation. Success story here: BloomWealth, A Leading Tax and Financial Advisor Based In Sydney, Sought The Help Of XfilesPro DocuPrime To Automate Their Documents In Salesforce. The never-ending proofreading and editing With manual document creation, it is very difficult to convince oneself of a perfect write-up. Each time, proofreading and editing will help you unmask a new error and correct it. With several editing and proofreading, the document might sometimes fail to deliver the message it was intended to. How sad would that be? That Salesforce admin would have literally spent several hours working on the document which should have been passed on to the lead. And the number of times you proofread goes on and on. Maybe that dollar sign was missing from your invoice or the date had gone wrong. Even a small glitch can land you into a parallel universe of losing leads in the snap of a finger. Pro tip: For the pain of multiple proofreading and editing, XfilesPro DocuPrime is the best option for Salesforce users to have their documents generated automatically. Accuracy is the top-notch USP of this automatic document generator and hence once they are generated automatically, they are error-free, with zero human intervention needed. Security Business documents are all about sensitive information and confidential data. With the manual creation of data, you never know how many people have established access to it. You will need help tracking the number of users who have the data too. Hence this is one of the most significant drawbacks of manual documentation. And your business data contains confidential data that will be regarding prices, financial figures, sales results, etc This should not be accessed or fall into the wrong hands. This is where security is going to be a big challenge while you are manually drafting your documents. Pro Tip: Business documents are considered confidential for a reason. Hence the security of these is very important. XfilesPro DocuPrime always gives the owner the full authority to decide on the visibility and the sequence of the sections & also has an access control feature to limit document access. And also since the documents are created within the Salesforce CRM, there is no fear of any external threats. Time-consuming process Document creation is a process that needs to be done by taking into consideration all the necessary details. Hence it will take a lot of time to finish each document if chosen to be created manually. Also filling up the right data at the assigned place is going from the Salesforce objects is going to be another challenge. If demanded to create several documents in one go, then it is going to be a liability rather than a challenge. Pro Tip: Document automation is the only solution for this trouble. XfilesPro DocuPrime is helping several workforces by enhancing their productivity. With XfilesPro DocuPrime taking over the task of document generation, bulk document generation can take place in a single click. Compromised Accuracy When documents are created on a manual basis, there will be mistakes that cannot be avoided. This is a human tendency. Multiple edits will have to be undertaken if going through the traditional document generation. If they are not created with utmost concentration, there is a high chance it will lead to severe escalations. This is the last thing you want to hear when you are drafting a document. Pro Tip:
9 Ways Salesforce Customers Can Use XfilesPro
On this 9th anniversary of XfilesPro, it feels surreal to look back and realize that it has grown to help several Salesforce customers at crucial times. With its ingenuity and instructive solution qualities, XfilesPro tops the AppExchange for file management and storage optimization in Salesforce. This blog provides a summation piece on how customers can use XfilesPro in Salesforce. To store Salesforce files in SharePoint XfilesPro is a file storage management app, and SharePoint is one of the external cloud storage it supports. SharePoint has always been a reliable option for storage and several XfilesPro customers are preferring it for their Salesforce. By using SharePoint, one can have seamless folder management along with many other possibilities. Another thing to be noted is that it has exclusive features for SharePoint users. To store Salesforce files in S3 Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service that provides object storage via a web service interface. This has been serving as a dynamic storage service. This is the most preferred option when it comes to enhancing your Salesforce storage through external storage support. Since it has unlimited scalability, there is no particular limit for storage. To store Salesforce files in OneDrive Microsoft OneDrive is considered one of the perfect cloud solutions that help in connecting all your business files. It makes more sense for large enterprises to have all their files stored in one place. Its rapid sync and multiple accounts are features that make it more desirable. XfilesPro supports the usage of OneDrive as an external storage optimization. To store Salesforce files in Google Drive Google Drive is a common usage for all your files to be stored. With getting your Salesforce files saved online and accessing them from anywhere, Google Drive is pretty much used by all types of users. You can securely edit and collaborate with others making the process of file optimization easy. XfilesPro also provides an option of Google Drive for having your files getting stored externally apart from Salesforce storage. XfilesPro also supports Team Drive. To store Salesforce files in On-prem systems This is the most interesting feature of XfilesPro. Not only does it support cloud storage services, but also provides the support of On-prem storage systems to have your files stored. The on-premises storage that is supported by XfilesPro is SFTP, Network Drive, and SMB. It gives its customers of all kinds a 360-degree solution when it comes to external storage optimization. To manage Community User Files Having a large enterprise with several files and users to manage, it sometimes becomes difficult to keep an eye on all the operations. With the integration of XfilesPro into your Salesforce, all the files are managed along with the community member’s files too. It is highly a tedious task that XfilesPro is going to get you sorted. To keep files in a highly structured way using folders Being a huge enterprise, we know that you deal with a huge number of files from different Salesforce org or departments. Hence having it structured is a monotonous task to cope with. XfilesPro offers a customizable folder structure that the customers get their hands on. To migrate a large volume of files from Salesforce XfilesPro supports the migration of large files at once from your Salesforce storage to external storage. This helps in a faster and more secure way to optimize your Salesforce file storage. With our expertise of 9 years in the industry, this feature is regarded as the most useful. To implement a centralized file management system with Salesforce XfilesPro helps in implementing a centralized file management system in Salesforce. This helps in the better optimization of the storage in Salesforce. Internal and external teams can collaborate on the centralized files to improve the file management system and productivity. Now that you have come across our top 9 ways of using XfilesPro, why wait? We are the perfect solution for getting your Salesforce storage optimized. Our product experts will be more than pleased to answer all our queries. Schedule your call today and be lucky enough to avail yourself of our anniversary surprises. AMARLAL
A letter from the scariest day of the year – Halloween to Awesome Admins
Bwahahahahahaha…………. Oh no! That’s the laughter of the Storage Ghoul. It comes to life whenever the Salesforce storage has been full. My, My! Hadn’t you noticed it getting accumulated? You are in big trouble. This is no harmless ghoul that can be driven away by trick or treating’. Some serious amount of work has to be done to keep it stay away from your Salesforce storage. This letter is to that Salesforce Admin who is petrified by the activation of the Storage Ghoul. Ghostly Greetings!! Hey, Salesforce #AwesomeAdmins Q. Did you come across the worst nightmare of having your Salesforce file storage complete? Did the Storage Ghoul come to life again? Fret no more. We are here for you. This time we are not going to delete or erase random files that were being done until last year. We are going to retain it and put an end to the Storage Ghoul forever. No witchcraft has come up with a spell that can bring this Ghoul back to life. No spiders are going to surf your web and nest inside your storage. You do not need to roam around your broomstick looking for a solution. This time we are going to creep the ghoul back. We all know that during Halloween, being normal is vastly overrated. Hence our costume this year to wipe out all the Storage Ghouls is XfilesPro (drumroll please!). There is no appearance for the Storage Ghoul to be in the sequel because XfilesPro will kill it hard. Dive in to know deeply about the advantages of the same. External Storage Integration: Did you think that the Storage Ghoul was ghosting you when you never heard of him in a while? No, you were wrong. It was waiting for your Salesforce storage to be full. Now that it is full, it is back in full swing. XfilesPro integrates your Salesforce app with the external cloud storage of your choice. The 3rd-party cloud platforms that are supported by XfilesPro are Google Drive, SharePoint, AWS S3, One Drive, and also on-premises storage systems (SFTP, Network Drive, SMB). Folder Management: We have observed that sometimes you get traumatized and feel like you are in a cauldron burning when asked to locate a particular file. This is because the files are scattered like bats and are difficult to catch and hold off. XfilesPro helps in the proper folder hierarchy that helps in the fetching of files in no time. Auto File Export: Exporting a large volume of files in Salesforce is not that you say Hocus Pocus and they are gone. It is a very tedious task. But nothing seems impossible with XfilesPro. Files are automatically archived alongside setting the future file migration process optimized. File View: Counting the candies you got from Halloween bowl to bowl is very time-consuming. But not in the case of Salesforce files stored externally with XfilesPro. Once the files are migrated from Salesforce to external storage, XfilesPro has made it easier to have you access or view the files from either of the storage. File Collaboration: To cope with the file management system and productivity, this feature comes into the picture. File collaboration helps in accessing centralized files with the internal and external teams. The powers of XfikesPro are getting stronger and stronger with each feature right? Isn’t this the spooktacular inspiration that you needed to drive your Storage Ghoul away? Everything\’s better with a little magic in it. We present to you XfilesPro which is full of magic and wonder. At times, to stand against some unstoppable forces we need to revitalize our resources and look for a savior in town. Thank the good spirits!! You have XfilesPro. Still, feeling eerie about the situation? Take up a call with our product experts who will use their magic wand to vanish all your doubts. Signing off! Warm Bugs and Hisses Costume Team XfilesPro E: [email protected] W: xfilespro.com AMARLAL
WEBINAR RECAP: One-Click Document Generation in Salesforce & Auto-Storage in an External System: The Big Surprise Unveiled
We did it for you! We hosted yet another webinar session that gave us a feather in the cap! It takes us immense pleasure to let you know that XfilesPro’s latest webinar held on 6th July 2022 on ‘One-Click Document Generation in Salesforce & Auto-Storage in an External Sysytem’ became an outstanding turnout. We hosted many people who joined us live from all over the world! We’ve been blown away by the participants’ overpowering response and we thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts for their valuable presence in our live event that marked our big success. If you haven’t attended the webinar because of any restraints and now FOMO gets a hold of you, we dedicate this blog to you. Here’s a quick tour of all the occurrences that took place in the insightful session that can give you a high-level picture of something you missed out on! XfilesPro – The Next-Gen File Management Application for Salesforce For us, no way is better than beginning with XfilesPro! Priyadarshi Sahu, one of our speakers, set the webinar in motion by recounting an intelligent approach toward file management automation in Salesforce, which is nothing but the implementation of XfilesPro. He dived deep into the five-star-rated AppExchange application’s expertise to migrate massive files from Salesforce to any external system (OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive, Amazon S3, etc.) of the user’s choice with just a click, at lightning speed. With his exposition of ‘Auto File Export,’ an important functionality and calling card of XfilesPro, the joiners got a deeper understanding of how the product can make their life easier and more productive. As the audience got more excited to learn further, Priyadarshi expounded on various other features of XfilesPro, including file collaboration, external file integration, folder management, and file preview — which made the attendees bounce off the walls. Now came about the most exciting part of Priyadarshi’s session — What’s New with XfilesPro? Indeed, this was something many guests seriously looked forward to as they are using XfilesPro and are thrilled to explore more capabilities of it. Below are the two recent updations in XfilesPro that Priyadarshi kept in store for everyone: Tagging for SharePoint: A feature that allows users to save tags against files on the file system as well as in SharePoint Document Libraries to describe what the content contains and what it does. File Sync in Google Drive: An intelligent yet easy option to map the users’ existing files in Google Drive or in their on-premise storage system that can also preview in Salesforce. With all that said, Priyadarshi concluded his session by demonstrating a bird’s eye view of XfilesPro in terms of numbers, which shed light on some interesting facts about the leading app and its dominance in the industry. Announcing DocuPrime – The Next Big Thing Now the time has reached to make the big announcement all were excitedly waiting for! To blow the gaff, Sutirtha Roy, the Senior Consultant – CEPTES SOFTWARE, took the stage and unveiled DocuPrime, our latest native AppExchange application to automatically generate documents in Salesforce. Sutirtha explained at length how DocuPrime can open door to automation and how easily it eliminates manual efforts and time required to create error-free documents. Indeed, the announcement of DocuPrime during the webinar knocked down the audience with a feather. As the discussion progressed, we got the audience’s pulse, which made us excited to reveal more about this new product from the house of CEPTES. Sutirtha delivered an insightful take on the next-gen capabilities of DocuPrime (other than automated document generation) including unlimited versioning of templates, document preview, workflow & lightning flow, and eSignature. Altogether, Sutirtha’s take clearly showed what all capabilities can make DocuPrime stand out from the pack! How XfilesPro & DocuPrime Go Hand in Hand —The Twin Power Now that everyone understood that DocuPrime had something to do with XfilesPro as the former enables document generation in Salesforce and the latter allows its auto storage in an external system. This was just what we wanted to offer through our novel concept named ‘The Twin Power’ or ‘The Power of Two’ — a powerful association between DocuPrime and XfilesPro that can use across different functions of an enterprise. Taking the concept to the next level, Sutirtha gave a live demo of the whole process — from generating a document in Salesforce to storing it in an external system — all with just a few clicks. It’s Time to Wrap Up! As Sutirtha winded up his session, there were plenty of questions poured into us from the attendees’ side! Our speakers answered a few of them in the final Q&A session and left the others with a promise that we would get back to them via email. And, that’s it! Our much-awaited webinar buttoned up on a high note. If you want to see the slide-by-slide presentation of the complete webinar, do check it out here! Else, if you prefer to watch the recorded version of the webinar, we’ve got that also for you. Watch it here now! Don’t forget to share this blog and stay tuned for more exciting updates to level up your Salesforce journey! AMARLAL
LIVE WEBINAR: One-Click Document Generation in Salesforce with Auto Store in Your Preferred Storage: A Very Big Announcement to Make!
It’s yet another cheery morning at work. You are full of beans to kick start the day by ticking off the tasks assigned to you. Your system is powering up. You are scrolling through emails, checking the calendar, responding to messages… Now arrives the high-important email from the manager saying that your organization has decided to hand pick 20 MBA grads through campus hire, who your team already interviewed. The leadership team wants to send over an urgent email communication to the candidates by appreciating their outstanding performance during the hiring process and releasing offer letters to all of them. As a solo HR executive who takes care of the talent acquisition department, it’s you who needs to roll up the sleeves to create all mentioned documents. And, to round out the entire task, you have a day time — and only that. You have the data about all candidates, their roles, joining dates, CTCs, etc. on the Salesforce system. But garnering them to create a large number of documents with varied customization for all candidates means that you are going to juggle multiple balls in the air. You see yourself heading on to a tedious, nerve-wracking task that also leaves room for errors if done and dusted in a single day. Now you get a shiver down your spine! Hey there, stop visualizing the scenario. This story is one just example of how document generation sounds arduous for the Human Resource sector. There are plenty of industries and multiple business domains including Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Real Estate, which also deal with this Gordian knot. Generating multiple documents on a daily basis using data stored on the Salesforce can make your life difficult, we know it first-hand. But wait..we got something to tell you. After having identified that easy document generation is the need of the hour for many Salesforce users, we decided to lend you a hand. At CEPTES, we pored over the context and discovered all essential deets that can come in handy while you make a multitude of documents. And, we will meet you all in our upcoming webinar to throw light on the same. In the webinar that is all set to go live on 6th July 2022 at 11:00 AM EST, our key speakers will expound to you on a modern way to generate documents within the Salesforce app in a single click. They will walk you through the finest and most innovative ways where automation is used to drive a hassle-free document creation process and how to store them in any external storage (SharePoint, OneDrive, S3, Google Drive, AWS S3) of your choice. Trust us, this approach will discard all your tensions upon template building, content customization, error creation, and a lot more aspects. To add more value, our speakers will also showcase a live demo of how we have made document generation seamless in Salesforce, which would blow your mind away. And, there’s a big surprise and announcement for you! And, we’re not done. There are many more things in store for you including a detailed explanation of how XfilesPro has revolutionized the Salesforce file management system with its best-in-class capabilities. So, make sure your presence in the webinar. What Can You Expect? The Power of Document Generation & External Storage Integration LIVE DEMO – How to do it The Surprise Package: Document Generation Salesforce File Management with XfilesPro The New XfilesPro Functionalities So, Book Your Seat Now See you in the webinar! AMARLAL
Santa Claus Comes Early This Christmas: Useful Tips and Tricks For Salesforce Users
With each passing second, the world is inching closer to one of the biggest festivals all-around the world. Christmas, the annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, will be observed on coming Friday, December 25. People have already begun their customary preparations of installing and lighting Christmas trees, hanging Advent wreaths, Christmas stockings, candy canes, and creating Nativity scenes depicting the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas carols and stories are already being sung everywhere. In addition to that, people have also been gearing up for exchanging cards and gifts with their loved ones as well as preparing the special meal, including the special Christmas cake. But even before Christmas this year, we have assumed the role of Santa Claus and have come bearing certain gifts for the Salesforce customers. Keeping alive the joy and spirit of Christmas that is sharing, spreading joy, and love, we bring you some all-important tips and tricks that can be implemented in order to make Salesforce more efficient and take the experience to the next-level. Number 1:- Manage your Salesforce Files Properly The primary thing Salesforce users must ensure is the top-grade management of their files and attachments. These files, no matter from where they are generated, sooner or later start piling up in the internal storage, which can become a great hassle if not managed properly. Salesforce users must either periodically purge their system of the files that are no longer needed or look for options that optimize the storage. This can include purchasing additional storage space from Salesforce or looking for solutions that can manage the files in a seamless manner. XfilesPro is one such AppExchange solution that makes things easier for the Salesforce users with its top-notch file management capabilities aided with seamless external collaboration capabilities. Using this highly customizable application, users can integrate their Salesforce system with different external cloud storage systems (SharePoint, Google Drive, Amazon S3, etc) and store their files over there to optimize their native storage and reduce their file storage costs significantly. Number 2 :- Archiving Data for Efficient Salesforce Data Management Another major concern for most Salesforce users is their ‘data’. The contacts, leads’ information, events, sales data and many such data records hold unprecedented importance for smooth functioning and business growth of the organization. But many users struggle because of the restrictive nature of Salesforce data storage and other issues like compliance and security. It\’s no hidden fact that data archiving has a plethora of benefits when planned at an early stage. With proper archiving techniques in place, Salesforce users can archive their less-used data into some different storage space and optimize the native storage. To help Salesforce users, we have popular data archiving applications like DataArchiva and DataConnectiva available on the AppExchange. DataArchiva, powered by high performance and security, archives the data at a native level into Salesforce Big Objects and optimizes the CRM application, reduces the data storage costs and offers an enterprise-level data management experience. While DataConnectiva also offers the same benefits when it seamlessly and securely archives the Salesforce data in the preferred external storage platforms like Amazon, Azure, Google, etc. and external databases including Postgres, Redshift, MySQL, etc. Number 3 :- Keeping a Secure Backup of Salesforce Data When it comes to ensuring the security and safety of organizational data, most Salesforce users refrain from relying simply on archiving solutions for managing the data. Not to mention, creating a backup of the data is a more popular option any day. Keeping this in mind, Salesforce users too must amp up their data reliability and security by creating a backup of their important data and storing it elsewhere. This not only safeguards data in the unfortunate event of data loss but also helps in quickly getting the business back on track after such an event. Here we must mention another one of our products, DataBakup. This simple data backup and recovery application is custom-designed to support multiple Salesforce systems and aided by its full and incremental backup services, helps enterprises easily overcome their fear of data loss. Guaranteeing highest levels of data security within the cloud infrastructure, this highly scalable application also possesses the seamless data restoration feature. DataBakup is both easy-to-use and a cost-effective solution, ideal for small to mid-range enterprises. Equipped with these tips and making use of the above mentioned applications, Salesforce users can easily augment and improve their Salesforce performance, ultimately boosting their business growth. To know more about these applications, you can get in touch with our Salesforce data & file management experts. AMARLAL
