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BROCHURE - Salesforce Health Check - PT
BROCHURE - Salesforce Health Check - PT
IMPLEMENTATION
HEALTH CHECK
Let’s get one thing clear before we start: there is no single road to
Salesforce success.(YHU\RUJDQL]DWLRQLVGLƪHUHQWDQGKDVGLƪHUHQW
challenges in industry, business processes, internal IT structure, budgets
and data. However there are certain Salesforce best practices that can be
applied to multiple organizations.
This whitepaper
describes the
eight areas of
the Salesforce
Implementation
Health Check,
helping you to
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improve the
success of your
Salesforce
implementation.
Keeping the CRM pipeline up to date is • Imagine you’re an individual user. If for instance, Salesforce Lightning
not the favourite task of any sales rep. your organization’s Head of Sales, SDJHVƮRZVRU6DOHVIRUFH&KDWWHU
If you’re looking to implement CRM to Head of Operations and CEO/MD
• How many deals are you closing?
get reporting data for controlling your aren’t using Salesforce, then why
How many new accounts have
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the wrong foot. Salesforce is designed asked to deliver report after report
call resolution improved? Shared
to support your sales team in selling via e-mail so that your work is visible.
personal dashboards makes work
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come to life. By sharing goals,
by sharing relevant information and adoption are those where Salesforce
scoreboards and benchmarks, you
providing them with the right advice data is accepted as the single
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just when they need it. This makes source of truth throughout the
and motivate employees in a whole
Salesforce a valued tool they will want organization. This way, everybody
new way.
to use every day. Of course, the same gets the most value out of the
applies for your Service organization. Salesforce investment. • Your organization’s implementation
Here, Salesforce can automate GRHVQoWHQGDIWHU\RXUƬUVWJR
• What value does your organization’s
repetitive (and often boring) tasks so live. If you don’t keep updating
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to your users? If they can use a
the best customer service possible. won’t stay relevant and useful.
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There are ways to get feedback
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made. For example, by organizing
it’s important that your Salesforce to perform key tasks, will they truly
user forums every 3 to 6 months
deployment is delivered in such a way ever adopt Salesforce? Shadow IT
that allow key users to add new
that it adds maximum value for your is one of the biggest dangers for
features or propose changes to
employees. Only then you will get adoption. Surprisingly, one of the
existing features. Or, if you prefer
the best return on your Salesforce pitfalls that we see in many large
a lower barrier to entry, you could
investment. organizations is the existence of
send out surveys that people can
these Shadow IT systems. We would
Now that we have described how respond to anonymously. And by the
advise you to turn that around and
adoption is a crucial factor, let’s look at way, a good product owner who is
focus on ensuring that value adding
some typical cases where adoption is prepared to take all this feedback
features and key tasks are placed
impacted; and transform it into actual change
in Salesforce, integrated through,
never hurts either.
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ARCHITECTURE
“Why did we choose to do it this right balance where the documentation artefacts can only be created up to
way?”, “Why did we end up having two is complete enough without slowing a certain level of detail. Examples
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thing?”, “How did we end up with 4 challenge. There are a few must haves Identity & Access Management
GLƪHUHQWRUJV"q'RWKHVHTXHVWLRQV though; Architectural Principles, Strategy, an Integration Strategy,
sound familiar? Don’t worry, these are Capability Mapping and Design a Master Data Management
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confronted with. Finding answers to traceability, even when many people Process Performance Mapping.
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A lack of architectural robustness stops the “we decided that in a meeting lot of information on these areas
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political battles. In the end, it can lead these three artefacts, then it wasn’t through Salesforce Customer Success
to overhead processes being set up to agreed upon. Management, or Salesforce Partners
prevent this, but actually they end up like Capgemini.
There are other architectural artefacts
crippling an IT organization completely.
which are very helpful, but due to
So, how do we prevent it?
the size of the implementation and
Architecture can be expanded and complexity of the landscape, such
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PLATFORM
CUSTOMIZATIONS
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or no-code implementations over the wins can remove a lot of technical LQDQ\RQHoVEHQHƬW&RPELQLQJWHVW
last couple of years. They stem from debt from your systems. class development with automated
the fear of not being able to maintain a testing in later phases will lower risk
Speaking of technical debt, this is
codebase. Either due to knowledge of when making changes to the system
unavoidable. The existence of “//
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TODO” tags in your codebase and
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The move is logical, but it doesn’t always
really the issue; the issue is the sum
work. While we would always advise
of all of those items together and
you to use declarative changes over
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programmatic changes when you can,
point will need to be spent to refactor
we would caution against developing
them before they become really
an environment with only declarative
problematic. And unfortunately, The projects that
changes at all costs. For example, if
you have Process Builders, Validation
technical debt increases your have the highest
dependence on your implementation
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partner. A codebase that is not
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well documented and cannot be
each other, do you really have a more
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transferred from developer to data is accepted as
developer causes you to keep people the single source of
lines of well documented code?
who need to manage the codebase
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truth throughout the
ask; “Is there a solution implemented organization. This way,
The last point that we come across
using code that could have been
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everybody gets the
implemented using point-and-click most value out of the
been written to fool the system to
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any performance KPI’s negatively?”
think that the overall test coverage is Salesforce investment
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and “Can the declarative solution be
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replaced with a custom developed
into the system for a good reason
module that would actually simplify its
GOVERNANCE
Governance is a challenging topic and organization. It is about changes in to ensure that high value items are
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in order to do it correctly. As a result course the implementation of the DSSURYHGE\DOOSDUWLHVDVTXLFNDV
people who struggle with it consider it IT-solution to enable the change. possible. In that way, you can make
as a time and money wasting activity. This means that change goes beyond sure that new features hit the market
The truth however is that you cannot educating the workforce to use a new based on business and customer
run a good Salesforce project without system; processes and responsibilities expectations. Easy to set up, less easy
proper governance. might also change. We believe change to master.
only really starts once the solution
Three major areas in governance can Environment & Release Management
is implemented and it is important
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to improve based on feedback from
environment & release management, launch of Salesforce DX and the move
your workforce. You need to collect
and test management. towards migrating metadata instead
feedback from users, put it into a
of the use of change sets for larger
Change management is really the entire format that can be used to develop
and more complex projects. This
process of embedding change in the upon, prioritize these user stories
move improves the user friendliness
DELIVERY ABILITY
Simply put, Delivery Ability measures Environment & Release Management
all the items that concern your has taken on a new identity with the
capability to deliver a Salesforce launch of Salesforce DX and the move
project, no matter what the business towards migrating metadata instead
use case is. For example, what if your of the use of change sets for larger
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can you still manage changes? What if move improves the user friendliness The cardinal sin that we
there is a data breach: will your internal IRUGHYHORSHUVVLJQLƬFDQWO\EXWLW
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see too often is migration
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A step further is the ability to actually
Basically, you don’t need to be in project legacy CRM system to
mode all of the time; you could operate Salesforce - because
take advantage of the continuous
in a DevOps manner instead.
development of the Salesforce “we might need them
ecosystem. One of the biggest In our view, test Management has at some point”. Data
advantages of investing in Salesforce always been an underdeveloped piece
is the fact that new functionality is in Salesforce implementations. Having
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added three times a year. Knowing the correct test strategy allows you it needs to be relevant to
the roadmap and how you can take to have a higher level of test coverage the user who is viewing
advantage of the changes can be a and allows you to include automated it, and it needs to be
daunting task. And then of course testing from the inception of a system.
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organization wants to push? already live.
Luckily there are Centre for
Enablement (C4E) frameworks that
assist in setting up a system that allows
you to be agile in your Salesforce
change and support them from inside
the organisation. They include a link to
your Project Framework as well as to
the Centre of Excellence that you have
set up internally or with a Salesforce
Partner. Using this C4E approach you’re
not implementing disparate systems,
but instead a full Salesforce ecosystem
that evolves over time.
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possible. In that way, you can make
sure that new features hit the market
based on business and customer
expectations. Easy to set up, less easy
to master.
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CAPGEMINI SALESFORCE
IMPLEMENTATION
HEALTH CHECK
With the increasing strategic role of
Salesforce in IT landscapes the Capgemini
Salesforce Implementation Health Check
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Salesforce investment is on the right track.
Capgemini earned a reputation in delivering
quality Salesforce projects that stand the
test of time and are scalable with the ever-
expanding product base of Salesforce. This
is down to strictly following the guiding
design principles we apply on every single
project, ensuring optimal usage of out-of-
the-box Salesforce features and preventing
unnecessary customization.
POOR GOOD
Benchmarking
OUR APPROACH
In 4 weeks, we review all 8 areas of your
implementation. With a multidisciplinary
team including a Senior Salesforce
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in the Salesforce clouds you have
implemented, we check and make
recommendations that will improve the
technical robustness, lower TCO and
enhance the Salesforce roadmap for
your organization. As a trusted advisor,
Capgemini can also advise you on the use
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set up a Salesforce Center of Excellence.
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by the implementation of our in-house
developed Salesforce accelerators.
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TIMELINE
Workshops
• ([HFXWLYH%ULHƬQJ • Conduct • Review Results • Formal
• 7HDP.LFNRƪ Interviews with IT, ZLWK&722ƯFH Playback
• Systems Intro Product Owners, • Informal Session
Champions, Playback • Next Steps
Relevant Business
Stakeholders
SUCCESS STORIES
Over the last several years, he’s been focused in developing our CRM hub
internationally, helping global organizations understand how to embrace
Salesforce and redefine the relationship between vendor, business and IT.
ALESSANDRO TORNAGO
Alliances Director at DCX Practice, Capgemini Portugal
Alessandro is a business leader with more than two decades of experience in
business management, strategic partnerships, and sales management, with both
business and a technical background in digital transformation. He worked across
Europe and LatAM in large, accelerated revenue growth plans, by orchestrating
ecosystems of clients, partners, and suppliers, operating in B2B enterprise markets
with deep specialization in key segments of the technology stack, including
Infrastructure platforms, As-a-Service models, and System Integration.
He joined Capgemini Portugal to develop the Salesforce Alliance. In his role, within
Capgemini Portugal, Alessandro is responsible for ensuring alliance effectiveness
by fostering commercial collaboration and go to market initiatives.
RENATO ASSUNÇÃO
Head of Salesforce, Capgemini Portugal
ROGÉRIO GRAÇA
Head of CRM Coe Évora, Capgemini Portugal
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CAPGEMINI &
SALESFORCE
Capgemini has been a Salesforce global strategic
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on quality and customer success, resulting in numerous
Salesforce awards.
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