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AuthorAaron Crear

Aaron is Founder & Principal at Hat-Trick Consulting. He works with companies around the world to help them achieve their Salesforce goals through administration, development and architectural services. A former sales director, Mr. Crear has extensive functional and technical expertise translating business requirements to technical solutions. Aaron currently holds 10 Salesforce certifications including Salesforce Certified Data Architect, Sharing & Visibility Architect, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, Community Cloud Consultant, Platform App Builder, User Experience Designer, Advanced Administrator, Administrator and AI Associate. He is also the leader of the Lowell, MA Admins Community Group and is a co-organizer of Northeast Dreamin’. Mr. Crear is a frequent speaker, having presented at Dreamforce, Albania Dreamin', Big Sky Dreamin’, Cairo Dreamin', Czech Dreamin’, dreamOle’, Dubai Dreamin', Florida Dreamin', French Touch Dreamin’, London's Calling, Midwest Dreamin’, North Africa Dreamin', Phillyforce, Polish Dreamin', Portugal Dreamin', Snowforce, Southeast Dreamin’, True North Dreamin, YearLeadin’and Salesforce World Tours.

Report on Percentage of Records a Field is Populated

Understanding how consistently users populate key fields is one of the best indicators of data quality and adoption. Incomplete data can cripple dashboards, forecasts, and automation. Measuring the percentage of records with a value in a specific field gives admins and business leaders an actionable metric: how often users are doing what’s expected.

Access Salesforce Reports and Dashboards in Slack with the CRM Analytics App

Salesforce CRM Analytics isn’t just for dashboards and lenses tucked away in Salesforce anymore. With the CRM Analytics for Slack app, users can bring powerful analytics insights right into their Slack workspace—where collaboration happens in real time.

We will explore how users can view, share, and act on standard Salesforce Reports and Dashboards(no paid CRM Analytics Licenses required) without leaving Slack. Whether you’re a sales manager monitoring pipeline health or a service leader tracking case resolution times, CRM Analytics in Slack makes it easier than ever to stay informed and responsive.

Unleashing Visual Insights: Uncover the Power of Embedded Charts in Salesforce

We all know that Reports and Dashboards are critical to businesses. However, far too often we end up with hundreds of Reports, most of which go unused, piling up in folders that no one even remembers where to access them. Wouldn’t it be better if we could take our most important analytics and put them in the forefront ? Good news, we can, by embedding them in the UI. I’ll demo several ways to bring these charts to the surface and place them where they are truly useful and actionable.

Report on Objects and Fields

Monitoring and auditing object and field information can be a tedious Task. Going through Object Manager to an Object then clicking on Fields & Relationships and trying to scroll while waiting for the list to update takes a while (in cases where you can’t just search on field name). Wouldn’t it be great if we had a way to get information on our Objects and Fields quickly in one screen? Good news is, we can, with Reports.

Summer ‘21 Forecast Improvements

Accurate Forecasting is critical to all businesses. It allows for strategic planning, cash flow predictability and overall business guidance. One longstanding complaint has been the lack of flexibility to customize Forecasting. With the Summer ’21 release we now have the ability to create and report on Forecasts Types based on custom fields along with an improved experience to manage Forecast Types. Let’s take a look at the new capabilities.

Collaboration and Sharing with Reports and Dashboards

Reports and dashboards are an integral part of every Salesforce org and are key components to uncover business insights as well as to drive actionable decisions. The consumption of the data is an important piece of their usage. To make these analyses even more useful we can add layers of sharing and collaboration. This allows us to capture different perspectives, challenge the validity or derivation of the data and make it more accessible. Next we will look at several ways to do this.