FuseIT News

Wow, stuff happens fast. As I was writing this, Sitecore announced they will soon be releasing phase one of their integration with Salesforce Marketing Cloud. How it differs from FuseIT's Sitecore to Salesforce Marketing Cloud integration (S4MC) remains to be seen however at face value it appears as though the two products are completely different. Now, back to the original re ...

What will FuseIT be working on over the next few months? Here is a brief summary: Products Complete Update 1 of S4S for Sitecore 9 Add Salesforce IDs to the visitors xDB facet after they submit a web form Extend rules-based personalization based on data in the S4S custom facet  New release of S4S EXM for Sitecore 9 New release of T4S to support Content Manager 9.3 ...

Since Sitecore introduced its Connect for Salesforce CRM connector, we have been asked to explain the differences between it and S4S. Briefly, they have very different approaches to data integration to your business needs, network infrastructure, transaction volumes, data recency, and support requirements all factor into your decision. At FuseIT we see S4S as the enterprise so ...

This week we hit 10,000 downloads of the FuseIT SFDC Explorer (more if you count those with disposable email addresses). The Explorer is an advanced tool for Salesforce developers. We built the Explorer in late 2011 when we needed better visibility of Salesforce from the perspective of an assigned API user. It is only available to download from our website and is a free tool! ...

S4S Release 1.9.18064.2 is now available. Please contact us if you do not have a login and need access. This is an exciting and major S4S release that introduces the S4S Mapping Wizard for Sitecore Experience Forms. The wizard has new features including support for: Multiple Salesforce instances Form assignment to a nominated Salesforce owner Flexible rules to ensure Sale ...

The roadmap outlines our intentions for S4S in the future. Before looking at the map, the following is a summary of what S4S can do now: Out-of-the-box features include: Map Sitecore forms (WFFM and Experience) to Salesforce Push Sitecore xDB analytics to Salesforce leads and contacts Update Sitecore xDB analytics from Salesforce to personalize web experience Use Sales ...

We often see the word ‘Enterprise’ used flippantly. Fine if you are talking about a fictitious starship but dangerous when talking about software. Enterprise software may have the same features as software developed for small businesses but it is (or should be) written in a completely different way. If you are not sure, consider what you need from your software: Performanc ...

The S4S Mapping Wizard has always had the ability to map Sitecore forms to one or more Salesforce campaigns and this feature will remain for the Sitecore Experience forms (see LinkedIn article) support. Any website visitor that completes and submits a Sitecore web form can be added to one or more Salesforce campaigns if the form is mapped to a lead or contact record. Note that ...

The new S4S Mapping Wizard for Sitecore Experience forms (see LinkedIn article) introduces several new features not available for our equivalent WFFM wizard. Being an enterprise integration, we have made it possible to map different experience forms on your Sitecore website to different objects in different Salesforce orgs. It is now quite common for large organizations to use ...

In 2009 FuseIT developed S4S, our Sitecore to Salesforce connector. The team brief was to create an enterprise connector that would: follow best security practices process high volumes of data deal with custom objects and fields in Salesforce be easy to use provide features businesses wanted Today, around 50 customers, including several Fortune 500 companies, are usi ...