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Salesforce.com is #1 in Fortune’s list of ‘100 best companies to work for’. New customers are signing contracts for Salesforce licenses every day, and this indicates the popularity of Salesforce CRM worldwide.
Salesforce CEO Benioff once said, “Salesforce reached $5 billion in annual revenue faster than any other enterprise software company and now it’s our goal to be the fastest to reach $10 billion.”
Currently, businesses are stepping forward to adopt the Salesforce technology with the intention of customer satisfaction as well as enhancing their current sales operations process. To implement a Salesforce solution, a company needs Salesforce geeks who helps them to achieve their business goal.
Currently, Salesforce Consultants and professionals are in huge demand due to Salesforce being adopted by small to large business organizations worldwide at rapid rate. The market has a demand for Salesforce Administrators and Salesforce Developers. To implement Salesforce as a CRM solution, there are various roles required to fulfill the business need such as Administrator, Developer, and Salesforce Architects.
A recent research by G2 Crowd found that:
Customers are crediting Salesforce when it comes to overall CRM functionality 85% higher than the industry average of 75%.
The Salesforce CRM has an 80% better scalability than any other CRM vendor outside the leader category in Gartner’s quadrant and 23% better scalability than vendors present in the leader’s category.
It is always believed that referred customers are always a bonus for any business. More than 80% Salesforce customer has recommended Salesforce as CRM solution to their peers.
85% of Salesforce users believe that Salesforce is headed in the right direction.
Do your dreams include succeeding in Salesforce?
Salesforce is aggressively acquiring companies (small to mid-size) across the world, that provides a competitive edge over other CRM players in current market. More than 2 million companies are using Salesforce as a CRM solution to boost their current sales process and successful customer support. Due to the high adoption rate of Salesforce demand for Salesforce professionals such as Administrators and Developers to manage the Customer’s Salesforce CRM has also increased. To achieve a business goal, Salesforce consultants assist businesses to fully exploit the full potential of Salesforce by having an in-depth knowledge and experience relating to a Salesforce implementation.
To have a career in Salesforce, Consultants need a focused effort in right direction and with level of passion and dedication. Salesforce is like an ocean and consultants do not know how far they can reach. If you are looking for a relatively high paying career, then Salesforce is the right path to proceed with the added ability for work opportunities in this field. The key is to completely understand the elements of your responsibilities and what is required for the job.
Now let’s understand the difference in terms of responsibilities and the earnings achieved by Administrator vs Developer:
Key activities for Salesforce Administrators:
The key areas that are being considered for Salesforce administrator are as follows:
User setup and permissions
Data accessibility
Account modifications
Moreover, Salesforce Administrators are also involved in some other activities such as page layout setup, data deduplication, picklist values configuration, workflow & rule configuration, reports & dashboard creation and many more.
Key roles for Salesforce Developers:
Salesforce developers create
Triggers
Visual force pages as well as custom functionality to support the business processes defined by organization.
Moreover, developers are responsible to establish interface with third party applications to Salesforce through custom APIs integration to accomplish the business need.
To create a Salesforce Solution, both administrators and developers are required, and it is totally depending upon the business requirement.
Salesforce administrators and Salesforce developers are like the two sides of a coin.
Girikon a Salesforce Consulting Partner based in the USA, Australia and India and has a team of Certified Salesforce Consultants including administrators and developers. The Salesforce Consulting Services team have proven expertise with over 400 projects delivered. For further information about Girikon contact us on +61 1300 332 888 or email sales@girikon.com and discuss your current business challenge. We guarantee we will have a solution for you.
Salesforce Customization & Integration Services
We have certified Salesforce Administrators and Developers who help our customers to customize and build Salesforce.com Apps to meet their business requirements. Sometimes customer needs to integrate their existing ERP system with the Salesforce instance. We provide cost effective quality solution on their existing ERP system with their Salesforce instance Customization and Integration. With our experienced and certified Force.com team, save over 50% costs on Salesforce Customization and Integration services in USA & Offshore.
Girikon’s wide implementation and development on Force.com experience will help you get the most out of your Salesforce system
Our Approach
We help our customers to setup the new Salesforce instance or customize their existing environment according to their need. We also provide them the training to use the different tools of the Salesforce.com that helps them to run their business flow easily. We help our customer to create the complex business process using the Salesforce.com workflow, approval process and triggers.
Our Offerings
Salesforce Integration with other apps.
Data migrations from environment to another environment.
Data Cleaning.
Communities and Customer Portal setup and customization.
Upgrading Salesforce environment.
Third Party App integration with Salesforce.com like Desk.com integration, Mail Chimp integration etc.
Creating complex workflows and approval process.
Users and Profile Management.
Providing support for Sales and Service Cloud.
Why Choose Us
Quality with On Time Delivery: We maintain the highest quality standards and strict guidelines. Along with highest quality we strictly follow delivery timeline and it’s always done on time.
Experienced: Girikon today has over 150+ Technocrats working onsite and offshore for Fortune 1000 clients. We have delivered more than 200 Salesforce projects having over 1, 50,000 hours of Salesforce implementation, migration, customization and Force.com development experience.
Cost-Effective: Our business model is to provide cost effective onsite Consulting followed by a mixed offshore and onsite solution. This model helps us in keeping customers development costs low while providing world class and quality development support. With Girikon’s unique team combination model we deliver the same productivity level with a 50-70% cost reduction.
Flexible: As a flexible partner we give our clients the flexibility to choose service model from the day one of project and if needed can customize further at a future date. Our models include pure onsite, onsite/offshore, onshore/offshore and pure offshore teams.
You Own the IP: You will own the source code and Intellectual Property of the work we do for you under our Agreement.
Salesforce Integration Services
As Salesforce Integration Partners, Girikon understands with the rapid increase of cloud / mobile / social platforms customers are left hamstrung by siloed platforms because these platform have individual characters, functions etc. Siloed systems offer little or no visibility into an organisation’s business processes and require manual interventions to fill in transaction gaps.
Girikon Salesforce Integration Consultants with many years’ experience identify solutions to siloed system issues for their customers. These Salesforce Integration solutions always prove to be enabled high interoperability, intuitive in design and user-friendly. Our Salesforce Integration Services are cost-effective and can incorporate a solution across all applications including Microsoft, Oracle, Abode, SAP etc., data management and the organisation’s business processes.
Girikon’s view is that all applications be it internal and external need have a seamless integration. Only then, the software will provide a collaborative experience for all users, enable streamlined data flows and effective governance across all business processes.
Girikon’s onshore/offshore Salesforce Integration Consultants have the expertise to enable Salesforce integrations across systems and data that reside both on-premises and in the cloud.
Salesforce Integration Services using Middleware Technology
Girikon, a Salesforce Integration Company has extensive experience with Middleware technologies that eliminate a major chunk of the complexities and the pain of integration. The role of a middleware technology is critical where businesses require a connection with legacy systems, cloud and SaaS applications, and business management software such as SAP and Salesforce. Girikon’s Salesforce Consultants are Integration experts and provide solutions to get the right mix of integrations between each system that take into consideration accurate data formats and protocols.
Girikon’s offshore Salesforce Integration Consultants will work with you to automate your business processes and enable secure sharing of data across numerous applications by integrating disparate systems and services.
Salesforce Integration Services using Connectors
Use Girikon as a Salesforce Integration Partner and take advantage of the broad experience in creating custom connectors and adaptors on the Force.com platform and can also help design and develop custom data integration tools to meet your distinct business requirements.
Connector based integrations enable seamless and highly effective two-way user-encounters
Girikon can also assist with:
Master Data Management (MDM)
A Salesforce Integration Company, Girikon understands the large investments made into CRM software implementations and the importance of a positive ROI to our customers. Girikon’s view is that organizations need to move to a more integrated CRM approach where all the operational master data even products and services are assembled from the data silos, de-duplicated, cleansed, enriched and synchronized across domains.
This results in a ‘single version of the truth’ for the master data that proactively protects data quality enabling a 360-degree view. Girikon’s offshore Salesforce Consultants provide comprehensive master data Cleansing and Standardization services for enhanced ROI through consistency in customer experience, better decisions and reductions in risk.
Data Governance
Using Girikon as a Salesforce Integration Partner can assist with data governance initiatives to enable data quality and consistency.
Our Salesforce Integration Consultants will work with you to define, design and implement effective and sustainable data governance structures, strategies, practices, and policies. You can then validate business policies, highlight data issues, automatically monitor compliance of data and manage all data issues with the critical operational control from stakeholders across the organization.
Why Choose Us as Your Salesforce Integration Partner
Quality with On Time Delivery: Girikon is an ISO 9001 certified company, we are committed to a quality delivery outcome and strive for continuous improvement and providing superior services across our entire business.
We take pride in delivering on-time, every time while maintaining the highest quality standards.
Experienced: Girikon’s team comprises of 300+ dynamic, seasoned and qualified professionals who have a vast experience in Information Technology, experience with leading Technology Platforms and vast industry experience. We boast greater than 70 individual Salesforce Consultant Certifications, are proud of our Strong Customer Testimonials and have delivered over 400 quality projects on time and on budget.
Girikon’s Salesforce Developers work onsite/onshore and/or offshore. Our customers and services are many and varied, from Fortune 500 companies implementing large E-Business programs to small-medium enterprises implementing sophisticated solutions to gain a competitive advantage.
Girikon’s Salesforce Integration Services experience of over 150,000 days in Salesforce Support, implementation, consulting, integration, migration, customization and Force.com development.
Blended Onshore/Offshore Model: Girikon’s business model is designed to ensure a cost-effective quality outcome. Our onsite Salesforce Consulting Services are backed up by our Offshore Salesforce Development Team ensuring a quality solution and on time delivery. By switching between these two combinations of onshore and offshore teams, Girikon ensures flexibility while meeting the customer’s requirements.
We always maintain the highest level of quality with a significant cost reduction in comparison to our competitors using this model. 100% Onshore Salesforce Consultants can also be rewarding for our clients and therefore an option and ensure a successful project outcome.
Flexible: Girikon prides itself on the flexibility we provide our clients once we become your trusted Salesforce Integration Partner. You choose a models which is suitable to your needs. Salesforce Consulting Service model can last until the end of the engagement or can be customised at a future date. All our clients get all our attention, a great service with no overheads like our competitors.
Intellectual Property: You own the source code developed and Intellectual Property Rights of the development work we do for you under our agreement.