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How to make the most out of your transition to HEDA: Measure Twice, Cut Once

Whether you are an institution looking to implement Salesforce for the first time, transition off of another CRM or transition from Sales Cloud, Enrollment RX, or Target X chances are you’re looking for a way to make the most of your investment in Salesforce’s Higher Ed Data Architecture. Over the past 2 years I’ve been working with clients to define an approach to HEDA that maximizes their investment in Salesforce and delivers immediate impact to end users. As with all things, they key to success is to plan and then plan some more. In my opinion, considering the following at the beginning of your journey will pay dividends in the end.

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Sessions and tips to watch out for the Higher Ed Summit 2018

With the Higher Ed summit 2018 a week away in Washington D.C, Most of the folks would be getting ready to choose their agendas from the mobile Salesforce events app. If you have already registered, you should download Salesforce events app from the app store and use your registration number to log in and start choosing your sessions.

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Two must attend sessions at Higher Ed Summit 2017

If you are already using Salesforce and using Targetx package, this session would help you to learn best practices to migrate to HEDA, things to consider which would help you to prevent major problems. UTSA Grad school is co presenting with me on their story on how they planned their migration to HEDA from their current org, challenges they faced and how they overcame them. 

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New features for Higher Education (Spring '17)

If you are a university using salesforce , the latest spring 17 release brings a bunch of features which would help your university a lot. Since reviewing  the release notes could be overwhelming, I made it easy for you by categorizing the features into 3 categories namely time saving features, prevent problems and more capability.

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