Cloud Academy: Getting Started (Virtual Classroom)

Cloud Academy
Getting Started as a Consulting Partner
 Phil Patacca
 Partner Development Advisor
 ppatacca@salesforce.com
 
March 2015

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Announcements
Understanding the enablement lifecycle
Q&A
Agenda

March 4 – Partner Community Office Hours
March 5 – Partner Roadmap Webinar
March 10 – Partner + Premier Success = Customer Success
March 10 – Dreamforce Office Hours
March 10 – APAC Salesforce World Tour (Melbourne)
March 17 – APP Academy: Market (Virtual)
March 18 – Cloud Academy: Getting Started (Virtual)
March 18 – Partner Marketing Power Hour
March 19 – Salesforce Essentials (St. Louis)
March 26 – Salesforce World Tour (Amsterdam)
To see more events, webinars, registrations, and
replays you may have missed, go to:
Partner Community > Calendar
Calendar of Events
Check the Partner Community for Updates

•  Access to & insight from our PM’s & Program Staff
•  Transparency with our product roadmap
•  Program announcements & Alerts!
•  Around once per month
Partner Roadmap Webinar
What’s New & What’s Next for ISV & SI Partners
http://p.force.com/ROADMAP
Next session is on April 2 at 9am Pacific
Topic: Partner Community

Alerts! Important Notification for Partners
Read Each Notice Carefully
•  Change
in
Security
Review
Submission
Process

•  Removing
Obsolete
Visualforce
from
Managed
Packages

•  UPDATED:
HTTPS
Security
CerEﬁcate
Switch
from
SHA-‐1

to
SHA-‐256
hash
algorithms

•  ConsulEng
Partner
Program
Fee
Enrollment
Deadline

(April
15,
2015)

http://p.force.com/ALERTS
You must log in to
see the Alerts!

http://p.force.com/premier http://p.force.com/heroku http://p.force.com/desk
New Product Information and Development Resources

New Consulting Partner (SI) Program Changes
For the New Fiscal Year Beginning February 1, 2015
http://p.force.com/programchanges

Program Enrollment for Consulting Partners (SI)
Deadline to Enroll for Payment is April 15, 2015
http://p.force.com/enrollment

New Functionality in the Partner Community
Started on February 20
•  Translation of the Partner Community to Japanese
•  Revamped Partner Signup process with an easy step-by-step wizard for
signing up
•  Access to the Partner Sales Aid from the Partner Online Training page
•  Presentation and acceptance of the Partner Master Agreement on the
Partner Community
•  Old Partner Portal site will be fully retired on April 3rd
•  See News Item from Jan. 13th
http://p.force.com/news

New Master Partner Program Agreement FAQ
http://p.force.com/news

Creating new orgs in the Environment Hub?
http://p.force.com/hub

Technical Questions? Forums Have Answers!
http://developer.salesforce.com/forums

The AppExchange Marketing Program (AMP) is a game-
changing co-marketing engine designed to accelerate
growth for AppExchange partners.
AppExchange Marketing Program (AMP)
 Turnkey promotion and co-marketing opportunities for revenue-sharing partners.
Partners invest in AMP to:
•  Increase awareness and demand.
•  Create meaningful connections with Salesforce
customers, prospects, and sales.
•  Leverage Salesforce’s brand power and world-class
marketing.
http://p.force.com/AMP

Partner Marketing Power Hour
Jam-packed hour of marketing insight and information
http://p.force.com/powerhour

Partner Community Office Hours
Partner Marketing Power Hour New!
Security Review Office Hours
http://p.force.com/officehours
Office Hours For All Partners
Dreamforce Office Hours

Sponsorships for 2015!
Please review the updated list of events
http://p.force.com/sponsorships

How do I access?
✓ Partner Community p.force.com/signup
✓  Partner Online Training p.force.com/LMS
✓  Partner Sales Aid p.force.com/PSA

Partner Community - Next Steps
ü Get Access to the new Partner Community
ü Post Your Picture
Let us see who you are!
ü Join the Partner Community *Official* Group
o In that group, select:
Email Settings > Daily Digest
ü Encourage your colleagues to do the same
ü Go to p.force.com/signup for help
ü Collaborate and have fun!
YES! NO!

Partner Online Training
Now Includes the Partner Sales Aid
http://p.force.com/LMS
Login must contain @partnertraining.com

Partner Sales Aid (PSA)
•  Access via Any Web Enabled
Device
•  Phone & Tablet using
Salesforce1
•  Initial Access through Education
tabs in Partner Community
•  PSA contains Sales & Sales
Support Content
http://p.force.com/psa

Partner Community – Topics (A-Z)
Jump directly to a specific topic
http://p.force.com/topics

Partner Community – Tip Sheet
http://p.force.com/tipsheet

Understand the 5 phases of consulting partner enablement
Discover & optimize tools and resources
Understand the process and formulate your own strategy
Plan for customer success
Understand the foundations of a successful partnership
Session Goals

Consulting Partner Lifecycle
 Join Partner Community
 Accept click through
agreement
 Define Practice Focus
 Set goals
 Build certification plan
 Review Certification
website
 Access Partner Online
Training Catalog
 Execute on certification
plan
 Define strategy
 Train your practice team
 Update collateral
 Request 2 free CRM
licenses & manage leads
and projects
 Lead Registration
 Manage opportunity pipeline
sourced
joint sales
Project Registration & CSAT
Customer Stories
 5 Phases for Success
Plan Market & SellBuild
Manage Your
Business

 Join Partner Community
 Accept click through
agreement
 Define Practice Focus
 Set goals
Plan

Join the Partner Community
 Create your profile
 Join Collaboration groups
 Review News & Events Calendar
 Register for webinars

Define Your Practice Focus
 Product Expertise
•  What is your value proposition?
•  Understand your differentiators
•  Are you a new practice focused on custom development?
•  Is your existing customer base heavily weighted towards contact centers and
customer service?
•  Existing relationships with customers – Think beyond CRM
“Salesforce is a platform company. Period.”
- Alex Williams, TechCrunch

 Industry Focus
•  Is your existing customer base heavily weighted towards an industry?
•  Does your practice team have industry experience?
•  Understand unique challenges of that industry
•  Speak the language of the industry
•  Trusted advisor
“As we look to grow to $10 billion and beyond, our new industries strategy is a huge opportunity for
salesforce.com to expand our footprint within existing customers and reach new enterprise customers.”
- Keith Block, President and Vice Chairman, salesforce.com

 Market Segment
•  Enterprise Business Unit
•  Commercial Business Unit
•  Small Business 1-100 employees
•  Mid Market 100-500
•  General Business 500-1000
 Services
•  Business Consulting / Legacy System Migration / Integration / Quick Starts
 Region
•  Local presence is an advantage
•  Leverage proximity to drive business

Set Goals
•  Program Tier
•  # of certifications completed in year 1
•  ACV Targets
•  # of projects completed in year 1
•  Customer Satisfaction Score
•  # of customer stories submitted

 Build certification plan
 Review Certification
website & Resources
 Access Partner Online
Training Catalog
 Execute on certification
plan
Build

Objectives:
 Create Your Certification Plan
•  Understand the different certifications, requirements, and exams
•  Identify individual employees tasked with obtaining certifications
•  Set timeframes
 5 Steps to Individual Certification
 Certification Resources
 Certification Maintenance & Continued Education

Certification Plan: Understand Certifications

Administrator Certification
 No prerequisite required
 Concepts Tested:
•  Manage users, data, and security
•  Maintain and customize Sales Cloud and Service Cloud applications
•  Build reports, dashboards, and workflow
 About the exam:
•  60 multiple choice/multiple select questions
•  Education based – tested on what you learn and remember
•  Passing score: 65%
•  Registration fee: $200
 Recommended Online courses:
•  Administration Essentials for New Admins
•  Administration Essentials for the Service Cloud

Sales Cloud Consultant Certification
 Prerequisite: Administrator Certification
 Concepts Tested:
•  Ability to successfully design and implement Sales Cloud solutions that meet customer business requirements, are maintainable and
scalable, and contribute to long-term customer success
•  Design Sales and Marketing solutions to meet business requirements
•  Design applications and interfaces that maximize user productivity
•  Manage data and design analytics to track key Sales Cloud metrics
 About the exam:
•  60 multiple choice questions
•  Experience based: test questions are based on 'use cases’
Recommended Online courses:
•  Implementing Sales and Marketing
•  Preparing for the Certified Sales Cloud Consultant Exam

Service Cloud Consultant Certification
 Prerequisite: Administrator Certification
 Concepts Tested:
•  Ability to successfully design and implement Service Cloud solutions that meet customer business requirements, are maintainable and
scalable, and contribute to long-term customer success
•  Design contact center solutions that make use of cases, knowledge base, and portals
•  Design interaction channels and build interfaces to maximize agent productivity
•  Manage data and design analytics that track key industry metrics
 About the exam:
•  Experience based: test questions are based on 'use cases’
Recommended Online courses:
•  Preparing for the Certified Service Cloud Consultant Exam
•  Implementing Case Management Across Channels
•  Implementing Salesforce Knowledge
•  Administration Essentials for the Service Cloud
•  Setting up and Building Communities

Developer Certification
 No prerequisite required
 Concepts Tested:
•  Demonstrate knowledge, skills, and abilities building custom applications and analytics using the declarative capabilities of the Force.com
platform, the programmatic capabilities of Force.com code (Apex) and Force.com pages (Visualforce), and application development
lifecycle management with cloud computing development as a service
•  Build custom applications using the point-and-click capabilities of the platform
•  Design the data model, user interface, business logic, and security for custom applications
•  Design reports, dashboards, and portals
 About the exam:
 Recommended Online courses:
•  Building Applications with Force.com Part 1
•  Building Applications with Force.com Part 2
•  Extend Analytics module within Administration Essentials for Experienced Admins (ADM211)

Technical Architect Certification
 Prerequisite: Developer Certification
 Concepts Tested:
•  Designed for technical architects who want to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and capabilities to assessing customer architecture;
designing secure, high-performance technical solutions on the Force.com platform; communicating technical solutions and design
tradeoffs effectively to business stakeholders; and providing a delivery framework that ensures quality and success
•  Design a technical architecture solution that may span multiple platforms and include integration and authentication across systems
•  Manage the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimized for performance and built to scale
•  Articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a technical architecture
 About the exam:
•  Certified Technical Architect program has three components one must successfully complete in this order:
•  1. Self-Evaluation
•  Current status as a Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer is a prerequisite
•  2. Multiple-choice Exam
•  3. Review Board Presentation
•  Presentation and discussion of the architecture solution for a hypothetical scenario and a customer case study
•  Registration fee: $6,000 and includes two attempts
•  4 hours allotted to complete the exam

Certification Plan: Document Plan & Present to Team
 Determine your corporate certification goal based on your practice’s focus
•  number and types of certification
 Identify individual employees tasked with obtaining certifications
 Set deadlines for each individual certification
•  Be sure to include prerequisites - Administrator Certification for Sales & Service Cloud Certification
 Obtain executive support for certification plan
 Present certification plan & resources to your Salesforce Practice Team
 Execute on plan

Example Certification Plan
Resource August September October Certifications Fee Total:
Employee Name Developer 1 $200
Employee Name Admin Service Cloud 1 $400
Employee Name Admin Sales Cloud Service Cloud 2 $600
Employee Name
Program Totals: 1 4 3 8 $2,400
 Corporate Certification Goal: 8 net new certified individuals
 Target completion date: January 2015

5 Steps to Individual Certification
 Step 1: Identify credential to become certified in
 Step 2: Determine and complete prerequisites
 Step 3: Prepare for exam
•  Review study guide on Salesforce certification website
•  Sign up for Partner Online Training Catalog via Partner Community
•  Complete recommended online training courses
 Step 4: Create webassessor login & register for exam
 Step 5: Complete exam
* After each release (3 per year) you must pass the release exam to maintain your certification

Certification Resources
 Salesforce Certification website: http://certification.salesforce.com/
 Partner Community: https://partners.salesforce.com
 Partner Community Release Support: https://p.force.com/releases
 Partner Online Training Catalog: https://help.salesforce.com/htsctrainingcatalog
•  @partnertraining.com credentials

Salesforce Certification Website
 Overview of all certification credentials
 About the exam
•  Outline
•  Objectives
•  Sample questions
•  Recommended training and resources
 Study Guides
 Exam schedules & registration via webassessor
 Verification
 Support

Salesforce Certification Website: Study Guide

Salesforce Certification Website: Webassessor
 Click on register for exam

 Login with webassessor credentials OR create new account

 Key fields in your profile
 Ensure your certification is associated
to your company
 Ensure your certification is recognized
by Salesforce Partner Program
correctly

 Verification Opt-In: Yes
 Ensure your certification can be verified directly from
the certification website
 Important for potential customers and employers

Salesforce Certification Website: Support
 Open a case
 Access knowledgebase

Salesforce Partner Community
 Sign up for Partner Online Training Catalog Access
 Partner Roadmap webinars
•  Access to & insight from our PM’s & Program Staff
 Enablement webinars & office hours
 Release support & training

Partner Online Training Catalog

 Click Details & Sign Up
•  You will receive 2 emails which include:
•  @partnertraining.com username & link to create your password
•  Welcome to Partner Online Training Catalog
Partner Online Training Catalog

Always use your @partnertraining.com credentials

Certification Maintenance
 All certified professionals must successfully complete three online, release-specific exams within a 12-month
period
 Release exams are published in conjunction with major product releases (Winter, Spring, and Summer)
 Notified automatically when release training material and exams become available
 Salesforce.com Certified Administrator Release Exam:
•  Salesforce.com Certified Administrator
•  Salesforce.com Certified Advanced Administrator
•  Salesforce.com Certified Service Cloud Consultant
•  Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant
 Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer Release Exam:
•  Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer
•  Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Advanced Developer
•  Salesforce.com Certified Technical Architect

Certification Maintenance: Salesforce Certification Website
 Release exam schedules
 Release exam deadlines

Certification Maintenance: Partner Community
Partner Community is your one-stop shop

Certification Questions?
 Join the Collaboration Group
 Ask questions and engage
 Use links of left hand navigation of group

 Define strategy
 Train your practice team
 Update collateral
 Request 2 free CRM
licenses & manage leads
and projects
Market & Sell

q  Review marketing resources in Partner Community
q  Determine marketing strategy & educate your team
q  Create AppExchange Consulting Partner Listing
q  Update website with Salesforce Partner Logos, lead registration form, case studies
q  Execute on marketing campaigns, webinars, events, & sponsorships
q  Attend APP Academy Marketing Virtual Classroom
q  Create Partner Success Stories (template provided)
q  Create Partner – At – A – Glance (template provided)
Market

q  Request 2 Free licenses (Business Org) OR Request trial activated as Business Org
  - log a case in the Partner Community
q  Review sales resources in the Partner Community
q  Attend APP Academy Sales Virtual Classroom
q  Determine sales strategy and compensation
q  Determine project methodology
q  Educate & train your sales team
q  Manage leads and opportunity pipeline in your Business Org
q  Pipeline Generation
Sell

 Lead Registration
 Manage opportunity pipeline
sourced
joint sales
Project Registration & CSAT
Customer Stories
Manage Your
Business

Register Leads & Projects
 Lead & Project registration are key metrics
used to track partner success
 Lead: New business uncovered by partner
 Project:
•  Tracks implementations delivered by partner
•  Kicks off CSAT survey process upon completion
 Leads & Projects are submitted through the
Partner Community

Manage Opportunities
 Sourced and Joint Sales ACV is a key factor used
to determine your program tier
 What is sourced ACV?
 Any previously unknown opportunity referred by partner
 Sourced ACV must be:
•  Submitted as a lead through the partner community
•  Accepted by the Salesforce sales team
•  Result in new end user purchase of original services,
additional services or upgrade to existing services
 What is Joint Sales (influenced) ACV?
 Partner brings previously unknown intelligence to an
existing Salesforce opportunity to support close or is
brought in by the Salesforce AE to support close of an
existing opportunity

Customer Satisfaction Score
 Customer Success is a top priority and key metric used to
track partner success
 CSAT Scores are visible on your AppExchange listing
 CSAT Scores are generated when you register and
complete projects in the partner community

Submit Customer Success Stories

Aloha & Mahalo!
“Thank You”

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