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Dec 22, 2016
Customer Success Stories: ADDO Partners with AVS for Salesforce and Pardot Implementation

  Overview ADDO (Latin for “inspire”) is a consulting agency that helps businesses and brands ideate and activate initiatives to enhance leadership and social impact. They create “ways for companies to maximize ‘doing business’ while ‘doing good’ to deliver tangible, sustainable and measurable engagement with customers and their communities.” # of Employees: 1-10 Location: Atlanta, […]

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Dec 05, 2016
Atlanta Dream Center: Customer Success Story

Image courtesy of AtlDreamCenter.com Overview Atlanta Dream Center is a local non-profit organization that seeks to help men, women and children struggling with homelessness, poverty and sex trafficking. # of Employees: 10 HQ Location: Atlanta, GA Industry: Nonprofit Go Live Date: 7/1/2016 Website: https://atldreamcenter.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/atldreamcenter Twitter: https://twitter.com/atldreamcenter Ad Victoriam Solutions was recently honored to partner with a […]

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Oct 10, 2016
Salesforce “Lightning” Winter ’17 Release Notes: Reports & Dashboards

In our previous article, we explored the general functional features improved by Salesforce’s latest release – which I like to call Lightning: The Definitive Edition. This latest Salesforce release offers a number of cool new and improved features that help grant us that increase in productivity we always crave. But new things are scary, right? Well the […]

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Salesforce Lightning Winter Release Notes
Oct 03, 2016
Salesforce “Lightning” Winter ’17 Release Notes: General Functionality

It has been a good summer. But now that winter is coming, it’s time to wake up, grab the hot cocoa and make the switch to Salesforce Lightning this Winter if you haven’t yet. Here’s why: Ever since the Winter ’16 release a year ago, many of Salesforce’s users (including myself) have been on the […]

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Implementing Pardot 5 Factors
Sep 26, 2016
5 Important Considerations When Implementing Pardot

So you bought Pardot – now what?   Pardot is a robust marketing automation tool that offers marketers all the customer tracking and communication bells and whistles of their dreams. Before implementing Pardot, read these five important points to keep in mind when first starting to use Pardot. 1. Who will be your Pardot Ninja? As […]

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Sep 12, 2016
5 Questions to Answer Before Implementing a Salesforce Community

Are you considering joining the millions of customers who have subscribed to Salesforce? Before you start trying to integrating the world’s #1 CRM, it’s important to stop for a few moments and consider what an ideal Salesforce implementation looks like for your small, medium or large-scale organization. Here are a few questions to ask yourself […]

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Aug 09, 2016
The Internet of Things and the Third Wave

The major technological periods in history have often come in waves – from the Stone Age to the Industrial Revolution to the Space Age. In more modern times, the First Wave (machine to person) occurred with the use of mainframe computer systems for operations management. The Second Wave (person to person) was ushered in with […]

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compliance word cloud: Ad Victoriam Solutions Cloud Strategy blog
Aug 02, 2016
Compliance in the Cloud – HIPAA

Today many companies are looking to move their applications and workflows to the Cloud in order to realize benefits such as minimizing cost, reducing IT overhead, and enterprise scalability. Some of these solutions are required to maintain compliance with HIPAA, which creates concern when hosting in a public cloud platform such as AWS or Microsoft Azure. The good news […]

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workflow automation icon: Ad Victoriam Solutions Salesforce blog
Jul 26, 2016
Automating Salesforce for Your Benefit: Part 1 – Workflows

  Where would Salesforce be if it did not perform our desired tasks in the background? Better yet, where would we be? Webster defines automatic as “largely or wholly involuntary.” The automation that Salesforce solutions are capable of is the epitome of this definition with its different processes that come in many different shapes and sizes. This functionality of […]

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Business Intelligence Blog
Jul 15, 2016
Why Business Intelligence (BI) Tools Matter
Even with companies using a tool like Salesforce® to house a majority of their business processes, there are always other pieces of data that live outside of Salesforce. Business intelligence tools can help. Business Intelligence (BI) tools allow organizations to bring together multiple data sources into one centralized location.  This means that now we can [...]

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