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Notes from client-side Salesforce work at manufacturers: architecture decisions, partner governance, DevOps and the questions that come up in every enterprise project.
- Salesforce Field Service: When Is It Worth It?Salesforce Field Service pays off with many short jobs and rarely with long projects. Criteria, licence costs and alternatives for manufacturers' field teams.Read article →
- Salesforce Licences: Does Everyone Need a Full One?Not every user needs a full Salesforce licence. Which licence types exist, what they cost, and how a licence forecast can save six figures a year.Read article →
- Salesforce Manufacturing Cloud: Is It Worth It?Manufacturing Cloud costs $80 more per user and month than Sales Cloud. How manufacturers tell whether sales agreements, rebates and warranty justify that.Read article →
- Salesforce Object Ownership Matrix: Who Owns What?Several partners on one Salesforce org? An object ownership matrix sets who owns which object. Structure, rules and lessons from a programme with 8 streams.Read article →
- Agentforce pilots: business value and data quality firstMost companies have tried Agentforce, but many projects stall in pilot. Why business value and data quality decide success, and how to start the right way.Read article →
- Salesforce Agent Context Engine explainedWhat the Salesforce Agent Context Engine does, how it gives AI agents governed context from Data 360, and what companies should prepare before using it.Read article →
- Salesforce Document Builder: five limits and workaroundsTemplate choice, file names, email, defaults and styling: five limits of the Salesforce Document Builder in Field Service and how flows and LWCs close them.Read article →
- Salesforce Field Service mobile: guided work and voiceGuided workflows, forms from paper templates and voice input: what the new Salesforce Field Service mobile features mean for manufacturers with field service.Read article →
- Salesforce password integrations end in 2027: check nowThe OAuth username-password flow stops working on 20 February 2027 and SOAP login gets stricter. What enterprise teams should check and how to migrate.Read article →
- Salesforce Service Documents: is Document Builder enough?What Salesforce Service Documents and Document Builder do in Field Service, what they cost, where the limits are and when manufacturers need another tool.Read article →
- Salesforce Well-Architected: What the new framework changesSince September 2026 the Salesforce Well-Architected Framework has five pillars and an agentic lens. What changed and how to use it in your programme.Read article →
- Salesforce Winter '27: what changes for your pipelineWinter '27 changes the Salesforce CLI, raises Apex limits, hides the Developer Console and starts API retirements. What dev and release teams need to adjust.Read article →
- Service Cloud: Casey and the Service Rep AssistantCasey answers customers, the Service Rep Assistant supports human reps, and the native contact center is live in Europe. What it means for B2B service.Read article →
- What I learned from the free sfdx-hardis trainingI completed all three levels of the free sfdx-hardis DevOps training. What it covers, how long it takes, who it is for and my five takeaways.Read article →
- sfdx-hardis: open-source Salesforce DevOps explainedWhat sfdx-hardis is, what it covers from CI/CD to monitoring and documentation, how it compares to Gearset or Copado, and when it is the right choice.Read article →
- Why clients should own their Salesforce DevOps toolsGit repository, pipeline, Jira, Miro: why the client, not the implementation partner, should own the accounts, licences and access rights of a project.Read article →
- Why DevOps decides Salesforce enterprise projectsChange sets work for one admin. With several partners, global rollouts and three releases a year, DevOps decides whether a programme stays in control.Read article →
- Why pull request reviews are a must in enterprise projectsWith several partners on one Salesforce org, pull request reviews are the cheapest quality gate you have. What a good review covers and how to set it up.Read article →