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Sending Sitecore web form submissions to Salesforce is a primary business objective if you use Sitecore and Salesforce. This critical process must be flexible, scalable, easy to configure, and graceful in failure.  FuseIT's S4S has been mapping Sitecore forms to Salesforce for over 12 years. Over that time the mapping wizard has been continuously improved. However, recent tren ...

Last night I booked a flight from Christchurch to London return online. It's around 28 hours each way in two sectors. The booking site offered dozens of routes and I eventually selected my flights based on seat availability, journey duration, transit time and cost. When I went to pay, the booking site rejected my payment saying one of the flights was fully booked. So what just ...

Making a great Sitecore website is only half the job. Real success is measured by how many visitors make themselves known, usually by completing a web form. This post looks at creating leads from web forms in the context of Sitecore and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Where Should Form Data be Saved? When a visitor clicks the form submit button there are choices around where to sav ...

A website's role is to promote your brand and gather leads! The leads are typically sent from a web form to a CRM (eg. Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics) or a marketing automation system (e.g. Salesforce Marketing Cloud or Pardot). This article looks at the importance of the lead creation process in the context of Sitecore forms. It is important that implementers understand the ...

Many years ago in this neck of the woods (down under), the term Claytons was commonly used to refer to something that is but isn't! The term came from an advertisement for a non-alcoholic beverage that claimed Claytons was, "The drink you are having when you are not having a drink". In a way, Salesforce Data Exports are a Claytons in that they don't actually get any data out o ...

Sending Sitecore web form submissions to your CRM is the primary objective of many websites. It's very important then, that the lead capture process should be flexible, scalable, easy to configure, and graceful in failure.  FuseIT's new Sitecore to Microsoft Dynamics 365 integration (S4D) benefits from over 12 years of experience mapping Sitecore forms to Salesforce. First and ...