Welcome! My name is Katie, and I began my journey as a SalesForce system administrator in November 2014.
I work in a large academic department of a mid-size university. We were
the first department to purchase a SalesForce org, although the school
at large has now purchased one as well.
Before taking my current position, I worked at the same university
managing data entry into, and Cognos Report Studio reporting out of, our
Entrprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, Banner, on top of an Oracle
back-end.
Although I have not written PL/SQL to control DML (INSERT, UPDATE,
DELETE) professionally, I am familiar with it through graduate school
and personal experimentation. In other words, I'm just dangerous enough
to think I can talk about my blunders through enterprise-grade database
systems without having the chops to really impress people who come here
for the word "Oracle." Hope you enjoy your visit anyway!
The university's ERP is still a major source of information in our
SalesForce org, but not the only one. As of the founding of this blog
in March 2015, we have some interesting constraints on our work (such as
working around a fixed-structure daily import until we have JitterBit
to replace the PL/SQL behind it, and such as the rest of the university
still doing primary data entry into the ERP).
I have found it quite a paradigm shift to design solutions to problems
integrating our ERP data into our SalesForce org for the Admissions
department--one I'm still "shifting" through every day.
SalesForce Success Communities, YouTube videos, and StackExchange boards
have been invaluable, but sometimes I feel a bit lonely as an "Oracle
person in a SalesForce world."
So...if you do too, welcome! As I come up with "SalesForce-y" solutions
to problems I used to know how to solve in Oracle, I plan to share them
here. May you find them useful in your quest to master your new world
as well. :-)
-Katie
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