Category: Workato

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Salesforce users are some of the most innovative people on the planet. They’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance and extend the power of the Salesforce platform, whether they use it for sales, marketing, or support. Because Salesforce is such a versatile platform, there are a million and one ways that automation can make it more useful. Over the past four years, we at Workato have seen Salesforce users build incredible automations and integrations on our platform. They love that our recipes (plain English instructions that get work done between your ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; While it might not be as exciting as onboarding a new worker, deprovisioning is an equally important part of the employee lifecycle. When it comes to unstructured data like files, however, it can be tough to execute deprovisioning processes that are both secure and efficient. You don’t want to lose important content just because an employee has left your organization—but you still need to disable their access to that content in a timely fashion. Manually transferring the content not only takes too many resources but can also put you at a significant ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Kristine Colosimo; In a recent survey conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, 44% of CEOs said that in their businesses, the finance team drives workforce planning. At the same time, C-suite leaders want to make better use of HR data; 57% say that they need information on positions and talent in order to achieve business objectives, and 73% said HR leaders had provided data that was later incorporated into the company’s overall business strategy. It’s clear that both finance and HR should play a key role in setting and achieving a company’s goals, ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; At many universities and colleges, integration and automation are especially challenging, because: They often work with niche programs that fulfill unique needs—like Emergency Alert Systems—that create data silos and may not have out-of-box connectors They must meet specific security requirements, such as adequately protecting Personal Identifying Information (PII) They usually have fewer developer resources available, so they have limited bandwidth to code automations and integrations from scratch They feel a strong push to run as lean an organization as possible. For organizations that don’t have the resources to devote to custom coding ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; In a recent survey conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, 44% of CEOs said that in their businesses, the finance team drives workforce planning. This statistic demonstrates what finance employees have long known: they play a key role in not just maintaining current operations by tracking budgets and expenses, but they’re crucial to planning for the future and making sure growth is sustainable. One of the most crucial resources for finance teams are powerful hub apps like Workday. From tracking expenses to monitoring procurement budgets, these apps offer teams a central ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; It’s a widely-accepted truth that Salesforce forever changed the world of enterprise software. With its cloud-based delivery eliminated downloads and installs, it quickly became a Software-as-a-Service pioneer. Revolutionary for its time, Salesforce’s CRM was always on and available from anywhere, and its configuration-based development made it easily accessible to people who weren’t technical experts. Thanks to this forward-thinking model, Salesforce is now one of the most popular pieces of enterprise software—and it inspires its users to think futuristically, too. Today, companies around the world are using automation to push the boundaries of ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that when it debuted in 1999, Salesforce triggered a “Big Bang” in the enterprise app universe. From its humble beginnings in Marc Benioff’s San Francisco apartment, it radically transformed how software is delivered and used. Salesforce quickly became a pioneer in cloud-based delivery that eliminated downloads and installs. Its Software-as-a-Service CRM was always on and available anytime, anywhere, and its configuration-based (instead of code based) development made it easily accessible to non-developers. Almost twenty years later, this Big Bang has kicked off a far-reaching evolution ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; It’s September, which means Dreamforce is right around the corner. One of tech’s biggest conferences, this year’s event expects over 200,000 attendees! Regardless of your profession, conferences are great opportunities to network with peers, learn from experts, and enjoy a change of scenery. It can be a real challenge, however, to get the most out of the conference experience while still keeping up with your normal work. As a team that attends an average of two events every month, we at Workato feel your pain. Here are four tried-and-true tips we use ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; In the past ten years, companies have been able to expand and scale at a pace never seen before, prompting the Harvard Business Review to coin the term “hypergrowth.” For most people, the phrase calls to mind trendy startups and technology companies. But the truth is that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is making hypergrowth a reality across all industries. As the World Economic Forum points out: “The 1990s and 2000s saw the rapid rise of internet giants, but as software and computing technology have supportively reinforced the progress in other domains, we ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Browse any tech news website, and you’ll see countless articles talking about the future of work. From automation and AI to IoT and chatbots, technology is changing the way we work. It’s making us more productive, more efficient, and even more accurate. It can be easy, however, to write off a lot of these developments as fads or trends that will eventually fade. In order to better appreciate how technology is transforming work, let’s take a look back at what a typical workday looked like 20 years ago, in 1998. 1. You ... Read More