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	<title>Perspectives on Salesforce.com &#187; Product Review</title>
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	<description>Authored by Scott Hemmeter of Arrowpointe Corp, this blog is written from the perspective of a Salesforce.com solution provider and contains information on Arrowpointe's AppExchange products as well as tips, findings, sample code, functionality wishes, etc.</description>
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		<title>Note Wizard (Salesforce + Evernote)</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2008/10/30/note-wizard-salesforce-evernote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AppExchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Evernote is a very cool and useful application for taking notes, saving web clippings and archiving images that represent notes (sometimes its faster to just take a picture).  One really great thing about it is that it does OCR on you content (event the text in your images!) and makes it all searchable.  I use [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.evernote.com" target="_blank">Evernote</a> is a very cool and useful application for taking notes, saving web clippings and archiving images that represent notes (sometimes its faster to just take a picture).  One really great thing about it is that it does OCR on you content (event the text in your images!) and makes it all searchable.  I use it all the time and love it.  It can be a bit of a novelty, but if you decide to really use it, you can get a lot of utility out of it.</p>
<p>What if you could save your Notes right into Salesforce?  You can (only as Documents for now)!  Coming soon is integration with standard and custom objects, which would let you do things like take a picture of a business card and import it into an Account/Contact combo.  Maybe take a picture of a whitboard of notes and save it as an Activity.</p>
<p>Steve Buikhuizen has created the <a href="http://notewizard.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Note Wizard</a> application.  It&#8217;s definitely worth looking into.  It&#8217;s an integration with Salesforce and Evernote all running on Amazon EC2 and S3!</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://notewizard.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Main page</a> for the project</li>
<li><a href="http://notewizard.wordpress.com/getting-started-a-5-minute-screencast/" target="_blank">Videos</a> that explain a lot</li>
<li><a href="http://www.salesforce.com/us/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000006biFQAAY" target="_blank">AppExchange</a> listing (a private listing for now. This is linked to on the <a href="http://notewizard.wordpress.com/about-note-wizard/" target="_blank">About page</a> of the main site.)</li>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Good work, Steve!</p>
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		<title>ActevaRSVP Review</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2008/10/30/actevarsvp-review/</link>
		<comments>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2008/10/30/actevarsvp-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AppExchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The demandblog has been posting some AppExchange application reviews recently.  They did a good one for ActevaRSVP, who has a pretty impressive product.  See their review at http://demandbase.typepad.com/demand/2008/10/dreamforce-prev.html.
Note: ActevaRSVP is a current advertiser on this blog.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://demandbase.typepad.com" target="_blank">demandblog</a> has been posting some AppExchange application reviews recently.  They did a good one for ActevaRSVP, who has a pretty impressive product.  See their review at <a href="http://demandbase.typepad.com/demand/2008/10/dreamforce-prev.html" target="_blank">http://demandbase.typepad.com/demand/2008/10/dreamforce-prev.html</a>.</p>
<p><em>Note: ActevaRSVP is a current advertiser on this blog.</em></p>
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		<title>Ribbit for Salesforce is Released</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2008/05/06/ribbit-for-salesforce-is-released/</link>
		<comments>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2008/05/06/ribbit-for-salesforce-is-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 18:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ribbit has officially released its &#8220;voiceware&#8221; application that integrates with Salesforce.com.

Main Product Page
Overview Video
AppExchange Listing

I have been using Ribbit with Salesforce for ~3 weeks now and have been pleased.  More important than anything for me was simply getting my voicemail digitally.  Ribbit handles this for me.  All I needed to do to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ribbit.com/" target="_blank">Ribbit</a> has officially released its &#8220;voiceware&#8221; application that <a href="http://www.ribbit.com/salesforce/index.php" target="_blank">integrates with Salesforce.com</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.ribbit.com/salesforce/index.php" target="_blank">Main Product Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ribbit.com/video/salesforce/salesforce_2.swf" target="_blank">Overview Video</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000003gEorAAE&amp;fromEdit=true" target="_blank">AppExchange Listing</a></li>
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<p>I have been using Ribbit with Salesforce for ~3 weeks now and have been pleased.  More important than anything for me was simply getting my voicemail digitally.  Ribbit handles this for me.  All I needed to do to activate it was call a special number on my cell, which sent AT&amp;T a command to forward my voicemail to Ribbit (the Ribbit documentation says how to undo this change if you ever need to).</p>
<p>When someone leaves a voicemail, I can get it in a couple of ways:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Email</span></p>
<p>I opted to have Ribbit notify me of my new voicemails via Email.  This way, I get an attachment with the file and can play it right on my Blackberry.  The voicemail is also archived in my Google Apps account for reference purposes should I ever need it (even if I am no longer using Ribbit, I can still have that voicemail.  It&#8217;s just a WAV file.).  The downside of moving voicemail to Ribbit is that I no longer have visual notification that I have voicemail on my Blackberry.  Getting it emailed to me eliminates the need for me to call in and check it.  SMS is another option, but I wouldn&#8217;t be getting the file attached that way.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Salesforce</span></p>
<p>When I log into Salesforce, I see a nice message window on my homepage.  All my voicemails are right there.  The audio file itself is stored on Ribbit servers, but a record of the call is in a Messages object in Salesforce.com.  This has call information as well as a text transcription.  From the home page, I am able to tag my messages for easy searching later and I can also associate them to a Salesforce record.  When I associate it to a Salesforce record, Ribbit creates an Activity with a link to the message file and a copy of the text transcription.</p>
<p>On the sidebar is a small message window and a dialpad.  One of the biggest benefits of Ribbit is that of a &#8220;cell phone backup&#8221;.  When a call comes to my cell and I send it to voicemail, the sidebar softphone rings.  I have a chance to answer the call right from the Salesforce UI and talk through my PC.  Alternatively, I can let it go through to voicemail.  I am able to make outbound calls too, which is nice in the event that I don&#8217;t have cell coverage or just want click to call convenience.</p>
<p><strong>Pros</strong></p>
<p>The benefits are all about productivity:</p>
<ul>
<li>Digitize your voicemail &#8211; You have the data and can do with it what you please.</li>
<li>Cell Phone Backup &#8211; Use the Ribbit softphone in Salesforce and put your cell phone away.</li>
<li>Link voicemails to your Leads/Contacts &#8211; you get a nice record of the call with a text transcription</li>
<li>Voice to text transcription is above average.  It is by no means stellar, but it&#8217;s good enough to use as a reference for what the call was about without having to listen to it.  Accents and slang tend to mess it up.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cons</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Cost &#8211; If you compare the cost to Salesforce licenses, it ain&#8217;t cheap.  $25/user/month.  If you compare the cost to your cell phone bill and think of the added benefit you get, it starts to make sense.  Individual purchasers will likely compare it to their cell phone bill and it&#8217;ll make sense for them.  Enterprise purchasers will likely compare it to the cost of Salesforce and that will be a harder sell.  If you want voice to text transcriptions (which are extremely useful), it&#8217;s even more money.Â  What&#8217;s harder to quantify is the productivity benefits you might get out of such an application.Â  Productivity improvements is an area of cost savings that should further justify the price.</li>
<li>Can Slow page loads a bit &#8211; Even with the flash objects cached in my browser, the experience of loading my home page is slower with Ribbit on there.  In my install, I decided to keep the Ribbit components on the homepage only and not have them follow me around Salesforce on the sidebar.Â  On Lead/Contact detail pages, you have a choice of the Flash component or a Messages related list.Â  l opted to put the Messages related list on my Lead &amp; Contact for performance reasons and also for consistency sake.</li>
<li>You give Ribbit your login credentials &#8211; In order to have your voicemails there when you login, Ribbit needs to do background processing.  This makes sense, but it requires you giving Ribbit a login to your system.  Many company&#8217;s can&#8217;t afford a new license just for Ribbit, so they&#8217;ll end of giving them the admin login.  I trust Ribbit with the login info, but it&#8217;s a risk to hand anyone login credentials.  Ribbit doesn&#8217;t have much choice, though, if they want to get the data populated and ready for users when they login.Â  I think this issue could be eliminated if Salesforce allowed for a special user to be created for this purpose that did not take a hit on the customer&#8217;s license count.  This is how Salesforce does it with their License Manager application.  This should be a benefit of being a partner with a certified application.</li>
</ul>
<p>Ribbit is definitely a nice product and their thinking is beyond just Salesforce.Â   It&#8217;s really a new platform for &#8220;voiceware&#8221; applications.  Salesforce was their first target for a specific application aimed at the Enterprise.  I would expect to see more.</p>
<p>You can get a free trial on their AppExchange listing.</p>
<p>Have you tried it?  What do you think?</p>
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		<title>Draggin&#8217; Role 1.0</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2007/02/12/draggin-role-10/</link>
		<comments>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2007/02/12/draggin-role-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/view_profile?user.id=16501">Michaelforce</a> is a Salesforce administrator who has decided to create &#038; share a new, <u>free</u> AppExchange application for administrators to use when managing roles.  He is releasing it through <a href="http://www.drivenable.com/">DrivEnable.com</a>.]]></description>
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<strong>Publisher:</strong>  DrivEnable<br />
<strong>Product:</strong>  Draggin&#8217; Role 1.0<br />
<a href="http://www.drivenable.com/index.htm">Company Homepage</a><br />
<a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000002gRJaAAM" target=_blank>AppExchange Page</a><br />
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<p><a href="http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/view_profile?user.id=16501">Michaelforce</a> is a Salesforce administrator who has decided to create &#038; share a new, <u>free</u> AppExchange application for administrators to use when managing roles.  He is releasing it through <a href="http://www.drivenable.com/">DrivEnable.com</a>.  Per the listing:</p>
<blockquote><p>Manage your role hierarchy with ease! Now you can drag and drop your way through any hierarchy modifications. Draggin&#8217; Role is a free application that allows you to view and manipulate users AND roles from a single Custom Tab.</p></blockquote>
<p>It is a handy utility to work with the role hierarchy, get the reporting relationships correct and associate users to it.</p>
<p><img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/Draggin_Role.jpg" alt="Draggin_Role.jpg" title="Draggin_Role.jpg" width="500" height="492" /></p>
<p>It uses the AJAX toolkit to do its work.  You can see all the code he used to write it in your s-Controls and it could serve as a good AJAX toolkit example for you.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s worth a look.  If nothing else, it should be a clear indicator that Salesforce needs to revamp the user experience in the Setup area.  Especially when working in more complex/tedious areas to administer such as the Role Hierarchy, Forecast Hierarchy, Territory Management, Profiles, etc.  It takes a lot of clicking to get anything done today.</p>
<p>An alternative to Draggin&#8217; Role is <a href="https://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?NavCode__c=&#038;id=a0330000000kj0iAAA">OrgView</a> by Dreamfactory.</p>
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		<title>Auto-Complete Lookups</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2007/01/31/auto-complete-lookups/</link>
		<comments>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2007/01/31/auto-complete-lookups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AppExchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Configuration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce Labs has another cool application out on AppExchange.  This is a great add-on for usability.  It is called <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000002fTguAAE"><strong>Auto-Complete Lookups</strong></a> and it affects Account, Contact and User lookups right now, but more are planned...]]></description>
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<strong>Publisher:</strong>  Salesforce Labs<br />
<strong>Product:</strong>  Auto-Complete Lookups<br />
<a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000002fTguAAE" target=_blank>AppExchange Page</a><br />
<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/4star.png" alt="4star.png" title="Really Like It" />
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<p>Salesforce Labs has another cool application out on AppExchange.  This is a great add-on for usability.  It is called <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000002fTguAAE"><strong>Auto-Complete Lookups</strong></a> and it affects Account, Contact and User lookups right now, but more are planned.</p>
<p>Once you install it, you need to visit it&#8217;s web tab to get started.  From that web tab you will be instructed on how to set it up.  In short, what you do is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Generate JavaScript on the Web Tab.  Copy it to your clip board</li>
<li>Paste the JavaScript into the Messages &#038; Alerts section of the homepage.  If you have other text in there for your users, just paste the code at the bottom.</li>
<li>On the Setup | Customize | User Interface screen, set the &#8220;Show Custom Sidebar Components on All Pages&#8221; to true.</li>
<li>Start using it</li>
<p>After you have completed your third letter, the lookup starts.  </p>
<p><img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/AutoComplete.jpg" alt="AutoComplete.jpg" title="AutoComplete.jpg" width="302" height="166" /></p>
<p>It uses the AJAX toolkit to perform the lookup.  In my org, the performance was pretty good.  I have no idea how it will perform with a large dataset.</p>
<p>This is a great add-on that is very easy to implement and could be of great value to end users.  I recommend it.  It will get 5 stars as soon as it supports all objects.</p>
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		<title>Form Assembly is available on AppExchange</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2007/01/25/form-assembly-is-available-on-appexchange/</link>
		<comments>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2007/01/25/form-assembly-is-available-on-appexchange/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Form Assembly, which I reviewed back in September, is now available on the AppExchange.  The service is largely the same as when I last reviewed it, but additional functionality is in the works.
The Form Assembly allows you to easily create web forms and collect responses. You build the web forms on their site. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.formassembly.com">Form Assembly</a>, which I <a href="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/09/11/the-form-assembly/">reviewed</a> back in September, is <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_reviews.jsp?NavCode__c=&#038;id=a0330000002fjEPAAY">now available on the AppExchange</a>.  The service is largely the same as when I last reviewed it, but additional functionality is in the works.</p>
<p>The Form Assembly allows you to easily create web forms and collect responses. You build the web forms on their site. To deploy, you have the choice of having your form hosted on formassembly.com or downloading the code needed to run the form on your own site.  They have an integration with Salesforce.com to auto-generate web-to-lead forms.</p>
<p>Check it out on <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_reviews.jsp?NavCode__c=&#038;id=a0330000002fjEPAAY">AppExchange</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Form Assembly</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/09/11/the-form-assembly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Product review of <strong>The Form Assembly</strong>, a service that allows you to easily create web forms and collect responses.]]></description>
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<strong>Company:</strong>  Veer West LLC (<a href="http://www.veerwest.com/" title="Visit their company website" target=_blank>website</a>)<br />
<strong>Product:</strong>  The Form Assembly<br />
<a href="http://formassembly.com/" title="Visit their product homepage" target=_blank>Product Homepage</a><br />
<a href="http://formassembly.com/blog/" title="Visit their blog" target=_blank>Blog</a><br />
<a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_reviews.jsp?NavCode__c=&#038;id=a0330000002fjEPAAY" target=_blank>AppExchange Page</a><br />
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<p><a href="http://formassembly.com/" target=_blank>The Form Assembly</a> allows you to easily create web forms and collect responses.  You build the web forms on their site.  To deploy, you have the choice of having your form hosted on formassembly.com or downloading the code needed to run the form on your own site.  The data is then collected in their service.  For Salesforce.com users, they provide a way to use the Form Assembly functionality while having the data sent through to Salesforce.com.  You can think of Form Assembly as a way to create solid web-to-lead pages and leverage some of their built in functionality like SSL encryption and pre-defined form rules (required fields, conditions, etc.).  You could also use it for general web development even if Salesforce is not involved.</p>
<h6>Functionality</h6>
<p>Setting up a form is simple.  You work within a drag &#038; drop interface to do so.  They allow you to add many types of fields (text, text area, picklists, radio buttons, password (masked) text, etc.).  They also have some pre-defined fields for things like all US states, or all countries.  The form builder allows for properties such as required fields, formatting checks (alphanumeric, email format, etc.)  This Form Builder is very useful for web developers whether or not you ever plan on putting the information into Salesforce.com.</p>
<div style="float:right; margin: 0 10px;">
<em><strong>Main Options:</strong></em><br />
<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/form_assembly_mainoptions.png" alt="form_assembly_mainoptions.png" title="form_assembly_mainoptions.png" width="231" height="483" />
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<p>After setting up your form, you have some <u>Main Options</u>.</p>
<ul>
<li>Decide whether to host your form on Form Assembly or to host it yourself.</li>
<li>An active, inactive and testing status allow you some flexibility in developing your form.</li>
<li>Choose to utilize SSL encryption.</li>
<li>Set effective dates for your form</li>
<li>Setup Thank You text to be displayed after the form has been submitted OR choose to redirect the user to your own custom page.</li>
<li>Enable email notification to notify the submitter, for example, that their information has been received.</li>
</ul>
<p>In the Connector Setup options, you can choose whether or not you want to bring the data to Salesforce too.  Going through this process will result in enabling the form as a web-to-lead form.  Check that box and click &#8220;edit settings&#8221; to setup this functionality.</p>
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<em><strong>Connecting to Salesforce:</strong></em><br />
<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/form_assembly_salesforcesetup1.png" alt="form_assembly_salesforcesetup1.png" title="form_assembly_salesforcesetup1.png" width="223" height="224" /></p>
<p><em><strong>Salesforce Field Mapping:</strong></em><br />
<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/form_assembly_salesforcesetup2.png" alt="form_assembly_salesforcesetup2.png" title="form_assembly_salesforcesetup2.png" width="220" height="278" />
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<p>The next step is <u>Connecting to Salesforce</u>.  You can choose to provide a username and password for API access or you can do a web-to-lead form.  I opted for the web-to-lead form.  To get this setup, you need to go into your Org and generate the web-to-lead HTML.  When I did it, I kept all fields selected.  Then you copy that and paste it into the form assembly box (see the left hand graphic).  The Form Assembly will read that information and automatically point the form to your Org and will gather all of the field information.  </p>
<p>The last step is the <u>Salesforce Field Mapping</u>.  This allows you to map the fields from the form you created in the Form Assembly to your Org&#8217;s Salesforce.com fields.  I was even able to create hidden fields in my Form Assembly form and map them to Salesforce fields (e.g. to default a lead source value for all submissions).</p>
<p>For more details on setting up a Salesforce connected form, see their <a href="http://formassembly.com/blog/how-to-create-a-salesforce-web-to-lead-form/" target=_blank>blog post on the subject</a>.</p>
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<h6>Pricing</h6>
<p>The Salesforce connector is only available in the Professional Plan, which runs $34/month.  You can read about all their pricing on their <a href="http://formassembly.com/plans.php" target=_blank>Plan Comparison page</a>.  For non-Salesforce web development, there are plans ranging from free (ad supported, no SSL, no branding) to $9/month (the Subscription Plan with no ads, supports SSL, brand the forms).  The only difference between the Subscription Plan ($9/month) and the Professional Plan ($34/month) are:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Salesforce connector</li>
<li>A generic connector, similar to the Salesforce one, that can post data back to any third-party script. <em>(coming soon)</em></li>
<li>An email validation service that can send a confirmation request to any email address submitted with a form.  <em>(coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>
<h6>Opinion</h6>
<p>I have enjoyed using the Form Assembly.  I was given a trial Professional Plan account and have been very happy with the functionality.  I could see this being very useful for the organization that uses a lot of different web to lead forms and needs to manage their development and also leverage functionality such as validation and formatting.  However, these same organizations are typically pretty adept at creating web to lead forms where they may not need such as service.  Catch 22.</p>
<p>The only issue I had with the service was that I had to re-map my data to Salesforce fields after making somewhat minor changes to the form.  If I changed a field label or moved a field from a form section to outside a section, I needed to re-map it.  Not a big deal, but could be if you were editing a live form and making on-the-fly edits.  It could cause you to not capture information until you notice the mistake.</p>
<p>All in all, I was pretty impressed with the service and it&#8217;s ability to tie into Salesforce.</p>
<h6>My Form</h6>
<p>I will be attending Dreamforce this year.  If you will be too, submit your contact information to me using the Form Assembly form I created for this review.  I will be sure to email you my contact information before the event and we can hopefully meet each other there.</p>
<p><a href="https://secure.formassembly.com/forms/24948" target=_blank>https://secure.formassembly.com/forms/24948</a></p>
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		<title>WebDialogs Unyte Events</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/08/22/webdialogs-unyte-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Product review of WebDialogs Unyte Events</strong>.  WebDialogs Unyte Events allows you to "share documents, presentations, applications and your desktop in real time with anyone, anywhere, anytime".  Think WebEx or GoToMeeting.  Unyte is meant for smaller groups (up to 25 people).  It has gained a strong reputation through its successful integration with Skype...]]></description>
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<strong>Company:</strong>  WebDialogs, Inc. (<a href="http://www.webdialogs.com/" title="Visit their company website" target=_blank>website</a>)<br />
<strong>Product:</strong>  Unyte (<a href="http://www.unyte.net/" title="Visit their product homepage" target=_blank>website</a>)<br />
<a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000002OBoMAAW" title="Visit them on the AppExchange" target=_blank>AppExchange page</a><br />
<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/4star.png" alt="4star.png" title="Really Like It" />
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<p><a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000002OBoMAAW" target=_blank>WebDialogs Unyte Events</a> allows you to &#8220;share documents, presentations, applications and your desktop in real time with anyone, anywhere, anytime&#8221;.  Think WebEx or GoToMeeting.  Unyte is meant for smaller groups (1 to 25 people).  It has gained a strong reputation through its successful integration with Skype.  In fact, there is <a href="http://share.skype.com/directory/webdialogs_unyte/view/" target=_blank>a link to Unyte</a> from the <a href="http://www.skype.com" target=_blank>Skype homepage</a>, which gives it some credibility in my mind.</p>
<p>Unyte is a <u>free application for one on one sharing</u>.  Sharing with multiple people costs a monthly fee.  More on pricing below.</p>
<p>The application was just released on the AppExchange today.  I received a demo of it a few days ago and it is pretty slick.  Since receiving the demo (a few days ago) and installing it (today), they have made some improvements to it, which tells me they are serious about getting it right.</p>
<h6>Functionality</h6>
<p>After installing the AppExchange package, 2 new tabs were available to me.  On install, both were put into the <strong>Unyte Events</strong> application.</p>
<p>The <strong>Unyte Events Installation</strong> tab is only needed temporarily to get setup.  Once setup, you can remove it from view.  This tab is where you enter your Unyte username and password.  If you have been using Unyte with Skype already, then use your existing username.  If not, then you can sign up for a new username.  If you are not a user already, but plan to use the program with Skype too, I suggest that you sign up separately using your Skype username and then enter that information into the tab.</p>
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<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/unyte_setup_links.jpg" alt="unyte_setup_links.jpg" title="unyte_setup_links.jpg" width="301" height="152" />
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<p>One feature in the install tab was a button to install the custom links that were required in your org.  I ran it and it worked great.  This feature automatically:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added a Skype Username field to the Leads and Contacts</li>
<li>Added the Skype Username to the Lead and Contact Page Layouts</li>
<li>Added formula fields (rendering hyperlinks) on the Leads and Contacts pages</li>
</ul>
<p>The <strong>Unyte Events</strong> tab is where you can schedule events or start an on-demand event.  In the image below, I scheduled an event for tomorrow.<br />
<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/unyte_schedule_event.png" alt="unyte_schedule_event.png" title="unyte_schedule_event.png" width="500" height="123" /></p>
<p>From here, clicking the <u>[edit / invite]</u> link takes me to a Salesforce.com event record where I can invite people to it using native Salesforce.com calendar functionality.</p>
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<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/unyte_custom_links.png" alt="unyte_custom_links.png" title="unyte_custom_links.png" width="402" height="80" />
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<p>An alternative means for interacting with Unyte is to use the links on the Contacts and Leads.  These allow you to initiate Unyte sessions with that person.  They also provide Skype links to initiate a Skype call, SkypeOut call or Skype chat.</p>
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<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/unyte_host_app_screenshot.png" alt="unyte_host_app_screenshot.png" title="unyte_host_app_screenshot.png" width="215" height="303" />
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<p>As a meeting holder, you run a small app on your desktop to control the sessions.  This is where you can identify the applications to share and communicate with people on how to access your session.  It also provides annotation and remote access control.  Looking at my task manager, it took up 21mb of RAM while running.</p>
<p>As a participant, you can view everything through your browser.</p>
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<h6>Pricing</h6>
<p>Per the AppExchange page, Unyte is:</p>
<blockquote><p>Free for one-on-one sessions, $100/yr or $35/qtr for 5 participants, $300/yr or $100/qtr for 15 participants, $450/yr or $150/qtr for 25 participants</p></blockquote>
<h6>Opinion</h6>
<p>I have enjoyed using Unyte.  I will definitely keep it installed in my org and use it when I can.  I will certainly use it for one on one sessions where I need to share my desktop.  It has more limited functionality than GoToMeeting or WebEx (e.g. you cannot see a participant list).  I will probably choose GoToMeeting or WebEx for my more important sessions.  However, for quick one-on-one or informal sessions of a few people, Unyte is a good option.</p>
<p>Unyte could also be a good option for Salesforce admins to use when supporting their users.  Couple it with the <a href="http://www.salesforcewatch.com/2006/08/salesforcecom_m.html" target=_blank>Meebo integration</a> to allow for real-time responding to support questions and demonstrating functionality without leaving your desk.</p>
<p>It does have a few quirks that I am sure they will work out soon.  Last I spoke with them, they were planning on releasing a version 2.0 shortly.  At this time, there is only a version 1.1x beta version.  The biggest quirk I experienced was that it would abruptly end a session when I was selecting the specific applications to share.  It seemed to like it best if I decided to share all of my apps.  However, I prefer to selectively share.  Not the end of the world, but makes me hesitant to use it for my more important sessions.  I&#8217;ll wait for it to stabilize first.</p>
<p>All in all, I like Unyte and think it&#8217;s worth trying out.  If you are not into it from a Salesforce.com perspective, I still suggest using it personally alongside Skype.</p>
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		<title>MakeTime for Salesforce.com</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/07/17/maketime-for-salesforcecom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Product review of MakeTime for Salesforce.com]]></description>
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<strong>Company:</strong>  Aagave LLC (<a href="http://www.aagave.com/" title="Visit their company website" target=_blank>website</a>)<br />
<strong>Product:</strong>  MakeTime for Salesforce.com<br />
<a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000001nrCvAAI" title="Visit them on the AppExchange" target=_blank>App Exchange Page</a><br />
<a href="https://salesforce.maketime.com/" title="Take it for a test drive" target=_blank>Demo</a><br />
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<p>I had a chance to review a nice little utility called <a href="http://www.aagave.com/" target=_blank>MakeTime for Salesforce.com by Aagave, LLC</a>.  It provides a very fast user interface for searching and interacting with your Salesforce.com data.  The tool indexes your Salesforce.com database to provide fast searching through an interactive, Java-based UI.  Per the website:</p>
<blockquote><p>You are spending more and more time using Salesforce every day. With ever increasing amount of data at your fingertips, it becomes increasingly harder to find what you are looking for. It feels like you spend more time looking for information, than using it.</p>
<p>MakeTime solves this problem. maketime is a unique, as you type search tool, designed specifically for your Salesforce and Appexchange applications.</p></blockquote>
<p>You login to MakeTime <a href="http://salesforce.maketime.com" target=_blank>here</a> or, if you install it from the AppExchange, you can have it be a custom app/tab in your Org so that authentication occurs through the Salesforce session.  When you go in, the MakeTime window will be on the left-hand side of the screen and Salesforce on the right.  It will strip out the Salesforce header, footer and sidebar in order to maximize screen real estate on that right-hand side of the screen.</p>
<p>The MakeTime screen allows you to work with All records in the system or to focus on Accounts, Contacts, Leads Opportunities or Cases.  In the future, they plan to let you identify the objects you&#8217;d like listed on the top or the MakeTime window.</p>
<p><img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/maketime1.png" alt="maketime1.png" title="maketime1.png" width="500" height="221" /></p>
<p>In the image above, I am looking at Accounts.  The first record is active, so that record from Salesforce is appearing on the Salesforce side of the page.  Through the setup, I am able to select 5 columns to be listed on the MakeTime window for each object.  To search, you can either use the 5 columns you have included or use a keyword search.  The keyword search queries across all fields on that object.</p>
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<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/maketime2.png" alt="maketime2.png" title="maketime2.png" width="300" height="205" />
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<p>In the example to the right, I changed the columns my session is using and I am looking for customers with over 1000 employees.  I typed in my parameters and the results were returned to me almost immediately (as I typed, the results came up).  If I highlight a row, that records is displayed on the right-hand side of the screen.</p>
<p>MakeTime supports the most popular browsers: IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera.</p>
<p>MakeTime uses a search library called <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/" target=_blank>Lucene</a>, which is an open source product from the <a href="http://www.apache.org/" target=_blank>Apache Software Foundation</a>.  When your company signs up, you need to provide an administrator&#8217;s username and password.  This is what allows MakeTime to index your data for faster searching.  Per the folks at MakeTime, all data is encrypted and the ability to read the Lucene indexes and make any sense of the data would be very difficult.  However, your data is still being accessed regularly by a third-party.</p>
<h6>Pricing</h6>
<p>Pricing for MakeTime is $5/user/month.  You have the ability to designate specific end users for sign-up rather than signing up your entire organization.  </p>
<p>End users cannot sign-up directly at this time.  Because MakeTime needs an administrative password, MakeTime needs to be purchased by those with access to the Salesforce.com administrative side.</p>
<p>MakeTime is not publicly listed on the AppExchange while they work through their data retention policies with Salesforce.com.  You have to access their listing <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000001nrCvAAI" target=_blank>directly</a>.</p>
<h6>Opinion</h6>
<p>MakeTime could work nicely for departments that are constantly in the Salesforce application and need the ability to get to &#8220;views&#8221; of data quickly where the criteria is changing regularly.  A Salesforce.com view can be used for the same purpose, but is slower to create and slower to work with than MakeTime.  I can envision MakeTime being used by groups that are responding to leads all day or by support teams that need quick access to the cases they are dealing with.</p>
<p>The user interface is pretty good.  I did have some trouble getting my columns setup, sequenced and sized the way I wanted them.  However, I was able to do it in a minute or two.  The search is not perfect.  In the example above, I was originally searching on &#8220;Customer &#8211; Direct&#8221; for the type value, but it interpeted it as Type = &#8220;Customer&#8221; and Type <> &#8220;Direct&#8221; because the minus side was there.  These are things that should continue to improve over time.</p>
<p>My biggest suggestions for Aagave as they develop this tool are to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Work with Salesforce to get publicly listed on the AppExchange.  I am sure that their data policies are safe and secure, but getting this listing from Salesforce makes customers that much more confident.</li>
<li>Allow any end-user to sign up without the need for administrators to provide a username and password.  This will open up a market for them to sell directly to the end user that is looking for a product like this to help them out and doesn&#8217;t need to work through administrators to do so.</li>
<li>Allow for more other objects than Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities and Cases to be listed on the top of the MakeTime window for searching.</li>
</ul>
<p>It&#8217;s worth checking out the <a href="https://salesforce.maketime.com/" target=_blank>demo</a> if you are interested.  There is a button on that page to use a demo username and password.  I don&#8217;t envision every end user having a need for this application.  However, teams that &#8220;live in Salesforce.com&#8221; all day could benefit from MakeTime&#8217;s interactivity and, hopefully, save them time, which is the whole purpose of the application.</p>
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		<title>BIG Picture for AppExchange</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/07/12/big-picture-for-appexchange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Product review for BIG Picture for AppExchange]]></description>
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<strong>Company:</strong>  D2Aligned (<a href="http://www.d2aligned.com/" title="Visit their company website" target=_blank>website</a>)<br />
<strong>Product:</strong>  BIG Picture for AppExchange<br />
<a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000000bTjjAAE" title="Visit them on the AppExchange" target=_blank>App Exchange Page</a><br />
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<p>BIG Picture from D2Aligned is a tool that provides you with a single view as to how your business is performing against a set of stated goals.  Per the AppExchange listing:</p>
<blockquote><p>BIG Picture shows how all your mission-critical activities are performing simultaneously toward your strategic goal. This unifying view gives you greater decision-making insight than through salesforce.com dashboards.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s a different take on a dashboard concept.  Salesforce dashboards are not particularly good at measuring data against goals.  Enter BIG Picture.  </p>
<h6>Functionality</h6>
<p>The idea is that you first create a BIG Picture record.  Within a BIG Picture are success factors.  Each success factor is tied to a specific Salesforce.com report (can also link to a manually entered data source or another BIG Picture).  Then you identify what piece of information from the report do you wish to compare to your goal (count, sum, average, minimum, or maximum of a specific field) and then you document the goal itself.  You can also do some tweaking of how important each success factor is compared to another by giving each factor a weight.  This weight then affects the overall calculation.  You continue this process by creating as many factors as you need.</p>
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<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/big_picture1.png" alt="big_picture1.png" title="big_picture1.png" width="300" height="233" />
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<p>When you click the Calculate/Display button, the BIG Picture success factors are calculated and compared against your goals in an alignment view.  This provides a quick view as to how you are doing against your goals and shows your overall alignment for that BIG picture.</p>
<p>You can create as many BIG Pictures as you wish and make them public or private.  Public are available to all and Private are only available to the owner.  There is no functionality to assign BIG pictures to specific groups at this time.  1 big picture can be identified as the &#8220;Shared BIG Picture&#8221;.  This Shared BIG Picture is available for viewing by all Salesforce users.  Click on the success factor in the BIG picture takes you to the Salesforce report.</p>
<p>To see more about the functionality in this product, view their <a href="http://appexchange.breezecentral.com/app0459/" target=_blank>demo</a>.</p>
<h6>Pricing</h6>
<p>BIG Picture is $10/user/month for people that are manipulating BIG Pictures.  The Shared Big Picture is available to all Salesforce.com users without them needing a license.</p>
<h6>Opinion</h6>
<p>BIG Picture is not a product that makes you say &#8220;wow!&#8221; upon seeing it.  After playing with the functionality for a while, you get to learn how to be creative with it and you will probably start to like it.</p>
<p>BIG picture&#8217;s focus on providing a comparison against goals is the key takeaway here.  It does this better than Dashboards and it can provide a concise picture of the &#8220;big picture&#8221;.  If your organization is looking for solutions to help provide this level of analytics, BIG Picture is worth a look.  A nice thing about it is that you don&#8217;t need to license every user in your Org for it.  You could license just a few users who are responsible for building the reports and BIG Pictures.  They could use the tool to perform the reporting and then pass the information along to executive management.</p>
<p>All in all, it&#8217;s worth a look if your company is in need of a tool to compare actuals to goals and view it all in a single &#8220;big picture&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>DemandTools by CRM Fusion</title>
		<link>http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/07/07/demandtools-by-crm-fusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Hemmeter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Product review of DemandTools by CRM Fusion]]></description>
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<strong>Company:</strong>  CRMFusion (<a href="http://www.crmfusion.com/" title="Visit their company website" target=_blank>website</a>)&nbsp;(<a href="http://crmfusion.blogspot.com/" title="Visit their blog" target=_blank>blog</a>)<br />
<strong>Product:</strong>  DemandTools for AppExchange<br />
<a href="http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000000nsP4AAI" title="Visit them on the AppExchange" target=_blank>App Exchange Page</a><br />
<img src="http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/5star.png" alt="5star.png" title="Love It" />
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<p>Steve <a href="http://gokubi.com/archives/ensuring-crm-data-quality-with-demandtools" target=_blank><strong>wrote a good review</strong></a> of DemandTools<sup><a href="#fn1152643409471n" id="fn1152643409471" class="footnote">1</a></sup> on his blog the other day, so I won&#8217;t go into detail about the product here.  However, I did want to echo some of his opinions.</p>
<p>I just received a demo of the upgraded de-duper (available in the beta version 1.7) and I am quite impressed.  It has all of the things I would expect from a de-duplication engine and more.  They have really done their homework to build functionality that accounts for the &#8220;gotchas&#8221; that can occur when cleansing data and have incorporated a lot of functionality based upon customer feedback.  The 1.7 beta version of DemandTools still has all of the old functionality like &#8220;MassEffect&#8221; (a higher powered sforce Data Loader), &#8220;MassChange&#8221; (make mass data changes within Salesforce without any import/export of data), &#8220;ZipFix&#8221; (standardize your city, state, zip data) and a bunch more useful utilities.  Many of these modules have been improved in the latest version too.</p>
<p>I recommend DemandTools to any organization managing large amounts of Salesforce.com data or managing data that is in constant motion (e.g. 1000s of web leads per day, a high volume of opportunities created/closing each week, etc.).  Many of the larger Salesforce.com deployments are DemandTools customers today.</p>
<p>Like <a href="http://gokubi.com/archives/ensuring-crm-data-quality-with-demandtools" target=_blank>Steve mentioned</a>, DemandTools is free to any nonprofit who has <=10 Salesforce.com licenses.  For profit companies have 2 payment options:</p>
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<li>$5000/year for the first administrator; $2500/year for each additional admin</li>
<li>$50/year per Salesforce license plus a $500 setup fee for the first year</li>
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<li id="fn1152643409471n">CRM Fusion is an advertiser on this blog.  This relationship has not biased this review.  This review is based merely on the merits of the product being reviewed. [<a href="#fn1152643409471">back</a>]</li>
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