Cockney Slang from Conga's Ross Evans
Ross Evans, Business Analyst at Conga's EMEA office in the United Kingdom and I decipher some common Cockney rhyming phrases. What is Cockney rhyming? Common in the East End of London, Cockney slang...
View ArticleWord War III with Jarrod Hunt, Shelley Hoolihan and Ross Evans
Shelley Hoolihan, Senior Product Specialist at Conga here in Broomfield, Colorado, Jarrod Hunt, Manager of APAC Operations at the Sydney, Australia office and Ross Evans, Business Analyst at our EMEA...
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Picture Switches: Text Before/Text After
Have you ever merged a document, opened it and thought, “Man! This record didn’t return any value for my Amount field, yet I still have the lonely little field label hanging out on the page. I...
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Wrap Your Head Around Activity Logging in Composer 8
Change is good! And when it comes to Conga’s parameters for activity logging, field updates and attachments, Conga Composer Release 8 is a good change. I’m going to walk you through the differences...
View ArticleWhat’s the Difference Between Document Generation and CPQ Solutions?
On Wednesday we spent the day at the Salesforce1 World Tour in New York City talking to customer, partners and prospects. I love the insights we gain at these events. After attending a few of the...
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Salesforce Denver User Group Q4 2014
Yesterday we were happy to welcome the Denver User Group back to the Conga ranch. As always we had a strong lineup of agenda topics, lively discussion and good food (thanks Sundog!). For those of you...
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Counting Rows in a Conga Composer Dataset
When designing solutions with Conga Composer, it’s often useful to know how many rows of data are included in a Salesforce report or SOQL query that’s being merged into your output file. This can...
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How Conga Uses the Conga Suite: Subscription Renewals
How do you handle a huge number of annual subscription renewals in Salesforce? Without spending hours creating each renewal by hand? At Conga, we found the answer to this question was simple – use...
View Article4 Tips for More Effective Account Plans
Account plans are a powerful way to keep everyone on the same page on what’s happening with key accounts. At Conga we’ve seen all variations on account plans from simple Word-based reports for...
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Meet the Team - Bradley Haines
It’s hard to believe it’s rapidly approaching the one year mark since Bradley Haines joined the Conga team. If you’ve had the pleasure of interacting with Bradley on the phone or over email, you...
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Introducing Conga Composer for Salesforce1
The release of Salesforce1 has opened up a broad new set of possibilities for users to access and act on critical business data from virtually anywhere. Here at Conga, we realized that Salesforce1...
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Creating Clickable Email Links in a Conga Document
It’s easy enough to throw in some underlining and blue font color to give the appearance of a clickable email link in a document, but what about turning the text into a functional email link? One of...
View ArticleHow to Create a Quoting Solution Your Sales Team Will Love – 4 Must Haves
Quote solutions are definitely one of our most popular ways customers use Conga Composer. Quotes are also a huge time suck for many sales teams, but they don’t have to be. After my last post detailing...
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Meet the Team - Michelle Clift
Get to know one of our awesome Business Analysts, Michelle! When she’s not busy assisting customers and prospective customers or leading a Conga University (Conga U) class session, Michelle loves...
View Article5 Customizations Every New Conga Admin Should Know
Greetings from a new Conganeer! Since joining the Conga team I have gained an incredible amount of knowledge about this innovative tool, and have had fun along the way. On my first day of Conga...
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How to Populate Salesforce Fields from Conga Composer Documents
Conga Composer is a perfect app for merging data and content from Salesforce into customized documents, presentations and reports. That said, I often describe Composer as a “one-way street” in the...
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Meet the Team - Jarrod Hunt
Meet Jarrod! If you're attending Salesforce Essentials Hong Kong on March 26th you'll have the opportunity to meet Jarrod in person. Jarrod is quite the world traveler and couldn't be happier about...
View ArticleEmail Tips & Tricks: Dynamic Signatures
Ever find yourself sending the same email over and over – pasting the message from a previous email into another? Maybe it’s a standard response to pricing inquiries or a “thanks for becoming a...
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Liven Up PowerPoint Documents With Charts
Looking to add more visual appeal to your PowerPoint document? Consider adding charts. Charts in a Conga PowerPoint document are populated with the data results of a Conga query. The custom object,...
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My First Time on the Salesforce World Tour Circuit - Boston
Salesforce truly knows how to throw an event. Attending as a new Conganeer and novice to Salesforce, the Boston World Tour surpassed my expectations. From the beautiful venue, sessions, delicious...
View Article5 Things We Learned in Boston to Make Your Chicago Salesforce World Tour Even...
1. The Circles of Success may be the Hottest Ticket in Town There is very limited seating at each table, so show up early. Plan on heading to that area of the expo 20-30 minutes beforehand to secure...
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What's the Game Plan for Your Invoice Solution?
Ready to build out an invoice solution with Conga Composer? We've created a playbook to help you achieve a winning solution! In this post, we'll take a look at the More Data play, an important step in...
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The Magic of the TOC Field
What better way to organize your document than with a table of contents (TOC)? Thinking back to the piles of written papers you were assigned to throughout school, you most likely had to include a...
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Meet the Team - Gary Stom
Meet Gary Stom! Even though he bleeds black and gold, Gary is an integral part of the Conga team. As a former Conga Admin, Gary brought a wealth of knowledge when he joined Conga in 2014 as a Business...
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The New CongaSphere
Today's post is from Homer Christensen, our Content Architect and contender for most interesting man in the world. Homer is an award-winning technical communicator and instructional designer with more...
View ArticleA Sales and Contract Process that Makes Sales, Management and Legal Happy?...
So you've got Salesforce and the dream of selling smarter and faster. You know that this CRM tool can make your sales processes more efficient and improve the productivity of your sales teams, but...
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5 Parameters to Pump Up Your Proposal Solution
Looking to take your proposal solution to the next level? Why not combine multiple templates into a single output? Or throw in further automation with background mode? Check out this post for...
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Easily Manage Images for Use with Conga Composer
Today's post is from Garry Polmateer, Managing Partner at Red Argyle, a Conga Alliance and Salesforce Consulting and ISV Partner. Garry is a Salesforce Community MVP. You can often find him on...
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2 Ways to Use Conga Composer to Post to Chatter
Chatter is a great Salesforce feature that provides a forum for anyone to share insights and propose new ideas. Teams can connect using Chatter to drive productivity and accelerate innovation, and...
View ArticleWhat’s on the Market for Conga and Real Estate
We love learning about new industries, and how they harness Salesforce and Conga to manage their business. Real estate is an industry that depends on the ability to stay connected with clients, track...
View ArticleDynamically Customizing Hyperlinks in Email Templates – How Conga Does It
If you’ve been in touch with one of our Business Analyst recently, you may have noticed that their email signature has a link to schedule a support meeting using Calendly. It’s been a pretty popular...
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6 Reasons Why Our Business Analysts Are Passionate About Customer Success
Many of you have probably noticed that our Business Analysts have a passion for service and support. This is far from a coincidence. Conga actively recruits for people who are customer service...
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Back to School: Get Ready for the All New Conga University!
In this post, Ryan Burke, Senior Learning and Development Specialist, highlights what's new with Conga University. Ryan has been with Conga since 2013. His primary focus during this time has been...
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Sneak Peek at Conga Solution Manager: A Whole New Way to “Do the Conga”
Get ready to revolutionize building a Conga Composer solution. Jereriah (better known as "J") Manning is the mastermind behind the all new Conga Solution Manager. In his current role as an...
View ArticleNow Available! Faster, Easier Creation of Conga Composer Solutions
We're excited to introduce Conga Solution Manager, an intuitive user interface that provides a dramatically easier experience for creating and managing Composer solutions. Now available on the...
View Article22 Dreamforce Hacks
Dreamforce is just one month away, and whether this is your first or tenth time attending it is an experience you won’t soon forget. We sat down with Conganeers and Salesforce MVPs Peter Terhune...
View ArticleAussie & British Slang - Dreamforce '15
The international Conganeers are back for Dreamforce '15! Jarrod Hunt, Manager of APAC Operations from our Sydney office, and Ben McCarthy, Business Analyst from our London office, quiz our American...
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Guest Post: 3 Things Every Admin Should QA before Deploying a Conga Composer...
Ian, (a.k.a Golden) Sneddon, started as an intern here a little over a year ago. After spending the summer learning more about Conga and Salesforce, he joined on the QA Team, where he gets to examine...
View ArticleBack to the Basics - Activity Logging
Happy Fall, Mergers! It’s been a long and fun summer, but with school starting up again, (hopefully including some of our awesome Conga U courses), we thought it would be a good time to go over some...
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Meet the Team - Teresa Coltrin
Meet Teresa Coltrin! When she's not working on her superhero powers, Teresa loves traveling or staying active in the great outdoors. Having worked at Conga for over four years, she's quite the...
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Why You Should Attend the APAC Salesforce Advantage Tour
Attention APAC! Have you already registered for the Salesforce Advantage Tour? Need some convincing? Our Manager of APAC Operations, Jarrod Hunt (@MrJarrodHunt), highlights just what the Tour has to...
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Introducing Box Integration and Attachment Selection Enhancements
CongaSphereWe’re pleased to announce some pretty cool new features in Conga Composer. First up is a new integration with Box that enables users to save and share documents created with Conga Composer...
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Meet Conga's Partner Team
Meet the Partner Team! What do they do? What's their favorite part about working at Conga? How do they enjoy spending their time outside of Conga? Read on and find out! What Does the Partner Team at...
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Start Your Conga Composer Solution Out Right - Requirements Gathering
When setting up any solution with Conga Composer, it’s important to first identify what information you want to include in your document. Spending some time at the start of your Composer project...
View ArticleMeet Conga's CEO - Matt Schiltz!
Matthew Schiltz recently joined Conga as the new CEO. With over 20 years of CEO experience in the SaaS, cloud and software technology sectors, Matt is no stranger to leading high growth...
View ArticleMeet Conga's Strategic Team
WHAT DOES THE ENTERPRISE TEAM AT CONGA DO?The Enterprise Team at Conga is dedicated to the on-going and continued success of our Enterprise customers. Our focus is to build long term strategic...
View ArticleCheers to 10 years, AppExchange!
Today marks the 10th Anniversary of the AppExchange, and we want to celebrate their awesomeness! Without the AppExchange, our founders, Mark Whiteside and Michael Markham, could not take the...
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What's the Game Plan for Your Invoice Solution? (REQ GATHERING)
Ready to build out an invoice solution with Conga Composer? We've created a playbook to help you achieve a winning solution! In this post, we'll take a look at the Requirements Gathering play, an...
View ArticleConga Increases Customer Collaboration with New Google APIs
This week, Google announced new Sheets and Slides APIs that will change the way developers and users interact with templates and documents within the Conga platform. Conga Composer makes it easy to...
View ArticleConga at TractionForce to Celebrate Contest Winner
On Thursday, June 9, Conga will be a Gold Sponsor at Traction on Demand’s TractionForce conference in Vancouver. We will be celebrating Traction on Demand winning our March SI Partner Contest. They...
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