Salesforce NFT Cloud, Flow Migration & Event Season is here!

Salesforce Events season kicked off in early March. We’re now right in the thick of it, with Czech Dreamin’ last week, Connections currently taking place over in Chicago (where they announced the NFT Cloud!), and two back-to-back events in my hometown, London’s Calling and World Tour London.?

Although people in the USA have been blessed with events over the last couple of months, I’m personally looking forward to attending some of the first large-scale events since the pandemic began. After all, isn’t connecting with the ecosystem a large part of why we love Salesforce so much??

Apart from opportunities to connect with our peers, events bring another exciting element… Big announcements from Salesforce!?

Back in April we had TrailblazerDX (which feels like a lifetime ago?!) – you might remember a few of these announcements, including Flow being integrated with Slack, Mulesoft, Tableau, and RPA, as well as Salesforce DevOps Center and a new development platform for Slack.?

Well, you can expect a lot more of this…

The NFT Cloud

Connections, which is currently happening in Chicago, is Salesforce’s dedicated marketing, commerce, and digital conference. This is a two-day event hosted in a similar way to Dreamforce or TrailblazerDX.

Lucy Mazalon, founder of our sister site, The Drip, is over at Connections reporting on some of the latest and greatest developments with Marketing Cloud and Commerce. Check out the latest news here.?

Most notably, Salesforce have officially announced the NFT Cloud.

Some of you might remember the rumors circulating back in February when reports were leaked about this new platform. The rumors generated a huge amount of interest, both from people praising Salesforce for joining the new digital artwork revolution, and individuals criticizing the company. After the announcement, over 400 Salesforce employees signed an open letter of protest, citing that NFTs were both bad for the environment and unregulated, highly speculative financial assets.

Read more in our original post: Salesforce NFT Cloud – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

It’s important to note that Salesforce took this feedback onboard and baked in a number of features to combat the potential side effects of sustainability and trust – you can read more about this in our announcement post.

Migration to Flow Update

Amongst all the new and exciting announcements, it’s easy to forget that Salesforce professionals everywhere have a big project coming up: Migrating to Flow.

To help with this migration, Salesforce recently published a retirement timeline to show when Workflow Rules & Process Builders will be turned off. It’s important to note that neither of these legacy automation tools will cease to work, however, you will not be able to create new ones.

Alongside this useful new graphic, Christine Marshall published a summary of the upcoming retirement, as well as some tips and links to help you skill up on what needs to be done. Read the full post here.

Just to poke some fun, we thought we’d try to capture how a lot of Salesforce professionals are feeling right now…

SFB Job Board

You may have heard that we launched our very own job board on the Salesforce Ben platform.?

Our goal is to help Salesforce professionals and employers find each other more easily. We’re thrilled to have over 200+ founding partners join us – close to 300 jobs have been posted, with over 50,000 users visiting the site over the past three weeks.

Check out the site today and find your dream job!

Dreamforce

Finally, I would just like to express my excitement for Dreamforce this year (if I can swing a ticket!). Based on previous years, Dreamforce is usually open for registration around three months beforehand – that’s roughly the middle of June.?

This year's Dreamforce will be more reminiscent of the type of events we saw in 2019. Whilst we are not expecting a full-blown conference with 180,000+ attendees, this will be a lot bigger than the scaled down version we saw last year. So block out September 20-22 in your calendar and make sure you read our summary of Dreamforce 2022 to get all the information you need!

Until next week,

SFB