Become a Salesforce Business Analyst • Interview with Vanessa Grant
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
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In this video, I had the pleasure of speaking with Vanessa Grant to get her expert advice on how to specialize by system in addition to specializing by domain, especially in the modules of the Salesforce platform.
Some of the subjects we covered include:
• What is Salesforce meant to do?
• Salesforce can do more than CRM? Can you help us understand that a little better from an enterprise manager's perspective?
• Sales Cloud is the starting module place for most enterprises when it comes to implementation. They then usually move into Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, Health Cloud, Education Cloud and other modules as required.
• Where do Salesforce business analysts spend the majority of their time: Business case, project execution, or application support?
• What are some of the benefits/challenges of cloud-based systems like Salesforce?
• The role of the Salesforce BA can be different depending on larger teams than smaller teams.
• Getting into doing business case-related BA work requires some implementation experience.
• I advise 95% of business analysts to specialize in some domain or system. What does the job market look like for analysts looking to specialize in Salesforce?
• How to use your specialized knowledge to help your client/employer make process and system decisions.
• Understanding how to specialize even more deeply within Salesforce (e.g. contract management with DocuSign/Conga).
• Is Marketing Cloud the hottest module of Salesforce right now? Is the Salesforce admin certification enough.
• Pick one module and start learning that before moving onto another module.
You can follow Vanessa on LinkedIn at: / realvanessagrant
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Terrific interview. Vanessa's explanation of Salesforce is great. I come from an education/Sales/ Tech background working as a Business Analyst and Consultant and everything mentioned in terms of responsibilities, tasks, and processes was spot on! Great job!
excellent- CORE RAW, TRUTH, NO FLUFF. Well done.
Always have been so great!! Each video teaches something, I have learned so much from your channel. Keep sharing!
Vanessa has a great smile!
Can you make interview video of education domain business analyst?
Thank you so much for your resourceful and informative videos
Thank you for the great interview!
Wow what an interview....some great advice there
This is really educative and interesting.
Very informative interview. Vanessa is one of my Favorite BAs. Narrow down where in Salesforce to add your value of analytics. Priceless. I’m leaning towards Sales Cloud myself.
Thanks Emal ✌🏿
Well you're one of my favorite comments ;) Thank you for the kind words!!
Great interview and pointers,, For future, Can you interview someone that actually works at Salesforce about being a BA?
Great interview and very good explanation by Vanessa which really helps where we need to focus to be a Salesforce BA. How can we know best practices for Sales cloud or any clouds. What is best way to learn about those. Thank you
The consultant certification material is a great source for best practices on particular clouds.
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Hi Emily
Is Vanessa Certified Salesforce business Analyst?
Which certification it is ?
Vanessa here -- there is no official Salesforce BA Certification (yet!), but for most Salesforce BA roles the Salesforce Admin Cert is considered the "ticket to entry." After that, one of the consultant certs in the area you'd like to specialize in is usually the recommended cert path for BAs.
@@Videos-cp2jy Thanks Vanessa for the response. I am exploring Service Cloud.Hope it will be great in terms of career growth
@@Videos-cp2jy Thank you Vanessa, I am currently a Business Analyst and i wanted to get my foot in the door as a salesforce BA, this really helped. Thank you so much!!