Best Productivity Apps

SaaSWe love anything that makes life and work just that little bit easier. With this in mind, we take a look at some of the best apps on the Salesforce.com AppExchange, which help us to do just that.

Whether you are a seasoned Administrator or just getting to grips with salesforce.com, we hope you will find our ‘pick of the best’ useful within your organisation:

DemandTools is a 5-star rated app from CRMfusion Inc. This is not just a deduplication app, but a handy tool for standardising and verifying your data. If you are in need of manipulating data to create consistency across your organisation then look no further. Other reviewers constantly give this app top marks and would prefer to use this over DataLoader.

Next up we have Cloud Extend from Informatica. This handy tool enables organisations to create wizards, with the intention of keeping data clean by enforcing best practices for data entry. Users say they find it intuitive and easy to use and setup – plus the support team get a big thumbs up for providing a first rate service.

Conga Composer by Conga offers up the ability to extend Salesforce.com’s standard mail-merge functionality enabling you to create documents, proposals and contracts by merging data from across multiple objects.

Marketo is the powerful marketing automation and email marketing tool, that provides outstanding functionality for marketers who need to automate and measure demand generation campaigns, to produce higher-quality leads. Its intuitive interface and integration also get top marks from other reviewers.

What are your top picks?