A non-profit organization that shows classic, foreign, and indie films use Salesforce to track memberships and yearly festival pass purchases. The original configuration struggled to track people and households that passed through their theater, leading to extra manual work. They also needed a better way to track and report on membership and renewal campaigns, to improve business performance. Our team upgraded them to and customized the latest version of the Salesforce Nonprofit Starter Pack to deliver a comprehensive tracking and reporting system aligned with their business and community needs. The new system more effectively tracks and manages membership, donations, and … Read More
Healthcare Research Firm Uses Enhanced Reporting to Improve Service Delivery
A healthcare research organization needed to better track invoices from project awardees, along with research metrics from multiple groups. Their manual data collection and analysis were disjointed, prevented the timely allocation of resources, and cost too much time. Out-of-the-box Salesforce reports and tracking were not meeting their needs. Our team built a custom application within Salesforce to track invoices and pull together other key data from across the organization. With their data now being logged within Salesforce, reporting became supercharged. The process that previously required multiple email approvals and attachments, now is automated, making critical financial and research reports readily … Read More
Public Transportation Authority Jump-started with Salesforce Nonprofit Starter Pack
A local transit authority and provider of public transportation needed online capabilities to manage their routes, riders, and inventory. In addition, their eCommerce and shopping cart capabilities needed to integrate with their transportation platform. M&S Consulting was able to help meet their needs through Salesforce, by customizing a solution specifically for their needs. Drivers now have a tablet mounted by their seat to access a Salesforce instance containing route and rider information. This enables drivers to be aware of the passengers riding their buses, including their booking reservations, pickup points, special seat arrangements, and, importantly, when they enter and exit … Read More
Nonprofit Supporting Survivors of Human Trafficking Gains New Clarity from Salesforce Implementation
An East Coast-based nonprofit organization tracked all their interactions with donors and people in need using an antiquated web page, which made reporting nearly impossible. They also needed a better way to track employee hours, volunteer hours, and services provided to those in need. Finally, they needed a way to gain visibility into how to improve their services. Our team volunteered to customize the Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack to better suit the needs of the nonprofit. We provided a comprehensive reporting system, time tracking with approvals and a way to show how they support their clients over the years with … Read More
Enabling University Students to Share Experiences From Outside the Classroom
Universities strive to build strong connections with every student and deliver an unparalleled education that combines classroom learning with real-world experiences and self-discovery. Our client, a top 50 liberal arts university, embarked on a project to meet this need with a new hybrid program. Their plan was to use Salesforce to track the many interactions that students had with mentors and faculty, as well as to provide a platform for reflecting on experiences and opportunities that happened outside the classroom. Efforts prior to our involvement resulted in fundamental challenges, including difficult navigation, limited reporting capabilities, and a lack of alignment … Read More
Monitoring Employee Productivity and Welfare
During normal operations, a mid-sized consulting firm needs to track and report on several different parameters regarding their employees. The disparate data on employees reside in several different systems, making access, and review a time-consuming process. As the COVID-19 event unfolds, the company’s managers find themselves needing more data points for evaluating and monitoring employee productivity, morale, and efficiency. Several new fields are added to the various systems, many of which will remain after the pandemic is resolved. While this provided useful data points, it exacerbated the challenge of having multiple systems. Using a tool that we created, our team … Read More
Creating Useful Reports by Combining Salesforce and Financial Data
Problem Solved: short stories about helping our customers solve their IT challenges. A wireless telecommunications provider uses Salesforce as their CRM platform and requires a high degree of sophistication in order to meet their reporting needs. Out-of-the-box reporting capabilities in Salesforce were not able to combine Salesforce and financial data in a way that executives needed on a regular basis. Our implementation of Tableau is able to integrate the data their leadership needed out of both systems, enabling robust reporting with simplified views that are exported to Microsoft PowerPoint and delivered to executives on a weekly basis. As a result, … Read More
Healthcare Data Provider’s Ailing Salesforce Environment Nursed to Health
Problem Solved: short stories about helping our customers solve their IT challenges. A US healthcare data service provider manages multiple vendors in their Salesforce system, requiring cross-departmental coordination. Any delays negatively impact the company’s operations. Due to conflicts between departments, the Salesforce application did not have one consistent business process. Approvals for new vendors were not directed to the right people, and the status of these approvals was not effectively managed, tracked, or communicated. This wasted valuable time. Our team designed and implemented a single streamlined process using out-of-the-box Salesforce automation tools, including, visual flows, approval processes, email alerts, and … Read More