Metz Consulting is a management and social media consulting firm with clients that include Thomas Friedman, Mighty Leaf Tea, and Pirate's Booty. Needless to say, they know their way around the modern web.
The firm's founder Adam Metz recently posted about how his company uses Spanning Sync alongside Appirio Calendar Sync to keep their desktop and cloud apps on the same page:
We’re pretty much an Apple/Salesforce shop.Which is why it’s always been a little of a pain for our team to use Salesforce, because there was no way to sync the calendars to our iPhones and iPads. But we just found a way to fix it. And boy, are we happy about it.
It’s a little complex, how we work.
Salesforce ↔ Google Calendar ↔ Apple’s iCal.We used Appirio Calendar Sync for Salesforce and Google Apps. Then, we used Spanning Sync to connect Google Calendar (yes, the Google Apps version) to iCal. So now, when we change something on our iPhones or iPads, it goes into Salesforce and Google Calendar, in 10 minutes or so.
If you want to hook up this whole thing, for under $20, here’s how:
- Set up your free Google Apps For Domains account
- Set up cool little Appirio Calendar Sync (if you don’t know how, Tweet @googleappssusan and she can do a quick walkthrough, for a small fee).
- Buy Spanning Sync at the discounted price of $20, and you’re all set!
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I joined a firm recently that has started to use salesforce, and the majority of employees are also mac users, so I would love to be able to implement a similar solution for our team. Would you have an email address for googleappssusan so we can get some help with the setup? Thank you in advance.
Posted by: Eissa Khoury | September 08, 2011 at 06:33 AM