Thousands of Salesforce® customers utilize MuleSoft® to create a 360-degree view of their customer data, or to boost productivity with automation, or for other purposes related to enhancing their CRM. You may be wondering why? 

In a recent AdVic “Salesforce Simplified” podcast about such a CRM enhancement, our MuleSoft Practice Director, Tom Minton, explained the many benefits of MuleSoft Composer.

“The main advantage to MuleSoft Composer for Salesforce, Minton says, “is that it allows Salesforce admins the ability to create inner integrations with external systems using no code.”

He added, “Without having to concern IT departments, Salesforce admins can connect an assortment of connectors with just clicks. Even without having a vast knowledge of MuleSoft coding ability, they can achieve the results they need and  the information they need in a much more efficient way.”

MuleSoft Composer or MuleSoft Anypoint?

MuleSoft Composer and MuleSoft’s API/integrations flagship tool, Anypoint, share some of the same features. 

Minton explains, “Anypoint comes with a bigger financial investment and may not be ideal for medium or rising businesses. MuleSoft Composer, however, is a lighter version of Anypoint that packs the same power, is user-friendly to Salesforce admins, and it’s efficient.”

Integrate, Streamline, and Automate with MuleSoft Composer

MuleSoft Composer integrates with products such as Workday, ServiceNow and Slack, and enables the use of Salesforce directly from an app. With these integrations, sales and procurement receive automated messages that notifies them of inventory when they are selling to customers. 

Mitigating Sales Forecasting Risk

Whether it is Tableau, or those infamous Excel/Google Sheets, data can be pulled from these sources to forecast for the following months using historical data and past performance. Integrating Google sheets into Tableau or Salesforce can actually map out data in a more usable and visually appealing way. 

Another one of the many benefits of MuleSoft Composer is the ability to synchronize orgs. As your business grows and you decide to collaborate with competitors or acquire brands with their own org, MuleSoft allows you to come together as one. Thus allowing orgs to pass information without having to swivel back and forth between systems.  

Streamlining Operations with MuleSoft Composer

MuleSoft Composer streamlines everything. That means less keyboard time and more time making sales.

Here’s some additional streamlining Composer helps with:

• You could have inventory information.
• You can view the throughput.
• You’re able to send information out about a new opportunity via a Slack message. In that Slack message, it could have a link back to the Salesforce opportunity for whether your salespeople are in house or on the road.
• There’s a connector for a service called Stripe, which is a cash reconciliation ecommerce tool. 
• You can get the information into the system that it needs without having to type it.

The Future of MuleSoft Connectors

All-in-all, MuleSoft enables its users to have multiple sources of customer information at their fingertips. 

“They come out with a new set of features every three to six months,” Minton says, “with plenty more to come.” 

As a certified MuleSoft Anypoint and Composer, and Salesforce multi-cloud consulting partner, Ad Victoriam’s integration experts understand the complexities of enterprise integrations, both on-premise and in the cloud. We simplify complex integration scenarios, integrate disparate systems, and provide a scalable architecture that your business can grow with – whether or not you are using Salesforce. So, if you are ready to connect your systems, we’re ready to talk to you today.

Related Resources:

How Salesforce and MuleSoft Create a Seamless Customer Experience
What Can MuleSoft Do for Your Salesforce Org?
MuleSoft Composer’s Ease of Use Reduces the Need for IT
MuleSoft Integration Creates Customer 360-Degree View

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Flow Designer is used to design and develop fully-functional MuleSoft® applications in a hosted development environment. 

Designed to be used by Senior Architects as well as Junior Admins, Flow Designer is a simple alternative to creating full-blown APIs by hand within Anypoint Studio. With Flow Designer being packed with numerous features, it’s an obvious choice to consider when planning projects.

Design Center

To start creating a Flow Designer project, you simply opt to build a MuleSoft application rather than write a RAML within Design Center. Design Center differs from traditional RAML creation by showing what you make, as well as the processes graphically with easy to follow indicators displaying order,  hierarchy of elements, and triggers. Another benefit to using Flow Designer is that all work is automatically saved to the cloud for later continuation, collaborative editing, and safe-keeping.

Triggers and Connectors

The vast selection of triggers and connectors created by MuleSoft, as well as other users, allow for an ever-expanding number of uses and implementations. These triggers and connectors reduce the work required to duplicate processes you have already made, or processes others have already made. Saving both time and energy, by reducing redundancy and possible errors when working with a new system or CRM. Additionally, these triggers and connectors are all free to use and available to everyone through MuleSoft’s Anypoint Exchange.

Mapping and Transforming Data

Gone are the days of fumbling around with data mapping documentation. Flow Designer has a built in automatic data mapping feature that takes the hard work out of transforming and mapping data.  And with an easy drag and drop-style editor, editing the automated mappings is a breeze. Adding custom fields or functions to your transformations or mappings is simple using MuleSoft’s native DataWeave language. In as little as a few clicks and a little reading, you can create lightweight and versatile code to meet every task’s unique needs.

Error Handling and Debugging

Unfortunately, errors are almost impossible to avoid entirely. Luckily, debugging and fixing errors are easy to do within Flow Designer. With a dedicated “Problems” button that displays any errors in layman’s terms, understanding and resolving the issue can be accomplished without an extensive knowledge of MuleSoft.

Summary

All of these features, as well as Automatic Data Mapping and more, were designed to facilitate the complex and time consuming process of creating integrations. Though a traditional creation strategy may be more efficient for complex projects possibly not supported by Flow Designer, Flow Designer should still be an option seriously considered by project planners and businesses looking to get their desired results more efficiently.

Ad Victoriam’s certified, experienced and passionate MuleSoft consultants team up with businesses to turn legacy point-to-point integrations into a scalable architecture that your business can grow with. Let’s talk about a solution for your company today.

Related Resources:

• Product Spotlight: Anypoint Flow Designer
• Anypoint Platform: Flow Design FREE Course
• What Can MuleSoft Do for Your Salesforce Org?

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