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Inside the Ohana

Thomas Theunen — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:34:33 +0000

An interview of my story within the Ohana and how I found my way into a beautiful community of Salesforce enthusiasts!

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Life With Goldie

Thomas Theunen — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:28:07 +0000

A fun interview about my journey within the Salesforce Ohana and how I received my Golden Hoodie in 2022 at Salesforce Connections!

There are only about a hundred Golden Hoodies worldwide, so getting one presented to you by Salesforce is pretty rare. Being the first in Belgium to receive one and the first Commerce Cloud community member is quite an honor! Hopefully, more Commerce Cloud community members will be presented with a Golden Hoodie in the future, but only one person can be the “first”!

So how do you get one? This is a question I have gotten quite often in the past few months since receiving one, but there isn’t really “one thing” that you should do. Salesforce decides who gets one, which is an entirely different system than the MVP one.

Putting it as simply as possible: “Get noticed by the community, and more importantly by Salesforce with your efforts towards Salesforce customers and the community.”

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Headless

Thomas Theunen — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:06:14 +0000

If your organization is looking for a way to improve its online presence and connect with more customers, Headless may be a good fit. Headless can help you create a more modern and responsive website and enhance customer engagement and conversions.

Headless commerce can provide a better user experience. In a traditional eCommerce setup, the front and back end are often tightly coupled, making it difficult to change the front end without affecting the back end.

However, with a headless commerce setup, the front end can be developed independently of the back end, allowing for a more customized and personalized user experience.

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The path to being an Architect

Thomas Theunen — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 07:39:31 +0000

The journey to being an architect has assumed many forms over the years, and does it all start at development? I started as a Java developer more than a decade ago and slowly moved towards being a “Salesforce Solution Architect

But Solution Architect is only one of the many architectural roles that exist. Technical Architects and Enterprise Architects have their own roles within a project, and these different titles will most likely collaborate over one or many tasks in a brand/business.

This podcast episode discusses how I have experienced this journey and what to expect from the changes that will happen in your day-to-day job. It is a journey about growth and learning how a platform works and learning how to connect it with other systems that live in every commerce architecture..”

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Me, Myself, and Headless: A Composable Commerce Cloud story

Thomas Theunen — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 17:03:23 +0000

Salesforce Commerce Cloud has shifted its focus to investing in Headless development for the past two years. Mobify was acquired and rebranded to PWA Kit And Managed Runtime, providing the next headless storefront offering.

But the PWA Kit requires an entirely new way of development in React.js. Does that mean the knowledge you have built up of the Salesforce Commerce Cloud products will be thrown into the trash can in a few years? What if you don’t like React.js?

And what does “Composable Commerce” mean? Many terms are thrown around, confusing the Commerce space. At the end of this presentation, we hope to have eliminated some of this confusion.

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Connecting the Clouds: Wedding or funeral

Thomas Theunen — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 16:53:02 +0000

Connecting different clouds, in this case: B2C Commerce Cloud, CRM, and Marketing Cloud, to work together in harmony can be a challenge. Theoretical guidelines and base solutions are provided by Salesforce to get you started, but are these sufficient to connect the clouds? In this session, we will find out!

Over the past five years, we have done multiple “multi-cloud” projects and have run into those challenges head-on (Security, GDPR, Robustness, …). In this presentation, we will share lessons learned, things to be mindful of, and different use-cases for connecting the clouds (e.g., to Mulesoft or others)—going from green-field implementation to connecting live silo systems comes with its challenges.

Experience in multi-cloud or not! It doesn’t matter: this presentation will have something to occupy your grey matter for a couple of days at least! At the end of the session, you will know what starting points are available, what to keep in mind and which pitfalls you will face on a multi-cloud project.

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