Empowering Women: The Bring Women Back to Work Initiative The Bring Women Back to Work (BWBW) initiative, launched on International Women’s Day in March 2020 supported by Salesforce, aims to create a workplace landscape where diversity, inclusion, and gender equality flourish. Founded by Vanessa Gentile, a passionate advocate for the #womenintech community, BWBW empowers skilled but unemployed women to confidently re-enter the professional sphere, fostering a balanced and innovative workforce enriched by their valuable expertise. Participants undergo a free-of-charge 12-month retraining program, which offers flexible teaching, mentoring and coaching to accommodate other commitments and a gradual reintroduction to the workforce. This comprehensive program equips women with necessary skills and connects them with job opportunities at leading Salesforce Partner and Customer companies. Challenges of Growth and Expansion As BWBW rapidly expanded in participants, cohorts, learning program and supporting partners and customers across Switzerland and Europe, managing contacts and processes became increasingly...

Author: Claudia Uboldi - Marketing & Relationship Management at Nexell

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Interview with John Sas - Founder & Managing Partner, Nexell GmbH   John, tell us a bit about Nexell.Nexell is a boutique type of business specializing in customer relationship management (CRM) and partnering with Salesforce for almost 20 years. We are a multinational and multilingual team of 25 people, all based in Switzerland. Our mission is to help our customers to build better relationships through custom CRM solutions and our strategic expertise. We want them to be able to concentrate on their mission or efficiently work towards their business goals while we take care of their systems.What distinguishes you from your competitors?We are different in many ways. Have you heard about our NexellAngels? This initiative is a core part of our DNA. We help nonprofit organizations, NGOs, Higher Ed, and startups enhance their ability to achieve their social mission through improved efficiency. This means that we help them transform into connected...

Powercoders & Nexell - Our joint efforts to help a good cause make a breakthrough

Looking back to a great year of close collaboration and partnerships with our customers and Salesforce in 2020, we are pleased to share USZ Foundation’s successful digital journey and their valuable contribution to care and prevention during the pandemic.USZ Foundation’s overall goal is to promote medical innovation at the University Hospital Zurich. Especially with their topical initiatives to support the community in Zürich, they set a great example in these trying times of Corona by providing support for doctors and nurses, pandemic related education and retraining of staff as well as for R&D work on the coronavirus.USZ Foundation has grown rapidly and quickly outgrew the tools they started out with. After running an internal project with an independent consultant to objectively look for improvements, it was essential that they implement a CRM solution to streamline processes, enable team collaboration and maximize the benefits available from existing data while they reduce manually-intense...

“How much “digital” is needed?”

Building sustainable business relationships by leveraging opportunities in a context of crisis - LIVECAST - NEW ON 20 May, 2021

  I am proud to be part of the salesforce.org Partner Advisory Board, as one of Salesforce’s leading European Consulting Partners. I’d like to share with you the focus and impact we would like to drive together. Salesforce.org has become the leading provider of non-profit, education and philanthropy solutions worldwide. As a leading Swiss / European Consulting Partner, we work hand in hand with the salesforce teams on a daily basis, to ensure our clients get maximum benefit from their systems & investments. It is of course our customers who have graciously brought us to this point, but even as a global leader, we have to ask ourselves, “Can we do better ? Can we do more to help ?” Being part of this team, built by Salesforce community members globally, allows us to provide the needed feedback to Salesforce, at the highest levels, for product development, vision, strategy, services delivery,...

Interview with John Sas, Founder of Nexell GmbH, first Salesforce partner in Europe since 2002John, tell us a bit more about Nexell.Nexell is a boutique type of business specializing in customer relationship management (CRM) and partnering with Salesforce for almost 20 years. We are a multilingual team of 25 people, all based in Switzerland, and our mission is to help our clients, businesses or nonprofits, to work differently from the inside so that they can make a difference on the outside.How did COVID-19 directly impact your business?Project-wise, some implementations have slowed down, others have continued as usual, but we have not seen any project brutally stopped in the middle because of a severe business slow down, which is really good news for us and for our clients. In terms of sales and business development, some new projects have been postponed / cancelled, for sure, but others have been accelerated because of...