Aug 06, 2014 By Rebecca Dente

App Mavericks, Ep. 2: Silverline's "WaterCooler" App Makes Employee Collaboration Easy

in AppExchange, IT

App Mavericks is a new video series from the AppExchange, intended to introduce Salesforce customers to cool new apps through the eyes of Salesforce super-users and MVPs. Subscribe to the AppExchange YouTube Channel to see new App Mavericks videos as they’re released.

We held our second App Mavericks interview with Scott Thomas of Silverline, who talked about their fantastic new app “The WaterCooler”: a simple, cost-effective and secure intranet that allows employees to get a 360-degree view of what’s going on in the company.

First Impressions:

It's really easy to use the drag-and-drop interface to update The WaterCooler with what’s important to your organization. It’s simple for admins and super-users to to push out quick updates, and the clean interface makes it easy for users to nativate.
The WaterCooler truly is a social intranet—it's incredibly useful for finding co-workers and seeing who they work with/for and what they've been up to. This is great if you’re new to an organization or if you’re working with collaborative teams on new projects.
Hurray for finally having an easy place to publish HR documents! Now companies can direct employees to a single source of truth that can be quickly updated if policies change.

Quick Takes:

It’s beyond easy for users to navigate and find what’s important to them.
It’s mobile, and no matter how you access The WaterCooler your experience will be consistent across devices with your same Salesforce login.
You can publish business, social and volunteer events and opportunities to a single company calendar.
It’s flexible and customizable—there are 30 different widgets Admins can leverage to make it work for their Salesforce org and suit their workplace like Dropbox or YouTube.

Behind the Scenes:

It’s a slick intranet setup that makes it easy to add, configure or edit information that’s important to users but also respects standard Salesforce security permissions.

Learn more:

Check out The WaterCooler listing on the AppExchange.

About the Author:

Becka Dente is the Director of Cloud Technology at Conga, makers of the most popular reporting and document generation tools for Salesforce. She has nearly ten years of experience with the Salesforce platform, holds multiple Salesforce certifications, and is a multi-year Salesforce MVP. Becka is looking forward to doing more App Mavericks chats, but would love a real makeup artist before because she's not really a makeup kind of girl—she'd rather be running with nerds and collapsing with a martini.