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.

Our latest App Mavericks call was with Mat Hamlin, Director of Products for Spanning, to discuss their cool new app “Spanning Backup for Salesforce,” which protects your data from accidental or malicious activity.

Here are some of the app's key highlights:

1. Increased productivity: By enabling end users to restore lost data, you can drastically lower the time to restore and reduce the need for involvement by the Salesforce administrator or the IT department.
2. Lower cost of backup: With Spanning Backup for Salesforce, administrators no longer need to dedicate time to manual, weekly exports and no longer need to procure and manage on-premise storage for backup data. Spanning Backup provides unlimited storage with a per-user pricing model, which is an added benefit when considering the costs involved.
3. Fewer #FireDrills: Spanning is the only in-app backup and recovery solution for Salesforce. It’s the only solution that enables administrators and end users to directly restore previous versions of Salesforce objects. And soon, it will be the only solution that enables administrators to manage and monitor backup and restore on the go, through our mobile offering for Salesforce1.
4. #SetItAndForgetIt: Even if you never need it, you don’t have to lose sleep about backups ever again!

Quick Takes:

• You can install the free trial and be up and running in minutes. Honestly: minutes, not hours.

• Spanning gives employees the confidence to work in Salesforce, knowing any mistakes they make can be quickly fixed and will not have an immediate effect on productivity or a long-term negative impact on the business.

• Spanning has thousands of customers—around the world, across all verticals—who rely on their products. There’s sure to be an environment like yours that they’ve already worked in.

Behind the Scenes:

Spanning Backup for Salesforce lets you sleep at night. If your boss or company executives worry about data mishaps and are always asking you how to protect them from user error or people deleting records this is the way to go.

Learn more:

Check out the Spanning Backup for Salesforce listing on the AppExchange, and learn about our past App Mavericks episodes here and here.

Joshua's a bit of a world traveler and has lived in Orlando, Singapore, San Francisco, and now London, where he's been a integral community contributor #IRL (In Real Life) for organizations of all sizes, including nonprofits, and virtually by creating the MVP Office Hours program in 2013 (currently run by Jarrod Kingston). This true believer in #WorkHard #PlayHard can solution and problem-solve just about anything with common sense, enthusiasm and technology, with the exception of Geraldine Gray's ironing. Regardless of the community (#Running, #GLBT, #Salesforce or #Xpat), you can usually find him dancing or coding the weekends away to #house, #techno or #DivaVocals with a beverage in hand... #enoughsaid

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