{"id":1097,"date":"2023-07-20T14:54:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2025-02-28T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:09:38","slug":"how-to-add-external-data-to-salesforce-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/how-to-add-external-data-to-salesforce-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add External Data to Salesforce Forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1097\" class=\"elementor elementor-1097\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-baf2527 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"baf2527\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1003738\" data-id=\"1003738\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-344cc23 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"344cc23\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salesforce Forecasts is a powerful tool for tracking and managing sales forecasts. However, sometimes the data that is stored in Salesforce is not enough to make accurate forecasts. In these cases, you can add external data to Salesforce Forecasts to get a more complete picture of your sales pipeline.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examples of external data that you can add to Salesforce Forecasts<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stretch quota: This is the amount of sales that you need to make in order to exceed your quota.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internal booking target: This is the amount of sales that you need to make in order to meet your company&#8217;s internal goals.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adding external data to Salesforce Forecasts can help you make more accurate forecasts. By having all of the information that you need in one place, you can make better decisions about your sales strategy and resource allocation.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5053cf5\" data-id=\"5053cf5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76a64f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"76a64f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/go.pardot.com\/l\/930373\/2021-06-05\/3rq\" width=\"100%\" height=\"700\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce Forecasts is a powerful tool for tracking and managing sales forecasts. However, sometimes the data that is stored in Salesforce is not enough to make accurate forecasts. In these cases, you can add external data to Salesforce Forecasts to get a more complete picture of your sales pipeline. Examples of external data that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyblux.com\/en\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}