Your Partner for Digital Transformation with Salesforce

We are Blue Apes

This is us: A Cologne-based consulting company with everything that comes with that! Blue Apes was created by Deni and Fabian – two Salesforce enthusiasts, who no longer wanted to do their work as individual consultants. They founded our entire team of consultants and since then, our team has been growing continuously. We are working with passion to make Blue Apes THE sales digitalizer in and around Cologne.

We Provide You with Holistic Advice

Our Consulting Approach

We create long-term added value and growth potential by digitalizing your sales due to Salesforce. Thanks to our Salesforce Consulting and Organizational Change Management business units, we support our customers in the introduction and optimization of Salesforce and help them to transform their existing structures into a holistic digital organization.

Why do we do this?
In recent years, we have been able to support numerous digitization projects with Salesforce in a wide variety of ways. Regardless of whether we managed projects with 20 or 2,000 users – the different companies’ structures were usually similar, which is essential for the project’s benefit and the successful digitalization of customer management. In order to exploit the full potential of Salesforce, we see Salesforce as a highly effective tool for the digitalization of customer management. Just like Salesforce itself, companies and their employees must constantly evolve in order to keep pace with ever-changing market requirements.

This is precisely our approach: Salesforce consulting paired with organizational change management to sustainably digitalize companies’ customer management and support their employees in adapting to digitalization.

This Is How We Reach Our Goal Together

Our Tried and Tested Project Approach

Our project approach, also known as the ‘adaptive waterfall approach’ combines the advantages of agile and classic software development. After an initial analysis and design phase, the desired functions will be developed and delivered iteratively. This gives users the opportunity to provide feedback and reprioritize certain functions very early on in the process.

Analysis Phase

We will work together to develop the strategic goals of the project and to analyze how Salesforce can be integrated into your existing system landscape. Afterwards, we will identify how Salesforce can be used to optimize your current processes, create transparency and meet specified KPIs.
Solution Design

Once the analysis phase is complete, we will develop the technical concept for implementation. Based on this concept, we will create an indication for the project timing and, building on this, a project plan including milestones.
Solution Development

Once the project plan has been approved, we will start implementing it. Our iterative approach allows us to involve users at an early stage, which facilitates the change process. Furthermore, this will provide us the opportunity to reprioritize the order of development at a later stage and adapt it to changing customer requirements.
Optimization & Testing

During the optimization and testing phase, we make final adjustments to the implementation. Existing core processes will be enhanced by limiting cases, further improving usability and increasing efficiency through automation.
Commissioning

After a large part of the work will have been implemented on test environments, we will implement the functions into the production system. Master data is imported and responsibility for the Salesforce instance can be gradually handed over to the users if required. Moreover, we will be available for further cooperation after the Hypercare phase.

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Shared Values Strengthen Our Teamwork

Do You Share Our Blue Apes Values?

The cornerstone of our actions at Blue Apes is based on our values.

Joint Growth

We are always looking for the next step, the next challenge and the next opportunity to grow. Individually, as a team and as a company.

Sustainability

For us, sustainability is part of every decision we make. Whether it’s about applicants, the Blue Apes team, our customers or the environment – win-win is the only permissible scenario for us.

Community

The gretest asset at Blue Apes is our community culture. It is precisely this asset that we want to retain and pass on to new employees! Supporting each other, learning from each other and moving mountains together: These are the goals we are working towards together.

Hands-On Mentality

Thinking along instead of blindly following. We identify digital opportunities for our customers and systematically eliminate challenges. We tackle issues and help shape the digital future – both externally and internally.

Careers at Blue Apes

We are Blue Apes!

Get to Know the Blue Apes Team

Our team is made up of experts in their field who work every day to deliver the best possible results for our clients.

Tamara Marinovic

In my dual role as HR BP and OCM Consultant, I can live out my strengths and interests at Blue Apes. I therefore have the perfect balance between internal work and client work.

Juliane Winterscheid

In times of change, I support our clients as an interim manager or consultant to specifically manage and accompany the "people site of change".

Maxi Wieczorek

In projects, I help our customers as a consultant to adapt Salesforce solutions to their own needs and thus fully exploit their potential.

Tim Vogel

As a consultant, I am available as a direct contact in customer projects and implementer of the customers’ requirements. My most important concern is the development of scalable solutions for efficient CRM.

Fabian Kramer

Together with my colleagues, I can finally realize a win-win situation in customer projects. I enjoy helping customers take responsibility for their system and build their own team.

Deni Panknin

As a Salesforce architect, it is my job to ensure that the potential of Salesforce is recognized and systematically implemented. At the same time, I ensure that your system remains scalable in the long term.

Insight into Our Project Successes

Get Inspired by Our User Stories

Our customers are as diverse as their requirements. We have summarized some of our past project successes for you, so that you can be inspired by the many possible uses of Salesforce.