Are you still using traditional job management systems to manage your mobile workforce of field service technicians, couriers or home care providers? You might want to consider an upgrade. Adequate as these traditional systems may seem at times, they are also prone to errors and delays due to limited information access, manual processes, … [Read more...]
A Complete Guide to Salesforce Field Service Lightning
Salesforce CPQ – Key features overview
The Salesforce community has of late been very excited with new offerings integrated into the platform. One such offering is Salesforce's CPQ module which makes CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote) functionality natively available on the force.com platform. CPQ products have been very well established in the market place for a long time, but the reality … [Read more...]
Salesforce.com – Overcoming Apex code limits
Salesforce’s cloud platform (force.com) provides a lot of flexibility for customizations, with Apex code being the most common way to develop new functionalities on the platform. However, unlike development stacks like Java and .Net, there are limits imposed by the shared force.com platform. This is to ensure that no single customer takes up too … [Read more...]
Corrupted Excel file from Visualforce
With the latest release of Summer 16, some of you may be receiving a "File is corrupt and cannot be opened" error message with excel files generated from visualforce pages. The fix for the issue is very simple - you were most likely including a tag at the end of your page, since it was not being automatically generated by visualforce. While we … [Read more...]
Object Composition on Force.com
Most programmers coming from a standard object oriented programming programming language like Java, C#, C++ etc. are used to working with composite objects. For e.g. an Account object will contain a list of associated Contacts and Cases. A Project object will have a list of associated tasks. When you start working with the Force.com platform, … [Read more...]
Salesforce.com – avoid deployment failing due to unrelated test cases
How often have you hit a situation where you start deploying a new change set to Salesforce.com in production, and get stopped by errors on an unrelated test case? It's certainly very frustrating when that happens - here's one commonly encountered cause of such errors and what you can do about it. Sometimes you might think that a small change … [Read more...]
Salesforce.com’s Health Cloud for PRM – what the doctor prescribed!
On Sept 2nd, in a pre-Dreamforce 2015 announcement, Salesforce.com finally took the wraps off their new target industry: the Healthcare vertical. The announcement confirmed recent persistent rumors about its intentions to break into the healthcare market. The software-as-a-service suite features "patient relationship management" tools – … [Read more...]
Spark – setting Big Data on Fire!
Over the past decade, internet companies such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others have leveraged the Hadoop MapReduce platform effectively to process data that is truly large in scale. In addition, many enterprises with years of information gathered in siloes across multiple systems have also started using this platform to combine and process … [Read more...]