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...]
Corrupted Excel file from Visualforce
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...]
Boxed in with inefficient technology?
Software selection - From Products to Solutions Many SMBs (small and mid sized businesses) have successfully evolved from being smaller companies to their current size. They have mostly had experience with buying and implementing off the shelf software products for their technology needs. When they reach a certain point in their growth, such … [Read more...]
Getting ROI from your CRM technology
[fusion_text]Make your CRM technology pay for itself Many organizations are frequently challenged when they think about the budgeting process for implementing or revamping their CRM solution. With smaller and smaller sales and marketing teams, the budget for systems keeps shrinking as well. Operating in this context is clearly not very easy for … [Read more...]
Systems Integration – Connecting the dots
[fusion_text] CRM-ERP-Systems Integration challenges and approaches When you are looking for the ultimate level of success with your CRM solution, invariably the vision is always about having access to unified customer and prospect information in a single system. Sales & Marketing, Customer service, engineering and finance are all areas … [Read more...]