Automating Salesforce Data Imports with Powershell
If you're a programmer and you're doing lots of Salesforce Data Imports, at some point you'll get fed up of messing around with Apex Data Loader and CSV files and look for better options. You might be doing incremental migration and so want to re-run and evolve the migration as the target system evolves. Or you might just want to get the migration automated for scheduling reasons.
Salesforce User License Transitions
In Salesforce, User License types are tied to Profiles, so to change the User License type of a User, you need to change their Profile. However, only certain types of transitions are allowed:
Copying data to Salesforce Sandboxes using TalenD
A common problem with Salesforce Developer Sandboxes is that they are blank. Really you're going to want some data in there, so there are various strategies for copying data from your live instance to the Sandbox.
Salesforce and Dynamics CRM pricing for Charities
Currently I'm working on two separate projects for two different charities - one of them implementing Dynamics CRM, the other implementing Salesforce.
Salesforce and Dynamics CRM - Unwizzy Wizards
At the moment I am working for two different charity clients, both of whom are implementing CRM systems - one has gone for Dynamics CRM, and one has gone for Salesforce.
Salesforce as an ORM
To me, Salesforce is not a very attractive word. It basically conjures up an image of an army of salespeople, weilding laptops and software-enhanced selling skills. What could be less appealing than that?