10 Things I love About Wave Analytics

If your company has huge amount of data and your top management needs actionable reports for turnover, growth, revenue etc., you would need a robust and scalable BI tool or provide these answers quickly. This is where Salesforce Wave Analytics has emerged as a crucial player. Sample Wave Dashboard (Image source: elibrumbaugh.com) Built on the Wave platform, Salesforce Analytics Cloud is much more than simple Business Intelligence. Organizations can build their own BI applications...

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Managing Different Perspectives of the Developer Console

Being a rookie Salesforce.com developer, I often wondered if System.debug statements were the only way to find out where my superbly written code was breaking. Much to my dismay, I was often all at sea, trying to find out the actual cause of the issue only through execution debug logs provided and without actually editing the code. Wasn’t there a better way, I thought? That’s when I stumbled upon the inbuilt features of the developer console. The developer console basically provides...

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How to Generate a PDF from your Visualforce Pages: Going Beyond ‘renderAs’

As a Salesforce developer, your customer might often need you to convert his Visualforce page into a PDF format. That is simple enough, right? All you need to do is to use the “renderAs” attribute on the Visualforce page and you are done! Hold on! There’s more to this than what meets the eye. Imagine you have a similar requirement but instead, this time with a page using Lightning tools which, on one hand will save you from archaic UI, enabling you to use lots of great charting options...

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Generate OAuth Authorization Token using OWIN with SharePoint

As a SharePoint developer, you are aware that SharePoint provides OAuth Authorization services to generate access token from SharePoint using its own prerequisites. However, this approach has its own limitations. We can generate same token without using OAuth Authorization provided by SharePoint. In this blog, I will take you through the process of generation of Bearer Token for a custom third party client application to authenticate and authorize with SharePoint and perform operations...

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Fast Track SharePoint Add-ins development using Angular2

Integrating technologies is a nightmare for software engineers! Building a SharePoint add-in using only JavaScript/jQuery involves a lot of complexities, especially the effort required in keeping the code clean and maintainable. However, the premise of integrating AngularJS and SharePoint is quite promising and that’s our Everest to peak today! AngularJS has helped us overcome the issues pertaining to clean code and its maintainability for quite some time now. We also used it to integrate...

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Grid formatting in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online

One of the most common enhancement requests that we receive from our MS Dynamics CRM customers is changing the look and feel of the default UI / UX. A case in consideration is the default UX of the grid. It is completely unreadable, considering it has no alternative row styling or for that matter, even row separators. Users these days are spoilt for choices and in such a scenario, an unfriendly UI may lead to customer dissatisfaction in an otherwise perfect implementation. What is even...

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MS Dynamics – not just CRM but xRM

Microsoft has really put its weight behind the development of the CRM platform and its success is pretty evident with the fact that the platform has evolved exceptionally over time. Now that the Microsoft’s development team has delivered and done one heck of a job at that, it’s time for the marketing team to match that level. They can simply start by re-branding the product as xRM. Confused? Read on. The product is still marketed primarily as a CRM tool. Customer Relationship...

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Office 365 – A new collaboration Platform for Non-profits..!! Are you ready to move to Cloud?

Do you want to free yourself from the hassles of maintaining an in-house Exchange Server? Is your staff spread across several locations? Do you have budget constraints for IT support like installations and upgrades? Then Microsoft Office 365 Nonprofit may be right for you! Even today, many Non-profit organizations have been buying various software’s to fulfill their requirements. Furthermore this strategy also involves Infrastructure costs, Application Maintenance, Data management...

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Angular 2.0: A revolutionary angle!

Hello there! We are right nigh to the final release of Angular 2.0, which means it's time to decipher what this excitement means to the developers’ community and understand the business impact of this new framework backed by none other than Google Inc. Angular 2.0: A brief history At the ng-Europe conference on 22nd September 2014, the Angular Team announced its next major release, a.k.a Angular 2.0, disclosing that there would be a drastic change in the codebase and semantics....

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