Tag Archives: Best Practices

Security Review Survivor

The Lonely Island

Without the right tools and resources, preparing for Security Review can feel like being stranded on a deserted island. Fortunately, your friendly Partner Operations team has some tips and tricks to help you become a successful Security Review survivor. Continue reading

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Cloud Talk: Model Metrics grows its mobile practice by 600 percent with Force.com

Model Metrics built its business around delivering consulting services and custom cloud development. Today, the company has more than 500 customers, including some of the world’s most well-known brands, and is a leader in enterprise deployments, custom mobile solutions, Service Cloud implementations, and social media integration. Dave Dahlberg is the CMO. Continue reading

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Partner Experience at Dreamforce ‘11

Hi partners! It’s almost that time and soon all of you will be making the pilgrimage to San Francisco to be part of the largest cloud computing event. . .ok, you know where you’re going. But with so much happening, how can you make sense of it all? As a partner, how do you get the most out of your experience? Sure, you want to identify tons of new prospects… Continue reading

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Cloud Talk: CA Technologies develops in 1/2 the time and with 1/3 fewer resources with Force.com

 

For more than 30 years, CA Technologies has been a leader in IT management software. The company’s first Force.com-based application—CA Agile Vision—is an agile development planning tool that launched in spring 2010 and has already been embraced by a variety of customers across a range of verticals. Kelly Blice is CA’s Vice President of Product Marketing.

CA Technologies has been building on-premises software

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Bonjour! Announcing ISVforce Paris, July 7th 2011

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Calling all developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) living in France, we’d love to meet you! Join us for ISVforce Paris on July 7th, our first ever event dedicated solely to those living in l’hexagone who wish to build the next wave of enterprise cloud apps that are open, mobile and social.

ISVforce Paris is your ticket to getting a jump-start on going from idea to app, using Force.com, the… Continue reading

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Cloud Talk: Michael Farrington finds AppExchange glory with zero start-up costs

 

Qandor publishes some of the AppExchange’s most popular tools for administrators. Its most recent offering—Field Trip—lets admins run reports showing the use of fields in any custom object, and had more than 500 installs within 3 months of its release. Although Qandor has experienced enormous popularity on the AppExchange, the company is managed and run by just one person—Michael Farrington.

Why did you

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Cloud Talk: Jobscience grows its client base by 300% in just 1 year

 

 

CEO Ted Elliott founded Jobscience with the vision of creating a suite of cloud computing applications that would replace traditional on-premise human capital management technologies. The company released its first Force.com-based HR solutions in 2008, and today it serves hundreds of customers across the globe. Why did you choose to develop with Force.com? We started out by hosting our own applications, but we’d occasionally get notifications in… Continue reading

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How to Write Good Unit Tests

If you’ve written Apex Code and deployed it to production, then you’ve encountered the 75% code coverage requirement. In order to help you achieve (and hopefully exceed) 75% code coverage, I’ve written an article that introduces some of the most important concepts for crafting good unit tests. It explores the proper structure of unit tests, the code scenarios that your unit tests should cover, and the properties of well-written unit… Continue reading

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