Have you backed up your CRM system? By Geraldine O’Reilly Whether you use Salesforce.com or any of the other CRM systems out there, one thing is certain; as your data grows it becomes ever more critical to the running of your business. Your CRM system is the one single place that has all the data you need to help grow [...]

From our work assisting clients to adopt different Cloud based services, questions and comments arise on the meaning of Cloud related terminology. In this blog post, I will give an overview of the meaning of Scalability and Elasticity – two important characteristics of Cloud Computing in providing on-demand services.  Scalability and Elasticity In Cloud Computing, scalability is important in order [...]

Now that Database.com is open, I’m sure we’ve all registered for a development org and had a go. Login, create an object or two, some fields and relationships, then open the tab and create a few records….. But of course, you can’t because there are no tabs, and no user interface. This is exactly the way it is supposed to [...]

A critical factor in the long-term cost-benefit of any business application is the architecture of the solution. By this, we simply mean how the major parts are connected and how they can be, or must be, changed in future. Two broad choices are available in cloud delivery models: Infrastructure-as-a-Service, IaaS, and Platform-as-a-Service, PaaS. Both IaaS and PaaS have similarities in [...]