April 25, 2007
Years ago, if I wanted to "script" Clarify [formerly linked to www.myclarify.com which no longer exists], I would use UNIX shell scripts, including UNIX mini languages such as sed and awk, that would create dat files that could be imported with dataex. When ClearBasic was introduced, we also got cbbatch, which was a command line interpreter for ClearBasic, so we could script Clarify using CB. When we (First Choice Software) introduced FCFL (First Choice Foundation Library), which was a set of COM objects, we could script using VBScript or JavaScript making COM calls. Same story for the fcSDK. Although the fcSDK is all native .NET, it also exposed a COM interface, so we could still do scripting as we did with FCFL, but we didn't have all of the .NET capabilities of fcSDK. But now, with the availability of PowerShell, we…
Using the fcSDK in PowerShell
April 25, 2007
Years ago, if I wanted to "script" Clarify [formerly linked to www.myclarify.com which no longer exists], I would use UNIX shell scripts, including UNIX mini languages such as sed and awk, that would create dat files that could be imported with dataex. When ClearBasic was introduced, we also got cbbatch, which was a command line interpreter for ClearBasic, so we could script Clarify using CB. When we (First Choice Software) introduced FCFL (First Choice Foundation Library), which was a set of COM objects, we could script using VBScript or JavaScript making COM calls. Same story for the fcSDK. Although the fcSDK is all native .NET, it also exposed a COM interface, so we could still do scripting as we did with FCFL, but we didn't have all of the .NET capabilities of fcSDK. But now, with the availability of PowerShell, we…
April 23, 2007
After a decade of development, CRM deployments are still problematic for many companies, as recent surveys show. Two main areas of concern are employee adoption of new deployments, and also large disparities between what executives expect and what the system actually delivers. Additionally, sales consultancy CSO Insights finds installation problems, with forty-one percent of implementations going over budget. The main reasons for budget overruns center around management failure to plan for user training and post-install support. This melds with the adoption rates being lower than expected. CSO explains: ”’I’m sure we could pick out companies whose numbers are well above average, and I think we would find those companies have had CRM [programs] for some time,’ Trailer said. ‘But I would suspect the difference is not their CRM[technology] but their management. CRM isn’t what makes the difference; people embracing the tools makes the difference.’” See CRM software fails sales This is…
We just got confirmation today from the ADO.Net team over at Microsoft that the EDM Designer will not be in the Orcas RTM bits. Had I been more diligent in reading their blog posts I would have noticed this earlier: EDM Wizard and Designer Featured in VSLive! San Francisco Keynote - Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:42 PM by dpblogs These videos provide some great information and a preview of the new EDM Wizard coming in Orcas, as well as a sneak preview of a new EDM Designer that we can expect to see released after the upcoming Orcas release. There it is sitting there in bold print way back a month ago and I missed it. This is bad news as most of our reason for using EF was related to the designer being there for our customers. It seems that at Orcas RTM the only…