Quickbooks for Salesforce.com
What is DataSynch?
DataSynch is a bridge between your salesforce.com and QuickBooks applications that connects basic customer and sales information. You understand the value that salesforce.com will bring to your business, but all of your important information is trapped inside QuickBooks. DataSynch will migrate your customer information into salesforce.com. You’ll immediately be able to generate orders in either application, but also give visibility of sales information to anyone that has access to either application.
DataSynch is a must for any Quickbooks and Salesforce.com user. We recently deployed this to our customer and within a day of deploying Datasynch all of the their customers who they previously had no visibility into were in Salesforce.com and providing both their marketing and sales teams with vital data. Using data sync shaved hours off of the time it usually takes to migrate data and nearly paid for itself in devlopment time.
If you would like more information on DataSynch for Salesforce.com contact us.
Educators: Get your heads in the Cloud
For years teachers have told us to stop daydreaming and to get our heads out of the clouds. Now many years later vindictive students are exacting their revenge and trying to get teachers heads into the Cloud.
Confused; well I recently read where a teacher was forcing her students to buy Microsoft word because that was the only way she would accept assignments. Sound Orwellian, it isn’t but it is a common occurrence in classrooms and colleges throughout the US and most likely the world.
Last week, my 13 year old, who has been using Google docs for years came home from school very upset because the Netbook that I just bought her doesn’t have MS Word. She informed me that her teacher mandates all assignments be turned in in .doc format, so I needed to buy her Word.
I obviously refused and it took her a while, but when I forced her to see that an HTML editor was roughly the same thing as a word processor, it became clear to her that think client side software with proprietary and version specific features was a hindrance rather than an enabler of productivity. She went to school the next day and confounded her teacher, who still doesn’t get it. That is what we are up against.
This is not another Microsoft hater trying to decry woes of the Evil Gates empire, but someone trying to invigorate something that has died at Microfat Code many years ago: INNOVATION.
What we are up against is what people have been fighting for years, fear of change. People fear change because it involves learning something new, it involves investing more time into something else, that while bettering society will be an inconvenience to those who must embrace it; many of them edudictators who would rather teach you what they know rather than what they should know.
When it comes to cloud computing Educators, IT Personnel, Business and Governments need to start thinking of it as a first resort to solve a business problem rather than as a last resort.
Don’t ask, “what can I download to do this on my PC?” Ask rather, “what cloud service will take what I have and deliver what I want, where I want?”
However before that can happen a major shift in thinking about the cloud needs to take place which is summed up well in the quote below:
The cloud should not be the mere connective tissue between pockets of local capability. It should not be the last thing that you use, after you’ve done everything else that you can possibly do with local facilities. The cloud should not be at the edge of your IT map.