Creating custom Apex SOAP based on Web Services in Salesforce.com and accessing from Java Application

What Is SOAP API?

SOAP API is used to create, retrieve, update or delete records, such as accounts, leads, and custom objects. It supports data in the form of XML. Requires WSDL files for the integration.

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Three notable features of Salesforce1

Salesforce 1With Salesforce1 Salesforce.com has rebranded (and re-positioned) its development platform for its mobile readiness (mobile app) and integration capabilities. Salesforce 1 is a platform that will help software products vendors, developers to build mobile apps and integrate them with other apps quickly. With Salesforce1 even the administrators of Salesforce.com can create the simple mobile apps with just point and click customization – unlocking the power of mobile apps on Salesforce.com platform.

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ABC of CRM

Salesforce CRM software

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Account:

An Account represents a company, organization, business or a similar entity with whom you do business (and want to track in CRM).
Aka: Customer, Organization, Company

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Salesforce.com Visual Workflow Introduction (Force.com Flow)

Salesforce.com Visual Workflow allows customers to build ‘flows’, which guide users through screens for collecting and / or and updating data. They can also be used as an script in a Call Center Scenario. This article is an introduction or primer to Force.com Flow in a Q&A format.

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How to design the sales process in CRM

Before implementing a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) designing the sales process is the important key for success. A well designed or poorly designed Sales process can make or break the effectiveness of your Sales initiatives. Deep thought should be given when designing and mapping the sales process to the CRM.

salesforce crm for sales

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CXO’s Guide to Salesforce1

Whether you are a CIO, CSO, CEO (CxO) the announcement of the launch of Salesforce1 by Marc Benioff (Chairman & CEO of Salesforce) yesterday at Dreamforce must of interest to you. We have been told that it is a great new mobile platform with great potential. However a lot questions still remain unanswered about Salesforce1 which we will try to answer in this post. [Read more…]

Nurturing Customer Relationships Using CRM

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) comprises of three words “ Customer, Relationship, and Management. Most CRMs have a transactional view of the customer “They are built on the premise that customer relationship is nothing but the transactions. While this view may be good for capturing and analyzing the data “ it does not helps in nurturing the relationship the most important leg CRM. [Read more…]

Salesforce.com Tip of the Day – Starting with Activity and Task Management

Today’s Salesforce.com Tip of the Day is – How to utilize the Salesforce Activity and Task Management features. We will be coverings the basics in the post – leaving the advanced tips for the future posts.

If you use Salesforce Activity and Task Management tools it will help you and your sales team organize and manage your day in an effective manner. Here is what you can do using Salesforce Activity and Task Management

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Salesforce.com Tip of the Day – Working with List views

List views give you access to specific sets of data based on a criteria. You have many standard views (created by Salesforce or your administrator) available in Salesforce. In addition to this you can also easily create custom views for the items most relevant to you.

Some of the common views are

  • All Accounts
  • My Accounts
  • My Contacts
  • New Leads this week
  • Birthdays this week

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Salesforce.com Tip of the Day – Advanced Search – Using Wildcards and Boolean

Our Salesforce.com Tip of the Day is on Advanced Search – Using Wildcards and Boolean when using Global Search. We have already covered basics of Search in Salesforce.com in a previous Salesforce.com tip posted earlier:

How to use Global Search in Salesforce.com

In this article we will explore the advanced search.

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