How to Sell Your App on Salesforce AppExchange?

What is Salesforce AppExchange?
AppExchange is a marketplace for cloud computing applications and consulting partners. Launched in 2005, Salesforce-AppExchange is credited to be the world’s first and largest online cloud computing applications and services marketplace. Applications sold or distributed on the exchange have been built by Salesforce.com partners or third-party developers for the community. Users can browse, test drive, and install (from over a thousand apps) to add to their Salesforce.com environment including apps for sales, customer service, marketing, IT & administration, human resources, finance, enterprise resource planning, and collaboration.

Advantages
Whether you are a Salesforce.com user or an independent software vendor (ISV), Salesforce-AppExchange can be immensely useful to you.

If you fall into the first category - users, AppExchange can let you extend Force.com to more departments and functions easily. Through AppExchange you can leverage the power of the Salesforce community to find best solutions to your business needs. You can instantly choose from a large pool of well-thought-out apps for common needs (without having to reinvent the wheel investing a lot of time and effort). Moreover, Salesforce-AppExchange lets you test drive your chosen app by letting you interact with it to your satisfaction in a sample instance or your production environment sandbox.

If you are an independent software vendor (ISV) into cloud apps development, AppExchange listing can be your gateway to millions of potential customers. By letting you make your app publicly available on AppExchange to 100,000+ customers, AppExchange listing dramatically improves the odds of your app’s success. The listing provides app providers with one of the fastest ways to take their applications to market, showcase those to a world-wide target audience of millions of users, and helps build rapport with potential customers.

How to List Your App on it?
Selling on AppExchange is easy: become a Salesforce.com partner & publish your app. For becoming a partner, first select the Program Model (ISVforce or Force.com Embedded) that best suits your business. ISVforce lets you build, market, and sell your app to Salesforce.com customers. Force.com Embedded lets you build, market, and sell your app to any customer. After choosing the best AppExchange Partner Program Model for your context, you can submit your registration and accept terms of agreement. For publishing your app, set up your Salesforce-Partner Portal, create and list your app, pass a security review, and go public to millions of potential customers. For a step-by-step summary of listing your app on the exchange, you can refer Mindfire's "Sell Your App on AppExchange" guide.

Need Some Help?
Expert development service providers like Mindfire Solutions, backed by years of experience in Salesforce customization and Force.com development for global clients across industry domains, can help you create engaging cloud apps and get those listed on the exchange. The fully-certified Offshore Salesforce development team of Mindfire's can also powerfully customize and/or extend your Salesforce.com CRM to help you leverage its true power for your business. If you want to customize or Hire AppExchange product developer and need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s Salesforce Application development to personalize and extend capabilities and build cloud apps.

Interesting Dynamics CRM Plugin – Global Search

Are you facing the same problem as many others are doing? Do you run into issues with the data in your Dynamics CRM application? Have you encountered a situation when you needed the application to look up something for you and it crashed or when you wanted to put up your projections, the system failed & corrupted the data?

This sure does happen at times, if not frequently, with many administrators. Due to a highly interactive user interface and high volume of data storing and crunching ability, this is very obvious that administrators face data redundancy situations and find it difficult to search and find exact data they need. Although Dynamics provides its own ‘out of box’ functionalities which helps administrators in specific searches to some extent but it still does not fulfill all search options/criteria.

There are many offshore Dynamics CRM development companies who developed third party CRM plug-ins. One among them developed ‘Dynamics-CRM-2011-Global-Search’ which addressed the searching issue. To develop third party plug-ins or to customize any “out of box” features or to develop CRM Utilities, one should have right skillset for it. And since the skillset is rare, there is huge inrush of interest for finding development companies with very robust teams, adept in CRM Version-4 and Version-2011 certifications to handle customizations. Like, I said about ‘Global-Search’ which is compatible with Dynamics CRM 2011 Customization and helps administrators immensely. Let us understand more about the plugin.

When there is too much congestion in terms of data in your customer relationship management system, it takes long time to search a simple data/ entity. Then it is very essential to have an additional solution which will help you to search data quickly and ability to click and open records directly from the results page. Mindfire Solutions’s offshore Dynamics CRM team developed a CRM 2011 plug-in, name as “Global Search’”, which will help you to search data quickly in your CRM-system. ‘Global Search’ solution allows CRM users for a quick and easy search across several entities and multiple fields. For example, users can search record(s) across entities by giving its required searching value of fields. If you want to customize an application or want to develop any application in the Microsoft product, then it is not a difficult task any more.

Mindfire Solutions, a software development and testing company has extensive experience and deep expertise in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Development and Customization, having worked in the technology for over 6 years. They are counted as one of the leading software services companies in Dynamics CRM application services in India. Several of its experts are Microsoft .Net and CRM-4.0, Dynamics-CRM 2011 certified. The expert CRM team has deep knowledge on CRM-4.0, CRM-2011 and Online CRM. The team has executed many offshore projects in various versions of Dynamics CRM including version-4 and version-2011 successfully across the domain and of different complexity.

The range of services provided on Dynamics CRM version 4 & version 2011 development services are customization services, Custom workflow development, Plugin development and integration, Third-Party integrations, Custom SSRS Report Development on CRM, Remote Support to maintain applications, implementation, Upgradation, Utilities development and development of lines business on xRM services.

To Hire Dynamics CRM developers India or CRM Software Development India team, you can call at 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com. We will be glad to help you.

Top Reasons Why You Salesforce CRM Customization Is Easy

Each business has certain things unique about the way it does business. Your business may be different from your competitors in terms of your business model, business processes, product or service differentiators, etc. Customizing your CRM to embrace this uniqueness is essential to your success.

You will of course want your CRM solution to adapt to this uniqueness inherent in the way you do business (and not the other way round). A good CRM is designed with the above in mind. Salesforce CRM is hence immensely flexible by design and can be made to perfectly fit the contours of your unique business needs. You can powerfully customize and extend Salesforce development India the way you like depending on your evolving business needs.

If there is anything worse than an un-customized CRM, it is a CRM incorrectly customized for your business. Limited customization options offered by some CRMs can prove to be a severe handicap. One may have to settle for mismatched functionality leading to confusion and impaired productivity. Thankfully, with Salesforce, an ill-customized system is a thing of the past. Powered by Force.com platform, it offers you virtually limitless ways to customize and extend your Salesforce-CRM to suit your current and evolving needs.

The Force.com platform provides the option of point-and-click configuration for basic customization needs and a full developer toolkit for more powerful custom application development and integration needs.

Salesforce Customization: Point-and-Click Configuration
If you are an administrator or power user with an understanding of CRM and the Salesforce system, you can make a wide range of preliminary customizations yourself using the point-and-click interface. You can configure the attributes or metadata associated with the application’s objects without programming. Since users cannot change core code and work within Salesforce CRM’s metadata framework, customization done this way doesn’t affect application integrity. Here are some samples of what you can do with point-and-click customization:

Add your organization logo.

• Customize your personal information; add, remove, or reorder application tabs.
• Customize CRM’s tabs and page layouts for everyone in your organization.
• Create custom fields to track information you deem necessary (e.g. a contact’s nickname, preferred mode of contact, etc.).
• Create custom web tabs to view web pages you use frequently without leaving Salesforce CRM (e.g. your company’s intranet or a wiki).
• Create custom object tabs to manage information that is important for your business (e.g. ad price records for an advertising business).
  

Salesforce Custom Development: Customization at Coding Level
If you want to take your CRM customization beyond adjusting layouts and creating fields, you can use Force.com, Apex, Visualforce, triggers, advanced workflows, etc. to powerfully customize and extend Salesforce CRM. You can customize and/or extend almost every aspect of your CRM to make it fit your way of doing business. Here expert development service providers can help you customize CRM for your unique business needs in the most optimal and powerful ways.

Salesforce Development Service Providers
Expert development service providers like Mindfire Solutions, backed by years of experience in Salesforce customization and Force.com development, can help you leverage CRM's true power for your business.

If you want to customize or Hire Salesforce developers and need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s Salesforce Application development to personalize and extend capabilities and build cloud apps.

3 Reasons Why Customizing Dynamics CRM in-house is Tough!

There are many software company worldwide, who are developed skillset to help other on their MS Dynamics CRM Development or customization work. They have built with very robust Dynamics developers’ team with certified CRM 4 and 2011. Also they brash-up their knowledge regularly with every small bit of changes on world of MS Dynamics CRM. They do regular forum activity to interact with all gurus across globe to help other to grow and overcome if any one finds difficulties when they do customization work. They do lots of work including third party plug-in development, ‘out of box ‘customization etc. There are many offshore Dynamics CRM consulting company who are involve themselves with these type of activities, which basically help kind of people like you or me to implement Microsoft Dynamics in our respective business.

As I told you, there are many offshore MSD Customization companies across globe, Mindfire Solutions is one of those operating at India, who helps her clients on development and Customization work. It has its great setup/ infrastructure to support all sort of development or consulting work. The best part of her is all her developers are MSD CRM 4.0, 2011 certified. So, why dirt hands with Dynamics CRM Customization works? When there are already developers who developed many third party plug-in and do customization work. They built 3rd party plugins, one of them is Multi Lead Address Holder which is compactable with version 2011. It allows storing only one address per lead. If the requirements come to store multiple addresses against a single lead then you have to customize your application to meet the requirement. Mindfire developers are developed a plug-in which is compatible with version 2011, it supports to hold/store multiple addresses against a lead. It also assigns the addresses to accounts after the particular lead gets qualified and converted to accounts. Multiple Lead Address Holder plug-in supports “Account Entity” to copy lead addresses after successful qualify conversion.

Mindfire Solutions, 12 year’s old software development and testing company has extensive experience in customer relationship management Development, Microsoft CRM Customization services for more than 6 years. It is counted as leading company on MS CRM Software Development India. Several of its experts are Microsoft .Net certified as well as having certification on CRM version 4.0. The export team has deep knowledge on customer relationship management version 4.0, 2011 and online version as well. The team has executed many offshore projects on customer relationship management with different version successfully across the domain with different complexity. The range of services provided on CRM version 4 or 2011 are customization service, Custom workflow service, Plug-in development and integration, Third-Party integration, Custom SSRS Report management, Remote Support to maintain Dynamics application, Online Dynamics development and implementation, Dynamics Upgradation, Utilities service, Lines of business on XRM services. The other service Mindfire solutions provides are customer relationship management Consulting, Installation of Role-based security definitions, Implementation, Configuration and upgrades.

To know more about our expertise in Custom Dynamics CRM development services and outsourcing your Microsoft CRM Customization services, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Why Do You Need a Customized CRM?

All most all industry with different domain has implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM because of its flexible feature and easy deployment facility. It gives wide range of ‘out of box’ feature, by the help of which one can manage his business. But still there are few extra requirements arise when one implementing it, for which he needs some customization, work on it. Dynamics CRM Customization needs some special skillset. It is depending on the kind of customization work or needs as well. An education hub, a tallest player in the field of education domain in USA market implemented it in his education business. He hired a MSD CRM Consultant to help him to do his job. But the consultant has not helped him to customize at some extent with few of its ‘out of box’ functionality. The education hub wants some more customization work on his existing email system. He wants to add a Gmail connector or importer in his email server.

The Gmail contact importer is a MSD CRM 2011 plugin that will import all his customer contacts from Gmail Account to its “Contacts Entity”. This will help him in importing his customer contacts directly from Gmail Account to its Contacts Entity simply by giving your Email Id and Password. The customized plug-in will work for the On-Premise/IFD deployments where GAC can be accessed. Another feature of the Importer plugin he wants to develop is that it prevents the entry of duplicate contacts in the System. I.e. while importing the contacts, it automatically checks the presence of the contact. If found it simply updates it else it creates a new one. This piece of Customization or MSD Development needs skills for certified expert to handle it. The education hub searched for many offshore MSD development company in India, finally he contacted Mindfire solutions, a leading Dynamics CRM Customization company having more than 25 certified developers. They developed a Gmail Contact Importer which is compactable with CRM version 2011. Now the client is doing well in his business as a leading education service provider in USA.

Mindfire Solutions, 12 year’s old software development and testing company has extensive experience in MSD Development, MSD Customization service for more than 6 years. It is counted as leading company on MS CRM application services in India. Several of its experts are Microsoft .Net certified as well as having certification on CRM version 4.0. The export MSD team has deep knowledge on customer relationship management version 4.0, 2011 and online version as well. The team has executed many offshore projects on customer relationship management with different version successfully across the domain with different complexity. The range of services provided on MSD on version 4 or 2011 development services are customization service on it, MSD Custom workflow development, Plugin development, Plugin integration, Third-Party integration, Custom SSRS Report Development on MSD application, Remote Support to maintain Dynamics application, Custom MSD Development, Online Dynamics development, MSD implementation, Dynamics Upgradation, MSD Utilities development and development of lines business on XRM services. The other service Mindfire solutions provides are customer relationship management Consulting, Installation of Role-based security definitions, Implementation, Configuration and upgrades.
To know more about our expertise in Custom Dynamics CRM development services and outsourcing your Microsoft Dynamics CRM Development requirements, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Small & Medium Businesses Can’t Say No to QuickBooks

In case you are looking for streamlining your accounts related operations and you by now would be aware that Quickbooks provides a relief. If you are of those businesses where your business needs cant be changed because Quickbooks’ modules do not support them, by now, you would be aware that while many organizations offer these customization services, only a few of them would actually be able to execute the project successfully for you. Read on to know why.

If you are looking for QuickBooks development & integration services then you would ideally be a small & medium business owner. Traditionally QB was considered to be very popular software among small business owners who had no formal accounting training. In its initial years of operation, the software rapidly claimed up to 85 percent of the small business accounting software market. While it is still considered to be a chosen software for SMB and continues to command the vast majority of this market, the makers of QuickBooks have come up with more advanced versions, the current one being version 13.0, which aims to make its users job easier & more flexible. This makes QuickBooks the premier accounting software which caters adequately to the small & medium sized business or non-profit organizations.

Like any good software, QuickBooks is also very much customizable and can be made to function even better by implementing add-on products. For instance, your business is in need of custom add-on applications or would like to include custom reporting functionality by using third party database connectors for QB, then you would need to hire the services of development professionals well versed in the technology product. Implementing electronic data interchange (EDI) capabilities to automate transactions with your business partners, setting up remote backup services to ensure business continuity, improving data accuracy and saving on time taken to do so by integrating bar code technologies with your existing processes & network optimization for multi user implementations would definitely require the expert development services from a reliable QuickBooks development company.

Mindfire Solutions has an expert development team who would assist you right from the very beginning. We would help you decide which version of the QB software would be suitable for addressing your business needs, implement the particular version of QB so as to help capture the business data accurately. In case need arises help you in trouble-shooting by providing expert and reliable maintenance services. More than 12 years in the software industry & nearly 5 years of QuickBooks experience provides our deft programmers the much required expertise to cater to your business needs which may be of varying complexities. Our skilled QuickBooks developers have the required tools and expertise to build customized extensions to your system or integrate other third party applications into your core accounting system.

Mindfire Solutions offers its customers a gamut of development services which includes creation, integration, implementation & maintenance to name a few. Hire professional development services from Mindfire Solutions and experience the quality/reliability of QuickBooks Development & Integration services offered by our talented skill pool.
To know more about our expertise in Rapid QuickBooks Development or to hire quickbooks developer, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Customized Salesforce Helps Businesses Fine Tune Response Rates

Salesforce CRM
Salesforce.com’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions are one of the most popular CRM solutions worldwide. Customer Relationship Management focuses on winning and keeping happy customers. Top CRM solutions such as Salesforce CRM help businesses achieve customer delight leading to lasting customer relationships and make it easy for them to acquire new customers. As a pioneer of cloud computing technologies, Salesforce CRM has been instrumental in leveling the CRM playing field. Salesforce CRM enables small and medium businesses, too, to leverage the benefits of CRM, which was earlier possible for large enterprises only because of the economically-prohibitive entry barrier associated with old on-premises CRM solutions.

Salesforce Development
Recognizing the fact that no two businesses are exactly alike, Salesforce CRM has been designed to be eminently customizable. You can customize and extend Salesforce CRM the way you like depending on your current and evolving business needs. A basic understanding of CRM and the Salesforce system is all that is needed to start making simple point-and-click customizations. More powerful Salesforce development would require knowledge of Apex programming language and Visualforce framework. Salesforce development service providers, owing to their specialized experience, can help you customize Salesforce CRM to your unique business needs in the most optimal and powerful ways using Apex and Visualforce. If you are an existing Salesforce CRM user who wants to extend its capabilities or are migrating from other technologies to Salesforce, endless possibilities await you. With expert Salesforce development services, you can customize and extend your Salesforce CRM to be a competitive advantage.

Mindfire Solutions
Mindfire Solutions is a top Salesforce development services provider with a strong track record of serving Salesforce customers across many industries and with diverse business needs. Mindfire provides a wide range of offshore Salesforce development services including Salesforce customization, Salesforce migration, Salesforce integration and Force.com development using Apex and Visualforce. Clients use our dedicated team of Salesforce developers to customize Salesforce functionality to suit their business workflows and to make their existing processes even more efficient. Mindfire’s expert Salesforce developers have made deep use of Salesforce.com, Force.com, Visualforce pages, Apex classes, S-controls, Triggers, Views, Page Layouts, Workflows, and have generated advanced reports and sophisticated dashboards.


If you are an existing Salesforce CRM user or a Salesforce service provider with Salesforce customization needs, our offshore Salesforce development services can help you. Our offshore Salesforce development services can also help you with migrating customer data from your other applications to Salesforce, integrating Salesforce with your organization's on-premise applications or external cloud services, and creating powerful custom applications on the Force.com Platform-as-a-Service cloud platform.

Mindfire's Salesforce experience and flexible working model will result in significant cost reductions and decreased development time, which will greatly suit your budget and business needs. If you want to customize or Hire Salesforce developers and need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s Salesforce Application development to personalize and extend capabilities and build cloud apps.