This week Metacube are joining forces with Salesforce to enter the Silicon Cup Regatta. The event, now in its nineteenth year, is an opportunity for the IT industry to come together and support charities that give opportunities to people who wouldn’t otherwise have them. There may also be a compe

Wednesday last week saw the latest ISV Meetup hosted by GoCardless in London. The evening, having begun with the normal pizza and beer and catch up, was split into two sessions. The first a panel discussion where the audience had an opportunity to question a panel made up of different skill sets, i

We have, in recent months, been discussing the benefits of a PDO helping ISV’s deliver their go to market strategy and enhancing both the resource and skills of the ISV, enabling them to deliver high quality solutions for their clients. There is nothing better than seeing this in practice and

With Lightning taking a front seat there are some changes that we will all need to incorporate when using Salesforce and developing apps. With Lightning, Attachments have been deprecated, meaning you can no longer create any new Attachments. In their place Attachments are being replaced by Sales

The benefit of launching an app as an ISV is that you potentially open up a huge marketplace for your offering. However, one element very few ISVs pay close enough attention to is ensuring that their technology, especially the core engine parts of their app, has full IP Protection. This is probably

Time is ticking, convert now before Lightning strikes. Do you know parts of your Salesforce system may stop working after October? With Salesforce Lightning due to become mandatory in October this year, it will change the way ISV’s create their apps. If you are not fully prepared, this chan

Building an application for 1 Salesforce system, for many, is an enviable position. You know the Salesforce edition you are working with and its limits and you know all the bespoke configurations that have been built into the system that you need to consider when designing the new application.

Enable you to win more customer’s who have specific needs. It may seem common sense, but introducing fields of wrong data types, or junction objects at the wrong hierarchy level etc can create a very confused and rigid architecture constraining your customers ability to develop and grow. As a

In our last blog, we looked at ensuring our code was streamlined and efficient, but we also need to look at the technology that we use to develop and deploy the product. Many solutions can be developed to solve the same issue and although each often has pros and cons, often there are obvious techno

ISV customers demand more responsive products, especially when they are paying for them and if the code is efficient and streamlined the Baseline product will be easier to expand. Having made the code improvements we have made, our app is now working well, with no exceptions being raised by gove