Blogs

Experience the Ultimate Dreamforce: Learn, Enjoy, and Give Back

  • October 15, 2019
  • Owen Hughes
"Experience the Ultimate Dreamforce: Learn, Enjoy, and Give Back." “Dreamforce has grown into so much more than a conference — it’s an experience like no other.” That is what the website says and it is shaping up to achieve this goal. There will be plenty of the normal activities,

Salesforce using Magic Mover converts attachments to Lighting Experience

  • October 7, 2019
  • Owen Hughes
When converting Attachments to Files, Salesforce states that using “Magic Mover for Notes And Attachments to Lightning Experience” is the best approach and this is a free Appexchange app developed by Salesforce themselves.  However, there are a number of things you must be aware of before

Silicon Regatta tops the £1 million.

  • September 30, 2019
  • Owen Hughes
Last week we were lucky to be involved in the Silicon Cup Regatta, where, together with Salesforce, we sponsored a boat and took some of our contacts to crew the yacht through the Regatta. With the weather doing its normal thing and being as unpredictable as ever, one of the races was cancel

Metacube join with Salesforce to enter Silicon Cup, but it is not what it seems.

  • September 23, 2019
  • Owen Hughes
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

Metacube host ISV Meetup debate on Go to Market Challenges

  • September 16, 2019
  • Owen Hughes
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

Tier1 Names Metacube a Certified Development Partner

  • September 6, 2019
  • Owen Hughes
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

Attachments or Files, that is the question?

  • August 29, 2019
  • Owen Hughes
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

IP Protection in ISV Apps

  • August 2, 2019
  • Owen Hughes
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

Lightning Can Strike

  • July 16, 2019
  • Owen Hughes
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

STABILITY IN MULTIPLE SALESFORCE CONFIGURATIONS AND EDITIONS

  • July 11, 2019
  • Owen Hughes
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.