I need to archive data from a CRM system. Does anyone have any idea on how this can be achieved and what are possible strategies for the archiving?
I found the archival functionality in the CRM itself.
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I am creating a SQLite3 database and would like to know if it possible to create a report view similar to Microsoft Access? If this is possible, could someone answer with some resources I could review to learn how?
SQLLite does not have reports. It's just a database engine. Though many people use the term "database" colloquially to cover a user interface + reports for accessing data, that is not what is generally meant by technical folks. Typically databases are just a means for storing and retrieving data in a more raw format, and user interfaces and report engines are in a separate layer of software.
There are many reporting engines out there, and Stack Overflow isn't a forum that specializes in software recommendations, but if you do a search specifically for reporting engines that can connect to SQLLite, you may find something you're looking for.
I have one issue. Actually we have one spring-mvc web based application , for which we want report generation mechanism. I came across Talend ETL. Can anyone tell whether to use talend as report generation mechanism will be fruitful. Can i integrate it with my application ? Or whether i should search for some jar that can help in fast report generation mechanism.
Thanks
The question is vague, but let me try to answer anyway. Talend is not a reporting platform, but an ETL (read: data handling and transformation) tool.
You can embed a TOS job in your application, and it'sadvisable to do if you need to handle data in a medium/complex way without reinventing the wheel (ie. read an Excel file, do some things, save on DB...). But use it as reporting or data visualization platform would be a pain in the neck.
There're better embeddable solutions for these duties. Birt and JasperReports come in mind, but there's plenty of them. The real question for choosing from is: do you need a low-level reporting service, not much more than a framework at the end of the day, or a polished, maybe client-server, solution to query as a service?
I am using Oracle BI Publisher to generate reports with my java webservice call. My input source is XML files and design template is RTF. when i have huge volume of data in XML file, its throwing an out of memory at some point of time.
So, planning to have some alternative for BI publisher.
Is BIRT can fulfill my requirement?
If not, any other alternatives reporting tools to suit my requirement?
The problem seems a bit obvious and is that your XML have more info than your system can process (XML processing can be very memory intense), probably using a reporting engine that makes queries directly to your database will help you to alleviate this problem, but i recommend you to do exhaustive testing before switching.
In any question like this there are a lot of variables. The easiest way to answer the question about BIRT is download the software at http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/ and give it a try.
I would appreciate any advice on this. I am not a developer. I am starting an online ebook business. Our backend data base runs on purely web based applications running on an SQL server 2008, .NET 4 / 64 bit environment. It contains all the stock information and pricing data. Due to the fact that we need to store 200,000 sku and rising all the stock information and pricing needs to be kept in the back end database.
Nopcommerce has been suggested as a good ecommerce database and cms system. Would it be suitable for this project? And does it have an established ability to pull data to the back end for viewing, browsing and also transfering data into the basket for customer purchases?
Thanks for your help.
As far as I know there is no out of the box support for second (backend) database. However, as you may already know, it is an open source solution and can easily be extended to support what you are asking for. You will need to hire someone who is nopCommerce savvy.
Also, nopCommerce has a support forum ... you might have better luck asking your question there as the project contributors often visit that section. Good luck!
Not sure how to ask this question since I know very little about CRM software, but assume the following:
Joe has a website that offers a service related to customers of various businesses
Joe wants to approach companies and convince them to add hooks into their CRM software, so that every time they view an entry for a customer, there is one additional field, which points to information on Joe's website and is related to that customer.
As I understand it, most/all CRM systems have a way to add a new field for each entry in the database. However, for Joe to make it easier for companies to accept his proposal, can he prepare an add-on/script/plugin/etc so that every company with CRM software of a given brand can just run it and the new field gets added, so that Joe doesn't have to work with every company's individual CRM Software installation and tailor his solution to that? (Basically one add-on for companies who use SAP, one add-on for companies which use Oracle, etc)
Or is each company's CRM installation so customized that it is almost impossible to make a generic add-on/script/plugin/etc for all companies who use CRM of a given brand?
Unfortunately, there is no standard. This is one reason why it's a good idea to stick to popular CRMs such as Salesforce and SugarCRM. Both have a large selection of add-ons through AppExchange and SugarExchange respectively.
Most modern CRM solutions is based on an SOA approach. Each CRM platform is design to support independent vendor solutions like this. Each CRM uses a different deployment approach and different software development languages. Depending on the language you know, that may help direct you to the first CRM product.
I hope I understand your question correctly, you want any system to be able to link in to yours and retrieve a link so that people can pull data from your system via the link. If that is the case the best way is to create a Webservice, any CRM program should be able to call the Webservice and get the required data.