Tounca Project Marketplace – First Month

Tounca LLC has just announced results after first month of working with their new platform Tounca Project Marketplace. If you don’t know what it is, this is unique online project marketplace for business solutions. This is the first online marketplace for projects and by their own words this is something similar as Airbnb or Uber, but for the business solutions. But as this is project engagement, this is a bit more complicated as platform has to prepare completely project team for implementation. But they also provide absolutely free-of-charge support for all potential clients for choosing the most fit solution based on their requirements as well as finding the best team.

After one month from starting, they had to find their own place on the web. But in this period they attracted almost 300 experts worldwide and they are already ready in Tounca Expert’s Community. Tounca also signed first project for implementation. We will wait some period to get first feedback and hope they will have new projects. They are available globally and you can find experts there for almost all global business solutions. You can find more information related with their first month on their report below:

Tounca LLC is an American Limited-Liability Company with headquarters in Dover, Delaware, filed on May 24, 2021. Tounca is a privately held, bootstrapped company, meaning it operates on its own profits without external investors up to date. Company is new but built on strong and long-term expertise. Even so, our plan is to become the global leader in next-generation services.

If you want to see how they work, you can start from here: Tounca | How it works ?

If you want to register as an expert (an individual or as a company), do it here: Tounca | Join expert community

Tounca Marketplace Platform has been launched

A few days ago, Tounca Marketplace Platform has been launched. What is new with this marketplace platform? Is this only one new online marketplace or something more?

This time we are witnesses of something new. As there are many different marketplace in recent years, we didn’t have Project Marketplace until now. This is the first global Project Marketplace… currently only for business software implementations. Founders want to make business software available for everybody who needs it. If you need any type of ERP, CRM, HRM, SCM, BI, or similar solution, you can contact them and they will help you first to find the most fit solution and after that company or individuals in virtual team who will implement such solution.

What is interesting here? Completely process of evaluation of customers’ needs is absolutely free for customers. Tounca Platform will help you to evaluate your requirements, to choose solution you really need, to prepare Request for Proposal, to provide a few really comparable offers and to choose implementer… and all of these for free. They don’t have any interest in choosing some specific solution, and because of that they will provide really and valuable support to find solution the most fit with your requirements. When you start with the project with chosen implementers, Tounca Platform will provide project management portal where you can track progress, but Tounca will provide additional project management supervision for free, to provide out-of-the risk environment. If you just want to check what you can get and what steps you can expect, we will suggest to start with ‘How it works’ page: Tounca | How it works ?

On the other side if you are an expert, you can easily make registration and wait to be engaged for full project or some specific task, depends what customer needs. Register here: Tounca | Join expert community.

Depends on your interest, we will write more about this new unique project marketplace as this is something really worthy of your attention.

Dynamics 365 Ecosystem Map – November 2021

Microsoft publishes its Dynamics and other business applications’ updates and new solutions/features two times per year. Near a month ago Microsoft announced as they call it – 2021 Wave 2 update.

Thanks to Vadim Korepim who prepared and posted this great poster with Dynamics 365 ecosystem, we can have insight in an overview of Microsoft business applications portfolio. This picture represent just part of whole product portfolio, and you can download whole poster on a link at the bottom of this article.

Once more, all credits are going to Vadim who made it. You can download whole poster with Dynamics Ecosystem November 2021 here:

Dynamics 365 October Release – 2021

In a few days we expect that Microsoft will announce their new releases for all Dynamics 365 solutions as we are used to. In a meantime until we wait for this new release, you can look what you can expect to get.

The October release for Dynamics 365 and industry clouds brings new innovations that provide you with significant capabilities to transform your business. The release contains hundreds of new features across Dynamics 365 applications, including Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Human Resources, Commerce, Fraud Protection, Business Central, Connected Store, Guides, Remote Assist, Customer Insights, Customer Voice, and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, Financial Services, and Nonprofit. You can reed about all these news here.

But there is also release plan for the Power Platform features summarized in a separate document. Microsoft Power Platform today comprises four products: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents. It also has two add-ins: AI Builder and Power Apps portals and completely release plan can be found here.

Looking forward to see those news in a practice.

Intuit to acquire MailChimp

Yesterday we got an info announced on September 13, that Intuit is acquiring MailChimp for approximately $12 billion in cash and stock advances. This acquisition will be definitely the largest made by intuit to date as the biggest one previously was Credit Carma for significantly less amount. Intuit is already one of the biggest players in business software world that makes QuickBooks, Mint, TurboTax ant other service, but this will help them to advance their goals of becoming an AI-driven expert platform as well as to become the center of small business growth and to disrupt the small business mid-market.

We think that the most of you already know what MailChimp is, but if not, MailChimp is Atlanta-based digital marketing and automation company with 1.200+ employees and pioneer in this industry. The company started out offering email marketing solutions before evolving u=into a global leader in customer engagement and marketing automation powered by a cutting-edge AI-drive technology stack. And what is important and non so usual is that MailChimp is one of bootstrapped startups founded in 2001.

(Image credit: Intuit)

By their words, together, Intuit and MailChimp will work to deliver on the vision of an innovative, end-to-end customer growth platform for small and mid-market businesses, allowing them to get their business online, market their business, manage customer relationships, benefit from insights and analytics, get paid, access capital, pay employees, optimize cash flow, be organized and stay compliant, with experts at their fingertips. Delivering on the promise to be the single source of truth, small and mid-market businesses will have the power to combine their customer data from MailChimp and QuickBooks’ purchase data to get the actionable insights they need to grow and run their businesses with confidence.

Dynamics 365 Ecosystem Map August 2021

Recently we republished an article about Dynamics 365 Ecosystem from October 2020, but as we know this is already obsolete as Microsoft is publishing new versions of their Dynamics 365 solutions two times per year. In a meantime, thanks to Vadim Korepin we have new version of Dynamics 365 Ecosystem. On the following picture you can find an overview of this ecosystem:

But what is more interested is to see full one page poster about Dynamics 365 Ecosystem as this business solutions’ ecosystem is really great. You can see and, of course download this unique ecosystem from our blog:

Enjoy in this poster and reed our blogs.

My Top 5 Apex APIs and Bonus

Andy in the Cloud

As readers of this blog will already have determined, I love API’s! So when I was approached by the team at 100 Days of Trailhead to share my Top 5 “things” my mind fell to API’s. This is a short blog post because effectively the brief was a 10 minute video! Well ok I ran a bit over in the end so its actually 15 minutes.

In the video I cover 5 Apex API’s and a Bonus API at the end. Thank you for 100 Days of Trailhead for asking to contribute and please do check out all the other amazing content they have on their website! You can watch the video below (or link here) and find full source code in this GitHub repository.

https://100daysoftrailhead.com/

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Scheduled Flows: How do they work?

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Very recently, one of my fellow #flownatic friend, Andy, shared a tweet about scheduled flows which led to some interesting suggestions on the thread.

The question here is which approach should you be taking, left or right? Take a moment to think about it! Which one did you pick?

So the ideal approach here would be the flow on the left. There is a ‘but’ here, that’ll get to a little later.
Before that let’s understand what’re the pitfalls of using the flow on the right.

  1. Can very easily hit 50,000 records SOQL limit.
  2. Even before 50k records SOQL limit, it will hit 2000(Maximum) elements executed limit.

Here, the 2nd pitfall is very specific to this…

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CPQ Application B2B Marketing Opportunities with Banners The Right Tool For The Right Job

channelcentral Blog

Successful marketing reaches the required target audience in their buying journey; the right message in the right place at the right time. From awareness to purchase, generating sales conversion is having the right communication and requiring minimal effort from the buyer. Utilizing banners in a Configure Price Quote (CPQ) application can significantly contribute to a holistic marketing campaign or tactical promotion.

Marketing mix

Once marketing planners have devised their strategy and campaign plan, existing and potential customers are segmented into groups, generally characterized by their needs. Targeting the chosen group or audience with a communications message is usually achieved by a ‘marketing mix’; a carefully planned mixture of media, such as advertising, public relations, digital marketing and exhibitions.

Decision-making process

A mixture of marketing communications media is typically used to support a buyer through the buying decision-making process, commonly known as AIDA (Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action).

Using social media will…

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Trailhead Review: Apex Specialist Superbadge

Teach Me Salesforce

This article is about my first Trailhead Super Badge, the Apex Specialist.

Challenge 1
Challenge 1 requires a fair amount of declarative admin work to get the objects and components in place to allow you to test in the UI (you could probably write the code without it but it’s important to test in the UI and in code).

Because Trailhead playgrounds use the base Developer Edition architecture, there are also all the usual custom fields and data, so it’s helpful to be familiar with that so that you can easily distinguish the components added by the managed package and those that are in every DE org (like SLAViolation__c).

I predict that the creation of Products in the unit tests could be annoying if it involves adding them to an active Price Book :/

The instructions are appropriately vague, like real-world requirements, and do require you to read them…

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