www.itsonthegrid.com (“IOTG”) is a subscription-supported website that provides competitive feature film development information to entertainment industry professionals as well as people aspiring to break into the movie business.  The site tracks inside information on movie projects in development, as well as the people and the companies involved with each project.  What differentiates IOTG from sites such as the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), however, is its listings of open writing assignments (“OWAs”) and open directing assignments (“ODAs”) at Hollywood studios.  Essentially, OWAs and ODAs are job opportunities for professional writers and directors.  Prior to IOTG’s launch, this information was not publicly available in the aggregate in any form, let alone via a search-driven application such as this one.

“We realized from the early planning stages that a force.com application was the smartest way forward for www.itsonthegrid.com,” said Jason Scoggins, President of Itsonthegrid, Inc.  “After researching a number of force.com consulting partners, we selected Mansa Systems because of their excellent reputation for delivering projects on time and on budget.  We couldn’t be more pleased with their work, and I’m looking forward to working closely with Mansa Systems’ team on an on-going basis as we enhance and expand the site.”

As of today, IOTG’s database includes over 1100 projects in active development throughout Hollywood, including nearly 500 open writing assignments and dozens of open directing assignments, as well as over 725 companies (agencies, management companies, production companies, studios and other buyers) and nearly 3400 individuals (agents, executives, managers, producers and writers, plus a growing list of actors and directors).  Planned future development of the application includes additional personalization features for subscribers as well as deployment of force.com ideas.

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GoodData enables companies to collaborate around the data that drives their business through a powerful, on-demand service.

GoodData does this by combining the reach of Web 2.0 with the massive scalability of cloud computing to deliver a new generation of collaborative analytics. It may sound complex, but unlike a lot of business intelligence, GoodData is free to start, simple to use, and costs a whole lot less than you think.

“We are excited that Mansa Systems shares our vision of Customer Analytics,” said Roman Stanek, GoodData Founder and CEO. “Mansa Systems helps move GoodData customers from initial success to broader adoption of business intelligence in their organizations.”

To learn more about GoodData, please visit http://www.gooddata.com

Mansa Systems combines deep application knowledge with decades of business expertise to strategize, develop, and implement business intelligence solutions that facilitate strategic decision making at every level of your organization.

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You can convert xml data into .csv files using software named as ‘Exult XML convertor’. It can convert the data into Ms Access , SQL Server tables, .csv files etc formats. This software converts single xml file into multiple .csv files if your xml file contain nested tags. These .csv files are connected to each other using Primary and Foreign key relationship. We can use the columns Primary key and Foreign key as an external key to upsert data into salesforce.com

For eg: If you xml file contains:

<Contact>

<Notes>

</Notes>

</Contact>

Exult XML converter will create two .csv files with columns

Contact.csv- columns- ContactP key, FirstName, LastName etc

Notes.csv - columns - NotesP Key, ContactF key, title, body etc

We can relate notes with contacts (ParentId) using Salesforce Id of contacts. Add a column in Notes.csv and using VLOOKUP formula in Excel we can relate two .csv files and hence can upsert /insert data into salesforce.

Note: you need to export all the contact data from salesforce first to assign ParentIds to the Notes. In Notes.csv VLOOKUP will assign the Ids using values from column’ ContactP Key’ from one .csv and column ‘ContactF key’ from another.csv file.

For example, there is a custom field on Contact ‘Price__c’ and its value is 1.400,00 (German Euro format) on Contact record detail page. So, the difference in the output would be:

<apex: outputText value=”{Contact.Price__c} “></apex:outputText>

Output: 1,400.00

<apex: outputField value=”{Contact.Price__c} “></apex:outputField>

Output: 1.400,00

The difference lies because <apex:outputText> displays the value as it is stored in the Salesforce database but <apex: outputField> displays the value as it is on the detail Page of the record.

Adeptia offers an easy to deploy and cost-effective solution called Integration Accelerator for Salesforce for integrating customer data with Salesforce CRM platform and so allows customers to maximize the value of Salesforce.com investment. This improves customer access to critical business information by giving the ability to efficiently move data into and out of Salesforce.

Mansa Systems will provide implementation, customization and consulting services for Adeptia customers.

To learn more about Adeptia’s Integration Accelerator for Salesforce, visit http://www.adeptia.com/solutions/salesforce_integration_accelerator.html

To learn more about Mansa Systems’ integration services for Salesforce, visit http://www.mansasys.com/salesforce-integration

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