It’s no secret that despite our focus on cloud computing, ProQuest comes to the party with rich heritage in developing enterprise-class systems, typically developed using the J2EE platform. And we continue to work with several large-scale customers who count on our J2EE expertise.
We asked our Head of Solution Design, Fergus Kelledy to port a [click to continue]
Here’s a backgrounder to Heroku, Salesforce’s PAAS (Platform as a Service) solution. We’ve been looking into the value proposition, and a couple of our team have been using it to build an application. We will be releasing a series of video updates to tell you more so watch this space.
On December 15th Salesforce announced that they had acquired Rypple, and that Rypple’s next generation social performance management application will be re-launched as “Successforce”. The announcement is here.
This has particular relevance to ProQuest as we are avid adopters of both platforms. We began a journey with Rypple back in May 2011 replacing our previous system SuccessFactors. Ironically, the company SuccessFactors was purchased by the giant SAP just two weeks before the Salesforce/Rypple transaction. The SAP transaction is detailed here – the value was a whopping US$3.4 billion – a hefty price tag and one we predict will turn out to be a very high price. Some challenges are listed in this analysis. SAP now have five HR platforms their customers have to think about. Go figure. [click to continue]
ProQuest hit a major milestone this week, when one of our major enterprise customers went into production following a major project to migrate key website assets into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Whilst AWS is almost the default standard for young entrepreneurial companies to develop their systems and prepare for potential growth this development represents a major milestone in Australia.
A huge step toward showing Australian corporates the fabulous potential of an agile, elastic, scalable platform for growing their business and handling peak workloads. As soon as we can provide comprehensive details we will publish them here.
Rapid conception and delivery of a new website, fully integrated with Salesforce, for a limited edition version of NUIX’s world-leading eDiscovery product
Rapid creation of efficient business process to execute web-based transactions and capture customer data.
ProQuest Solution:
Salesforce Sales Cloud,
Salesforce Sites,
Conga Composer,
Paypal integration
ProQuest’s cloud consulting practice combines a range of skills to facilitate new business processes to propel business growth. Within 40 days, our team designed, and fully implemented a solution to ensure target go-live was met. [click to continue]
We think its entirely appropriate that we practice what we preach here at ProQuest. Our latest investment on our own journey toward better processes is our purchase of Marketo’s new Spark product. We think it’s a fine product and we’ve been telling many of our customers to take a look as well.
Today, Marketo, the fastest growing provider of Revenue Performance Management (RPM) solutions, introduced Spark by Marketo™. Spark is a new brand ofmarketing automation tailored specifically for small businesses – the fastest-growing and largest segment of today’s economy
Spark shares the same technology foundation that powers Marketo’s award-winning solutions for larger enterprises, used by more than 1,300 customers worldwide to accelerate revenue growth. By pairing Spark with expert training, support and mentoring services, Marketo delivers a distinctive marketing automation solution purpose-built and priced for small businesses, so they can find more prospective customers – and grow faster.
Spark helps small businesses create meaningful, cost-effective marketing campaigns – using inbound marketing, search, email, events and social media. Spark automates lead nurturing efforts and accurately scores leads, so sales people can focus on the right opportunities to bring in more revenue faster. Spark also measures the impact of each campaign and program in real-time, including email volumes and leads generated, so users can easily make changes to improve revenue growthWe think its entirely appropriate that we practice what we preach here at ProQuest.
Our latest investment on our own journey toward better processes, is our purchase of Marketo’s new Spark product. We think it’s a fine product and we’ve been telling many of our customers to take a look as well. We’re excited about what it will bring to us, and we’re itching to get going.
Marketo say that Spark is a new brand of marketing automation tailored specifically for [click to continue]
Enfinium is an award winning Australian registered financial institution providing online trading and managed account capabilities to retail, high-net worth and institutional clients in Australia and the rest of the world.
Enfinium provides traders access to a global financial markets from a single account and also margin FX trading via the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 platforms.
Wit the rising popularity of such FX trading and the rapid growth of Enfinium’s Sydney-based Australian business the company is constantly looking to create efficiencies in its end-to-end business processes so that customers service levels are increased and new leads are handled effectively.
The two core platforms are Salesforce and Metatrader 4 and it became evident that there needed to be tight integration between these two systems.
ProQuest began working with Enfinium in mid-2011 to develop a robust integration between MT4 and Salesforce. Prior to our development Enfinium were needing to perform considerable manual work to ensure that new MT4 accounts were populated with the original data from existing Salesforce records. The business was growing rapidly, and handling the quantity of data was becoming difficult and constraining Enfinium’s ability to grow. On the flip side, it was important that as the customer developed a trading history which was recorded in MT4, it was valuable to be able to send this information back into Salesforce as a single source of truth for the company’s account management team to understand their customer. ProQuest scoped and delivered a a solution to systemically transfer transactions and daily balances ,on a scheduled daily basis, from MetaTrader to Salesforce and associate the transactions to the approriate accounts within Salesforce.
Enfinium is an award winning Australian registered financial institution providing online trading and managed account capabilities to retail, high-net worth and institutional clients in Australia and the rest of the world.
Enfinium provides traders access to a global financial markets from a single account and also margin FX trading via the MetaTrader 4 platform.
With the rising popularity of such FX trading and the rapid growth of Enfinium’s Sydney-based Australian business, the company is constantly looking to create efficiencies in its end-to-end business processes so that customers service levels are increased and new leads are handled effectively.
