by Chris Scott | Oct 27, 2015 | Blog
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce both offer proprietary languages to query the respective platform’s databases. In this post, I will provide a comparison of FetchXML (Microsoft) and SOQL (Salesforce) and how they relate to Transact SQL (T-SQL, Microsoft’s…
by Michael Philbrick | Oct 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
The topic of field updates is broad and touches on considerable functionality in both platforms. My definition of a field update is an automatic modification of one field triggered by a user action. This action might be a button click, change to a field value or the…
by Michael Philbrick | Sep 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Old and New The roots of both platforms become apparent when we compare their respective searching paradigms. In one corner we have Dynamics, built on a legacy of the Microsoft stack. In the other corner we have Salesforce, a child of the Internet age. In essence, it…
by Michael Philbrick | Aug 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
How Secured Fields are Displayed Both platforms support field-level security paradigms. Aside from a slightly expanded set of options in Dynamics, access to a particular field can be effectively restricted in Salesforce and Dynamics. Let’s start with how a field is…
by Michael Philbrick | Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
This is the fourth part in a series contrasting fields in the Dynamics and Salesforce platforms. In the last post we devoted a section to a unique capability of Dynamics in relation to option selections. To be balanced we now highlight a related feature in Salesforce:…