Today we're loading up our server and preparing to send out e-mails to our existing customer base to tell everyone about a new development at XAware: training e-books. We know that many of you are operating on tighter and tighter budgets and getting the funding for training can be hard. We also know that many of you are struggling with data integration and

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One of our customers was recently working with custom functoids, a handy feature if we do say so ourselves. They encountered a problem that we'd like to share with you here, so you don't run into the same problem.

The customer created a public Java class with a public static string method and parameters. These particulars don't matter as much as the problem they ran into, whi

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Hello everyone ... with the release of 5.5 and the new XAware.com website, we've also begun redesigning and updating our tutorials. While we'll keep all the tutorials from previous versions archived here, we are starting a new set of tutorials that will display on XAware.com .

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We've been discussing some of our recent successes with migrating on-premise and cloud-based CRM data to the cloud with you in this blog. A few weeks ago, we completed a migration of Microsoft® Exchange server public folders to SharePoint® Online, a Microsoft hosted cloud platform. In the process, we learned a lot and we now offer this as a new XAware managed service.

Firs

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Introducing the 30-day XAware Trial and big changes to our pricing model. We blogged about this release a couple of weeks ago and this is it.

Based on customer input, we've recently decided to change our product's pricing model to provide:

• better access to useful feature sets for developing services and solutions that meet your needs
• more flexibility in

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Last week, one of our customers asked us to migrate their Goldmine data to MS Dynamics. While implementing this solution, we were reminded of some of the best practices we've come to count on when designing and implementing a custom data migration.

We're going to share those lessons with you in just a minute, but first, let's summarize the details about this custom mig

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First, let's start by saying that this data move is no reflection on Salesforce. We've had an XAware Salesforce connector for years and we've helped dozens of companies import a lot of data into Salesforce ... this customer simply needed to consolidate their data into a single system.

As you know, this is one of XAware's strengths.

So how did it start?

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We wanted to give everyone a quick update on XAware.

When our lease ended recently, we decided to relocate our business offices. So, we boxed and sorted and taped and labeled our way through our old office space; then we hauled all that stuff to our new digs and set it all up again. Luckily, the Colorado weather cooperated with us (for the most part) and while it was really cold, we didn&

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This month, Gartner released the 2009 "hype cycle" curve, showing SOA has finally emerged from the "trough of dissillusionment".  As Gartner tells us, SOA is no different than other technologies, moving from initial inception, to extreme vendor hype, to dissilusionment as users feel swindled when reality falls far short of expectations.  See Joe McKendrick's ar

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