We didn't mean to keep it a secret, really! We have a hot new blog that focuses on trends in
the CRM industry, as well as the cool new stuff happening here at Scribe. Depending on the week you might read a blog from our CEO, Lou Guercia, about an industry event and highlights from it, or get easy access to hot new topics written by other blogs we believe our readers will find valuable. Other reasons to take a read through our new blog? To get updates on new ISV partners that could provide new business opportunities to our partners, or discover new trends that might influence our customer's use of their customer data, to positively affect their business.
The idea behind having two Scribe blogs is to have one focused on market and company information, and the other focused on the more technical crowd.
Our Scribe Integrators blog remains alive and well, focusing mostly on product info, so you'll still come here for all that technical goodness to help you get the most out of your integrations. But do us a favor and check out our other blog every now and then, you might like this other side of Scribe.
Scribe MVP (Most Valuabe Professional) Jayson Goldinger, of Slalom Consulting, posted this useful blog today on Dynamics CRM Online integration with Scribe and we thought our readers would find it useful. Thanks Jayson!
"For those of you who have done data migration or integration with Dynamics CRM Online, you know that the performance may be a challenge. I recently faced that challenge during a recent project.
I had approximately 52,000 account records with associated contacts to import. I also needed to do a check (Seek Step) against CRM to see if the record was already in CRM. I was using Scribe Insight with my source being Excel and my target was Dynamics CRM Online using the Dynamics CRM Adapter. On my first attempt my job ran for 9 hours and only imported approx. 15,000 records. At that rate it would have taken over 30 hours to complete....."
Scribe Insight version 7.5.2 has been released and is available for download. Version 7.5.2 is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a number of defects. You can read about the release in the release notes. The Insight 7.5.2 installer includes the most recent version of all Insight adapters, including an update to the Web Services adapter.
In addition to correcting defects, we also added support for message queue priority to the core product. This feature is one of the most requested features as voted on in OpenMind. Let's consider a couple of use cases where setting the message queue priority can help your integration design.
First, there is the scenario where you want to put a priority on processing certain types of data. Let's say you were integrating general ledger information and sales orders and that you consider sales order processing the priority. There is a daily process that churns through all of the changes to the general ledger that are processed in batch. While the general ledger transactions are being processed a new sales order comes in and has to wait its turn for its message to be processed. If you can set a higher priority on sales order messages, you can ensure that sales order messages get processed soon after they are submitted to the message queue, jumping to the front of the line.
Second, there is the scenario with referential integrity and retrying failed messages. A general pattern used in Scribe Insight integrations is to set a message to be reprocessed if it has an error. Let's say you are processing contact and account data and the contact message is processed first. The target system will not allow a contact to be inserted unless there is an account record to attach it to. The contact message will fail and go into the retry queue and will be processed again until it times out or until the account message is processed. This situation can cause churn in the message queues and a drain on server resources. If you configure a higher priority on the account messages, then they will be processed before the contact messages, reducing the chances of the referential-integrity-failed-row-retry-message loop.
Note: With Insight 7.5.2, the message priority feature applies only to the query publisher and the XML adapter. We plan to implement message priority in other adapters that have publishers when we update them in the future.
From time to time I get to do a blog post about a technical topic, an update to our documentation, or a new training course we’re offering. It’s not very often that I get to announce a totally new and exciting offering though! This new service has the potential to change for the positive how you use our products, how you learn about them, and how we interact with each other as a community of users.
The Inside Track is a subscription based service that delivers premium technical content that can help you become more productive at using Scribe. The content in Scribe Inside Track includes use case based videos hosted by Scribe experts, tips and tricks, and other resources that go into more depth than is covered in Scribe documentation and training.
While our training and documentation is typically organized around product features and functions, with the Inside Track, we explore the product in more detail with content organized around user driven use cases. For example, how to convert a time or query based integration to a queue based integration, and how to use the Adapter for Web Services to integrate with SharePoint.
The Inside Track is delivered through cloud based technology that delivers crystal clear instructor-led HD video, downloadable documents, text, and graphics in an easy to use online format. With the Inside Track we put our product experts in front of a video camera, where they can explain the concepts behind use cases and then show you how to apply product features to those use cases. It’s like having a private session with a Scribe expert, and is available to you on demand.
With the Inside Track, the content is organized in an online book format, a vBook, with a table of contents and index that is easy to browse. The content is also searchable, including the videos. We take the time to index the videos so that you can quickly access the point in the video where we are talking about a specific topic. You can search within a vBook or you can search across your entire digital library vBooks. Click here to try out a vBook with a free copy of our Technical Resources vBook. Use "technical" for the registration code.
A subscription to the Inside Track allows you to interact with Scribe experts and other users during subscriber-only monthly Web meetings. We’ll announce the topic ahead of time, which gives you the opportunity to watch the video before the meeting and think about the questions you want to ask. The Web meetings are also an opportunity for Scribe users to share information with each other. During the Web meetings we will facilitate discussion about your experiences with the selected use case. The point of the Web meetings is to be more like an interactive panel discussion than a lecture. It is a great opportunity to learn from each other what work best.
A subscription also includes access to the Scribe Inside Track Newsletter, a quarterly email newsletter about technical topics and that highlights the new topics have been added to Inside Track content. It’s a great way for you to stay up to date on what’s new in the Inside Track.
We offer subscriptions for both individuals and for corporations, if you have a number of technical consultants who may want to work off of the same subscription. We also offer packages that bundle access to all of our training content if you’re looking for access to all the technical content we have to offer.
To order or learn more, please contact your Scribe sales representative or click this link.
Scribe Software Corporation provides cost-effective, no-coding solutions that can be used as the only tool businesses need to integrate virtually any application, data source or Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. Scribe solutions are simple to configure and provide ease of modification as business processes change. They are especially popular among organizations running Microsoft Dynamics CRM, GP, NAV, AX and Sage SalesLogix applications as well as Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.
