Welcome to the third blog post in the GS DevOps Mate blog posts series. In the last two blog posts, we talked about Introductions to DevOps Mate, why we build it, its high-level architecture, how it is different from other Salesforce Deployment tools, and some of its salient features.  Before we start, we will be assuming that […]

In the last blog post, we talked about some of the motivations and reasons behind the origin of GS DevOps Mate. In this part, we will touch base on what it is tech-wise, its unique features, and why we have designed and built it the way it is today What is GS DevOps Mate? It […]

Over the last decade, Salesforce has emerged as the CRM leader and one of the PaaS of choice for Enterprise Apps. We can attribute this success to how quickly an organization can build production-ready business applications, typically in a few months, if not days!  So much can be achieved through mere configurations & minimum code […]

In our last blog post, we talked about Pure Functions speeding up page rendering and logic execution along with Separation of Concern Patterns, where we break down responsibility between each aspect of the backend system, resulting in libraries of reusable code across the organization. While we always strive to produce quality projects and regression-tested code, […]

Why Enterprise UX is Hard It can be tough to incorporate user experience in the enterprise software industry. The enterprises’ goals and metrics often tie more directly to the bottom line while overlooking user experience and user interface needs. Things are changing, though; in a 2019 survey, there has been an 18% increase from last […]

Our values make up who we are. In the GyanSys development team, we hold ourselves accountable to these values in every project, which inspired the creation of our company-wide coding guidelines. We have decided to share some of them with you in two parts to help anyone passionate about their code.  Pure Functions Pure Functions as a concept originated […]

Driven by a competitive consumer landscape, businesses are looking for ways to accelerate their time to market and for technology implementations to meet their ever-changing needs. To keep up and stay relevant, businesses need to be able to adapt, prioritize, and execute effectively, in other words, implement an agile approach.  At GyanSys we don’t see […]

Dreamforce has always been an event our team looks forward to year after year. Apart from being a melting pot of people from all walks of Salesforce life, there’s never any shortage of knowledge and inspiration in the form of sessions, keynotes, and hands-on experiences. One of the more invaluable things we gain is inevitably […]

The Apex Metadata wrapper released by Andrew Fawcett @ FinancialForce brings the power of the Salesforce Metadata API to power users and lets developers manipulate Salesforce metadata using a familiar and on-platform language. One often-asked question is how to use this API from within batch jobs or other scenarios where a first-class session ID is not available. Traditionally the […]

Companies are getting increasingly reliant on applications such as Salesforce.com and Google Drive. The ability to share information between these applications enables streamlining business processes. All that is needed is minor customization within Salesforce, without the need for any API and complex code. The introduction of Salesforce Files Connect has made the process of exposing […]