Web Application for SaaS - how to integrate with Office [closed] - web-services

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I am looking to make a web application and market to a certain industry. I want to offer the flexibility to have each company in the industry have a unique solution. Most things will be similar, but they can all have very different looks for the same data. I assume making a new web app for each company is the only way, since there will be so much variability. However, I need to use MS Office to import and export data, what is the best way to do this? Visual Basic?

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I need to use MS Office to import and export data
VB6 was, for a long time, an excellent way to interact with Office applications via OLE Automation. However nobody would advice you to use it now. The Office applications can be accessed in VB.NET or many other languages via their API. See the Office Developer site as a starting point for your learning or try searching for something like 'microsoft office automation vb.net'

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We would like to gather data from vSphere, metrics like number of servers, their names, traffic information (this to be defined later). What would be the best place to start and what steps do we need to accomplish this? Any brainstorming suggestions, SDKs etc. would be greatly appreciated.
I would start by taking a look at the vSphere Web Services API service and, more specifically, the HostSystem (ESXi hosts), VirtualMachine (VM), and PerformanceManager (source of metrics) managed objects.
SDK-wise, it really depends on your language of choice. The vSphere Management SDK includes several different languages including Java and .NET. There's also the open source "*vmomi" SDKs, for which there is Python (pyvmomi), Go (govmomi), and Ruby (rbvmomi).
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How to design enterprise level application? [closed]

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I am a freelance software engineer, I have worked in few areas of computer science, I have made some e-commerce websites in the past. Now I have an opportunity to build a big enterprise level system. I can not disclose specifics about the application due to NDA I signed so pardon me if my question seems broad, let me know in the comments if you require clarification. I appreciate your help.
About Application:
In this application, I would require building a system like uber, there will be people at my client's end for
resolving customer issues, so a CRM is also needed.
customers will be using this app, so I have
to design a separate system that can manage tickets and access
database.
My question is where to start designing such application. I guess I would require DynamoDB and AWS, I have divided modules into parts such as Client App, Database, Dashboard etc. I want to know if there is some case study that can help me decide how to design such large application.
I found this link useful, it gave me an idea of work, but still, I believe it's a long way from money shot.
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To narrow down the scope of the question, What Backend server should be chosen for an application that will serve one hundred thousand users per hour. I will use Mongo DB as the database, and Python as backend scripting language.
IBM has a nice article on Enterprise Architecture,
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/enterprise-architecture-maximum-value/
Before building the software, design how it should work and choose your software components according to that.
Previously you might need costly infrastructure to think something, with recent technologies, you can do them at a lower cost. You need to apply the right architecture and engineering when designing your application.

Make my Django app into a rentable service for companies [closed]

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I have a webapp running with Django. I would like to make an Enterprise Edition of this website. In exchange for a yearly fee, I would like to allow companies to host the webapp on their own server and benefit from unique features
The problem is that I have no idea how to proceed. How can I execute this, without sending my whole code over to their computer and launching the django app there?
Is there something like generating an .exe that would run the django app without sending my code? How do companies usually proceed to make their tools available on another company's intranet?
well I haven't heard something like that, but what you can do is using a license in your code, there are many types of licenses, from open source to trade secret license, read more about it

How do you rate Confluence for its wiki, community, and Q&A functionality? [closed]

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I am currently investigating enterprise social media tools that we can potentially use either with SharePoint 2010 or instead of it. Confluence is one of the tools I am looking at. It seems to have strong wiki functionality, but does it also offer other social media functionality such as, Communities, activity streams, blogging, micro blogging, Q&A, Ideation, rating, sharing, following etc? I am interested in anyone's experience or knowledge on this subject.
Confluence is getting more and more social. At Atlassian Unite in Frankfurt on 3/20 i saw some interesting new features like the "I like" Button on pages, mentions with # in every text element. share functionality, blogging, commenting and micro blogging is build in since version 3.5. I have four customers who switched from Sharepoint to Confluence because it's fun and it works. There are about 1000+ free and commercial plugins in the plugin exchange. There you'll find workflow plugins, plugin for surveys and other interesting stuff. An App Store is planned. I'm using Confluence for all the project stuff in our intranet.

Integrating with Great Plains, best way? [closed]

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I can't find much information around the web about it. Has anyone used both eConnect and the Dynamics web services to interact (read/write) with Great Plains. I am looking for the pros and cons of both approaches.
This product will be installed and configured on various sites, so ease of configuration is really important. I usually hate to mess with IIS.
Should be able to target GP 9 and 10.
Thank you
Use the Great Plains Connector - full info here http://help.boomi.com/display/BOD/Great+Plains+Connector?showChildren=false
and here for pro-cons/limitations etc.:
http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/great-plains-customization-how-to-integrate-legacy-application-with-dynamics-gp-452580.html
and of course from the horse's mouth:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms994230.aspx
We have done sites based off of web services for GP 9. Don't worry about IIS, there isn't much you have to worry about with that. The install process is very easy. It did not require me to do any configuration with IIS. Some of the configuration is a little tricky at first, like adding users, and setting up policies. But once you get the hang of it, its no problem. We use web services for almost everything now, they were so easy to develop with. I wish there were a few more, to update and access more information which I hope is coming but otherwise easy.
We have used it on ecommerce sites and windows applications. We did not choose econnect because of the ease of the web services, econnect I beleive has more options and we did use it to create and update sales invoices, but changed it to web services. If you have any specific questions please feel free to let me know. Thanks!