Curriculum for Netsuite Certs
I feel like an idiot for posting this out in the open, but does the table above for certifications for CaaS, SaaS and PaaS employees using Netsuite make sense? Your inputs would really help a guy get employed!
I have zero knowledge in IT, no friends who use Netsuite and just read up as best as I could. I'm interviewing for a Training Role and the company asked me to prepare a curriculum (I plan to expand more on this later which I believe I can do on my own).
I would suggest your starting point would be the NetSuite Certification page on the Oracle NetSuite website (https://www.netsuite.com/portal/services/training/suite-training/netsuite-certification.shtml). That lays out the recommended code and prerequisites for each Certification.
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I want to bulk create thousands of web stories (of the AMP/Google variety) using a standardized AMP web stories template populated with text and images from my database.
Anyone have any ideas? I am not a coder, but may be able to follow if you assume I know nothing :) Thanks for your consideration and time.
I have looked in GitHub and at several online services that provide tools to make web stories, but none offer it. VisualStories claims to offer an API that does this, but when I asked for paid access said they were not sharing this with customers anymore because they found that creating stories individually produced better results.
Thanks!
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I know that SuiteScript is the NetSuite platform built on JavaScript that enables complete customization and automation of business processes.
I want to know that SuiteScript is in demand? How would be the future if I do following certifications
SuiteFoundation Certification
SuiteCloud Developer Certification
I've worked with NetSuite development (SuiteScript 1.0 & 2.0, administration, and integrating NetSuite to many other systems) for about seven years now. I have no NetSuite certifications, and I have never found a need for them.
That being said, some employers think highly of certifications. Whether you need the certs really depends on whether you can be self taught and whether the company you want to work for wants you to have them before you are hired.
I have been working on NetSuite for 4 years now. I have done SuiteScript 1.0, 2.0, workflows, searches, reports, etc (all normal admin and developer tasks with NetSuite basically). I am now certified Developer (meaning I passed the 2 exams you mentioned) and because I am a consultant I am now a certified ERP consultant as well. I will probably take the analytics, admin, and eventually SuiteCommerce as well.
So with that background, the answer to your question depends on what you want to do. If you are already working with a company who is using NetSuite, an end client probably doesn't care a ton about the certifications. If you are looking to get a job in this, then it may help you a lot. If you are looking to be a consultant, it will probably be a requirement at some point. For consulting companies, certifications help them look better to clients.
I also will add that I find that by studying for and taking the tests I have learned about features I did not have exposure to prior. This pushes me to learn those areas, talk to others, and better my overall skills beyond the exam itself. If you are only self taught, in my experience, you eventually fall into the "if your own tool is a hammer, than every problem looks like a nail". You won't have all the possible tools to do the best job
I personally found my certifications valuable. Last year, I completed the SuiteFoundation and Administrator exam, both of these guided me into different segments of NetSuite I had never used before.
I'm currently studying for the SuiteCloud developer exam, and I've had the same experience. It's forcing me to look into new modules and test out new functionality. With that being said, I'm a jr. level developer at best, so combining my js training with NetSuite-specific training is relevant.
There is a solid website that recently did a informal survey on this topic, if you want to learn more about value added from NS certifications you can visit: https://netsuite.smash-ict.com/
I recommend all NS newbies to complete the SuiteFoundation training. This applies to everyone, developers, admins, and end-users.
I'm brand new to Dynamics CRM and have been asked to see if this is a viable replacement for the employee tracking software we're using now (AlexSys Team 2 Pro). We're not so much of a sales based company as the tutorials i see for CRM focus on. I know CRM is more for customer relations and sales tracking but i also know it's highly customizable and can do what i need it to do. I need something that keeps track of how many new tasks have been created and how many have been done and to show a graph or a report with the results. I've looked at some PluralSight videos and some windows videos but they all seem to focus on and really push the use of its sales side usability. We do sell our product here (i work at a software development company) but we need something that isn't focused on sales and is usable to management for tracking progress. So for example, lets say im aksed to do 4 things(tasks), I do 2 of those things and am in the process of handling my 3rd. I'm not a sales agent, lets say im a programmer, I need CRM to be able to show my manager that I had 4 new tasks, completed 2, and if possible to show that im in the process of working on the 3rd. AlexSys Team gives you different options for what state the task is in, such as In-Process and Completed but it does poorly when it comes to reporting. Are there any good places to learn how to do that in CRM, we are not using a partner and will not have someone coding this or changing this for us, i will possibly be the one working on that so i need something that can help show me how to customize it without constantly talking about sales. Im off to watch more PluralSight videos but maybe a user here knows of somewhere better to learn from or maybe just a specific PluralSight video i may have missed. Thanks for any input.
Dynamics CRM is as you've discovered very customisable and will almost certainly meet the requirements you've described. Whether it is the correct choice only you can decide.
YouTube is a really good resource for CRM videos, you can also take a look at the CRM 2011 Technical Training Videos on Channel 9 produced when the product was first released. These give a high level overview of CRM 2011 technical capabilities.
You may want to look at the basics of Activities ( in particular Tasks ) and Queues. Make sure you're clear on the usage of Status and Status Reason and how you can customise them. For reporting you can either use the built-in dashboard capabilities or create your own SSRS reports using BIDS that can be hosted within CRM. The process of producing these reports whilst subtlety different will be easily understood by anyone with some some basic SSRS skills.
I'd recommend enlisting the help of a partner in the first instance even if it's to just verify your initial design. The overall cost of their time in relation to the install and running costs of CRM won't be too significant and they may even be able to save you some money.
I'm not sure of a better place for videos, but I can speak to CRM's ability to serve as a rapid application development platform and the areas it excels. It allows you to create new fields and entities (think Database Tables) without touching a database, as well as customize forms, roles, and security with 0 code. You can also sign up for a free months trial online to setup a quick Proof of Concept.
There is so much that it can do, and do quickly, that your company may be better served to seek outside help, resulting in a better product, delivered quicker, with less overall costs than trying to do everything "in-house".
A client I am beginning to work with has a very specific need that I can't seem to find the best solution too nor any definitive yes or no because of conflicting answers in forums and documentation.
Goal: We are looking to use Moodle to handle the clients course management and course subscriptions. While using EE for other content as well as a store and cart to manage course related materials and supplies that will not be sold through Moodle.
Requirement: A synchronous cart so that if a student purchases a subscription to a course, they can also purchase any materials from the EE store in one go.
Upon doing my research I have found one piece that can help: aMember, but I cannot find a definitive Yes or No to these things:
Is Single Sign On between EE, Moodle, and aMember possible?
Is the cart functionality possible?
I apologize if this question is out of place here, but I'd very much like an answer because many of the proposed solutions have a relatively high cost if they don't work.
Any one here dealt with this kind of integration before?
I've never tried to integrate with Moodle or any other third party, but I know you'd have to create a way for the two to talk to each other. Would you use Moodle as the root authentication method? EE? I'm not sure which approach would work best. You can learn more about how to create that integration by browsing the EE add-on development documentation.
Also, depending on what your goals are, you may not need aMember at all. Take a look at Membrr, which excels at managing membership subscriptions. CartThrob and Brilliant Retail are two popular ecommerce add-ons for EE, and they're worth checking out, too.
Sorry I couldn't be more targeted with my answers. Hopefully someone with more experience can chime in as well. Best of luck!
I just completed a full EE/Moodle integration and would love to share how I did it. In a quick overview, We are using EE and CarthThrob to manage the purchases of the actual courses and Moodle for course delivery. What I ended up doing was a bit complicated but hopefully this will point you in the right direction.
Courses are sold through the EE site. When they're sold, I have a table that is populated on the cartthrob_on_authorize hook to populate a table with email address, role (student) and course id. I run a cron through Moodle to do remote enrollment so it will grab that data and enroll the student. This works both ways so if you delete a row from the table in EE, it will also un-enroll the student in Moodle.
I am using Moodle's user sync to pull in all of my EE users into Moodle on a cron job as well as using their remote authentication. One issue is that Moodle only offers SHA1 and MD5 out of the box so I had to modify their remote login script to first query the salt and then do a SHA512 hash of the salt and password for it to authenticate. What this does is allow users to log into Moodle using their EE credentials and creates the record to enroll the students against.
The biggest caveat is that you essentially have two different accounts on two systems and since EE stores its user data across multiple tables, you can't easily pull in data like First Name, Last Name so moodle prompts for this information (again) before taking a course. Not a great solution but it works. I am sure there are ways you could get around this (create an enrollment table that has all of this data in it to sync against Moodle with an EE extension).
Hope that helps move things in the right direction if you're still trying to do this.
We have created a solution close to what you are looking for in WordPress. Here we integrate Moodle with WooCommerce, an ecommerce solution for WordPress, to sell Moodle courses online.
Other features include:
Automatic registration to Moodle LMS
Single Login Credentials for registered users
Export Customer Information from WooCommerce
You can read indepth about the features here. http://wisdmlabs.com/woocommerce-moodle-integration-solution/
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Have any of you ever tried to run from sharepoint? I've worked with sharepoint enough to know that it is not something that interests me. My interests are more along the lines of APIs / backend / distributed development. Have any of you found ways, as consultants, to move away from sharepoint and keep learning other things of interest? I'm currently in a position where sharepoint is in huge demand and I can't quite find a way to simply step aside from it. any suggestions ?
If I infer correctly that you work for a consulting firm then find out what other kinds of things your firm works on. Learn those technologies better that the people who currently work on them for your firm, involve yourself in those projects, even if just in a hallway conversation manner, and come up with better (faster, cheaper) solutions for the problems your firm is solving.
Your options are really seem to be 3-fold
convince your boss your talents
would be better used elsewhere
convince your co-workers they want
you on those other teams
convince your company's clients that
they want you, specifically.
Learn Java, or Ruby.
The Microsoft sales model of "attach" whereby they sell a solution comprised of multiple technologies and then sell the next solution on the basis of "well you have already invested in SharePoint so you already have the skills in place and the infrastructure for this new bit of technology we have" is here to stay... it's very successful.
SharePoint is cloud computing for business who have MS shops... you avoid it by not doing C#. If you're doing C# then given enough time, your apps will need to run in the corporate cloud and you should be looking after your career by embracing it.
Just my 2p. Sorry if it's not quite the answer you wanted.
I know exactly what you mean. I think you don't mind the idea behind a product like SharePoint, but really hate the way its been implemented and how problematic it is. I know its a nightmare to work with.
As a C# developer, I cringe when I hear the SharePoint word, SharePoint is Lord Voldemort. But unfortunately it comes with the job of being a senior C# / Microsoft developer.
I say unfortunately because its likely if you're working in a corporate structure sooner or later you will end up having SharePoint in your solution. Not because its good, but because as others have said - MS use SharePoint as a Trojan horse to get and keep business.
There might be some hope with the new version of SharePoint coming out (2010). Maybe this will finally include a better programming / implementation model.
Otherwise either work for smaller companies (usually less pay, but not always), or try to play down your skills as a MOSS developer if possible. Never actively market them unless your salary depends on it. Remove the skill from your skill matrix, and turn down jobs that completely focus on MOSS. Some MOSS integration here and there you can live with. An entire solution focused on MOSS will drive you insane.
If all else fails, learn other non Microsoft languages, and within a year or 2, SharePoint will be but a faded memory.
I know lots of developers who are thinking about quitting IT because of SharePoint. I would say don't let it be the end of your career.
And finally bitch and moan, and inform managers on a weekly / daily basis, as to why you are battling in SharePoint. Let them know, and constantly remind them how bad a technology it is.
When life deals you lemons. Make Lemonade.
Seriously, if you are seeing SharePoint in such high demand, maybe working with the beast is the best idea. SharePoint is really just middle-ware. SharePoint can simply be a distribution point for your solutions (i.e., a user interface such as a web application can be hosted on SharePoint through a Web Content part). If you look at it, SharePoint may even prove useful as a document respository or small scale data store, in the form of lists.
Maybe you should turn down SharePoint contracts and accept contracts that interest you.
Depending on the market you are in you can simply tell your boss at the consulting company you work for that your not interested in doing Sharepoint projects anymore and that you'll be forced to look elsewhere if they continue putting you on Sharepoint projects. That would work around West Michigan where the developer demand is high and the supply is sub-par.
I'm, on the other hand, just starting to use SharePoint to enreach my currently boring C#-only projects. I'm starting to use it as a front-end to the distributed and complicated systems: simple configuration and customization, reporting, management, system control - looks like all this is available in this package it it's easy to make is usable by non-techies and by beginners.
I personally don't want to work with SharePoint anymore. I've worked on developing a solution for it and even went full charge with a web integration of it. I hated it.
First you have to master the awful programming model then handle all the deployments and it's not even the beginning. If you are developing a product for SharePoint, you have to debug the software itself which is a feat on it's own.
My solution to this is to be very upfront about it. I don't mind doing knowledge transfer and helping out people but I don't want to be developing/deploying SharePoint applications.
My boss get it, my friends get it.
Our latest joke come from someone who said a few months ago that it was "easy and fast to deploy application with SharePoint". The joke? "Did he just put easy/fast in the same sentence as SharePoint?"
So unless you salary would be lower because of it... downplay your skills on it and be upfront to your boss. :)
Have you ever looked at Alfresco (http://alfresco.com)?
It serves many of the same purposes as SharePoint, but does it from an Open Source J2EE application. It will leverage your existing collaboration / content management experience and expose you to a whole bunch of open source technologies.
Full disclosure: I work for Alfresco.
I've already given this suggestion to another guy...Running from SharePoint won't be difficult because technologies are similar to each other according to their structure. SharePoint is not the worst technology to be used, although it is limited in some way... Fortunately, software sphere is too wide to be afraid of not finding anything you can be interested in.