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Now try running your sales team with MS Access, Sharepoint, HTML, and JavaScript. Your sales force will quit not long after. Remember, the sales org is a profit
by hbarka 4y ago
Now try running your sales team with MS Access, Sharepoint, HTML, and JavaScript. Your sales force will quit not long after. Remember, the sales org is a profit center and IT is a cost center. Salespeople want to track leads and close opportunities without worrying if the VBA scripting of Sharepoint integration with MS Access worked.
- stingraycharles 4y agoYou make a valid point, but in my (albeit limited) experience its not that much better with Salesforce. Plenty of downtime and/or hidden data integration issues. What Salesforce does better is “hide” the integrations between a web interface, but in the end it’s just replacing one set of problems for another.
- vba616 4y agoBut "your sales team" isn't going to be writing code in these crazy parallel universe languages mentioned in the article any more than Javascript and SQL. And obviously Access and VBA aren't new and shiny enough, have been left to wither, and low/no code is the in thing, so Microsoft has a grab- (garbage?) bag of new stuff. Like Power Automate and Azure and I don't know what all. FYI, Sharepoint doesn't require VBA in any way. Obviously if you're using the REST interface, that can be accessed from almost anything, although you probably don't want to. But you can also access an object model with a regular web page that's much more convenient.