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Conversion to Goldmine
Conversion to Goldmine
Just use our form at DataUpload.com
Then you can clean up, sort, search, modify, and analyze your data. Or you can convert it to other formats.
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Maybe you were first
excited about the possibility and convenience of having your GoldMine
database on the web.
Then you realized that you can
do that almost for free with GoToMyPC.com
Or
perhaps you have experienced that to have a database of an adequate file size, you are paying more
and more in "rent" - just to get to your own data. The $65 fee per month sounded reasonable to
start.
But then you
found you needed to pay this amount per user. Then you found you needed more
disk space, and the smallest increment (10 megabytes) costs $100/month - per user! Soon your
monthly bill has ballooned to much higher than expected.
Perhaps you would
like to get back to the user friendly, and inexpensive GoldMine
Maybe you found you
can't easily select your contacts to send your Christmas mailing to all your Accounts.
You may have had to bring
in a consultant to do printouts and reports that you did yourself for years with GoldMine
Perhaps your Account
records don't all have addresses, although some Contacts do. We can do a global replace
to make them all have addresses.
Maybe your data has become
"dirty" and inconsistent, with inadequate data entry rules, or to do quick, global cleanups of your
data. SalesForce does not have enough data validation to make sure the data goes correctly in
the right field.
You may have experienced
the agony of not being able to access your database at all, during Maintenance times when Salesforce
schedules it, or if your Internet Service Provider is not working. It is a petrifying
experience that could destroy a business. See
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Or you have been traveling
and want to make use of down time, and have no Internet connection. Every other businessman on
the airplane is busy with their data on their laptop.
Connecting your laptop to a
dialup using to the Airphone costs a fortune. GoldMine is always available and connection time
is free.
And you've never stopped wondering if SalesForce or some hacker might be secretly selling
your customer database to your potential competitors.
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To send us the file, we will show you the procedure to download all your SalesForce data on to a local file. Then we have a special procedure, using SalesForceFox to put the data into the appropriate tables with their relationships. Then we integrate it with our ACTFox program to put your data into the corresponding tables in Goldmine
When we are finished with
the conversion, we will notify you of the location of your file. You can download it with any
browser. For security reasons, it will be known only to you. The file will come as a
Self-Extracting file, for your convenience. Then you can Download it and double click
uncompress it into the ACT Database folder.
The location of this folder may vary. Usually this folder is found in
C:\ACT\Database or
C:\My Documents\ACT\Database
* The files will have the same "first name" and extensions as follows, using the example of the ACT
Demo database.
When the .DBF file is opened by Goldmine, the other files follow automatically.
Microsoft Access and Visual Basic were the tools first considered for this process.
However, Salesforce uses Unique_Id's that include capitalized and non-capitalized letters.
Microsoft Access treats these the same. Usually this
case-insenstivity is convenient, but not
when making relations on specific characters with the Salesforce tables.
So Microsoft
FoxPro was selected, as it also works especially well with DBF files.
We have studied and
mastered the SalesForce and Goldmine data structures, so you can benefit from our experience and get
the job done right and quickly the first time.
