Xactium the Beginning

I have started my placement at Xactium Ltd, which is based in Sheffield. I have been welcomed into the team and quickly given tasks to gain knowledge of their organisation and SalesForce. Xactium is OEM strategic partners of SalesForce, which develop Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) programs in significantly shorter timescales and at lower cost than traditional approaches. Xactium create business solutions and general-purpose enterprise utilities that integrate into SalesForce.

List of solutions:
• Risk Manager - Provides support for risk assessment, monitoring, management
and reporting, to give organizations a full risk picture, and in turn, full control
over their risks.
• Policy Manager - Supports a comprehensive and consistent process for managing
the lifecycle of corporate policies and their exceptions, including policy approval,
distribution and objective setting.
• Case Manager - Provides market leading support for tracking incidents and their
resolution.
• Compliance Manager - Provides support for a wide variety of compliance management
activities, including recording communications with regulators, breach reporting and
approvals, regulation tracking, and associated workflows.
• Loss Manager - Supports the analysis, management and reporting of corporate loss
events to ensure efficient response and optimal recovery.

List of general purpose enterprise utilities:
• Force Visualizer – A powerful application for visualizing SalesForce and Force.com data
as diagrams in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner.
• PDF Designer - A native Force.com application for designing document templates and
generating pdf documents from Force.com data.

My job title is software developer which involves developing applications that integrates into the SalesForce website. The main developing tools I will be using are Apex, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Sforce Object Query Language (SOQL). I have finished working through the SalesForce workbook this week, which is free online on SalesForce website and you can also sign up for a free developers edition and try it out.

Next weeks blog is going to talk about SalesForce and it’s use.