Wednesday 29 October 2014

Open UI - Free Address Auto complete powered by Google API

If you are looking for a free address auto complete for your Open UI users, here is the solution. I am sure, this will compete with other paid services like Experian (QAS), Informatics etc for Address verification and validation services.

Present scenario:
Users manually enter address info, leading to inconsistent/incorrect data on the system.

With Autocomplete API integrated:
Users just need to search for the address and select it. System will do the rest - it will copy the standard address info from Google and auto-populates the address fields on Siebel.

Demo first.


High level technical flow:

Friday 24 October 2014

Google map integration with Open UI – route planning based on sales reps calendar!

Hi All,

I would love to update more often on my blog but unfortunately, my work load is pulling me back. While I was hiding from my blogging, was busy improvising our sales reps day to day operations by means of integrating their visits with Google optimized route planning.

Before you can understand the subsequent content of my blog, you need to understand the google map API itself. I am not going to go into that but provide you the link to explore your self.  So, click on the image below and explore the Google map API.
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Ok demo first. Please watch below video for an insight as to what I will be talking next.






The business scenario goes like this. As soon as your sales rep logs onto Open UI, he will be shown with his current appointments in the calendar applet and the corresponding locations are plotted on the map along with full direction details at the bottom of the screen.

How to go about it? (High level)