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At the time I started writing this post we were living in a Chatter Mobile world, this is no longer the case. As announced recently at Dreamforce ’13 we have entered the Salesforce1 era, the direction of which will no doubt become clearer as we transition to the Spring ’14 release. What is clear now […]
A real challenge for all Salesforce Architects is keeping up-to-date on the constantly evolving native platform capabilities and customisation/extension points. It’s a truism that nothing stands still, this is especially true in the Salesforce world, with 3 releases a year, frequent off-cycle incremental feature enhancements, acquisitions etc. etc.. This constant evolution is of course great […]
First of all let me be clear on one thing, I’m a big advocate for Salesforce-to-Salesforce, for many org-to-org data convergence/integration use cases S2S is an efficient, cost effective solution. Over the last couple of years I’ve had the pleasure to work with a non-profit organisation, via the Salesforce foundation, on an interesting use case […]
Super quick post on Embedded Analytics just in case this has passed anyone by and because it’s probably my favourite non-technical new feature for some time. In short, it is now possible to embed two charts (not reports) into a standard page layout (custom objects and standard objects), blurring the lines slightly between layouts and […]
With Winter ’14 the new Analytics API turns GA. This RESTful style of API consumes standard API call limits, uses OAuth authentication and JSON request/response message formats (representations). The key functionality of the Analytics API is the execution of reports (in synchronous or asynchronous modes), the application of dynamic filtering and the inspection of report […]
Slightly depressing to be saying this in late August but Winter is almost upon us in the shape of the Winter ’14 (or v29.0) release. The Winter ’14 release notes are now available, find below a brief introduction to 10 Force.com highlights (in no order of significance). 1. Increased Sandbox Storage Limits. Developer sandboxes now […]
The concept of any-org development is an interesting one. The strict definition, to my mind, being the development of a set of components (perhaps packaged) that are designed and coded specifically to install and function in any Salesforce org. This is typically an ISV concern, where testing and maintaining a single-code base can be highly […]
The Summer ’13 release brought an interesting new feature in the area of identity management – Multi-Provider Single Sign-On. The general principle being (to my initial reading of the release notes) that a single Salesforce org can perform federated authentication to multiple identity providers. Useful indeed where SSO is desirable but the Salesforce implementation spans […]
Understanding how the Salesforce Query Optimiser (SQO) works is fundamental to delivering performance at the data layer. Good practice in this regard, as part of an optimised physical data model implementation, is key to delivering efficient data access at the application layer. In short, certain fields are indexed by default, custom indexes can be added […]
This post outlines my preferred approach to managing parallel developments on the Salesforce platform in what I refer to as the Converged Programme Model. I readily acknowledge that there’s a multitude of ways to accomplish this each with it’s own subjective merits. Before adopting a parallel work-stream model take the time to understand the technical […]
