Org Strategy

This diagram provides a high-level overview of Salesforce Development Architecture concepts and platform capabilities. This is the fourth in a five-part Salesforce Architecture reference series covering core application and system architecture topics.   Salesforce Development Architecture (PDF)

Please note – This content was previously posted on the audit9.com site directly and is re-published here as part of the consolidation of 2 blogs. This post provides an overview of the various environments involved in delivering ISV solutions to the Salesforce AppExchange. As will be obvious to architects working outside of the ISV domain, […]

Environment Hub was announced back in August 2012 and was initially made available as a Pilot feature of the Winter ’13 release. This post follows up (some 2 years later) on my initial interest in understanding the utility Environment Hub delivers in the context of environment/user management. Environment Hub – What is it? In simple […]

A very common challenge addressed by architects working with Salesforce is the definition of an appropriate release methodology. By this I mean the identification of the Salesforce orgs required to support the project delivery whether serial or concurrent in nature, the role and purpose of each org and critically, the means by which change is […]

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 […]

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 […]

The figure above shows a complex multiple org architecture (Hub-and-Spoke model). I’ll return to the drivers for multiple-org versus single org in a future post. For now let’s consider some interesting aspects of the above scenario. SSO : users log in via their Active Directory Credentials. The CORPORATE org being a SAML 2.0 Service Provider […]