Migrate your data to Salesforce and build low-maintenance and high-performing data integrations
to get the most out of Salesforce and make it a go-to place for all your organization's
customer information. When companies choose to roll out Salesforce users expect it to be the
place to find any and all Information related to a customer-the coveted Client 360° view. On
the day you go live users expect to see all their accounts contacts and historical data in
the system. They also expect that data entered in other systems will be exposed in Salesforce
automatically and in a timely manner. This book shows you how to migrate all your legacy data
to Salesforce and then design integrations to your organization's mission-critical systems. As
the Salesforce platform grows more powerful it also grows in complexity. Whether you are
migrating data to Salesforce or integrating with Salesforce it is important to understand how
these complexities need to be reflected in your design. Developing Data Migrations and
Integrations with Salesforce covers everything you need to know to migrate your data to
Salesforce the right way and how to design low-maintenance high-performing data integrations
with Salesforce. This book is written by a practicing Salesforce integration architect with
dozens of Salesforce projects under his belt. The patterns and practices covered in this book
are the results of the lessons learned during those projects. What You'll Learn Know how
Salesforce's data engine is architected and why Use the Salesforce Data APIs to load and
extract data Plan and execute your data migration to Salesforce Design low-maintenance
high-performing data integrations with Salesforce Understand common data integration patterns
and the pros and cons of each Know real-time integration options for Salesforce Be aware of
common pitfalls Build reusable transformation code covering commonly needed Salesforce
transformation patterns Who This Book Is For Those tasked with migrating data to Salesforce or
building ongoing data integrations with Salesforce regardless of the ETL tool or middleware
chosen project sponsors or managers nervous about data tracks putting their projects at risk
aspiring Salesforce integration and or migration specialists Salesforce developers or
architects looking to expand their skills and take on new challenges
