1. Reporting and Business Intelligence
What if you have an existing data warehouse? Do you have a standard reporting environment based on Tableau or Cognos? In this case, Salesforce is just one of the data sources for the reporting team and accessing the cloud instance is simply not flexible enough.
2. Simplified Integrations
Salesforce data is important for many other applications within an IT environment of a company. Other tools need to work with the contacts, cases, leads and other objects. The experience is that vast majority of applications working with Salesforce data does not modify the data at all. These are just read-only Salesforce integrations.
3. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are closely related practices that describe an organization’s preparation for unforeseen risks to continued operations. Many organizations are required to have such plans.
Replicate Salesforce Data with SnowMirror
SnowMirror is a smart replication tool for Salesforce. The data is loaded from a Salesforce instance and stored in a relational database such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, installed in a local environment. SnowMirror is simple to install and configure. Follow the quick start guide to set up SnowMirror just in 10 minutes.
Usage and Billing Terminology
This section defines the terminology used for Salesforce Sites usage and billing.
Bandwidth and Service Request Time Limit Enforcement
Bandwidth and Service Request Time limits are tracked and enforced over a 24-hour period. Sites that exceed provisioned limits within the 24-hour period remain available if the host instance has resources to serve the site. However, even if a site is available once limits are exceeded, there’s no guarantee in service level.
Billing and Monthly Page Views Enforcement
This section describes how Salesforce enforces limits on monthly page views for Salesforce Sites.
What Counts as a Page View?
This section describes how page views are counted for Salesforce Sites.
Monitoring Usage
Page views, bandwidth, and time consumption are tracked and made available in your org. You can view this information for a site under Setup | Build | Develop | Sites. Select a site, and you see related lists for page views for the current month’s billing cycle, and the 24-hour bandwidth and service request time usage history.
