Quick Debrief on External Cloud Archiving for Salesforce: The Challenges & Solutions

If you are a Salesforce customer experiencing significant data growth, there are various reasons why connecting it to an external cloud platform could be necessary.

Salesforce being a multi-channel CRM platform can have rigid storage usage restrictions, limiting the capacity to accommodate, process & unload large data volumes. Therefore processing heavy data tasks like archiving might set your Salesforce off-limits. Here’s where you can assign a Cloud For a Cloud like AWS, Heroku, Azure to Google Cloud Platform, to run the archiving load for your Salesforce.

Challenges: Manual Archiving of Salesforce Data Integrated to External Cloud Platforms

Configuring the objects, connecting your Salesforce to ‌a third-party cloud, to setting up a manual migration, can be cumbersome when your archiving needs are more frequent. Plus, each external system inherits its own challenges that make the process even more tedious.

Each external system comes with potential roadblocks and difficulties. If you are fabricating a long-term archiving goal, you should be aware of these challenges -

Complex Configurations: Setting up storage standards and configurations in various external storage systems can often be challenging. Administrators may find themselves unequipped to perform these actions and may need to hire experienced personnel, leading to additional expenditures.

Complex Object Relationship Handling: Archiving data into external systems involves dealing with complex inter-system parent-child relationships & object hierarchies, which can become difficult to manage over time.

Establishing Policies: When trusting external storage systems to archive sensitive Salesforce data, it is crucial to define policies regarding storage, accessibility, and management. This process can also present challenges.

Scheduling The Archiving Jobs: Admins need to schedule different processes for migrating and accessing archived Salesforce data in external storage platforms. Keeping track of multiple ongoing jobs can be challenging, as it increases the responsibility of archive administration.

Integration and Compatibility: Compatibility issues may arise when integrating external cloud archiving solution with existing systems or applications. Ensuring seamless integration and data consistency is vital.

Automate The External Cloud Archiving Process for Salesforce with DataArchiva

DataArchiva is built for both old to new hustlers, counting new exponentials to nurture their cloud-run businesses.DataArchiva’s futuristic archiving capabilities help users manage Salesforce data effectively with a choice of archival storage options. And here are the tell-tale advantages of archiving Salesforce data with DataArchiva using an external cloud platform while saving your additional data storage costs.

No Additional Connector Costs: DataArchiva eliminates the need for Salesforce Connectors or Integrators when connecting with third-party cloud platforms.

Seamless Connectivity: Once installed, configured, and connected, DataArchiva ensures uninterrupted connectivity to deploy AWS, Azure, Heroku, or GCP cloud alongside your Salesforce cloud.

Archives to Most Databases of Choice: Whether it’s MSSQL, MySQL, or Postgres, DataArchiva allows you to bring your own database to archive your Salesforce data.

No Salesforce Governance Limits: Using a third-party cloud as an external archiving engine frees you from Salesforce’s limitations on bulk data offloading.

Fastest Data Processing Speed: DataArchiva has been extensively tested and proven to have the fastest initial data offloading speed compared to other archiving applications on Salesforce, handling 10M-14M records per day.

Supports Archiving for All Salesforce Apps: DataArchiva provides composite archiving support for all Salesforce apps, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and other industry-specific clouds, along with 3rd-party AppExchange apps & Force.com apps.

Promises 10x ROI: By periodically moving your data from active Salesforce storage to an archive, DataArchiva optimizes storage space, eliminating the need to upgrade your data storage subscription. This leads to improved Salesforce app performance and a better customer experience.

5x Faster Deployment: DataArchiva expedites the integration of external cloud platforms with Salesforce, making the deployment process faster, easier, and seamless.

Top-Notch Data Security: DataArchiva ensures zero platform exposure when externally archiving your Salesforce data, while maintaining data privacy. Your Salesforce data is encrypted with advanced AES 256 encryption, providing complete access control and visibility even in an archived state.

Maintains Data Integrity: DataArchiva is designed to preserve complex object relationships in your Salesforce data, allowing you to archive without disrupting data integrity.

Ensures 100% Data Control: DataArchiva leverages your cloud to archive Salesforce data to your database, granting users complete control over the archives.

Meets Data Compliance Needs: DataArchiva allows you to meet complex data retention needs for compliance and other data policies. With the app, you can retain the data that needs to be retained.

Better Reporting: DataArchiva enables reporting on both live and archived data, allowing the use of advanced BI analytics like Tableau & Power BI, for running reports in Salesforce.

100% Access, View & Control: Though the data is archived & kept in your external storage, you can still view & access it within your Salesforce app. The app offers customers complete control over the process & their data.

Easy Archival Restoration: With DataArchiva, restoring archived data is as simple as clicking a button, enabling you to bring back archived data into the Salesforce production instance whenever needed.

DataArchiva has always been excellent at addressing data archiving challenges in Salesforce. Furthermore, DataArchiva is highly secure, scalable & admin-friendly, and an absolute user favorite.

If you are yet to experience the best-in-class archiving facility in Salesforce, DataArchiva is the right choice. To get a complete product demo, Contact us today!