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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

You're reading from   Force.com Enterprise Architecture Blend industry best practices to architect and deliver packaged Force.com applications that cater to enterprise business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782172994
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Leveraging Platform Features 3. Application Storage 4. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns 5. Application Service Layer 6. Application Domain Layer 7. Application Selector Layer 8. User Interface 9. Providing Integration and Extensibility 10. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes 11. Source Control and Continuous Integration Index

Mapping out end user storage requirements


During the initial requirements and design phase of your application, the best practice is to create user categorizations known as personas. Personas consider the users' typical skills, needs, and objectives. From this information, you should also start to extrapolate their data requirements, such as the data they are responsible for creating (either directly or indirectly, by running processes), and what data they need to consume (reporting). Once you have done this, try to provide an estimate of the number of records that they will create and/or consume per month.

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Share these personas and their data requirements with your executive sponsors, your market researchers, early adopters, and finally the whole development team, so that they can keep them in mind and test against them as the application is developed.

For example, in our FormulaForce application, it is likely that managers will create and consume data, whereas race strategists will mostly...

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