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Salesforce Data Architecture and Management

You're reading from   Salesforce Data Architecture and Management A pragmatic guide for aspiring Salesforce architects and developers to manage, govern, and secure their data effectively

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073240
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ahsan Zafar Ahsan Zafar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Data Architecture and Data Management Essentials
2. Chapter 1:Data Architect Roles and Responsibilities FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Salesforce Objects and Data Modeling 4. Chapter 3: Understanding Data Management 5. Section 2: Salesforce Data Governance and Master Data Management
6. Chapter 4: Making Sense of Master Data Management 7. Chapter 5: Implementing Data Governance 8. Chapter 6: Managing Performance 9. Section 3: Large Data Volumes (LDVs) and Data Migrations
10. Chapter 7: Working with Large Volumes of Data 11. Chapter 8: Best Practices for General Data Migration 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Assessing the current state of data governance

We have discussed data governance and how it's different from data management and the ways to implement data governance policies with respect to Salesforce. But before we start to implement data governance policies and tools, it's recommended to do a current state assessment. The reason is that every organization has some form of data governance in place and there is no need to scrap these practices. Rather, we need to understand what these are and identify the gaps. After we validate and realize that the existing policies are adequate, we can turn our attention to these gaps and ensure they are taken care of.

In the following sections, we will discuss what a data governance assessment is, some of the challenges that we may face in an assessment, and high-level steps on how to go about doing it.

Assessing the current landscape

The goal behind a data governance assessment is to document the knowledge, skills, and attitude...

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