Chapter 9: Forging an Integrated Solution

In this chapter, we will continue with other Salesforce-specific knowledge areas required to pass the CTA review board. This is the fifth domain out of seven. We will go through the required knowledge and preparations for this domain and then complete a hands-on exercise using a mini hypothetical scenario.

As discussed in Chapter 3, Core Architectural Concepts – Integration and Cryptography, the enterprise landscape is continuously growing and becoming more complex. There is hardly an enterprise today that would use Salesforce in isolation from other systems. Distributed solutions are the default nowadays, mostly because integration today is much simpler than before.

Yet, it is still the area with the most significant impact on an implemented solution's success. During more than a decade of working with Salesforce technologies, I had the pleasure of working with clients from all around the world, sometimes as an implementer...