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Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
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External data sources

One of the downsides of moving data off the platform in an archive use case, or with not being able to replicate data onto the platform, is that the end users have to move between applications and logins to view data; this causes an overhead as the process and data is not connected.

The Salesforce Connect (previously known as Lightning Connect), a chargeable add-on feature of the platform, is the ability to surface external data within the Salesforce user interface via the so-called External Objects and External Data Sources configurations under Setup. They offer a similar functionality to Custom Objects, such as List View, Layouts and Custom Buttons. Currently Reports, and Dashboards are not supported, though it is possible to build custom report solutions via Apex, Visualforce or Lightning Components.

External Data Sources can be connected to existing OData based end points and secured through OAuth or Basic Authentication. Alternatively, Apex provides a Connector API...

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