You're reading from Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568754

Pages 628 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Software Architecture

Author (1):

Tameem Bahri

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Your Journey to Becoming a CTA

2. Chapter 1: Starting Your Journey as a CTA

3. Chapter 2: Core Architectural Concepts – Data

4. Chapter 3: Core Architectural Concepts – Integration and Cryptography

5. Chapter 4: Core Architectural Concepts – Identity and Access Management

6. Section 2: Knowledge Domains Deep Dive

7. Chapter 5: Developing a Scalable System Architecture

8. Chapter 6: Formulating a Secure Architecture in Salesforce

9. Chapter 7: Designing a Scalable Salesforce Data Architecture

10. Chapter 8: Creating a Lean Solution Architecture

11. Chapter 9: Forging an Integrated Solution

12. Chapter 10: Development Life Cycle and Deployment Planning

13. Chapter 11: Communicating and Socializing Your Solution

14. Section 3: Putting It All Together

15. Chapter 12: Practice the Review Board – First Mock

16. Chapter 13: Present and Defend – First Mock

17. Chapter 14: Practice the Review Board – Second Mock

18. Chapter 15: Present and Defend – Second Mock

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Tips and Tricks, and the Way Forward

Designing the enterprise integration interfaces to build your connected solution

Give yourself time to quickly skim through the scenario and understand the big picture and develop some initial thoughts about the solution. This is a must-do step for every scenario. Our approach is to incrementally solve the scenario. However, you still need to understand the big picture first and build some initial ideas, or you might risk losing a lot of time redesigning your solution.

Understanding the current situation

The first paragraph has some general information about PME. We learn from it that PME has some legacy CRM solutions and is looking to consolidate them using Salesforce. Moreover, we get to know that they would like to retain two systems – a legacy ERP system accessible only via the corporate intranet and a centralized inventory management system.

Both systems are disconnected from any other system. The scenario didn't exactly specify where they are hosted, but...