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Data Cloud Enhancements that Admins Will Love!
Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Skip Sauls, Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce.
Join us as we chat about how Data Cloud can make it easier than ever to roll out enhancements to your org.
You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Skip Sauls.
The challenges of working with external data sourcesPulling data from external sources is always a challenge. For one thing, it usually requires a bunch of work on the backend to get things looking the way you want them to. What's more, it opens the door to all sorts of potential problems when things don't match up, not to mention the extra security challenges.
That's why I was excited to sit down with Skip Sauls. He's the PM for Data Cloud, and he's here to tell us how his team has made working with external data sources easier than ever before.
How Data Cloud simplifies data managementData Cloud allows you to combine your external data sources with what's in Salesforce without hacking together a series of customizations. Connectors allow you to import data from external sources as direct objects, or transform it into something more useful. You can run reports with it, use it in flows, embed it in Lightning pages, and much more, without needing to write specialized code.
Skip's goal is to minimize the customizations you need to make and seamlessly combine your external data with what's in Salesforce. Using Data Cloud means that you'll be able to deploy enhancements to your org without worrying that everything's going to break, or rebuilding it from the ground up. As Skip says, "we don't want people to feel like they have to radically change everything in their day-to-day lives just to access something new."
Get hands-on experience with Data CloudLooking forward, Skip and his team are trying to further simplify how Salesforce works with external data sources. They're rolling out tools to minimize imports, so your data lives in one place but works the same as what you have in Salesforce. They're also working on Remote Data Cloud, which will help you consolidate data that's spread out across multiple orgs.
If you want to learn more about Data Cloud, I have good news for you. Skip and his team are releasing dozens of new hands-on challenges to Trailhead over the next few months. There's never been a better time to get up to speed with everything that's possible with Data Cloud.
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