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Introduction to Sandboxes

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Sandbox is a copy of your production organization. You can create multiple copies of your organization in separate environments for different purposes such as development, testing and training, without compromising the data and applications in your production organization. Sandboxes are completely isolated from your Salesforce production organization, so operations you perform in your sandboxes do not affect your Salesforce production organization, and vice versa. Generally in each phase of project requires different environments like during construction phase there are chances to multiple teams will work on development in this case each team requires their own sandboxes for development. After the construction period we need one common testing environment, during training period training team requires separate environment for training purpose and before going to production one STAGING environment required. So for each phase different environments are required. To understand this see th...

Salesforce developer Account

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Salesforce providing free developer edition where you can develop force.com applications for free. Salesforce provides many editions based on the customers needs. Each edition has their own features. Following are the paid editions providing by salesforce. Contact Manager, Group, Professional, Enterprise and Unlimited. In developer edition we can have access to Apex, visualforce, the Force.com Integration APIs, Force.com sites, the database services and much more. Following are licences available in developer edition. - 2 Salesforce CRM licences - 2 salesforce mobile licences - 3 salesforce platform licences - 5 salesforce partner licences - 10 salesforce ccustomer portal licences Limits of developer edition - 5.0 MB of data storage - 20 MB of file storage - 5000 API requests per 24 hours perion - Any number of applications - A 500 MB bandwidth and 10 minute service request time limits ( per rolling 24 hours) for force.com site applications. Creating Salesforce developer edition accoun...

Introduction about Cloud Computing

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“What’s the cloud?” “Where is the cloud?” “Are we in the cloud now?!” These are all questions you’ve probably heard or even asked yourself. Now new trend in IT is Cloud computing. In the simplest terms, cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computer’s hard drive. What cloud computing is not about is your hard drive. When you store data on–or run programs from the hard drive, that’s called local storage and computing. Everything you need is physically close to you, which means accessing your data is fast and easy (for that one computer, or others on the local network). Working off your hard drive is how the computer industry functioned for decades and some argue it’s still superior to cloud computing, for reasons I’ll explain shortly. The cloud is also not about having a dedicated hardware server in residence. Storing data on a home or office network does not count as utilizing the cloud. For it to be considered “cloud computing,...