architecting composite applications with force.com and heroku

Composite Application ArchitecturesUsing Force.com and Heroku

Abhinav Keswani & Dan Fowlie, Trineo Ltd, Directors // Principal Consultants@wasabhi // @danfowlie

Why?

Who?

Abhinav KeswaniDan FowlieDirectors // Principal Consultants@wasabhi @danfowlie

What?

3 Case Studies

Case 1: 401Knew dog, new tricks

BUSINESS TOPOLOGY

Members

Advisors

Investment FundTax Department Benefit Administration

Business Goals Phase 1: Advisors

Provide best of breed service to Advisors.

Business Goals Phase 1: Advisors

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Business Goals Phase 1: Advisors

Advisors are faced with antiquated systems that yield latent access to stale data.

Improve on this. Help Advisors to be successful.

Business Goals Phase 1: Advisors

Contain cost.

Mitigate unpredictable uptake by Advisors.

Build a great Advisor portal to ensure uptake.

High Level Technology Topology

Members

Advisors

Investment Fund

Create Advisor Account

RoR APIProvisioning Request

Invite [Add-on: Sendgrid]

Accept Invite

Confirmed Advisor!

Authenticate and Access

Restforce Query

JSON Response

JSON consumed (angularjs frontend)

Demo

Case 2: ETLCat amongst the pigeons

Goals

• Perform low level operations on data which are otherwise not possible on Salesforce

• Make this easy for end users to do• Perform transformations on text or binary data

Proposed Solution• Salesforce Canvas App

• Ruby on Rails app running on Heroku

• User Experience• Asynchronous workload, all contained within Heroku• Perform action, and move on• Watch for progress, or be notified of change

High Level Technology Topology

Demo

Case 3: ReportingBringing data to life

Bringing Data to Life

LEGACYDATA

SummaryDeep, wide reaching possibilities

Abhinav Keswani

@wasabhi

Dan Fowlie

@danfowlie