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Perspectives on Salesforce, from the people who run it

Practitioner analysis on Salesforce architecture, Agentforce, integrations, and enterprise platform strategy - written by people who deliver this work day to day.

News Analysis · Market Intelligence · For Executives & Decision-Makers

Salesforce Is Buying Braze for $5.66 Billion. Here's What Not to Do Yet.

Salesforce's $5.66 billion deal to buy Braze won't close before February 2027, and no pricing or product-merge plan is public yet. The right move for existing Marketing Cloud and Braze customers is to document contracts and ownership now, not to react to the headline.

Decision Listicle · Salesforce Decisions · For Developers & Architects

Do You Need a Full-Time Salesforce Architect? The 7 Decisions That Answer It

SalesforceBen's 2026 architect survey found the most common Salesforce team shape is several developers, a few admins, and one architect - and three-quarters of those architects still buy outside help anyway. The real question was never headcount; it's which decisions need architectural review before they ship.

Comparison · Operations & Support · For Operations & Support

When a Quick Fix in Salesforce Production Is Fine, and When It Isn't

Almost every Salesforce admin has made a change directly in production without asking first - and most of the time, nothing breaks. The actual problem is that nobody wrote down which changes that's true for, so the exception quietly became the habit.

Architect's Answer · Salesforce Decisions · For Executives & Decision-Makers

How Many Salesforce People Do You Need? The Ratio Everyone Quotes Doesn't Hold Up

The "1 admin per 75-100 users" rule gets quoted everywhere, and real companies break it in both directions. Change frequency, integration count, and automation review burden predict headcount - user count barely does.

Architect's Answer · Operations & Support · For Admins

Testing a Salesforce Release Update as Yourself Doesn't Prove It's Safe

Salesforce's own Release Updates page will show a clean pass while you're logged in as System Administrator - a profile that holds nearly every permission a Release Update is likely to gate behind, by default. Here's why that test proves less than it looks like, and how to test one that actually does.

Decision Listicle · Fixes & Rescue · For Admins

Why Nobody Trusts Your Salesforce Data (and Training Isn't the Fix)

Most "our Salesforce data is a mess" conversations end with a reminder email about filling in required fields. The real causes are almost always structural, and they keep coming back until someone fixes the structure instead of the habits.

Comparison · Integration & Data · For Developers & Architects

MuleSoft vs. Direct API Integration: The Decision Most Teams Get Backwards

Most "MuleSoft vs. direct integration" advice counts how many systems you've connected. That's the wrong test - the real one is whether anyone will own integration governance as it grows, not how many connections happen to exist today.

Architect's Answer · Architecture & Technical Debt · For Operations & Support

Why Salesforce Changes Take Longer Every Year

Every Salesforce admin feels change velocity decay before they can name it - a routine field edit that used to take ten minutes now eats a day of impact analysis. The cause isn't a worse team; it's three specific things that compound every release.

Decision Listicle · Salesforce Decisions · For Executives & Decision-Makers

Choosing a Salesforce Implementation Partner: The Signals That Predict Delivery Risk

In March 2026, Salesforce quietly rewrote its own partner credentialing system - which means the badge most buyers still screen for no longer means what it used to. Here's what to check instead before you sign.

Field Note · Field Notes · For Admins

It Looked Like a Sharing Bug. It Was a Restriction Rule Nobody Remembered Adding.

A Salesforce report started missing records, and nobody had touched a sharing rule. The actual cause was a feature most admins have never had a reason to open: restriction rules.

Buyer Guide · Salesforce Decisions · For Operations & Support

The Real Cost of Running Salesforce Is Not the License Line

A Core-edition quote reads like one number. The number finance actually signs off on by the end of year one almost never matches it, because sandboxes, a real owner, migration work, and AI consumption were never on that quote to begin with.

News Analysis · Market Intelligence · For Developers & Architects

Salesforce's AIforce Didn't Add One New AI Risk. It Added Three.

At Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce rebranded its AI strategy around AIforce - one governance model now reachable from Claude, Slack, and Lightning at once. The permission-hygiene question this raises isn't new; it just tripled in surface area.

Decision Listicle · Operations & Support · For Executives & Decision-Makers

Salesforce Premier Success Plan Guarantees a Response Time, Not a Fix

Salesforce's new Sales editions bundle a Premier Success Plan that used to cost extra, with a genuine response-time guarantee attached. It still excludes exactly the work - new development, redesigned automation, integration ownership, backlog prioritisation - that determines how fast a real Salesforce problem actually gets fixed.

Architect's Answer · Salesforce Decisions · For Developers & Architects

Salesforce Build vs. Buy: How to Decide an AppExchange Call

Most Salesforce build-vs-buy advice stops at license cost. The decision that actually predicts regret is who ends up owning the data model, the upgrade cadence, and the governor limits once the choice is live.

News Analysis · Market Intelligence · For Admins

Salesforce Retired Enterprise and Unlimited for Core, Advanced, and Max: What Changes at Renewal

On September 3, 2026, Salesforce replaced Enterprise and Unlimited with three new editions that bundle Slack, Tableau Next, and Agentforce credits into a single per-seat price. Here's what actually changes before your next renewal.

Comparison · Architecture & Technical Debt · For Executives & Decision-Makers

Single Org vs. Multi-Org: The Salesforce Decision Nobody Makes on Purpose

Most organisations never actually decide between one Salesforce org and several - the first acquisition or regional rollout decides it for them. What genuinely forces a split, what doesn't, and why the two paths aren't equally reversible.

Comparison · Integration & Data · For Operations & Support

Real-Time vs. Batch Salesforce Integration: Ask This Before You Choose

"Real-time vs. batch" gets treated as a modernisation question. It's actually a question about who notices when the integration fails - and how fast.

Decision Listicle · Agentforce & AI · For Developers & Architects

Why First Agentforce Pilots Die, and How to Pick a Use Case That Survives

Broad, ambitious first Agentforce use cases fail for a predictable reason: they were never one job. Here's how to test a candidate use case before you spend a single Flex Credit building it.

Architect's Answer · Operations & Support · For Operations & Support

Salesforce Backlog Prioritization: Why RICE and MoSCoW Quietly Bury Technical Debt

RICE, MoSCoW, and ICE were built to rank visible feature requests, not the untested batch job quietly becoming a governor-limit incident. Here's the one addition that stops a Salesforce backlog from scoring technical debt out of contention every sprint.

Comparison · Salesforce Decisions · For Executives & Decision-Makers

Fix, Rebuild or Reimplement? How to Tell What Your Salesforce Org Needs

Most Salesforce 'let's just rebuild it' conversations skip a step: finding out which specific part of the org is actually broken. Here's a framework for choosing between fixing, rebuilding, and reimplementing - one module at a time, not one mood at a time.

News Analysis · Market Intelligence · For Admins

Salesforce to Salesforce Is Retiring: What Replaces It

Salesforce is retiring one of its oldest native features - the free way two orgs share records - and naming three separately licensed products as replacements. Here's who's actually affected and how to choose between them.

Decision Listicle · Integration & Data · For Operations & Support

The Salesforce Integration Deadlines Landing in 2027, and What to Audit Now

Four separate Salesforce integration deadlines - not one - land between now and 2028, and none of them announce themselves as a group. Here's exactly what to check in your org this quarter, and why the order you check it in matters.

Architect's Answer · Architecture & Technical Debt · For Developers & Architects

Why Your Salesforce Sharing Model Quietly Becomes Technical Debt

A Salesforce sharing model that worked cleanly at launch can quietly become technical debt as an org's data and role hierarchy grow - not because anyone misconfigured it, but because nobody revisited it against the record volumes it now carries. Here's the mechanism, the real thresholds, and a decision framework for fixing it.

Buyer Guide · Fixes & Rescue · For Executives & Decision-Makers

Switching Salesforce Partners Mid-Project: How to Do It Without Losing Six Months

Most companies don't decide to switch Salesforce partners the day something visibly breaks - they decide the day a simple question about the org gets a guess instead of an answer. Here's how to handle the transition itself without losing six months to a rebuild you didn't need.

Comparison · Salesforce Decisions · For Operations & Support

A 100% Salesforce Health Check Score Doesn't Mean Your Org Is Healthy

A green Salesforce Health Check score proves your security settings meet a baseline - nothing more. Here's what actually separates that from knowing your org is fine, and when the gap is worth paying to close.

Decision Listicle · Operations & Support · For Admins

8 Signs Your Salesforce Release Process Has Outgrown Change Sets

Change Sets aren't wrong for most Salesforce orgs - they're wrong past a specific, checkable point. Here's how to tell whether your release process has actually outgrown them, or whether switching tools would just add cost without fixing anything.

Comparison · Salesforce Decisions · For Executives & Decision-Makers

Managed Services vs. In-House Salesforce Team: The Question Most Comparisons Get Wrong

Most "managed services vs. in-house" comparisons answer a question nobody asked and land on "it depends." Here's the question that actually decides it, with real 2026 data and concrete thresholds instead of a features table.

Field Note · Field Notes · For Developers & Architects

Your Salesforce Integration Keeps Breaking. The Data Was Never the Problem.

A Salesforce-SAP integration that "keeps breaking" usually isn't broken at all. Here's the recurring pattern behind it, and why the fix is a decision, not a smarter retry.

Architect's Answer · Architecture & Technical Debt · For Admins

AI Just Made Salesforce Flow Technical Debt Move Faster

AI can now write a working Salesforce Flow in under a minute, which means an org can accumulate automation debt faster than anyone reviews it. Here's how to tell whether what you're carrying needs a cleanup or a rebuild.

News Analysis · Integration & Data · For Developers & Architects

SAP's New API Policy: What It Means for Your Salesforce Integration

In April 2026, SAP quietly rewrote the rules for which of its APIs third parties can call - and by June, a security patch was already enforcing it. Here's what actually changed for Salesforce architects, and what doesn't need to change yet.

Decision Listicle · Operations & Support · For Operations & Support

Your Salesforce Admin Is a Single Point of Failure. Here's How to Tell Before They Leave.

Most Salesforce orgs don't find out how much operational knowledge lived in one person's head until that person resigns. Here are the specific, checkable signs of single-admin risk - and what to do about each one before it becomes a crisis.

Comparison · Salesforce Decisions · For Admins

Admin, Developer, or Architect: Who Does Your Salesforce Org Need?

Most Salesforce teams don't decide what to hire next by job title - they decide by what's about to break. Here's how to tell which role you actually need, and when you don't need a new hire at all.

News Analysis · Agentforce & AI · For Executives & Decision-Makers

Salesforce in Claude: An Enterprise Architect's Pre-Pilot Checklist

Salesforce in Claude is moving from a closed pilot toward open beta this month. Before it touches a production org, Salesforce architects need to understand how the access model really works and what Salesforce still hasn't said.