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Pathways to becoming a salesforce.com Architect

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Are you interested in becoming a salesforce.com architect? Not sure what to do or where to go next? Here’s the ROD guide to becoming a salesforce.com architect. If you have any questions just phone us on 020 8123 7769 or email us: rod@resourceondemand.com

What is a salesforce.com architect ?

A Technical Architect would have broad knowledge across multiple development platforms, with the ability to assess the architectural environment and business requirements to design secure, high-performing technical solutions on the Force.com platform. An architect would communicate technical solutions to business stakeholders and provide a delivery framework that ensures quality and success.

Tell me more…

The best route forward is to become a certified salesforce.com Technical Architect; through this you’ll demonstrate your ability to architect efficient and scalable solutions, integrating the Force.com platform into the enterprise architecture. Your in-demand skills will be sought by companies who want to fully invest in a cloud infrastructure.

What would I be doing in a salesforce.com architect role?

Elements of your role would include:

:: salesforce.com™ integration and development,

:: designing solutions,

:: using the salesforce.com™ API, APEX, Visualforce and other tools that extend the product.

You will need a significant cross-platform software development background, and be able to lead a technical requirements gathering session, write functional requirements and technical architecture documents and manage integration. Different organisations would differ in how they would use an architect, but expect elements of the above.

Tell me about the certification / credential process

salesforce.com say:

The Salesforce.com Certified Technical Architect program is designed for technical architects who want to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and capabilities to assessing customer architecture; designing secure, high-performance technical solutions on the Force.com platform; communicating technical solutions and design tradeoffs effectively to business stakeholders; and providing a delivery framework that ensures quality and success. Here are examples of the concepts you should understand to pass the exam:

:: Design a technical architecture solution that may span multiple platforms and include integration and authentication across systems;

:: Manage the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimized for performance and built to scale;

:: Articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a technical architecture.

To apply to take the exam and become a certified salesforce.com Architect click here:

I’m ready. How do I get a job as a salesforce.com architect?

Resource on Demand are the original and best salesforce.com recruitment company in the UK, as such we have roles available in a number of leading companies, who either use or implement salesforce.com, in the UK and beyond. We’ll talk you through the steps needed (training; certification) and then help you to find a role ideal for you. We never fill a role just to tick a box, so you can be assured that we’ll find a role that suits you.

We need a salesforce.com Architect, can you help?

We have a number of certified salesforce.com architects who are actively looking for a role in the cloud, as well as developers, administrators and consultants. We would be happy to talk to you about your needs and then introduce you to some candidates, who we feel would help to drive your company forward and suit you and your company.

Just phone us on 020 8123 7769 or email us: rod@resourceondemand.com and one of our team will be happy to help.

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Spring ’11 on the horizon

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Though it may not feel that way right now spring is on the horizon. The Spring 11 release that is.

The next release of Salesforce.com (aka Spring 11) is scheduled to roll out in late January and February (check http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status/ for the exact schedule) and there will be a preview Webinar on January 18th (6am PST and repeated again at 10am PST) to discuss some of the platform features that will be included in the upcoming release. Some of the features that will be discussed and demoed during the webinar are:

1) Revised Apex Governor limits: A topic near and dear to all Force.com developers. The governor limits have been simplified in Spring 11 and we’ll be discussing some of the key changes during the webinar. Among other changes, the Trigger context for governor limits has been eliminated in Spring 11. There is now just one context and a single set of governor limits for all Apex code – whether its written in a trigger, a VF controller, a test class or a web service.

2) Chatter triggers: Come hear about the new Apex triggers that you can write on the FeedItem and FeedComment objects.

3) Field Sets and dynamic Visualforce : Letting Administrators pick and choose which fields to display on a Visualforce page via config (no code changes required). Being able to determine which fields should be displayed on a page at runtime. If that sounds remotely interesting, come find out more during the webinar. ISV developers should be especially excited about the new Field Sets feature.

4) Visual Process: Based on the sold-out sessions at Dreamforce, the Visual Process tool is hot! And rightly so. It allows you to develop complex wizard type UI to support business processes like call scripting, lead creation, insurance quotes etc. via a sophisticated drag-and-drop WYSIWYG tool. No need to write a single line of code. You can also embed a Visual Process in a Visualforce page using a simple <flow:interview> tag. This allows you to develop cool mashups and expose Visual Process flows to Sites, Customer and Partner Portals.

5) Criteria based sharing: The ability to share records based on field values (instead of record ownership). This is one of the most eagerly awaited platform features and its GA in Spring 11.

Sign-up for the webinar here.


Our New Blog & salesforce.com training dates

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Hello and welcome to our new blog.

We will be using this page to keep you up-to-date with our latest news, jobs, events and training courses.

Speaking of training courses, at ROD we assist people looking to get training and certification into Salesforce.com by offering assistance and (sometimes) savings with the booking of courses in Salesforce.com offices in Staines.

The next available dates for salesforce.com courses are as follows:
ADM201 Administration Essentials – 8th Feb to 11th and 22nd Feb to 25th Feb
ADM301 Advanced Administration – 15th Feb to 19th
CON201 Implementation Essentials – 17th March to 19th March
DEV401 Force.com Development – 22md March to 26th March
DEV501 Advanced Force.com Development – 15th Feb to 19th Feb

If you are interested in attending one of these courses please email rod@resourceondemand.com