Advanced Data Modeling in Salesforce
by Jeff Susich
Understanding data modeling is fundamental to understanding Salesforce. This course will teach you about standard and custom objects, object relationships, and how to decide when objects and specific relationships need to be created.
What you'll learn
This course will break down data modeling into easy-to-understand concepts, and demonstrate how to configure data modeling in a Salesforce Org. In this course, Advanced Data Modeling in Salesforce, you will learn when to create custom objects and how to create relationships between objects to meet business needs. First, you will explore recognizing the need to create custom objects and how to create them. Next, you will discover how to determine what relationships those custom objects need to have with other objects. Finally, you will learn how to determine whether to use Lookup or Master-detail fields in object relationships, and when and how to use filters. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of advanced data modeling needed to configure and customize any Salesforce Org.
About the author
Jeff is a Certified Salesforce.com System Administrator, Advanced System Administrator, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, and Platform App Builder. He has been a Registered Salesforce Consulting Partner since 2011. He started using Salesforce as a user and self-taught system administrator. He took on a role as Senior VP of Sales and Marketing and found to his dismay that the company sales and support processes were being managed by paper files. Thus began his Salesforce.com bapti... moresm by fire. Jeff has deep and wide business experience in Sales, Operations, Contact Centers, IT, and Marketing at both startups and Fortune 500 companies. He works with all Editions of Salesforce: Essentials, Professional, and Enterprise.
Jeff specializes in being able to rapidly understand client and user needs and associate those needs with Salesforce.com. He has worked with clients in almost every imaginable industry, and he has done over 150 salesforce implementation/cleanup/rescue projects. Jeff has trained hundreds of users and system administrators.
Jeff is a military veteran and holds a BSEE from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Oregon. He lives in Loveland, OH.