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Technical and topical articles from Metazoa

Forbidden Secrets of the Metadata API

Salesforce’s Metadata API is a powerful resource that allows developers and system administrators to manage complex change and release processes across large organizations. I first began working with this API more than a decade ago when my Snapshot product was initially published. I really like the Metadata API, but anything this powerful is bound to have a few eccentric quirks and special use cases.

Using AI to Revolutionize Data Quality in Salesforce

Metazoa is a software company dedicated to publishing powerful Org Management applications within the Salesforce ecosystem. One of our flagship offerings, Snapshot, has traditionally focused on removing technical debt, generating compliance documentation, and optimizing security permissions. By leveraging Salesforce’s Metadata and Tooling API, Snapshot provides administrators with a deep view of their org’s complexity seamlessly.

Curse of the Ancient Objects

The Salesforce platform offers an astonishing range of tools and technologies for creating modern cloud-based applications. With countless APIs, Apex for custom business logic, and a sophisticated cloud database, both developers and admins can build and customize solutions in powerful ways. Yet beneath these modern conveniences, the platform also carries several historical design decisions—haunted relics from the days when Salesforce first began.

Managing Salesforce Orgs with Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent Search expands your team with an AI-based thinking partner that knows your org’s data and configuration. Four key categories drive its capabilities: Data Records, Object Schema, Metadata Types, and Org Management. For example, you can select an Account, including Opportunities and Contacts, and ask for next steps to close deals or identify potential data issues. By leveraging these categories, Intelligent Search can pinpoint

Discover the New World of Profile Management

Permission Set Groups, arriving in the Spring 48.0 release, offer a powerful solution. They allow you to bundle multiple Permission Sets under a single descriptive name and assign that group to Users. In effect, Permission Set Groups bridge the gap between monolithic Profiles and highly granular Permission Sets. With Permission Set Groups, Admins can handle these large, complex Orgs more effectively, simplifying security and

Embracing AI Features: The Time to Lean In Is Now

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzzword that has been dominating conversations across industries. From enhancing customer experiences to streamlining operations, AI offers a world of possibilities. However, many individuals and organizations are still hesitating to fully embrace AI features. In this blog, we’ll explore what’s holding people back, what system integrators (SIs) are waiting for, and why it’s crucial

Competitive Strategy for SI Partners

Snapshot can help SI Partners differentiate their company in the highly competitive marketplace for managed services and customer projects. You already have the best people, now give them the best tools for the job. Use automation to focus your developers on solving important problems instead of repetitive manual tasks. Snapshot has the right platform to turn AI into a competitive advantage for your company.

Using Metazoa to Enhance Data Quality and Achieve AI Readiness for Salesforce

Metazoa has created a suite of tools to help Salesforce administrators, developers, and business analysts use AI for org management. Our efforts compliment the Salesforce roadmap and bring the power of AI to mission critical problems including data quality, technical debt reduction, and security optimization.

Getting Your Salesforce Org Ready for AI with Metazoa Snapshot

In a recent interview, Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, highlighted the profound impact of AI adoption in transforming businesses across diverse industries. He underscored the critical role of data in driving AI implementation, emphasizing that harnessing AI’s full potential requires a robust foundation of organized and optimized data within an organization’s Salesforce instance.

License Expense Management with Snapshot

Snapshot has a new report that covers Organization, Feature, Package, and Permission Set Licenses. type can be compared. This information will give you a bird’s eye view

Introducing Metazoa Smart Deploy

The Metazoa Snapshot product has always had great deployment tools on the one hand, and dozens of vital reports on the other, but these capabilities were somewhat isolated. Now

Set Up Org Monitoring with Snapshot

This short blog post will discuss some of the amazing features built into Metazoa Snapshot that will enable you to manage changes like a pro: Automated snapshots, Org monitoring and Org documentation reports.

The New Code Quality Report

Snapshot has an amazing new Code Quality Report that can identify many common programming flaws in any Apex Class. Admins can even set up a Code Quality Gateway!

Introducing Data Migration For Snapshot

Metazoa has added some powerful new tools that move connected sets of data between Salesforce orgs. This capability is useful for backing up data, refreshing Sandboxes, merging orgs, and populating orgs with test data.

🎉 Congratulations! 🎉

You’ve successfully completed the Metazoa Metadata Studio Certification Class. With the skills you’ve acquired, you’re now adept at harnessing the power of Metazoa’s Metadata Studio, seamlessly integrating artificial intelligence into Salesforce org management. You have earned you a certificate! Well done, and we wish you continued success in your future endeavors!