Data

The Force.com platform makes it easy for you to manage and track your data. Your users, apps, and processes can seamlessly interact with all relevant data, including data that’s stored in external systems.

Enable Users to Manage Their Own Authentication Settings for External Systems
For access to external data sources and named credentials that use per-user authentication, users can now manage their own authentication settings, so that you don’t have to.
Terminology Changed for Authentication Settings for External Systems
We now refer to authentication settings for external data sources by using consistent language throughout Salesforce to avoid confusing you and your users. These authentication settings also apply to named credentials, which are new in Spring ’15.
Compress Requests to and Responses from External Data Sources of Type “Lightning Connect: OData 2.0”
When you define an external data source, you can now choose to send compressed HTTP requests to the external server. Doing so can improve performance over low-bandwidth connections. Just make sure that the external server is set up to receive gzip-compressed data. You can also set up the external server to send gzip-compressed data to Salesforce, which automatically accepts gzip-compressed responses from external data sources.
SOQL Queries of External Objects Can Include the COUNT() Aggregate Function
The COUNT() aggregate function is now supported on external objects whose external data sources support the $inlinecount system query option.
Retain Field History with Field Audit Trail (Generally Available)
Field Audit Trail lets you define a policy to retain archived field history data up to ten years, independent of field history tracking. This feature helps you comply with industry regulations related to audit capability and data retention.
Manage Customer Data with Data Pipelines (Pilot)
We’re continuing the pilot availability of Data Pipelines, a new capability to leverage all your customer data for intelligence and actionable information. Data Pipelines helps you engage with customers and build data-driven applications. With Data Pipelines, you can use the power of custom Apache Pig scripts on Hadoop to process large-scale data that’s stored in Salesforce.
Other Changes in External Data Integration
Learn about other changes that we’ve made to external data integration.

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