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Handle Larger Datasets with Increased Apex Heap Limits (Winter '27)

Implementation

Digital Stratify Team

7 min read

Handle Larger Datasets with Increased Apex Heap Limits (Winter '27)

Salesforce Winter '27 raises the Apex heap limit from 6 MB to 10 MB for synchronous transactions and from 12 MB to 25 MB for asynchronous. Here is what changes, what to test, and how to stagger the rollout across sandboxes and production.

#Apex#Release Management#Best Practices

Multi-Currency, Multi-Language Salesforce: The Global-Rollout Playbook Nobody Writes Down

Implementation

Digital Stratify Team

6 min read

Multi-Currency, Multi-Language Salesforce: The Global-Rollout Playbook Nobody Writes Down

Enabling multi-currency in Salesforce is an irreversible one-way door. Multi-language is where 60% of adoption problems start. Here is the honest global-rollout playbook.

#Migration#Best Practices#Europe

Salesforce Reporting: 10 Best Practices That Separate a Report From a Guess

Data & Analytics

Digital Stratify Team

5 min read

Salesforce Reporting: 10 Best Practices That Separate a Report From a Guess

Every Salesforce org has 400 reports and trusts none of them. Here are the 10 best practices that turn Salesforce reporting from "just a screenshot" into a decision-making system.

#Best Practices#Adoption

Salesforce Sandbox Strategy: The 4 Types Explained (and How Many You Actually Need)

Implementation

Digital Stratify Team

5 min read

Salesforce Sandbox Strategy: The 4 Types Explained (and How Many You Actually Need)

Salesforce ships four sandbox types. Most teams use them wrong. Here is the strategy that gets you a clean release pipeline without paying for sandboxes you never open.

#DevOps#Best Practices#Security

Salesforce for Professional Services: PSA, Utilization, and the CRM That Bills Right

Implementation

Digital Stratify Team

6 min read

Salesforce for Professional Services: PSA, Utilization, and the CRM That Bills Right

Consulting, agencies and IT services all need what pure Sales Cloud does not do: project profitability, utilization, and billing. Here is the honest guide to PSA add-ons and native alternatives.

#RevOps#Best Practices#Comparison

The Executive Dashboard That Actually Gets Opened: 6 Metrics, No Fluff

Data & Analytics

Digital Stratify Team

5 min read

The Executive Dashboard That Actually Gets Opened: 6 Metrics, No Fluff

Most executive Salesforce dashboards contain 30 charts and get opened once. Here are the six metrics executives actually check, and how to display them so leaders read on their phone before the board meeting.

#Best Practices#Adoption

Salesforce Territory Management: When It Solves Real Pain, and When It Adds Its Own

Sales Performance

Digital Stratify Team

5 min read

Salesforce Territory Management: When It Solves Real Pain, and When It Adds Its Own

Territory Management is the feature you enable because "we need territories." Six months later, it is the feature you regret. Here is when it earns the complexity, and when Roles + Sharing Rules are enough.

#Sales Cloud#Best Practices

Salesforce Experience Cloud: When Portals Earn Their Price (and When They Do Not)

Integrations

Digital Stratify Team

6 min read

Salesforce Experience Cloud: When Portals Earn Their Price (and When They Do Not)

Partner portals and customer communities look great in demos and quietly become the most-abandoned Salesforce feature. Here is when Experience Cloud actually earns its price.

#Adoption#Best Practices

Salesforce Backup: Own, OwnBackup, Gearset, or Native, Which Actually Restores?

Salesforce Audit

Digital Stratify Team

6 min read

Salesforce Backup: Own, OwnBackup, Gearset, or Native, Which Actually Restores?

Salesforce is not backed up by default. Half the "backup solutions" you buy cannot actually restore under pressure. Here is the honest comparison, and the restore test nobody skips.

#Security#Comparison#Best Practices