NorthMarq Established a Data Protection Foundation Before Its Salesforce Implementation

Upon choosing to switch to the Salesforce platform, NorthMarq needed to move their existing pipeline generation activity and all sales-related data from a legacy system into Salesforce. Before the implementation, they had started backing up their Salesforce data with the Weekly Export, but found that the processing time was becoming too lengthy. NorthMarq also realized if any data was lost or corrupted during the migration process, it would be difficult to recover all the data and re-create the existing relationships with the .CSV files the Weekly Export provided them. Therefore, having a more comprehensive backup and recovery process in place before the migration would allow NorthMarq to ensure the safety of their vital data in case a data loss or corruption were to occur.

NorthMarq would also need a data protection solution that could line up with their Recovery Time Objective (RTO), which stated that they could only be down without access to their business data for several hours at most. NorthMarq needed a backup and recovery strategy that could identify and restore lost or corrupted data on-demand during and after migration, while also meeting their stringent internal standards for the management of their cloud-stored data.

NorthMarq Needed to Speed Up Business Application Development

To speed up their development and QA cycles, NorthMarq required a data protection solution that could back up their sandboxes and quickly move datasets between production and their sandboxes for testing. NorthMarq also wanted to ensure that their sandbox environments matched up with their production environments in order for deployments to run smoothly. A data protection solution that could offer sandbox seeding capabilities, as well as comprehensive backup and recovery, would be key to the next stage of NorthMarq’s technology transformation.

Own supported NorthMarq as they seamlessly moved all existing data from their legacy CRM system to Salesforce by reducing the risk of a data loss or corruption.

NorthMarq Minimizes Salesforce Implementation Risks

After a competitive vetting process with other backup vendors, NorthMarq selected Own as their data protection partner because of their impressive set of capabilities and their easy-to-use interface. With NorthMarq’s massive data migration project on the horizon, they understood the need to have a data protection foundation in place before commencing any transfer of critical business data into their Salesforce environment. NorthMarq wanted to spend less time, money, and energy searching through data logs and previous backups to find lost or corrupted data. In addition, Own aligned with NorthMarq’s RTO. This helped NorthMarq effectively minimize downtime, protect their data from a potential data loss or corruption, and continue to seamlessly provide services to its clients and users.

With the help of Own, NorthMarq could identify any data that had been modified or altered during the migration process. Own supported NorthMarq as they seamlessly moved all existing data from their legacy CRM system to Salesforce by reducing the risk of a data loss or corruption.

NorthMarq Rapidly Scaled Development and QA Operations with Own

NorthMarq leverages Own Accelerate to populate sandboxes of any size with perfect, anonymized test datasets in minutes. Before deployment to production or a sandbox, NorthMarq uses Own Compare to identify if any new validation rules exist to avoid deployment failures.

NorthMarq discovered an innovative way to use Own Accelerate in place of their configuration management tool.