SJI Stores Business-Critical Data on Salesforce
SJI stores an extensive amount of data in multiple Salesforce orgs. In addition to the typical sales opportunities there is information pertaining to Risk and Insurance.
SJI Experienced Challenges with the Weekly Export
While backing up with the Salesforce Weekly Export, SJI discovered five data protection challenges.
- The processing time to download and save files for three Orgs had become too lengthy for SJI. The team needed a faster, more comprehensive backup method to improve departmental productivity.
- The Weekly Export could not back up the attachments and metadata in their Orgs in a timely manner exposing the business to greater risk.
- SJI closes multiple sales per day, which means the seven day recovery point objective (RPO) the Weekly Export provides would leave them vulnerable to potentially losing a week’s worth of customer data.
- If they ever needed to restore lost or corrupted data, it would be a difficult and prolonged process to maintain parent/child relationships.
- SJI has strict security guidelines with their data. Therefore, a self-service platform that allowed them to store all necessary company files and information in a secure, external place outside of Salesforce was a key compliance requirement.
SJI Accelerated their Backup and Recovery Process with Own
After partnering with Own, SJI was impressed with Own’s daily data, metadata, and attachment backups. Own ensures SJI has access and can manage the backups of all three Orgs through Own’s multi-org dashboard. Own Smart Alerts inform SJI of any data or metadata modifications made within Salesforce, which they also use as a way to detect hacking or any malicious activity within their Salesforce Orgs. With this capability, SJI is able to remain proactive and save time when it comes to identifying data loss and corruption within their Salesforce Orgs.
If an accidental data loss or corruption were to occur, SJI can now fully recover lost or corrupted data, metadata, and attachments, while maintaining parent/child relationships in a timely fashion. SJI no longer experiences lengthy RPO and RTO times. Instead, with Own, their RPO and RTO times are close to one day, alleviating the business of any risks or costs that unplanned downtime could incur.
On May 17th, 2019, SJI was notified by Own Smart Alerts of a profile and permission sets metadata change within their Salesforce platform that affected their energy Org. SJI immediately logged into their Own account to identify the issues and were able to restore the profiles and permission sets to their proper values. This further proved the Own data protection solution to be incredibly efficient and reliable during both small and large scale data recovery scenarios.
"If an accidental data loss or corruption were to occur, SJI can now fully recover lost or corrupted data, metadata, and attachments, while maintaining parent/ child relationships in a timely fashion."
SJI Complies with Internal Security and Privacy Policies with Own
With SJI’s stringent internal privacy standards, it was vital to incorporate a data protection solution that met their strict security requirements. SJI conducted and completed cyber risk assessments and SOC 2 Type II reviews, as well as BitSight tech security reports in an effort to determine whether Own fully met their rigorous data storage requirements. Own was able to not only comply with their internal privacy demands but also effectively protect all of SJI’s business-critical Salesforce data backups.
SJI Speeds Up Development Almost 4X with Own Accelerate
Own Accelerate helps SJI run faster development cycles and testing. Accelerate ensured the seamless deployment of clean and precise data sets. For example, SJI needed to build out a new org quickly due to a recent acquisition.
SJI was very impressed that they were able to populate seven different sandboxes with real-time test data in less than 30 minutes each. Accelerate was able to save SJI close to two hours in their development process per individual sandbox... that’s 14 hours given back to the company for other innovative projects.
SJI Maintains Business Continuity with Own
SJI feels confident knowing their data and metadata are fully secure if an accidental data loss or corruption were to occur. SJI is now able to use Own Recover daily to identify if any data was accidentally lost or corrupted during any future transformative projects, including migrations, integrations, or implementations. If any data goes missing, Own will help them restore it quickly and efficiently ensuring SJI continues to strengthen business resiliency for many years to come.
