Exploring Salesforce File Storage Options by Unleashing the Power of XfilesPro
Being the #1 CRM in the world, Salesforce is the most preferred platform to run business by enterprises from multiple industries. Running a big business comes with incoming files on a daily basis. With the piling up of files, the need for optimizing file storage has become very important. Organizations have highly dependent policies on collecting, storing, retaining, accessing, and using files. But is the Salesforce storage very flexible? Is it dynamic enough to accumulate your day-to-day files in its limited storage? Of course, NO! That’s why we say the integration between Salesforce and a reliable external storage platform is your solution for file storage concerns. So, XfilesPro is built with advanced capabilities to support varied external file storage platforms. What is XfilesPro? XfilesPro is the #1 file management app for Salesforce that helps you optimize your Salesforce file storage space. The application automatically moves your growing file volumes from Salesforce to your preferred external storage systems such as SharePoint, Amazon S3, Google Drive, OneDrive, and On-premise platforms. This is a great step toward optimizing your file storage space and regaining the performance of your CRM. The best part is that, XfilesPro integrates your preferred external storage with Salesforce without even the need for an additional integration tool. Let’s take a look at each of the storage platforms that you can leverage with XfilesPro. SharePoint SharePoint is a popular web-based collaborative platform owned by Microsoft. It seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 and is primarily known as a document management and storage solution. With XfilesPro, the users can have the great chance to leverage the SharePoint Tagging functionality along with the abundance of the storage space provided by the platform. Learn more about Salesforce-SharePoint integration here. AWS S3 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) stands as a top-tier object storage solution, recognized for its exceptional scalability, data reliability, security, and speed. You can leverage Amazon S3 for safeguarding and storing any volume of files and data, serving a wide spectrum of purposes, including data lakes, websites, mobile apps, backup and recovery, archiving, corporate applications, IoT devices, and extensive big data analysis. Google Drive Google Drive is one of the most popular cloud storage services available today. IT’S a free service from Google that allows you to store files online and access them anywhere using the cloud. Google Drive also gives you access to free web-based applications for creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. The service syncs stored documents, photos and more across all the user’s devices, including mobile devices, tablets and PCs. Learn more about Salesforce – Google Drive integration here. OneDrive Microsoft OneDrive is a file hosting service allowing you to store, share and sync your files. OneDrive also works as the storage backend of the web version of Microsoft 365 Office. OneDrive offers 5 GB of storage space free of charge, with 100 GB, 1 TB, and 6 TB storage options available either separately or with Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Discover the tips to store Salesforce files in OneDrive here. On-premise Platforms On-premises storage is when data or files are stored on local hardware, such as servers, computers, or other devices. For example, if you purchase a server and set it up at your office, you and your team can store your data on that server. The server is controlled, administered, maintained, procured, etc. by your company and its in-house IT team, or an IT partner. Some of the examples for on-premises platforms that XfilesPro supports are SMB, SFTP, and Network Drive. That’s all about the external file storage options XfilesPro provides. If you wish to learn more about the integration part, please schedule a demo with one of our product experts. Experience the Potential of Modern File Management in Salesforce Discover how to efficiently manage your growing Salesforce files without hitting the storage cap Download the Datasheet Deeshna CDeeshna is a five-year experienced writer in the field of B2B, writing a wide range of content types that drive the success of SaaS products. All Posts www.xfilespro.com
Enable Salesforce & AWS integration for external file storage with XfilesPro
If you are dealing with a lot of Salesforce files and attachments, you can understand the associated challenges. A large number of files will subsequently lead to a high file storage space consumption and additional storage expenses. As Salesforce storage costs are hefty, it becomes irritable for organizations to optimize their primary file storage space without compromising any files or attachments. To get rid of this, XfilesPro help organizations store their Salesforce files in an external storage system without impacting the user experience. As a highly compatible external file storage solution for Salesforce, XfilesPro helps you reduce significant file storage costs along with seamless collaboration. When we talk about external storage support, currently XfilesPro supports various Cloud (AWS, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.) as well as On-premise (SMB Windows Share, SFTP, File System, etc.) storage systems. Salesforce – AWS Integration using XfilesPro for external file storage As Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a highly scalable, reliable, fast, and cost-effective object storage infrastructure called ‘Simple Storage Service (S3)’, many of the organizations prefer S3 as the external storage for their Salesforce files. XfilesPro works well with S3 and it’s extended features will make your file storage experience in S3 simple & cost-effective. To simplify the S3 configuration process, XfilesPro allows Salesforce admins to set S3 as the external storage with a single click. The set-up process can be automated and you can either use your own Salesforce Org’s S3 storage or XfilesPro offered highly secured S3 storage. Now let’s look at some of the XfilesPro features, which will help you store and collaborate your Salesforce files in S3. Easy File Management Using XfilesPro components, files are directly stored in S3. XfilesPro supports other file operations like view, download, preview, delete, share directly from the Salesforce UI. Export/Import Utility Initial file migration from Salesforce storage to S3 can be done through ‘Export’ feature & if the files are in some other system, they can be linked with your Salesforce system by keeping them in S3 using the ‘Import’ feature. READ THIS: How XfilesPro helped an Australian non-profit organization manage 6K+ files and efficiently store them in Amazon S3 Customized Folder Hierarchy You can completely customize the folder structure to any hierarchy based on object relations in S3. Bidirectional Sync You can manage your files in S3 directly from Salesforce. Handling Email Attachments Attachments received through Emails can be automatically moved to S3 storage. What choose XfilesPro? XfilesPro offers a gamut of benefits including reduced file storage cost, secure file transfer, no limitation of file size & volume, seamless user experience, support for Chatter files, communities, and customer portals. Get in touch with us if you want to store your Salesforce files in the AWS S3 system. AMARLAL
