Native Data Archiving in Salesforce: A Closer Look at Big Objects

With growing digital transformation, compliance mandates, and years of transactional data, many organizations using Salesforce for data management face an escalating challenge: managing and storing massive volumes of historical data without impacting performance or exceeding storage limits.

This is where Salesforce Big Objects come into play. Designed to handle billions of records with seamless scalability, Big Objects provide a native way to manage long-term data storage within the Salesforce platform. But while Big Objects offer the technical foundation, leveraging them effectively for real-world data archiving requires the right strategy and solution.

This ebook is your cheat sheet to that strategy that works wonders when you want to save Salesforce storage cost, yet don’t want to move outside of the CRM. In case you want more technical aspects of Big Objects archiving, you can also check out the datasheet.