Salesforce - COE Structure

Overview

A team of dedicated individuals who manages a common central point for the Salesforce Technology Platform. This team leads the way in exploring and adopting new technology tools, techniques, and/or procedures.

This group operates across areas within the practice or organization, with a focus on:

  • Providing thought leadership and direction

  • Establishing and promoting best practices to allow for IT guiding principles (current and future state) based on ITIL4

  • Research and development to provide appropriate recommendations

  • Supporting learning and development

  • Performing other similar functions in specific focus areas is considered critical to the success of the overall organization

  • Establishing the tools, culture, and metrics for continuous improvement through managing change

 

In addition to its core focus areas, the CoE can also add value by contributing to:

  • Optimizing the organization or practice by centralizing resources with high-demand and unique knowledge or skills and streamlining their contributions across a wide range of areas

  • Improving ROI through the identification and development of reusable assets. Developing and maintaining a catalog of reusable assets and enabling project teams to rely on proven, predictable results while avoiding common pitfalls

  • Reducing delivery times, development, and maintenance costs by increasing efficiencies

  • Identifying and reducing duplication of effort across initiatives within the practice or enterprise

  • Centralized repository for artifacts

Salesforce Centre of Excellence Key Areas:

  1. Architecture Management

  2. Solution Development

  3. Infrastructure

  4. Post Implementation Solution Support

  5. Service Catalogue – Business Capability Standardization & Continuous Improvement