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Azure Purview advances support for SaaS applications – Salesforce scan

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Linda_Wang
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Dec 10, 2021

Azure Purview empowers you to bring over metadata from various data sources, and automates data discovery by providing data scanning as a service for assets across your data estate. Azure Purview keeps advancing support for SaaS applications. Now you can easily scan Salesforce to extract metadata and populate your data map.

 

Register and scan Salesforce

Purview data source administrators can start by registering Salesforce under the data map, and set up reoccurring or one-time scan. Purview supports scanning the entire Salesforce organization or only the selective objects with interest, and can extract metadata including Salesforce organizations, objects, fields, foreign keys, and unique constraints.

 

Search and browse assets

Once the scan completes, you can discover assets via search or browse.

You can search for the Salesforce assets by keyword, and narrow down results by using the facet filters.

 

To browse, click on the “Browse assets” tile on the Purview home page, navigate to the “By source type” tab and select Salesforce. You can then see the list of Salesforce assets brought in by the scan.

 

View and manage metadata

Click into the asset to view more details. You can also add business metadata like descriptions, glossary terms, and manually classify the data assets.

 

Get started today!

Updated Sep 21, 2022
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  • GajendraSah's avatar
    GajendraSah
    Copper Contributor

    Hi Linda Wang,

     

    Thanks for your response. But your answer is irrelevant for my query. 

     

    My Query : We cannot install self-hosted-IR in Salesforce due to it is SaaS. So where I need to install the self-hosted-IR.

     

    Answer : Install the self-hosted-IR in our local machine or dedicated VM and add the Integration Runtime in Azure Purview. refer below image

     

    Note : Azure Purview has limitation to up/down CU.

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • GajendraSah's avatar
    GajendraSah
    Copper Contributor

    Hi,

     

    have registered Salesforce in Azure. But could not scan due to can not install Integration Runtime in Salesforce

     

    With reference to URL(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/register-scan-salesforce),  mentioned that install the self-hosted integration runtime and JDK 11 in Virtual Machine. But, Salesforce is the SaaS service so then can not install the self-hosted integration runtime and JDK 11.

     

    Please help me where I need to install the IR.

     

    Thanks and Regards,

    Gajendra