Find and remove technical debt Elements.cloud helps you find and remove tech debt in Salesforce by providing clear visibility into metadata usage, so you can prioritize and eliminate what’s killing your agility and preventing you implementing Agentforce effectively. Improve user productivity Simplify architecture Improve data quality Reduce risks making changes Book a demo Explore platform 1 # Change Intelligence Platform 600 + Customers What is technical debt costing your business Slowing Agentforce adoption The power of agents is their ability to be grounded in good data and reuse existing metadata automation. Technical debt increases org complexity and kills agility. Low user productivity & poor decision making Unchecked tech debt frustrates users, slows productivity, and leads to poor decisions from inaccurate data. Compliance and security risks Ignoring tech debt increases the risk of data breaches and costly compliance failures. Increased delivery cost, downtime and roll-backs Not addressing tech debt raises delivery costs, slows changes, and risks downtime. 95 % User productivity improvements. 60 % Reduction in security incidents. 3 x Faster feature delivery with reduced rollbacks. 50 % Lower compliance violation costs. Book a demo Remove tech debt easily and safely Our platform helps you categorize technical debt based on impact. Then integrate the removal of technical debt into your ongoing projects to accelerate time to value and boost your org’s agility. We provide the tools you need to safely and confidently remove: Legacy workflows and processes Unused fields Abandoned dashboards Unused picklist values Outdated reports Outdated automations Overconfigured page layouts Overlapping profiles and permissions sets Hardcoded IDs and emails Unleash Your Potential Build your Centre of Excellence with Elements.cloud Talk to us Smart features to identify and remove tech debt Metadata dictionary Elements.cloud automatically creates a comprehensive metadata dictionary that captures everything in your org, giving you a single source of truth to easily see and understand what you’re working with. Its automated insights and dependency analysis provide the clarity needed to confidently assess impact and estimate effort when planning changes. Analytics 360 With Analytics 360, you get real-time, comprehensive analysis of your org’s metadata, including a clear view of technical debt, complexity, health, governance, and security. It highlights areas that need attention to reduce risk and improve org agility. Impact Assessment With Impact Assessment, you gain full visibility into your org’s dependencies, allowing you to understand the scope of any change, estimate the effort required, and reduce technical debt while accelerating change without unexpected disruptions or costly rework. Have an AI-powered conversation with your org grounded in metadata documentation, impact assessment and dependencies, or grounded in your security model of profiles and permissions. Permissions explorer Overlapping profiles and permission sets create security risks, make access management complicated,, and increases time to make changes. With full visibility into user permissions, dependencies, and redundancies, you can streamline access, reduce risk, and ensure compliance. Get the visibility that enables you to plan how you to migrate to the new permission set-driven security model. Identify overlapping permissions that can be combined, and eliminate redundant permissions that open up security vulnerabilities. 1 # Change Intelligence Platform 600 + Customers Organizations who are in their element Elements.cloud allows my team to assess risks quickly and make informed decisions. We can evaluate potential impacts of feature requests and implement them with speed and confidence. G2 Elements.cloud was instrumental in helping Bosch accelerate their Salesforce rollout while reducing risk. Nils Heblich-Menke Bosch, Chief Product Owner It is very amazing to me how many profiles and permission sets in Salesforce environments use the View All and Modify All permissions at both the object and system level. Matt Meyers Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA), EZProtect Using Elements is like having a Swiss Army knife for Salesforce. It’s become an integral part of our Salesforce-focused methodologies. Daniel Keith Tenger Ways Frequently asked questions What is technical debt in Salesforce? Functionality that is not used, or no longer used is technical debt. What is acceptable technical debt? Technical debt that doesn’t impact system performance or slow down future development is not an issue. Is technical debt a risk? Technical debt slows down future development because it increases the impact assessment of any change, and risks hitting limits such as the maximum fields for an object. What is an example of technical debt? Our research shows that 50% of custom objects are never used. 40% of custom fields are never populated. Time and effort were wasted planning, developing, testing, and deploying these. How do I find technical debt? A metadata dictionary that analyzes usage such as field population and last modified date will identify technical debt. It can also provide the dependency analysis so you can estimate the effort to remove the technical debt. What is the 80:20 rule for tech debt? 80% of development effort should be on new features and 20% should be on tech debt remediation. This 20% should be directed toward the tech debt that is having the greatest impact on Salesforce agility. What are the 4 quadrants of technical debt? The four quadrants of technical debt is a classic 2 x 2 matrix where the axes are how dangerous, and how knowledgeable. So the top right quadrant is “planned where the impact is understood” and bottom left is “didn’t know that I didn’t know”. What is the root cause of technical debt? There are 5 reasons for technical debt, and the bottom 3 fit into the 4 Quadrants because they are technical debt that was within the control of the implementation team. Business change: the operational processes have changed so the functionality is no longer used New Salesforce release: functionality that was custom development is now available in the core platform Deliberate: architectural or design decisions were made understanding the impact (top left and right) Incremental: earlier architectural or design decisions are forcing new decisions (top left and right) Accidental: insufficient business analysis, poor architecture/design, or poor knowledge of the platform (bottom left and right). How do I reduce technical debt? You need to take a deliberate approach with time budgeted in each project to reduce technical debt where it has the greatest impact. Rarely is there a business case to launch a “tech debt reduction project”. You need a metadata dictionary to be able to support any tech debt reduction efforts.
