Stone Bear

Salesforce strategy & architecture

Salesforce strategy
that fits your business.

Salesforce is a broad platform. Getting value from it takes decisions about your processes, data, architecture, and wider technology estate. Stone Bear helps you set the direction and put it into practice.

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Independent advice. Experienced implementation.

See where Salesforce fits
in your strategy.

Find Salesforce’s place in your wider strategySix interlocking puzzle pieces represent business priorities, business processes, other platforms, legacy data, integrations, and Salesforce. Salesforce fits into the whole, highlighted in blue with a white label.SalesforceBusinessprioritiesBusinessprocessesOtherplatformsLegacydataIntegrations
From your first Salesforce investment to your next stage of growth.UK & Europe / US & Canada

The decisions ahead

Wherever you are in
your Salesforce journey.

From a first implementation to an established enterprise estate, the right decisions depend on your business, your team, and what you want to achieve next.

Starting or expanding

Decide where Salesforce fits, establish the architecture, and plan the capabilities and integrations you need to grow.

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Improving your platform

Review technical debt, business processes, and data. Make better use of Salesforce and agree a practical direction for the future.

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Growing a team or product

Strengthen product architecture, development practices, and technical leadership, whether you’re an internal team or a Salesforce ISV.

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Strategy with perspective

A clear direction for now,
next, and the longer term.

Connect immediate priorities to the architecture you need for the future. A shared roadmap helps your team make each investment and delivery decision in context.

Now

Understand the starting point.

Clarify your business priorities, current technology estate, and the opportunities or constraints that need attention.

Next

Agree the priorities.

Decide which capabilities, process changes, and investments should come first, with a roadmap your team can put to work.

Longer term

Plan for growth.

Establish an architectural direction for Salesforce and your wider estate that guides decisions as the business evolves.

From direction to delivery

From architectural decisions
to working solutions.

Set the direction.
Build the capability.
Keep moving forward.

A scoped engagement or an ongoing relationship. Stone Bear can stay involved to implement the roadmap and help your team own what comes next.

  1. 01

    Discover and design

    Understand how your business works and design Salesforce’s role within the wider architecture.

  2. 02

    Build and improve

    Configure capabilities, develop integrations, improve data flows, and address technical debt where it matters.

  3. 03

    Support and evolve

    Provide ongoing guidance, strengthen delivery practices, and support your platform as new priorities emerge.

Ways to work with Stone Bear

The expertise you need,
when you need it.

Strategic judgement, architectural guidance, and practical involvement. Bring Stone Bear in for a specific decision, an implementation, or an ongoing role alongside your team.

01

Strategy

Decide how Salesforce fits into your wider technology strategy and what to prioritise now, next, and longer term.

02

Architecture

Design Salesforce’s role across your enterprise estate, data, processes, integrations, and products.

03

Managed services

Combine ongoing guidance, new roadmap delivery, platform maintenance, and continuous improvement.

04

Development

Build new capabilities and integrations, improve data flows, and deliver architectural changes in practice.

05

Fractional CTO

Align Salesforce and your wider technology stack with business priorities through fractional technology leadership.

Paul Battisson, founder of Stone Bear

Expertise behind the advice

A broad perspective.
Technical depth.

Stone Bear is led by Paul Battisson, Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame member and author of books on Salesforce development.

His work spans enterprise architecture, Salesforce implementation, ISV product development, and fractional CTO leadership. That experience connects decisions about the wider technology estate with the detail of making Salesforce work.

Paul BattissonSalesforce MVP Hall of Fame member
About Stone Bear

Perspectives on strategy and delivery

The Stone Bear perspective.

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Your next step

What are you planning next?

Whether you’re introducing Salesforce, planning new capabilities, or reconsidering your existing architecture, let’s discuss the decisions ahead.

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