Salesforce Connect

 What is Salesforce Connect? 

Salesforce Connect provides seamless integration of data across system boundaries by letting your users view, search, and modify data that’s stored outside your Salesforce organization, without actually copying the data into Salesforce. Salesforce Connect is a point-and-click solution to your other databases, and it makes earlier integration scenarios seem archaic.

Data from external systems are available as External Objects in Salesforce that are similar to Standard and Custom Objects so things like Tabs, Page Layouts, Custom Fields exist.

Salesforce Connect is used most Commonly

1.Searching External Data

2.List Views

3.Record Views

4.Related Lists

Note :

We can’t create formula fields, validation rules, and workflows on External Objects.

Salesforce Connect Cross Org :

Salesforce Connect Cross Org is one of the adapter types available in Salesforce Connect. When you define an external data source in your organization, you specify the Salesforce Connect Cross Org adapter in the Type field, and this will allow you to connect your org to another org, and access the records of this other org in your current Salesforce org.

(OR)

With the extension of Salesforce Connect Cross Org Adapter in the external data source, the users can create, edit, delete the records in/from the external system with support of writable interface.