Universal Container (US) is replacing a home-grown CRM solution with Salesforce, UC has decided to...

According to the Using Mashups article on Salesforce Developers, one of the techniques for deploying large data volumes is to use mashups to display historical records in Salesforce. The article states that “Mashups are a way to display data from an external system within a Salesforce page without copying or synchronizing the data. Mashups use a combination of Visualforce, Apex callouts, and JavaScript code that runs in the browser. Mashups are useful when you want to display large amounts of read-only data that is stored outside of Salesforce.” Therefore, a data architect should recommend this solution to meet the business requirement of UC.