Northern trail Outfitters (NTO) runs its entire out of an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), NTD’s sales team starting to use Salesforce after a recent implementation, but currently lacks data required to advanced and opportunity to the next stage.

NTO’s management has research Salesforce Connect and would like to use It to virtualize and report on data from the EDW within Salesforce. NTO will be running thousands of reports per day across 10 to 15 external objects.

What should a data architect consider before implementing Salesforce Connect for reporting?