Salesforce, Inc.

Alexander Warshavsky

Adam Torman

Douglas Bitting

Brian Esserlieu

Cloves Carneiro Junior

Carl Montgomery

Methods and corresponding systems and apparatuses for configuring user access to data stored in and/or accessed through an external computer system are described. Access permissions can be configured through defining a permission set relative to a proxy entity and assigning the permission set to one or more users. A proxy entity is a local representation of an external data entity. A proxy entity can be a virtual entity in that the proxy entity does not contain underlying data. A proxy entity can, however, include metadata describing its corresponding external data entity. A computer system maintaining a proxy entity can store mapping information linking the proxy entity to an external data entity. The mapping information and the permission set can be used to determine an access permission relative to the external data entity and to communicate this access permission to the external computer system so that access can be provided accordingly.

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Walnut Creek, CA, United States of America

Alexander Warshavsky