Production v. Pre-Production Environments

This article outlines the distinctions between Fullcast's production and preproduction environments. Preproduction environments are staging areas where Fullcast can be deployed and tested before being released to your production environment. These environments are ideal for testing scenarios such as exporting jobs to verify their configuration or testing motion policies to ensure their proper functionality.

Production environments are where Fullcast is used in real-world conditions. Effective planning for your production environment should be closely aligned with testing in the preproduction environment to ensure functionality.

Note: Planning should start in production from the beginning while you work on testing in the preproduction environment.

This article outlines the key differences and limitations of these environments.

Feature	Preproduction	Production
Purpose	Used for testing	Serves as the live environment
Records	A maximum of 100,000 records per entity.	No max
Active Users	A maximum of 5 active users.	No max
SSO Support	No SSO support.	SSO supported
Schedule Jobs	Run scheduled jobs at least once a week.	Schedule jobs supported
Cost	Cost associated	Cost associated
Connection	Connection only to a customer’s Sandbox Salesforce environment.	Connection to a customer's Prod SF Env.
Backup and Restore	No backup or restore capabilities	Backup and restore capabilities
SLA Policy Availability	No SLA or ticket responses.	SLA Ticketing Process available.
Performance Testing	No Performance Testing
Migration	No Migration
Export Jobs	Can test export jobs to ensure they function correctly.	Export jobs available.
Testing Policies	Able to test all policies.	All Policies are available.
Number of Plans		Currently, No Plan Limit

Note: Fullcast cannot commit to SLAs regarding pre-production issues.