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title: "Which are the Important Standard Objects in Salesforce?"  
description: "Which are the Important Standard Objects in Salesforce?"  
author: "Sophia Morrow"  
published: 2018-01-22  
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tags: ["salesforce", "standard objects in salesforce"]  
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# Which are the Important Standard Objects in Salesforce?

Which are the Important [Standard](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23223/naming-convention-or-coding-standard) [Objects](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1807/objective-c-data-types-variables-object-creation) in Salesforce?

## Answers

### Answer by Tarun Gautam

**[Salesforce](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32167/what-is-salesforce-crm-and-how-it-works)** is capable to transform every aspect as your sales team works. If your organization using Salesforce, then it’s important for you to know that it’s a powerful piece of software, it is an effective CRM system which helps in your sales identification, management, and close deals more quickly. Salesforce CRM is like a black-box that chock full of data which is useful for us.

Here I am going to introduce you to the Standard Objects of Salesforce. In Salesforce its **Standard Objects** represent the **database tables** which contains the information of your organization. In Salesforce access of these database tables are **determined by the Objects** which are defined in your organization. Salesforce comes with a large number of standard objects which are integral to Salesforce but salesforce also gives you a facility to create custom objects as you need. Below I have listed some of the most popular Standard Objects.

### Some Standard Objects are as Follows:

- **Account:** It represents an Individual Account or Organization or a Person. It is involved in the business for ex: customers, competitors, partners, etc.
- **Account History:** It represents the history of values changes in fields of an Account.
- **Asset:** It represents a commercial item value, like: a company or a competitor sold a product that a customer has purchased and installed.
- **Campaign:** It represents and tracks a marketing campaign, for ex: a direct mail promotion, webinar, or trade show.
- **Contact:** It represents a contact, which is an individual associated with an Account.
- **Contract:** It is a business agreement which is associated with an Account.
- **Case:** It represents a customer’s issues or problems.
- **Domain:** It is a Read-Only object which represents a custom web-address that is assigned to a site of your organization.
- **Dashboard:** It shows custom reports data as visual components and its access is read-only.
- **Forecast:** It represents estimated quarterly revenue of the organization.
- **Lead:** It represents the companies that are interested in your products.
- **Opportunity:** It represents a sale or pending deal.
- **Products:** It refers to items that are sold to customers.
- **Report:** It represents a set of data that meets certain criteria, displayed in an organized way. Its access is Read-Only.
- **Solution:** It represents the description of issues and their solutions.
- **Task:** It represents a business activity like making a phone call or other to-do items. Task and Event records are collectively referred as activities from the user interface.
- **User:** It represents a user in the organization.


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