About 15 years ago I implemented "cache namespacing" for memcached, where you build a final cache key for a stored item (e.g. "profile_page") by doing an initial multiget cache query for all the "namespace" version values (e.g "user_123", "team_456" might be needed for "profile_page"), which you combine together as a prefix for the final cache key.
You can then invalidate any final cache key that uses one of the namespaces by incrementing the namespace key.
I haven't come across this technique mentioned elsewhere since, but it's very useful.
I guess nosql, edge caching and materialised views make it less applicable than it used to be (when inelastically scaling single/replicated SQL instances were the only game in town and taking load off them was vital).
Or is this technique now a first class feature of various cache client SDKs?
You can exfiltrate secrets that aren't in the state, but are in accessible resources during a plan using an http data source with the secret encoded into the url
I've worked on enterprise collaboration software before, and came to the conclusions that the users will favour using the simplest thing for the task in hand (email or excel) no matter what SAAS products they have.
The trick then becomes
1. sell to management and get them to gamble on enforcing it's usage, (maybe by taking away the other tools, extensive training),
or 2. have something that works at a grass roots level (e.g. dropbox being used to work around IT constraints) .
I think I may have just restated your post, oops!
I keep wondering if the future for workflow tools might be to unobtrusively monitor user interactions by hooking into the email client, and have an intelligent Clippy-like service which prompts and decorates their tools i.e. prompting to use ContractBeast if a contract is attached to an email (or in fact just doing so), and to display relevant information as and when needed. There was some CRM system extension for gmail years ago which I remember being radically successful.
Could something like that have worked out for you?
*and server in order to provide analysis, archiving etc.