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Introducing the Salesforce platform

The document introduces the Salesforce platform and provides an overview of its capabilities. It discusses how the platform can be used to build employee apps, partner apps, and customer apps. It also summarizes several tools on the platform, including Visualforce, Apex, Lightning components, Heroku, and ExactTarget. The presentation aims to demonstrate how the Salesforce platform can support innovation through clicks and code functionality.

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Introducing the Salesforce platform
John Stevenson Developer Evangelist @jr0cket Troy Sellers Enterprise Architect @ibigfoot7 Andy Ormsby Solution Engineer @andyo
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This is a practical workshop
Don’t be shy, ask lots of questions
Overview of the Salesforce platform Supporting innovation through Clicks & Code John Stevenson @jr0cket
Salesforce platform: The Fastest Way To Build Apps
Core Services Chatter Multi- language Translation Workbench Email Service s Analytics Cloud Database Scheema Builder Search Visualforce MonitoringMulti-tenant Apex Data-level Security Workflows APIs Mobile Services Social APIs Analytics APIs Bulk APIsRest APIs Metadata APIs Soap APIs Private App Exchange Custom Actions Identity Mobile Notification s Tooling APIs Mobile PacksMobile SDK Offline Support Streaming APIs Geolocation ET 1:1 ET Fuel Heroku1 Heroku Add-Ons Sharing Model ET API Extensive Salesforce platform API’s & Services
Salesforce1 Platform API Guide - Force.com - Heroku - Exact Target - Everything else Salesforce… Books available online at: developer.salesforce.com
So what kind of Apps can you build ? ▪ Employee Apps with Force.com – helps people run your business effectively / system of record – understand the needs of your customers, partners, people ▪ Partner facing apps with Salesforce Communities –collaborating with millions of partners ▪ Customer Apps on Heroku –apps that help you engage with your customer –apps your customer uses for your services
Employee Apps with Force.com Helping your business run effectively, understanding your customers John Stevenson @jr0cket
Visualforce Pages Visualforce Components Apex Controllers Apex Triggers Metadata API REST API Bulk API Formula Fields Validation Rules Workflows and Approvals Custom Objects Custom Fields Relationships Page Layouts Record Types User Interface Business Logic Data Model Clicks Code 80% 20% &
Setup gives you the power to create Apps Create & Configure with Clicks
Setup > Build > Create Create Custom Apps, Custom Objects, Tabs, Reports, Actions, etc
Model the information in your business Schema Builder - view and create Objects & Relationships Standard Objects - Account - Contact - Etc.
Clicks: Workflow, Approvals & Flows Define workflows that work with business data
Clicks: Flows & Process Builder Processes: If this, then do that Approvals: for actions & information Workflows: update business data on events
Apex for custom business logic - Developer Console Extend “clicks” features with code
Code: Code online with the Developer Console 1) Menu 2) Workspace with tabs 3) Output panel – logs, test results, etc
MavensMate.com Sublime Text plugin for Force.com - Apex - Visualforce - Unit Tests - Git - Lightweight - Templates
Visualforce Pages for UI customisation
Code: Visualforce Pages & Web Technologies
Code: Visualforce Pages & Web Technologies
Every Object, Every Field: Apex and Visualforce Enabled Visualforce Pages Visualforce Components Apex Controllers Apex Triggers Custom UI Custom Logic
External App Every Object, Every Field: API Enabled REST SOAP Bulk Streaming OAuth 2.0 HTTPS Everything you create is immediately available via Salesforce API’s
Salesforce1 Mobile App
Apps in Salesforce1 Mobile
What’s in an App? Lightning PageLightning Components Global Actions
Salesforce Lightning New features & tools for App creation on Force.com
Lightning Process Builder Automate business faster ▪ Point-and-click business logic ▪ Visual builder ▪ Supports multiple process branches ▪ Collaborate with business owners ▪ Alternative to many basic Apex trigger use cases ▪ DE, EE and up
Lightning App Builder Drag & Drop Build with standard, custom & partner Lightning Components Any Device Design apps for every screen from one canvas Now anyone can build apps faster
What can I build? ▪ One-Page Applications – Drill down to existing standard pages – Expose Global Actions for more interactivity ▪ Dashboard-style Applications – Sales Leaderboard ▪ “Point” Applications to solve a particular task – Upload expense receipt
Standard Components Built by Salesforce Custom charts Data entry tools Custom data layout Dynamic maps Left nav Publisher bar Feed items Tas ks Slide rs Multi-view charts Pass/F ail Custom Components Built by customer developers AppExchange Components Built by Partners (25+ today) Lightning Component Framework
Component Frameworks Are The Future All leading platform companies are investing in component frameworks Google Polymer Facebook React Salesforce Lightning Twitter Flight Mozilla Brick
Lightning Connect Integrate external data faster ▪ A new tool in the Salesforce integration toolbox ▪ Point-and-Click ▪ Real-Time ▪ Represent external data as a Salesforce data object ▪ Available in DE orgs; add-on license required in Production orgs
Heroku Connect Synchronise data between Customer & Employee facing apps ▪ Point-and-Click Integration ▪ Select the Objects & Fields to synchronize & in which directions ▪ Manages API data limits Include the most valuable data from your customer apps, to help your employees understand your customers better
Salesforce platform scalability
trust.salesforce.com ▪ Salesforce platform (Force.com) –over 3 Billion transactions per day –average response 250ms
Heroku high scale performance Billion uests per day 4+ Million Apps Created 125+ Add-on Services Supporting millions of apps & services - status.heroku.com
Customer facing apps using Heroku Scaling interactions with your customers John Stevenson @jr0cket
Heroku Demo Instantly deploy & scale an apps with common developer tooli
Use existing developer skills Ruby, Java, NodeJS, Python, PHP Virtually every language you can think of can run on Heroku
What is Heroku? Database Enterprise grade Heroku Postgres as a service Add-ons Marketplace for data stores and app services Dynos sources to run your app Everything you need to build, run and scale customer apps
Deal with Success - instantly Instantly scale the compute resources your apps run on to han ver if your app cant meet the demand
dashboard.heroku.com
status.heroku.com
Unifying Interaction with Canvas Seamless integration of User Interface in your Salesforce Org John Stevenson @jr0cket
Salesforce Canvas Embed & Interact with external websites as if they were part of your
Salesforce Canvas Embed & Interact with external websites as if they were part of yo
Connecting Force.com & Heroku with Connect Seamless integration of data between customer and enterprise John Stevenson @jr0cket
Connected - linking Heroku Postgres database with your Salesforce Org Transforming customer data translated into business applicable information Managed 2-way synchronization of high volumes of data at a sustainable rate Heroku1 Connect Heroku & Force.com www.heroku.com/1
Heroku1 Connect Heroku Salesforce Org Auto synchronization of data Customer facing App / website Customer data Understanding about your customers www.heroku.com/1
Exact Target Intelligent Marketing connected to all your Salesforce1 Apps John Stevenson @jr0cket
Intelligent marketing apps with Exact Target Fuel
Intelligent marketing apps with Exact Target Fuel
Exact Target in Summary All your Salesforce1 Apps are connected to Exact Target Intelligent Marketing engine - Feeding in valuable data - Helping you see information where ever its needed
Developer Tools Helping you build your projects effectively John Stevenson @jr0cket
developer.salesforce.com/page/Force.com_IDE Force.com IDE - Apex - Visualforce pages - Unit Tests - Git
MavensMate.com Sublime Text plugin for Force.com - Apex - Visualforce - Unit Tests - Git - Lightweight - Templates
Force.com Command Line Interface (CLI) force-cli.heroku.com
Fun Stuff John Stevenson @jr0cket
Contacts are villagers Accounts are buildings github.com/metadaddy- sfdc/Forcecraft
Where to go next… John Stevenson @jr0cket
developer.salesforce.com
2 MILLION “developers” Over A “developer” being anyone that uses Setup
Trailhead - online learning for everyone developer.salesforce.com/trailhead
Thank you developer.salesforce.com John Stevenson @jr0cket bit.ly/london-feedback-august