The document is a presentation on Lightning, a Salesforce platform enhancement, that occurred on December 17th. It covers key features, benefits, and tools within Lightning that empower developers and admins to build mobile applications more efficiently. Essential topics include Lightning components, app builder, and integration options, along with practical tips for quickly deploying a Lightning app.

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DISCOVER
LIGHTNING
Date: 17th December
Time: 10:30 AM EST
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OUR SPEAKER
Niranja Nair
Salesforce Practice Lead

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AGENDA
1. Introduction
2. Lightning empowering Salesforce1
3. Why Lightning
4. Building blocks of Lightning
5. Tips to quickly get a Lightning app ready

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INTRODUCTION
1. Build mobile apps faster
2. Empowering Admins and Developers
3. Next generation of Salesforce1

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LIGHTNING EMPOWERING
SALESFORCE1
1. Graphical view of component alignment
2. Leverage pre-built components
3. Quickly get your app Business-Ready
4. Improved app performance

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Visualforce :
1. Built for web
2. More server side
3. Native Visualforce page tags
Lightning Component :
1. Built for mobile
2. More client side
3. HTML 5 & CSS
WHY LIGHTNING

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BUILDING BLOCKS
1. Lightning Schema Builder
2. Lightning Process Builder
3. Lightning Components
4. Lightning App Builder
5. Lightning Connect
6. Lightning Extension

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LIGHTNING
SCHEMA BUILDER
1. Simple visual UI to create
objects, fields and map
relationships all at one place.
2. Rebrand of Schema Builder

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LIGHTNING
PROCESS BUILDER
1. Workflow 2.0 – a next-generation
business process automation tool
2. New and more graphical UI
3. Create a Chatter Post, Submit for
approval, Triggering a headless flow,
invoke publisher action & Record
creation

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LIGHTNING COMPONENT
1. A rebranding of "Aura on the Platform" (AOTP)
2. Client side uses JavaScript
3. Server side uses Apex
4. Reusable section of the UI
5. Can make use HTML, CSS, JavaScript and any Web-enabled code
6. Out-of-the-Box Component Set, Performance, Event-driven architecture,
Faster development, Device-aware and cross browser compatibility

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AURA FRAMEWORK
1. UI Framework for dynamic web apps functioning in
both mobile and desktop devices
2. Rich and extensible component set
3. Open Source and not native to Force.com
4. Rapid development with reusable components
5. Client side rendering
6. Salesforce1 is built on Aura

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LIGHTNING APP BUILDER
1. Visual tool which makes use of lightning components
for creating Lightning apps for Salesforce1.
2. Create business apps quickly with just point and click
3. Select components from a whole list of Standard,
4. Custom and App exchange components

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LIGHTNING CONNECT
1. External data is referenced in real-time
not copied in Salesforce
2. Integration tool to get data from any
external source that conforms to the
OData spec and that too with ease.
3. Point & Click for unidirectional data
integration
4. Dramatically reduce integration time

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LIGHTNING EXTENSION
1. Replace or Over-ride standard components within
Salesforce1 with custom built ones.
2. Easy plug-in of components within Standard UI.
3. For Example - An additional Tab / Slide within the SF1
record detail view

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TIPS TO QUICKLY GET
A LIGHTNING APP READY
1. Example – A client needs to get lightning mobile app and
wants to go live as soon as possible.
2. Potential Hurdle – Lightning App Builder is in pilot and
Lightning Components are in Beta.
3. Workaround –
4. Modify Visualforce with HTML 5 components and CSS
5. Modify Apex side to handle remote methods
handling data as JSON
6. Client server communication to be handled as
JavaScript Remoting
7. Make use of libraries like Angular JS, Backbone JS for MVC

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