Slide deck from my Dreamforce 15 talk on building a mobile ad sales application with Lightning Components

1. Mobilize Your Media Ad Sales with
Lightning Components
Keir Bowden
CTO, BrightGen
keirbowden@brightgen.com
@bob_buzzard

2. Print and Digital Ad Booking
Inventory Management
Self-Service Community
Integration:
• Media Planner
• Google DFP
Mobile Application
BrightMedia

3. Visualforce
Single form
Multi-tabbed
Great for desktop
Not for mobile
Booking Page

4. Visualforce
• Server side
• Apex business logic
• Page-centric
• Stateful (viewstate)
• iFrame’d into Salesforce1
Lightning Components
• Client-side
• JavaScript business logic
• Component-centric
• Stateful client, stateless server
• In and of Salesforce1
• The Future – Lightning X
Decision Time
Visualforce or Lightning Components?

5. Create an order
Add a line item
Make payment
Commit the order
Demo

6. Single ‘Select’ component
Reusable
Single ‘Navigator’ component

7. Communities Booking Page
Reusable

8. Build versus Buy
Standard Components
Built by Salesforce
Data entry tools Custom data layout
Left nav Publisher barTasks
Custom Components
Built by your developers
AppExchange Components
Built by Partners
Lookup Navigator Picklist
Signature Capture

9. Lightning App Builder
Point and Click Assembly
Drag and Drop
• Salesforce Components
• Your Components
• Partner Components
Design for every screen

10. Rebuild Visualforce pages as Lightning components?
• Only to add value – not for the sake of it
• Visualforce is supported in Lightning X
Visualforce Only
• Email Templates
• PDF
Things will change!
The outlook for Visualforce

11. See more of BrightMedia
• BrightGen Stand - Customer Success Showcase, Booth 45
Lightning App Builder Trailhead Module - http://sforce.co/1Shiw11
Lightning Components Developer’s Guide - http://sforce.co/1qFXr1b
Next Steps

12. Any questions?
Thank You