Introducing the Salesforce platform
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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.
Introducing the Salesforce platform
- 2. John Stevenson Developer Evangelist @jr0cket Troy Sellers Enterprise Architect @ibigfoot7 Andy Ormsby Solution Engineer @andyo
- 3. Safe Harbor Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2011. This document and others are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
- 4. This is a practical workshop
- 5. Don’t be shy, ask lots of questions
- 6. Overview of the Salesforce platform Supporting innovation through Clicks & Code John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 7. Salesforce platform: The Fastest Way To Build Apps
- 8. 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
- 9. Salesforce1 Platform API Guide - Force.com - Heroku - Exact Target - Everything else Salesforce… Books available online at: developer.salesforce.com
- 10. 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
- 11. Employee Apps with Force.com Helping your business run effectively, understanding your customers John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 12. 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% &
- 13. Setup gives you the power to create Apps Create & Configure with Clicks
- 14. Setup > Build > Create Create Custom Apps, Custom Objects, Tabs, Reports, Actions, etc
- 15. Model the information in your business Schema Builder - view and create Objects & Relationships Standard Objects - Account - Contact - Etc.
- 16. Clicks: Workflow, Approvals & Flows Define workflows that work with business data
- 17. Clicks: Flows & Process Builder Processes: If this, then do that Approvals: for actions & information Workflows: update business data on events
- 18. Apex for custom business logic - Developer Console Extend “clicks” features with code
- 19. Code: Code online with the Developer Console 1) Menu 2) Workspace with tabs 3) Output panel – logs, test results, etc
- 20. MavensMate.com Sublime Text plugin for Force.com - Apex - Visualforce - Unit Tests - Git - Lightweight - Templates
- 21. Visualforce Pages for UI customisation
- 22. Code: Visualforce Pages & Web Technologies
- 23. Code: Visualforce Pages & Web Technologies
- 25. Every Object, Every Field: Apex and Visualforce Enabled Visualforce Pages Visualforce Components Apex Controllers Apex Triggers Custom UI Custom Logic
- 26. 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
- 28. Apps in Salesforce1 Mobile
- 29. What’s in an App? Lightning PageLightning Components Global Actions
- 30. Salesforce Lightning New features & tools for App creation on Force.com
- 31. 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
- 32. 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
- 33. 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
- 34. 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
- 35. Component Frameworks Are The Future All leading platform companies are investing in component frameworks Google Polymer Facebook React Salesforce Lightning Twitter Flight Mozilla Brick
- 36. 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
- 37. 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
- 39. trust.salesforce.com ▪ Salesforce platform (Force.com) –over 3 Billion transactions per day –average response 250ms
- 40. Heroku high scale performance Billion uests per day 4+ Million Apps Created 125+ Add-on Services Supporting millions of apps & services - status.heroku.com
- 41. Customer facing apps using Heroku Scaling interactions with your customers John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 42. Heroku Demo Instantly deploy & scale an apps with common developer tooli
- 43. Use existing developer skills Ruby, Java, NodeJS, Python, PHP Virtually every language you can think of can run on Heroku
- 44. 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
- 45. Deal with Success - instantly Instantly scale the compute resources your apps run on to han ver if your app cant meet the demand
- 48. Unifying Interaction with Canvas Seamless integration of User Interface in your Salesforce Org John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 49. Salesforce Canvas Embed & Interact with external websites as if they were part of your
- 50. Salesforce Canvas Embed & Interact with external websites as if they were part of yo
- 51. Connecting Force.com & Heroku with Connect Seamless integration of data between customer and enterprise John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 52. 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
- 53. Heroku1 Connect Heroku Salesforce Org Auto synchronization of data Customer facing App / website Customer data Understanding about your customers www.heroku.com/1
- 54. Exact Target Intelligent Marketing connected to all your Salesforce1 Apps John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 55. Intelligent marketing apps with Exact Target Fuel
- 56. Intelligent marketing apps with Exact Target Fuel
- 57. 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
- 58. Developer Tools Helping you build your projects effectively John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 59. developer.salesforce.com/page/Force.com_IDE Force.com IDE - Apex - Visualforce pages - Unit Tests - Git
- 60. MavensMate.com Sublime Text plugin for Force.com - Apex - Visualforce - Unit Tests - Git - Lightweight - Templates
- 64. Where to go next… John Stevenson @jr0cket
- 66. 2 MILLION “developers” Over A “developer” being anyone that uses Setup
- 67. Trailhead - online learning for everyone developer.salesforce.com/trailhead