Cloudforce Essentials 2012 - Understanding Force.com in 60 Minutes or Less
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This document provides an overview of the Force.com platform. It discusses how Force.com eliminates the need to manage hardware infrastructure through its cloud-based platform as a service (PaaS) model. It then outlines the key components of the Force.com platform including its development platform, cloud database, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Finally, it briefly discusses some of the declarative and programmatic tools available for application building on Force.com.
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Cloudforce Essentials 2012 - Understanding Force.com in 60 Minutes or Less
- 1. Understand Force.com in Less Than 60 minutes Mike Burnside, Principal Consultant, Salesforce.com
- 2. 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 product or service availability, 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 C but are not limited to C risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, 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, the outcome of intellectual property and other litigation, 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-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2012. This documents and others containing important disclosures 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 presentations, 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.
- 3. Our Mission: Cloud Computing Driver, Catalyst & Evangelist 1960s 1980s Today Mainframe On-Premise Enterprise Cloud Client/server Computing
- 4. IaaS Does Not Remove the Complexity of Software Software Database App Server Messaging Tools infrastructure Infrastructure as a Service Virtualization Hardware Compute Storage Network Data Center Infrastructure
- 5. Cloud Platforms: IAAS Eliminates Hardware And you don¨t get: Globalisation But you still need to APIs Mobile manage a software stack Security Database Analytics App Server IAAS Messaging Search Collaboration Hardware Servers Directory Identity Hardware Storage Hardware Networking
- 6. Cloud Platforms: Innovation. Not Infrastructure Cloud Services Globalisation APIs Software Stack Mobile Business Value Security Database Services Analytics Infrastructure App Server Services Search as a Service Messaging Services Collaboration Hardware Servers Directory Services Identity Hardware Storage Hardware Networking Business Services
- 7. The World¨s Leading Cloud App Platform Power your Social Enterprise and innovate with confidence Force.com Heroku Site.com Database.com Chatter ISVforce Employee Customer Websites Databases Collaboration ISV Services Apps Apps
- 8. A Complete Platform For Building Enterprise Apps
- 9. A Complete Platform For Enterprise Apps Development Platform Form Builder Report Builder Visual Workflow Multi-tenant code Social collaboration execution framework Cloud Database Massively Scalable Data ACID Transactions Social Data Mobile Self-tuning Service & Triggers Model Query Optimizer REST & SOAP Row Level Identity & Backups & Enterprise API¨s Security Authentication Disaster Recovery Search Cloud Infrastructure ISO 27001 Proven Automatic Trusted Real-time Certified Security Reliability Elasticity Status Upgrades Real-time Salesforce to Salesforce Global Data Highest Multi-tenant Sandbox Centers Performance Kernel
- 10. Declarative Application Building Model Form Function Flow Analytics Schema builder Form builder Re-usable Drag & drop Drag & drop for easy data for Apps, formulas, workflow Chart & management Portals, & Sites validations & builder for Report Builder logic business processes
- 11. APIs : Tools for Integration SOAP REST Bulk Outbound Streaming System to Person to Transfer Millions of Drive Messages to Instant Notification of System System Records External Systems Change to External Integration Integration using Workflow Systems
- 12. Developers have tools too! Model View Controller Integration Analytics Dynamic Apex Dynamic Triggers Callouts Visualforce MD API Visualforce Event Model Time-based Charting Triggers Components