Blog
September 15, 2015
Here’s some of the sessions our staff members attended Day 1 at Dreamforce and what they learned.
- From “Wave Platform Best Practices,” be careful with data format changes.Bring in data that you need. Right tool for the right job. Build a foundation of your data versus recreate it each time.”
- From “New Lightning Experience: Build Custom Apps in a Flash,” Lightning app builder offers drag-and-drop customization. You can control the user’s experience whether on desktop or mobile phone.
- From “Integrate with Lightning Speed with Lightning Connect,” Lightning Connect allows Salesforce admins to integrate without a writing a line of code. From “Lightning App Builder,” the vision for Lightning Experience is to use the App Builder to reorganize standard Salesforce pages via drag-and-drop, including adding custom-built Lightning Components and ones from the AppExchange. “You should not have to write code just to rearrange a standard page.”
- From “Lightning Components: The Future,”significant performance enhancements are being made in the Lightning Component framework to ensure fast mobile performance. Lightning Data Service will be be like the Visualforce standard controller on steroids, making it easy to operate on a Salesforce record within Lightning code.
- In “Hands-on Training: Get Started with Salesforce Marketing Cloud,” we saw the ease of creating a customer journey using the new Lightning Experience.
- In “Communities Engagement: Building a Thriving Community with Salesforce,” 92nd Street Y and NeighborWorks spoke about using Communities to exponentially extend their missions without having to increase staff sizes.
Tomorrow (Wednesday, 9/16) in the Foundation Zone:
- ACF client Jennifer Goldstone of Birthright Israel Foundation will participate in the session “Driving Change is Hard. Let’s do it Anyway! Stories from the Front Lines,” at 8:30AM in the Yerba Buena Salon 8.
- ACF clients Joanna Iturbe and Lauren Russo of the University of Colorado, Leeds School of Business are featured in the session “Accelerate and Automate with Process Builder,” at 9AM at the Intercontinental San Francisco Hotel in Union Square.
- ACF client Chris Baker of Harbert College of Business at Auburn University is participating in “Setting the Curve: What Every School Can Learn from Business Schools’ Innovation,” at 11:30AM at the Metreon AMC Theaters.
- The first of two sessions of ‘Connected Nonprofit: Using Salesforce Across the Organization to Drive Impact” features ACF clients George Prior and Jason Ray of the Urban Land Institute and M. Engineer at Museum of Modern Art at 4:30pm in the Yerba Buena Salon 8.
