Integrate Data, Lightning Fast!

April 9, 2015

Lightning Connect

Pat PattersonDeveloper Evangelist Architect

@metadaddy

ppatterson@salesforce.com

Jason ChoyVice President, Product Management

@jasonchoy

jason.choy@salesforce.com

Agenda

▪ Overview

▪ OData

▪ Demo

▪ Features and Roadmap

▪ Apex Connector Library

▪ Q & A

▪ Don’t wait until the end to ask your question!

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– Official: Lightning Connect

▪ Respect Q&A etiquette

– Please don’t repeat questions.

▪ Stick around for live Q&A

– Speakers will tackle your questions at the end.

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Overview - Lightning Connect

What is Lightning Connect?

▪ Generally available from Winter ’15 - add-on license required

▪ Data integration capability without the need to copy data

▪ Gives access to external data with point-and-click simplicity

▪ Incorporate external data into Salesforce in real-time

▪ Not storing data alleviates customer data residency concerns

▪ Dramatically reduces time to unlock back-office systems

How does Lightning Connect Work?

▪ Data access is on-demand / real-time

▪ Data access is by reference

▪ Data is formatted into Salesforce objects

▪ Supports open-standard data access protocol

What External Data Sources are Supported?

Any Data Sources that can publish data in Open Data (OData) 2.0 protocol

▪ Commercial Packages

– SAP Netweaver Gateway

– Microsoft SQL Server, Dynamics CRM/NAV,

Azure Table Services

– IBM Websphere exTreme Scale

– Heroku Connect External Objects

▪ DIY Data Producer

– .Net WCF Data Services, Java (Apache Olingo, odata4j), NodeJS

▪ Many more via partners

– Dell Boomi, Informatica, Jitterbit, MuleSoft, Progress, SoftwareAG

Open Data Protocol (OData)

“OData is a standardized protocol for creating and

consuming data APIs.

OData builds on core protocols like HTTP and commonly

accepted methodologies like REST.

The result is a uniform way to expose

full-featured data APIs.”

OData

Proposed by Microsoft

– 2009

Standardized by OASIS

– 2014

OData

URIs for resource identity

http://host/service

/Products

?$filter=Rating+eq+3&$select=Rating,+Name

OData

Atom XML/JSON representation

OData Examples

Service Document

$ curl 'http://host/service/'

{

"@odata.context": "http://host/service/$metadata",

"value": [

{

"kind": "EntitySet",

"name": "Products",

"url": "Products"

},

...

OData Examples

Metadata (XML Only ☹)

$ curl 'http://host/service/$metadata'

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<edmx:Edmx xmlns:edmx="http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/ns/edmx" Version="4.0">

<edmx:DataServices>

<Schema xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/ns/edm" Namespace="ODataDemo">

<EntityType Name="Product">

<Key>

<PropertyRef Name="ID"/>

</Key>

<Property Name="ID" Type="Edm.Int32" Nullable="false"/>

<Property Name="Name" Type="Edm.String"/>

...

OData Examples

Query

$ curl 'http://host/service/Products?$filter=Rating+eq+3&$select=Rating,+Name'

{

"@odata.context": "http://host/service/$metadata#Products(Rating,Name)",

"value": [

{

"Name": "Milk",

"Rating": 3

},

...

OData Examples

Get Individual Entity

$ curl 'http://host/service/Products(1)'

{

"@odata.context": "http://host/service/$metadata#Products/$entity",

"ID": 1,

"Name": "Milk",

"Description": "Low fat milk",

"ReleaseDate": "1995-10-01T00:00:00Z",

"DiscontinuedDate": null,

"Rating": 3,

"Price": 3.5

}

OData Examples

Update Entity

$ curl -w "Status: %{http_code}\\n” \

-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \

-X PATCH \

-d '{"@odata.type":"ODataDemo.Product", "Price":"2.99"}' \

'http://host/service/Products(1)’

Status: 204

OData Examples

Change Tracking

Server will POST notifications to the callback URL

$ curl -H 'Prefer: odata.track-changes'

-H 'Prefer: odata.callback; url="https://myserver/cb?token=123"'

'http://host/service/Products'

Lightning Connect Demo

External Objects work very like Custom Objects

✓ Tabs

✓ List Views

✓ Detail Pages

✓ Chatter Feeds

✓ Visualforce pages with standard or custom controllers

✓ Apex SObject types

✓ REST/SOAP API access

✓ SOQL and SOSL queries from Apex or API

✓ Available on Salesforce1 Mobile Platform

But There Are Currently Some Limitations

✗ Read-only at present (read/write in Pilot now)

✗ Reporting (Coming in 2nd Half 2015)

✗ Formula and Roll-up Summary Fields

✗ Triggers, Workflow, Approvals, Process

✗ Validation Rules

✗ Field History Tracking

✗ Notes, Attachments

Lightning Connect Roadmap

▪ Pilot in Spring ‘15, GA in Summer ‘15*

– Real-time cross-org access

– Apex Connector library to develop custom connectors

▪ Read/Write Capability for External Objects

▪ OData 4.0

– Support for triggers and Workflow

▪ Custom Reports for External Objects

* Safe Harbor!

Apex Connector Framework

Apex Connector Framework

❏ Develop your own custom adapter in Apex for Lightning Connect

❏ Retrieved data will manifest as external objects

❏ Provide your own implementation for your data service

❏ Sync - metadata synchronization to set up external object

❏ Query - translates SOQL query for external data service

❏ Search - translates SOSL search for external data service

❏GA in Summer ‘15, part of Lightning Connect SKU/License

❏Available from Developer Edition Orgs

Apex Connector Demo

Find out more

http://developer.salesforce.com/lightning

Do the Tutorial

http://bit.ly/lightning-connect-tutorial

Engage with the Community

Success Community Group - Official: Lightning Connect

developer.salesforce.com/page/Salesforce1_Lightning_Webinar_Series

• Lightning App Builder

• Lightning Component Framework

• Lightning Process Builder

• Lightning Connect

Lightning Deep Dive Webinars

Thank You! Questions?