Learn to Build Apps Webinar

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Learn to Build Apps Shannon Hale Product Manager, Declarative Apps @shannonsans Samantha Ready Developer Evangelist @samantha_ready

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Force.com is the leading cloud platform that enables you to build applications with ease in record time with friendly point-and-click tools.The pace of business is moving fast and work is challenging you in new ways. Your job requires that you customize & fine-tune your applications to meet the needs of your business. Applications such as Excel and Access just don't cut it anymore. Complex spreadsheets and unwieldy databases can slow you down, but there is a better way that is simple and powerful. With Force.com you can be productive immediately.Be part of the movement and point-and-click your way to effective business solutions.In this webinar, we'll show you::: How easy it is to build a cloud app to solve business problems:: What steps to take to quickly translate your business expertise into new automated processes:: Why Force.com's point-and-click tools will pave the way to greater efficiency in your business

Transcript of Learn to Build Apps Webinar

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Learn to Build Apps

Shannon Hale

Product Manager, Declarative Apps

@shannonsans

Samantha Ready

Developer Evangelist

@samantha_ready

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Hello World!

Samantha Ready,

Developer Evangelist

@samantha_ready

Shannon Hale,

Sr. Product Manager,

Declarative Apps

@shannonsans

#forcewebinar

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You Can Be an App Builder

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Benefits of Building Force.com Cloud Apps

Business automation tools

Standard UI

Security

No servers

Grows with your business

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Did You Know?

Add social collaboration to your apps

Enable your app for mobile access

App Marketplace

Extensible with programmatic tools

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Corey Wilson, IT Manager

• Strategic development

• Project management

• Operations management

• Asset management

Introducing Corey

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Hey Corey,

I have three new salespeople

starting Monday – can I get a

Blackberry and a Windows laptop

for each?

The employees are Jeanine Cho,

Walter Few and Candice Mueller.

Also Jeanine is in field sales

so she’s going to need an iPad

too – preferably one of those

Retina Display models.

Thanks,

Andy

Corey Dislikes…

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Corey’s Current Process

Submit device request

Enter request details in

spreadsheet

Enter request details in

paper form

Approve request

Provision devices

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The Dreaded Spreadsheet

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Corey’s Dream

I wish I could spend less

time on tedious activities…

…and get better insight

on how effectively we’re

managing hardware!

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Permissions

Employee Managers

• View device requests

• Create/edit device requests

IT Technician

• View device requests

• Edit device request status

• View employee details

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Approval Process

Submit request

Set Status: Pending

Approve?

Set Status: Approved

Create Task: Provision

Set Status: Rejected

Yes

No

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What Corey Did…

Got ~5 hours back in her week!

Now she can report on the

data!

Automated the approval flow

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http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Developing_Cloud_Apps_for_Non-Developers

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Next Steps to Get Started

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Samantha Ready,

@samantha_ready

Shannon Hale,

@shannonsans