APP Academy: Build Your First App (October 13, 2014)

As a commercial application partner, you've got to consider some important factors before you architect your app. What license types are best for your target audience? How will your app interact with standard Salesforce features and objects? How do you ensure the app can scale to meet the needs of your customers? This session will explore important decisions and best practices for building a commercial grade application on Force.com. This session is primarily intended for product managers and architects

This document discusses distributing Lightning components. It begins with safe harbor statements and introduces the speakers from ISV Tech Talk. They then discuss what Lightning components are, how they can currently be used and how their usage may expand in the future. They demonstrate a Lightning component and discuss how to review, price and publish components on the AppExchange. Security reviews for components are also outlined. The document recaps key points and provides additional supporting resources.

This document summarizes a presentation about building apps for the Salesforce AppExchange. It discusses the goals of providing information for both business and technical audiences. It provides an overview of the AppExchange and the three primary types of apps. It outlines the process for building an app, including setting up a development org, packaging the app, undergoing security review, and publishing. It also discusses best practices for upgrading apps and lessons learned around governor limits, required fields, and keeping the user interface native.

The document discusses a Partner Business Org provided by Salesforce to partners. It is a Salesforce Enterprise Edition org with 2 free Salesforce licenses that partners can use to manage their business. Partners can use it as their primary CRM to track customers, leads, opportunities, run campaigns, and support customers. They can also use it to manage their AppExchange app, licenses, orders, and connect developer orgs. To obtain a Partner Business Org, partners should log a support case with Salesforce.

You will learn the Do's and Don'ts of how to launch your app on the Salesforce.com AppExchange. It covers the following topics: • How to register for ISV Partner program • Benefits of being ISV Partner • Your first app idea - You built it and packaged it, Now what ??? • How to launch your first app? FREE vs. PAID? • How to manage Patches, Teams, Testing, and new versions? • LMA (License Management Org) - Best Practices? • Resources

The document discusses building mobile apps for Salesforce1. It outlines key advantages like being able to build apps faster without mobile developers. It covers design principles like focusing on the mobile user and keeping actions simple. It demonstrates integrating apps through actions and menus. It provides tips on visualforce, custom branding, and things to avoid. Finally, it suggests three things to get started - brainstorming, building a demo, and launching at Dreamforce.

This document discusses how to performance test apps to scale. It provides an overview of scale testing, why it is important, and the key steps which include: testing in a developer org first, then with larger numbers of concurrent users in a Large Data Volume sandbox org. It also reviews tools for load testing like JMeter and techniques like using realistic user loads and transactions. The demo section shows analyzing results from a test. Partner resources are suggested for assistance with scale testing.

Platform Events allow applications to integrate in real-time by publishing and subscribing to events. This enables more responsive workflows that can be triggered by both internal and external systems. Key capabilities include defining custom event objects, publishing from Apex, APIs or external systems, and subscribing via Apex or external apps through public APIs. The demo showed a Node.js app publishing and subscribing to events to trigger Apex workflows. Guidance covered packaging, limits, and the roadmap for high volume events and change data capture. Resources were provided to learn more about platform events.

Featured Topic - Defining Your Lightning Strategy as an ISV Learn more about the Lightning Experience at p.force.com/lightningready (Partner Community login required)

The document summarizes a presentation given by three experts - Gordon Derk, Shaun McInerney, and Wyndham Hudson - on building successful Salesforce1 mobile apps. The experts discussed their own mobile apps - Elton for equipment tracking, AscentERP for ERP functions, and ContactWorld for integrating call recordings. They emphasized how the Salesforce1 platform allows partners to build apps quickly that are integrated with Salesforce and accessible to its large customer base.

Platform Encryption allows customers to encrypt data at rest in Salesforce while preserving functionality. ISVs need to test if their apps work with encrypted fields, as certain functions like SOQL WHERE clauses will fail. The roadmap includes allowing encryption on managed custom fields in Summer 2016. ISVs should update apps to use alternatives like SOSL where SOQL fails to ensure apps continue working with encryption.

The document discusses several upcoming releases from Salesforce, including: - Lightning Readiness becoming required for new apps after March 1, 2017. - Enhancements to Lightning Container Components, Lightning Design System, and Lightning Page templates. - Improvements to debugging managed code in subscriber orgs, remote site settings during upgrades, and Shield platform capabilities.

This document provides an overview of resources for partners starting as an ISV Partner with Salesforce. It discusses leveraging the Partner Community for training, communications, and support. It also outlines the new ISV Program model and tiers, and emphasizes engaging with a Partner Account Manager and Success Manager for assistance throughout the partnership. Additional resources mentioned include Dreamforce sessions for partners and the Trailhead module for ISVs.

This document discusses revenue-based financing as an alternative to venture capital for ISVs seeking funding. It outlines how revenue-based financing works by providing monthly payments to the company as a fixed percentage of its monthly revenue, with no equity stake required. The document notes that revenue-based financing is well-suited for SaaS companies and can provide funding up to $1 million or 33% of a company's annualized revenue run rate. It also shares an example of a $500,000 revenue-based financing with monthly payments of 5% of revenue and a 1.7x repayment over 5 years.

The document provides information for entrepreneurs interested in starting an ISV business using the Salesforce platform. It discusses why the Salesforce1 platform is different in that it offers tools and resources to help ISVs succeed, including the Platform Distribution Program. It outlines various types of apps that can be built, such as native, composite and mobile apps. It also addresses questions around how ISVs can make money using a subscription model, and provides resources and steps for getting started, including the APP Academy training program.