Aug 05, 2016 By Sabrina Barekzai

How to Drive Your Business Faster at Dreamforce

in App Cloud, Dreamforce, Events, Lightning

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Here are a few of the highlighted areas of IT that you will see at Dreamforce.

App Cloud

It’s been almost one year since the launch of Salesforce’s App Cloud. Built on Salesforce’s trusted infrastructure, App Cloud empowers CIOs with even more flexibility and control to build, scale, and manage their apps. App Cloud integrates the platform services that Salesforce is known for with new shared services. Over 75% of IT teams are currently developing apps for customers, partners, and employees. (Read Salesforce Research's “2016 State of IT" Report for more!) CIOs can deliver connected apps for any and every business need. The growing App Cloud ecosystem has over 2.8 million developers who have built 5.5 million apps, and the AppExchange, the largest enterprise app marketplace. Nearly two-thirds of companies that operate in the cloud rate their ability to digitally scale as above average.

The Year of Lightning

2016 is the year of Lightning. What is Lightning? The Lightning experience combines the new Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components and enables anyone to quickly and easily create modern enterprise apps. In fact, microservices (96%) and component-driven framework (93%), are the top two areas of IT growth for architectural and development strategy. There is a completely reimagined user interface with a seamless experience across all your devices. It’s never been easier to build visually stunning apps with Lightning App Builder and Lightning Components.

We believe in the power of Lightning so much so that you’ll be seeing it everywhere at Dreamforce this year! The Lightning Zone will be aglow, as will the Salesforce for IT campground.

IoT Cloud

Over 70% of cloud-enabled companies say their executive team is leading the business in a digital transformation. Harness the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) and turn the data generated by every one of your customers, partners, devices, and sensors into meaningful action. IoT Cloud runs on Salesforce Thunder, the world’s most scalable event processing engine, designed to ingest and analyze billions of connected events and take personalized actions. Peter Coffee, Head of Platform Research, and Charlie Isaacs, VP & CTO, Customer Connection discuss all things IoT Cloud in this video.

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