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Apps are the key to competitive advantage and industry disruption — and everybody interested in a successful tomorrow needs to be in the apps business today.
But building and maintaining apps is often challenging for organizations. Development cycles are lengthy, and there are no assurances of interoperability with other key enterprise systems.
By pairing powerful and intuitive development tools with the world's most trusted enterprise cloud, the Salesforce Platform makes it possible for any company to build modern Lightning apps at the speed of business. The Salesforce Platform allows developers, admins, and business users to build Lightning apps visually with drag and drop ease using Lightning App Builder and Lightning Components, all the while retaining full governance and oversight by IT.
An independent IDC white paper shows that Lightning cuts the time to release new applications and features by 59%, and speeds the application development lifecycle by 50%. The ability to create better apps faster helps businesses address day-to-day challenges — and redefine their industries. Here's how Lightning empowers all users.
Lightning was specifically designed with a “build now" mentality that starts with getting developers up and running quickly. It doesn't take months of training or weeks of orientation to work in Lightning, just start on the Lightning Trailhead modules over Monday morning coffee and you can be building apps by Tuesday at lunch.
Instead of a code-heavy environment, Lightning is designed with drag-and-drop ease, which opens up the power of Lightning development to a wider audience. In a typical app development process, coders work with minimal real-time input or participation from admins or end users. Lightning shortens app development time by bringing stakeholders into closer collaboration.
In Lightning, developers focus on creating fundamental custom modules, which admin-level users can combine with out-of-the-box components to assemble into apps. This division-of-labor approach helps make Lightning 38% more efficient than typical IT infrastructure, according to IDC.
And you don't need a UX expert on your team to ensure a great end-user experience. Resulting apps automatically inherit the responsive look-and-feel that fits seamlessly into an existing Salesforce environment or can be deployed as a stand-alone app.
Lightning won't create a heavy shadow IT burden of ongoing maintenance. As part of the Salesforce platform, Lightning apps are future-proofed, and won't be broken by automatic platform upgrades.
Lightning brings the user community closer to the development process in a way that feels like contributing, not coding. Your business analysts keenly understand the problems your apps are trying to solve. Lightning brings them into the app assembly loop, where their insights can improve and enhance your apps not as a bug ticket or feature request, but a hands-on, drag-and-drop fix.
Any business user can get involved, for instance, Lightning Process Builder empowers everyone to respond to business needs by creating custom workflows that automate complex business processes in a matter of minutes. Like the rest of Lightning, Process Builder creations are design-once, deploy-everywhere, with no need to re-engineer for different roles or devices.
Social collaboration is automatically embedded in Lightning, making it easy to share files, insights, and activities in applications and across the entire Salesforce experience. Expand that connection beyond the organization with Lightning Community Builder, which lets you design and publish engaging content and experience for a wide network of partners and customers.
Schema Builder makes it easy to create and modify data objects, fields, and relationships in a visual manner. For developers, that translates to less time spent wrangling with database concepts and constructs, and more time refining and improving your world-changing app.
Business users need more than apps. They need new ways to slice, dice, and interpret the data that drives their responsibilities and ambitions. Lightning helps answer the growing business demand for deeper real-time analytics with a UI designed for powerful reports and flexible dashboards, all created with drag-and-drop ease.
Because the Lightning platform deals with data management and storage, third-party integration, version control and more, your development teams get to focus on the capabilities that matter most to your business.
With streamlined, one-tap deployment for mobile, you can roll out stand-alone apps or deploy the same functionality through the Salesforce1 Mobile App. This flexibility gives your organization complete control over the mobile experience and frees users to work when and where they're most comfortable.
Now you've seen how Lightning accelerates your entire business, it's time to get started. Download your detailed guide to all that Lightning has to offer and start building an app with Lightning today.
