Why Use Salesforce’s Lightning Platform?

Salesforce’s Lightning Platform is a platform for developing and deploying next-generation cloud apps. Since there are no servers or software to buy or manage, you can completely focus only on building apps that include built-in mobile and social functionality, business processes, and reporting. Your apps run on a secure and proven service that scales, tunes, and backs up data automatically.

It is very important to understand the various benefits of using Salesforce. The following features of Salesforce make it unique and proven as a leader among its competitors:

• Proven: More than 100,000 companies have trusted the Lightning Platform, including many industry leaders across verticals. They’ve built approx 220,000 apps that run in world-class data centers with backup, failover disaster-recovery, and an uptime record exceeding 99.9%. The real-time system performance data can be viewed at trust.salesforce.com.
• Agile: One of the benefits of the Lightning Platform is that it requires nominal coding. Your apps can be assembled in a building-block fashion using the library of components and visual tools. The development can be streamlined with sandbox environments and the applications can be integrated using APIs.
• Social: You can work effectively with your colleagues using your secure social network. The Lightning Platform includes pre-built components for feeds, conversations, updates, profiles, and file sharing. All components are available through REST APIs, which can be easily integrated into any custom app.
• Mobile: Your business can be run from your phone using the Salesforce mobile app. Your mobile apps can be built powered by a secure cloud database, with rock-solid APIs. Even the mobile-optimized browser apps can be built using a UI framework and HTML5 to support any device with one codebase. Lightning Platform equips you with everything you need to deliver apps on mobile devices securely.

The benefits of a Lightning platform app

When you think of Lightning platform apps, the following two huge benefits stand out:

Data-centric apps - The Salesforce Lightning Platform is revolved around a database. So, it permits composing data-centric applications. A data-centric application is an application that depends on organized and steady data. These data-centric applications are accessible everywhere, whether in desktop databases such as Microsoft Access or the large system running on relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as Oracle or SQL Server. The data-centric applications make it simple to get access, control, and manage data. The applications that are built around unstructured information, similar to plain content documents or HTML files, don’t give such adaptability.

While it is consistently not expected to have a data-centric application to monitor something besides contacts, photographs, or music, organizations of all sizes continually need to inquire and aggregate their tremendous measures of data to settle on quick business decisions. Along these lines, the data-centric nature of the Lightning platform builds and hosts business applications.

Collaborative app - One of the benefits of the Lightning Platform is that multiple users can access it at the same time. It, therefore, allows us to write collaborative apps. A collaborative app is an application having data and services that are shared by multiple users in different locations. Traditional software installed on a single machine like a PC is hard to access from a distance. However, the collaborative apps on the platform can be accessed from all over the globe with only a web browser. This makes it easy to work together on activities such as selling a product, managing a project, or even hiring an employee. In addition to easy access over a web browser, several built-in platforms feature also facilitate group collaboration:

• The security and sharing model of the platform can be used to control a user’s access to different data properly.
• The workflow rules can be used to automatically update data, assign tasks, or send e-mail alerts when certain predefined events occur.
• The approval processes can be used to set up a sequence of steps necessary for a record to be approved.

These features provide a framework for sharing apps across groups, divisions, and entire organizations without relinquishing administrative control over sensitive data.

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