Hello readers,
Today going to talk about salesforce platform. The stuff I have been working since long enough now. I started working on this platform just for fun. Never thought that this will be the platform, I will be working on for my living. 🙂
It’s been several years since I started working on Salesforce. Have seen the platform evolving time to time. Must say that this has been a tremendous progress for Salesforce. I just learnt in Toronto World Tour (Canada) that Salesforce is the 6th biggest Software corporation in the world. Good to know this, when specially I am directly/indirectly connected to this company.
Now.. what is salesforce.com ?
There are lots of ways to explain this. But I would like to explain in the below way. Hope this helps to the beginners.
Salesforce is a Platform as a Service. Wait.. what is Platform As A Service(PaaS), now ? Just as any other service(nursing,plumbing,house keeping, laundry etc … -Sorry for giving such types of examples — 🙂 ), this is a software platform (think about operating system as platform) which is provided as a service. Which is a great deal. And the platform is called Force.com platform (Now it’s called Salesforce 1 platform). You do not own the hardware behind it, you do not have to maintain the high end servers and database for these. You just login to though a web URL and start working on it. As for any other operating systems, you can build your applications on this platform as well. You can build your applications and deploy it so that other users can use this newly created application. You have to pay for the service for each user that is going to use the platform. There are various editions of the platform and the price varies for each on of them. For more information on this you can go to the [link]. As you would use some programming languages to build applications for other platforms, such as Java,C,C#,C++ and so on, Salesforce has it’s own propitiatory language called (APEX). Apex is a derived language from Java and is quite similar to Java but not exactly the same. So you don’t have to be a Java expert to build applications in Apex. Will talk about more programmatic ways in some other part.
This is just a start of a series , so will keep posting the next parts from time to time. You can subscribe this blog so that you can get the updates as and when it’s published.
Hope you liked it and will come back to this blog for some more knowledge. If you have any queries on this part, please leave a comment and I will definitely respond back to you.
Keep learning and keep sharing….
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