Go Digital, Fast

Shannon Sullivan Duffy
All Things PaaS
Published in
3 min readMay 7, 2020

The digital imperative has accelerated for every CIO. Organizations must build apps fast to respond to evolving business and economic changes. This is where the power of the Salesforce Platform shines, empowering everyone to innovate fast and scale with confidence using low-code builders to deliver immediate value. Drag, drop, and deliver modern apps that increase employee productivity with Lightning App Builder. Automate processes that improve operational efficiency with Flow Builder. Ultimately, delight every employee and customer with modern experiences that do not sacrifice enterprise quality, all without having to code.

We have seen so many of our Trailblazers demonstrate incredible resiliency and customer success with the Platform. As our economy begins to reopen, Salesforce is also here to help our customers reopen safely with Work.com.

One particular customer story stood out to me. Jeff Berger, a Salesforce Admin at Academy Bank in Missouri, built a low code app to support a new and critical Paycheck Protections Program process as part of the CARES Act response. Jeff was able to turn a legacy reporting process into a powerful low code application on a Saturday afternoon, train his team on Sunday, and deploy the application into production by Monday morning.

Stories like Jeff’s have inspired us to create a new virtual-first event, #LowCodeLove: Build the Apps You Need Fast, co-hosted by Bret Taylor, President & COO, and Sarah Franklin, EVP & GM, Platform, Trailhead, & AppExchange. Through this event, we are bringing together Trailblazers and product experts to share their stories and inspire businesses to transform processes with low code.

Join us today at 11:00am PT (or watch anytime), to learn how to build the apps that your users need, fast. Together with Trailblazers from around the world, we will share how Salesforce’s low-code capabilities allow you to Innovate Fast, Empower Everyone, and Scale with Confidence.

Innovate Fast

At the heart of innovation is automation. With teams being asked to do more, often with less, automation has never been more important. Teams can build faster, employees can do their work faster, and you can thrill your customers with your new found speed and productivity. Flow Builder makes it easy to automate business processes with an extensible, point-and-click builder for seamless digital experiences across systems.

We are excited to announce our latest innovation that makes it even faster and easier to build on Flow Builder with a library of over 30 Automation Components that let you extend automation functionality with these pre-built building blocks.

Empower Everyone

Traditional methods of hard coding applications simply can’t keep up with the pace of change.

By empowering business and IT to work together, keeping up with changes in your business has never been faster or easier. Lightning App Builder democratizes app development to combine low-code features including Flow, Einstein, and Lightning Web Components to make your apps smarter and more dynamic. And every app is available on any mobile device out of the box.

We’re also doubling down to empower end-users to be more productive with Dynamic Forms and Actions, now in non-GA preview and beta, respectively, in the Summer ’20 release. These tools further the power of the Salesforce Platform with its seamlessly integrated event, identity, and security model, and its ability to build apps from components that serve as interchangeable building blocks.

Scale with Confidence

In order to be successful in this changing environment, you need to act fast. But increasing speed doesn’t mean sacrificing privacy or security when you work with Salesforce. Trust is Salesforce’s #1 value and this is reflected in the built-in enterprise services for performance, availability, compliance, and security. Tools like Sandboxes and Salesforce Data Mask unlock data fast while ensuring that sensitive customer information is always protected, allowing you to grow and scale with confidence.

We can’t wait to see what you build with Low Code! Join us live for #LowCodeLove: Build the Apps You Need Fast today at 11:00 am PT, or watch the recording at any time.

Looking to learn even more? Download the low-code love playbook: sforce.co/lowcodeplaybook.

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