Highlights from the TrailheaDX ’21 Main Show: Watch at Home Guide
Take a deeper look at all the Trailblazer stories, Salesforce news, and product announcements made at the TrailheaDX ’21 Main Show in our Watch at Home Guide.
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Kicking off #TDX21, Parker Harris and guests from the Main Show demonstrated how Trailblazers like you — developers, admins, architects, partners, and IT leaders — can use the latest innovations on the Customer 360 Platform to innovate anywhere, automate anything, scale everywhere, and empower everyone.
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Now’s your chance to dive deeper into all the announcements, interviews, and updates with the Main Show Watch at Home Guide.
Meet the Trailblazers
TrailheaDX is about you, our Trailblazers. Read on to learn more about our featured TrailheaDX ’21 Trailblazer stories and the products that helped them deliver innovation from anywhere.
Welcome to #LifeWithGoldie, Kehinde!
Congratulations to our Golden Hoodie recipient, Kehinde Oseni. Kehinde’s story is one of perseverance, hope, and optimism.
His ability to leverage Trailhead, the Trailblazer Community, and Salesforce Certifications to build a new life and career proves that you’ll get more back if you take a chance on yourself.
If you need a bit of inspiration in your life, you can learn more about Kehinde’s story on YouTube.
Greg Beltzer, Head of Technology, RBC U.S. Wealth Management
“MuleSoft has been critical in enabling our IT team to bring our legacy technology and modern platforms together. We now have a single view of each and every customer.”
Learn more about the products featured in Royal Bank of Canada’s story during this year’s TrailheaDX keynote by completing the TDX 2021: Automate Anything trailmix!
Shamim Mohammad, EVP and Chief Information and Technology Officer, CarMax
“We’re excited to see the continued expansion of the Salesforce Platform through Heroku and Salesforce Functions, and we look forward to exploring these powerful technologies to drive innovation velocity.”
Learn more about the products featured in CarMax’s story at this year’s TrailheaDX keynote by completing the TDX 2021: Scale Everything trailmix!
Product news and announcements
It can be hard to keep up with all of the information coming out of TrailheaDX. We’ve recapped all of the important news and related sessions below.
Read on to learn about the announcements made during the #TDX21 Main Show.
Innovate from anywhere with low-code
The Salesforce Platform allows everyone in the organization to click, create, and ship with confidence on the world’s #1 low-code platform, regardless of technical skill or background.
Learn more about enhancements we’ve made to the platform with the announcements below.
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Hyperforce
The world’s #1 low-code platform is powered by Hyperforce, our new public cloud infrastructure, bringing hyper-scale for both B2B and B2C companies.
Hyperforce is available today in select countries and will be generally available in 2022 for all customers.
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AWS + Salesforce
We’re expanding the Salesforce partnership with AWS. To learn more, visit sforce.co/AWS.
🌟 Related sessions:
- Interactive Demo: Amazon AppFlow + Salesforce: Simple & Secure Connectivity (1)
- Interactive Demo: Amazon AppFlow + Salesforce: Simple & Secure Connectivity (2)
Einstein Data Detect
Einstein Data Detect helps you discover and protect sensitive data using the power of pattern matching. By quickly identifying sensitive data and determining the sensitivity of fields based on data, you can take the necessary steps to categorize, obfuscate, and protect your customer data.
Einstein Data Detect will be generally available in July.
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Flow Orchestrator
Flow Orchestrator is a new tool that lets you create orchestrations, or multi-step processes that interact with multiple users. Each orchestration is an ordered list of screen flows assigned to its own user that shares a single Lightning page component.
While Flow Builder lets you automate a single process, Flow Orchestrator lets you connect multiple automated processes (flows) into a connected, end-to-end workflow.
Flow Orchestrator comes with an Orchestrator Builder that lets you organize work by stages and steps. It also displays the orchestration through a work guide that lives on the record pages.
Trailblazers can use Flow Orchestrator to create advanced approval systems, group task lists, or for any other processes that require multiple users to complete assigned actions on the same screen.
Flow Orchestrator is currently in pilot — reach out to your Account Executive to learn more.
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MuleSoft Composer
MuleSoft Composer for Salesforce is the fastest way to unlock data, connect apps, and automate integrations to Salesforce with clicks, not code — all inside of the Salesforce UI.
Get started on Trailhead with the Get Started with MuleSoft Composer trail.
🌟 Related sessions:
- Connect Apps and Data with MuleSoft Composer
- Interactive Demo: MuleSoft Composer
- Get to Know Architect Decision Guides
CLI Unification
Salesforce development is coming together in a big way! CLI Unification is the next evolution of our Salesforce CLI: a seamless, unified command line for developing and deploying across the Customer 360.
Now, developers will be more productive using one toolchain for cross-cloud development, giving them the ability to create new projects, manage environments, run automated tests, and deploy new solutions — all without context or tool switching.
Rather than juggle multiple CLIs for multiple projects, developers will unlock their full potential through one CLI to rule them all! Look for CLI unification to begin to roll out in Winter ’22.
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Salesforce Functions
Salesforce Functions is a new service on the Salesforce Platform that allows companies to innovate fast and meet customer demands from anywhere.
With Functions, you can deliver scalable experiences by extending the data and workflows you already have, making them more robust with the power of elastic compute and open language flexibility.
Functions also empowers teams and accelerates developer productivity by making it easy for developers to adopt modern techniques and the language of their choice.
Salesforce Functions is in Invite Beta for the Summer ’21 Release. We’re excited about your interest in joining the Salesforce Functions Beta program, please nominate yourself via the Beta Interest Form.
🌟 Related sessions:
- Meet the Teams: Platform
- Platform Main Show: Innovate Anywhere with Low Code
- Build Scalable Experiences: Functions & CLI
- Interactive Demo: Salesforce Functions (option 1)
- Interactive Demo: Salesforce Functions (option 2)
- Interactive Demo: Apex
Sneak peek: Dynamic Interactions
Dynamic Interactions is a new feature of the App Builder that simplifies the building of complex apps by enabling anyone, not just professional developers, to wire together components so they can communicate and react to one another in real-time.
Since the code is prebuilt and designed to work together, it doesn’t require the same maintenance and updates that custom-coded apps do.
So, whether you’re a seasoned developer or a tech-savvy business user, you can now create pages that react dynamically to your users’ actions. Dynamic Interactions help speed up development cycles, reduce costs, and drive business outcomes fast.
And because components are now reusable, they can be applied again and again to any new application or business process.
🌟 Related sessions:
- Interactive Demo: Dynamic Interactions in App Builder (option 1)
- Interactive Demo: Dynamic Interactions in App Builder (option 2)
Sneak peek: B2B2C Commerce
With the new B2B2C Commerce app, B2B companies can quickly launch a connected, direct-to-consumer (D2C) ecommerce storefront with clicks, not code.
Now, companies that sell through distributors and retailers can capture that first-party data, enabling them to better understand their full customer base, connect directly with marketing, sales and service, and, in turn, unlock a new revenue stream.
Thank you and enjoy your virtual TrailheaDX 2021 experience!
We hope you learn something new today. Check out all of the available session tracks, join a watch party, or join a discussion on the new Trailblazer Community website.
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