Cloud Computing using Salesforce - 2nd Edition

Salesforce, as the leading cloud-based CRM platform, empowers businesses to manage customer relationships and build custom applications. This book serves as your comprehensive guide to mastering this technology, from foundational cloud concepts to advanced development and administration, enabling you to leverage its full potential.

This book provides a structured journey, starting with cloud computing fundamentals and a thorough introduction to Salesforce, including its Lightning Platform architecture and benefits. This new edition brings in-depth coverage of Lightning Web Components (LWC), equipping you with the skills to build modern, high-performance user interfaces, aligning with the latest Salesforce development standards. Lastly, you will learn how to deploy and debug the app, with enhanced coverage on advanced Apex handlers for robust integrations and asynchronous processing. The book focuses on how to design an app. You will then learn how to use the Salesforce data process and security architecture in the app design and understand how to use force.com to customize the UI and automate the process. Lastly, you will learn practical debugging and deployment techniques.

Upon completing this book, you will be highly competent in declarative and programmatic aspects of Salesforce, ready to confidently build, customize, and manage solutions, and prepared for official Salesforce Administrator, Platform App Builder, and Platform Developer I certifications.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
● Get an overview of Salesforce.
● In this edition, learn more about the Lightning Experience unit.
● Understand the design and data process.
● Learn how to develop reports and dashboards in Salesforce.
● Automate business process using Salesforce tools.
● ⁠Get familiar with the programming in Apex language.
● ⁠Learn and design a custom app and UI using Lightning Web Components.
● ⁠Learn how to debug, deploy and publish the code.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This book is ideal for computer science students and Salesforce Admins looking to deepen their platform knowledge, especially in development. It is also perfect for professionals aiming to learn LWC and Salesforce Administrator, Platform App Builder or Platform Developer I certifications, assuming a basic understanding of computer concepts.

1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
2. Introduction to Salesforce
3. Introducing Salesforce Lightning and Salesforce Data Modeling
4. Introducing Salesforce Customer Relationship Management
5. Organizational Setup
6. Designing Applications on Salesforce
7. Implementing Business Processes
8. Data Management
9. Report and Dashboard
10. Security
11. Introducing Chatter for Collaboration
12. Introducing Mobile Administration
13. Programming with APEX
14. SOQL and SOSL
15. Data Manipulation Language Essentials
16. Trigger Essentials
17. Creating Visualforce Pages
18. Basics of Lightning Web Components
19. More Customization and Less Coding
20. Testing Essentials
21. Apex Handler and Using Apex Class
22. Debugging and Deployment
23. Certification Exam Guide Paper 1
24. Certification Exam Sample Paper 2

Dr. Ashwini Kumar Raj: Some people are born to teach as it’s in their DNA - a desire to teach what they know with a larger audience, and Ashwini exemplifies the same. He has tenacious commitment and passion for training/teaching.

Having a decade of industry exposure, he has grown with a multi-faceted career in delivery, operation, program management, and academics. He has provided leadership and technology vision for the Academics and Delivery to the organization. He is an award winner for Delivery Monitoring and professional achievements at the organization level. He has managed many projects with implementation of Project Management practices and Six Sigma quality standards across the globe by putting his footprints in Malaysia, China, South Africa, Srilanka, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Vietnam.

Dr Ashwini is certified on various technologies on Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Prince 2, ITIL, Six Sigma, and PMI. He is a PMI authorized coach. He is also an Amazon Best selling author.

Currently Dr Ashwini owns a IT consulting company to build digital enterprises using Salesforce, AWS, SAP and ADM practices.

Saifullah Saifi: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Based on this principle, Saifullah makes things happen.

Saifullah Saifi is a passionate salesforce developer having seven years of experience in the IT Industry. In his early professional career, he started writing a blog to inspire many to learn Salesforce.

Some of his inspiring works are the most watched and loved among Salesforce beginners. Saifullah is a proud alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University, having an MCA degree. He is currently working as a Sr Salesforce Developer with one of the top five companies and is passionate about his work. He loves teaching, writing, and giving training.