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What is Salesforce Lightning?

I can hear you saying to yourself: “What is Salesforce Lightning, and why on earth would I want to mess with my Salesforce setup? My company hasn’t said anything about Lightning, and I haven’t read much about it. For heaven’s sake, don’t touch my set up!” In this post, I hope to give you some clear and concise info that will bring you quickly up to speed on the new Lightning Experience.

For those of us moving to Salesforce Lightning, it’s more than a new look to the platform, but ‘the future of CRM’. With the release of Lightning Experience nearly two years ago, its can still be a very new thing to anyone using Classic, but Lightning brings hundreds of new features, a totally redesigned and reimagined user interface that makes it easy and fast for employees to make smarter business decisions.

A Brief History of Salesforce Lightning

Because more than half the planet are mobile phone users, when Salesforce calculated that their platform was lagging behind, it devoted an enormous effort to focus on mobile development and, in 2013, launched the Salesforce1 app, a simple to use mobile app which enabled users to access and interact with the data and the customers on their mobile.

Fast-forward to 2015, Salesforce discovered a lot of daylight between the experience in desktop browsers and Salesforce1. By building a new UI, a unifying experience could be created as well as the same task simplified, as far as the channel used was not a factor.

What did they call this new UI? Lightning Experience.

Today, Lightning Experience was released for general availability at Salesforce’s annual gathering, Dreamforce 2015. It is now the default starting environment for new customers.

“The future of CRM” – Salesforce

Salesforce stopped working on Classic and won’t support thousands of features starting in January 2019. Thousands of businesses and millions of users will have to move over from Classic to Lightning to stay current, which is essential if they want to keep growing efficiently.

What Size Companies Are Affected By This?

Everyone. Upgrading to Lightning is not just going to be better than the alternative, but it’s going to be the only alternative. This is because Salesforce is a completely integrated CRM system and it’s going to bring greater productivity and automation for Enterprise, while SMB(s) are going to get the biggest boost in sales and communication.

The objective of Lighting, in short, is to increase productivity by designing a simpler UI (User Interface), targeting users who are used to multi-tasking, and optimising its efficiency for speed. With fewer clicks for more output, it helps to save time for users and prevent inefficiency.

For the SMB, Lightning plays a key role in reducing the downtime and simplifying the sales process, and as sales increases, the company gets the opportunity to grow and expand. There’s really very little to list as a con of migrating for the SMB, as well, because migrating can be fast and not as seemingly time-consuming.

For enterprise-level companies, you will see sustainable increases in productivity that translate naturally to reduced costs associated with hiring new recruits and overtime. On average, with automation, Salesforce Lightning can save up to 2hrs per week per user. On the downside, for enterprise-level companies, the cutover time for companies with multiple or very large complex orgs is definitely longer.

What Components Make Up Lightning?

When redesigning the new Salesforce platform, the team asked themselves:

‘If the year was 1999 and we had today’s technology, what CRM would we build?’ – Salesforce

It might seem to be just a new UI, but Lightning is actually so much more than that, and it’s made up of many moving parts.

Some of the parts that make up Salesforce Lightning are described below:

• The Lightning App Builder allows developers and managers to construct user interfaces in an easy way. Apps built using the Lightning App Builder display neatly on a range of devices, from mobile phones to computers.
• Lightning Communities is an important feature, enabling developers and managers to quickly build custom online communities that help businesses interact with their customers and partners.

Throughout human existence, we have constantly told stories that imagine better outcomes for humans and the world. The Salesforce refers to these stories as ‘components’. To learn more about the components, please watch this webinar for the Salesforce.

What’s Being Left Behind in Classic?

On good reason, it’s just not possible to re-implement some Classic features. Although the new, redesigned UI for Lightning is All Good, some features didn’t make the final cut: Custom JavaScript Buttons; Recycle Bin; Sidebar; also any apps from the appexchange (at least, generally speaking). The things that were left behind? Either a better horse has been found to ride, or the wagon has stopped at the harbour and the need for that feature has floated off into the open ocean.

Additionally, for example, Lightning on IE11 (Internet Explorer 11) is also being left behind on the side of the road. Some companies who have chosen to Extend Support for Accessing Lightning Experience can still use IE11, however, IE11 will no longer be supported in Dec 2020.

Note the other excluded features: Similar Opportunities; Big Deal Alerts; Opportunity split details in the opportunities list; SOS; Solutions; Customizable Forecasting; Partner Portals; Work.com. Detail of those features here.

How Can Lightning Help Your Business?

• Boost productivity and improvement in time management
• Helping reps to sell better
• Increase revenue / reduce costs.

The examples below is just three of the ways Lighting can help your business. Be if your sales, support or field employee Lighting is the answer.

You might hear that word, productivity, again and again – that’s exactly what Lightning Experience was designed for. In general, to increase productivity and to ‘work smarter’ creates a better experience for employees as a whole. People who are happier and more productive work better and faster.

Lightning Experience was tailored to the sales cycle, and improved it at the same time. No surprise there, since the new layout creates cadence in case management: the button-and-menu-based Kanban view is great for visual prioritisation, while the lightning-quick note-addition feature helps reps stop whatever they’re doing and add a note for the next stage in the case. This keeps reps selling by closing cases faster and raising the right leads and opportunities to the best possible account.