Running our website & business on Salesforce 1 Platform!

We got a Salesforce enterprise license a few months back, primarily to move our business to the Salesforce platform. It was quite an exciting experience to get your own Salesforce Enterprise edition org. A feeling that you are no longer logging into just any other dev org, but it's your own Salesforce org for your business. It was very special when we created our very first custom object, field, and sandbox. It's like having our baby after being a nanny for many years.

The first thing we wanted to do for quite some time was use Salesforce sites to deliver the Concretio corporate website, which actually happened pretty quickly. Thanks to the power and speed of development of the Salesforce 1 platform, it again feels good when we, as a Salesforce consulting company, don’t need to spend too much of our resources in porting HTML/CSS to a dynamic website.

So the web address “concret.io” is actually “concretio.force.com“, which is rendering crazy fast in a Visualforce page, with information about various site facets coming from different custom objects.

“VISUALFORCE”—did I just say that?

Yes, please don’t hate me. We are big lightning fans, and we developed almost the full website via multiple Lightning components only. But later on, I came to know that it will be the Winter 17 release, which will allow Lightning components to work in Sites Guest User mode. We were too excited about using Lightning components via “Lightning out” in VF as well. But it's not too far; winter is coming.

What else?

Apart from the website, our lead management and a few other business operations are moving over to Salesforce now. We are specifically developing and maturing a lead management solution on our Salesforce instance, which we will look forward to listing on AppExchange after practicing and bulletproofing on ourselves.

Thanks

So far, I’m very pleased with the start, and logging into your own Salesforce org and managing business is a unique pleasure to enjoy daily. Big thanks to Salesforce for creating such a wonderful ecosystem, which helped me grow from a developer to an entrepreneur and now a Salesforce customer. I’m sure it’s not just me and our business, and it’s not happening for the 1st time; I saw many such transformations done to individuals by Salesforce. Thanks again, and I'm excited to do more crazy stuff in my Salesforce org.

For those whom I haven’t met personally and are new to my blog. Here is a quick peek of my professional timeline with Salesforce.