Cloud Computing using Salesforce: Build and customize applications for your business using the Salesforce Platform - 2nd Edition - Softcover

Kumar Raj, Dr. Ashwini; Saifi, Saifullah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 936589459X ISBN 13: 9789365894592

Publisher: BPB Publications, 2025

Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

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

Edition details

• Publisher: BPB Publications
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 936589459X
• ISBN 13: 9789365894592
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 610