A Taste of Lightning in Action
- 1. 1 A Taste Of Lightning In Action MEYN Parts Manual Community
- 2. 2 Steven Hugo Solution Architect, ABSI PLACE COMPANY LOGO HERE @stvnhg
- 3. 3 Sicco Saft Business Analyst, MEYN PLACE COMPANY LOGO HERE
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- 5. 5 Agenda Meyn Food Processing Technology Who is Meyn and what’s their vision on their customer community First step is Facilitating the Parts Manual Meyn identified the need to improve their parts manuals; the current part manuals are not considered World Class. Demo Demonstration of the newly build Lightning Community High Level Solution Design To support the requirements for the Meyn community ABSI proposed the following solution. Custom Lightning Components & Lightning Out Lightning components give you a client-server framework that accelerates development, as well as app performance. Lightning Connect & Sharepoint Central repository for all SVG images, which need to be displayed in real-time. 1 2 3 4 5 6
- 6. 6 Meyn Food Processing Technology Strong roots, Global reach Meyn was founded more than 50 years ago to support the poultry industry. We remain dedicated to the industry today, only now as a company operating on a global scale. Employees:1000 Head Office: Amsterdam,the Netherlands Production locations: the Netherlands,US and Poland.
- 7. 7 Systems from wall to wall • Primary processing • Secondary processing • Order preparation and expedition • Transport and transfer • Identification • Weighing & logistics • Supporting systems Wall to Wall Solutions
- 8. 8 Products • Highly configurable equipment • Stand-alone or as part of a integrated system (line configuration) • Capacity up to 13.500 BPH
- 9. 9 Meyn’s Vision on their Customer Community What does Meyn have in mind for the future? • Customer Installed Base • Ecommerce • Case Registration • Knowledge base • Live Chat • 24/7 availability
- 10. 10 What’s a Part Manual and why do we need a new one? First step is to Facilitate the Parts Manuals • Drawings are not always clear • No exploded Views available • No options for easy updates • Missing Translations
- 11. 11 • Find requested information asap • Finding a part number within 45 seconds. • Use exploded SVG Files • Easy to maintain and edit What do we need then? First step is to Facilitate the Parts Manuals
- 12. 12 Demo
- 13. 13 SALESFORCE EXTERNAL DATASALESFORCE FRONTEND SALESFORCE BACKEND High Level Solution Design •All SVG, PDF and Image files are fetched from Sharepoint in Real-Time •Salesforce Lightning Connect to link Salesforce and Sharepoint •Accounts, Contacts and Users •Asset Structure •Chatter Functionality •Salesforce Communities •Build entirely Native on the Platform •Using new Custom Lightning Components
- 14. 14 Custom Lightning Components Why did we use Lightning Components over other JS Frameworks • Designed to connect natively with Salesforce • Out-of-the-Box Component Set results in Faster Development • Security Model • Straight Forward • Backwards Compatibility & Future Proof
- 15. 15 Lightning Out & Visualforce Lightning Out Community Builder Custom Components Yes Yes Quick Setup No Yes Drag & Drop Builder Interface No Yes Completely Custom (Branding & Navigation) Yes Not yet Why did we use Lightning Out over Community Builder
- 16. 16 Lightning Connect & Sharepoint What about our existing external data? • Seamlessly access and integrate external data into your Salesforce environment in real-time • Connect to any OData 2.0 data source as well as SAP, Sharepoint and even more… • Data is accessed directly - no duplication or sync delays • Connecting Salesforce with Sharepoint was very straight forward • Setting up Sharepoint to send the correct metadata at the right time was challenging
- 17. 17 Challenges? • Lightning framework doesn’t support interactive SVG graphics. • Standard PDF print does not support SVG files.
- 18. 18 Takeaways • Customer Enablement & Success • Lightning Development is very Straightforward and it just feels right. • Keep looking at community builder
- 19. 19 Questions ?
- 20. 20 Thank Y u