In-person developer conferences return with the newly renamed TrailblazerDX - a much improved name IMHO, as Trailhead has been around for a number of years now and this conference is about so much more than a learning platform, although it’s clearly still the way to learn Salesforce. Here’s a glimpse of what will be coming up today, April 27th.
Revamped trailblazer.me profile
New ranks - no longer will we be forced to be ‘n x Ranger’, where n can go up to about 15 these days. Those of us that have been involved since the beginning will still top out at the new All Star Ranger rank (600 badges and 300k points), but everybody else gets something more to aim for.
Showcase MuleSoft, Slack and Tableau certifications along with your Salesforce certs. A 360 degree view of the candidate for prospective empioyers!
Community tags, to show which communities you are engaged with or a fan of.
Slack
Low and Pro Code developers get a new toolkig to build custom Slack apps that integrate Salesforce directly into Slack, via the Salesforce Platform for Slack, which provides:
Flow in Slack, with full support for Salesforce data and actions. Automate Slack processes, such as posting to channels, or reuse interactive automations from Salesforce directly in Slack.
Apex SDK for Slack - generate Slack Block Kit from Apex code, retrieving records, creating re-usable views and communicating between Salesforce and Slack via events, with no middleware or integration code!
There are also a raft of Salesforce for Slack apps entering Beta, all built using the same Salesforce Platform for Slack that we have access to: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud for Slack.
Something that I find really interesting is that most of the investment to date seems to be focused on bringing Salesforce into Slack, rather than embedding Slack into Salesforce as a Chatter replacement. I’ll be keeping a close eye on this to see if it changes.
Mulesoft
There’s a new way to develop coming, Anypoint Code Builder, built from the ground up on VS Code, so you can carry out all your Salesforce development in one tool!
There are a couple of additional API management capabilities in the code builder:
Anypoint Flex Gateway - manage and secure any API, environment or architecture
Anypoint API Governance - define your rules in isolation, then apply them to any API at scale
Tableau
The final entry in our sneak peek:
Embedding API 3.0 - embed and integrate Tableau analytics into any application using web components. A redesigned process gives an improved and modernised developer experience.
Embeddable Web Authoring - edit a vizualisation directly from a web application or portal, allowing questions to be asked and data-driven decisions as part of your regular work
Connected Apps for Seamless Authentication - integrate Tableau into any application with single-sign on.
Tableau Actions for Salesforce Flow - trigger automations in Salesforce Flow directly from a Tableau dashboard, no need to switch applications.
Other
At the end of the last installment of the Bob Buzzard Stack, Elon Musk had just offered to buy twitter for $40 odd billion. The board decided they didn’t like the cut of his jib and adopted a poison pill appproach to thwart his ambitions. After seeing the financing plan, the shareholders took a different view, and on April 25th the board started talks about a deal, which concluded extremely rapidly! In a note to Bret Taylor (Twitter Chairman and Salesforce Co-CEO, who has had a busy week) Musk writes “If the deal doesn’t work, given that I don’t have confidence in management …”, which suggests to me that Taylor might have more time to focus on Salesforce soon. I’ve mentioned in a number of previous stacks that his star seems to have been in constant ascent, but now we get to see how he deals with a little adversity!
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In-person developer conferences return with the newly renamed TrailblazerDX - a much improved name IMHO, as Trailhead has been around for a number of years now and this conference is about so much more than a learning platform, although it’s clearly still the way to learn Salesforce. Here’s a glimpse of what will be coming up today, April 27th.
Revamped trailblazer.me profile
New ranks - no longer will we be forced to be ‘n x Ranger’, where n can go up to about 15 these days. Those of us that have been involved since the beginning will still top out at the new All Star Ranger rank (600 badges and 300k points), but everybody else gets something more to aim for.
Showcase MuleSoft, Slack and Tableau certifications along with your Salesforce certs. A 360 degree view of the candidate for prospective empioyers!
Community tags, to show which communities you are engaged with or a fan of.
Slack
Low and Pro Code developers get a new toolkig to build custom Slack apps that integrate Salesforce directly into Slack, via the Salesforce Platform for Slack, which provides:
Flow in Slack, with full support for Salesforce data and actions. Automate Slack processes, such as posting to channels, or reuse interactive automations from Salesforce directly in Slack.
Apex SDK for Slack - generate Slack Block Kit from Apex code, retrieving records, creating re-usable views and communicating between Salesforce and Slack via events, with no middleware or integration code!
There are also a raft of Salesforce for Slack apps entering Beta, all built using the same Salesforce Platform for Slack that we have access to: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud for Slack.
Something that I find really interesting is that most of the investment to date seems to be focused on bringing Salesforce into Slack, rather than embedding Slack into Salesforce as a Chatter replacement. I’ll be keeping a close eye on this to see if it changes.
Mulesoft
There’s a new way to develop coming, Anypoint Code Builder, built from the ground up on VS Code, so you can carry out all your Salesforce development in one tool!
There are a couple of additional API management capabilities in the code builder:
Anypoint Flex Gateway - manage and secure any API, environment or architecture
Anypoint API Governance - define your rules in isolation, then apply them to any API at scale
Tableau
The final entry in our sneak peek:
Embedding API 3.0 - embed and integrate Tableau analytics into any application using web components. A redesigned process gives an improved and modernised developer experience.
Embeddable Web Authoring - edit a vizualisation directly from a web application or portal, allowing questions to be asked and data-driven decisions as part of your regular work
Connected Apps for Seamless Authentication - integrate Tableau into any application with single-sign on.
Tableau Actions for Salesforce Flow - trigger automations in Salesforce Flow directly from a Tableau dashboard, no need to switch applications.
Other
At the end of the last installment of the Bob Buzzard Stack, Elon Musk had just offered to buy twitter for $40 odd billion. The board decided they didn’t like the cut of his jib and adopted a poison pill appproach to thwart his ambitions. After seeing the financing plan, the shareholders took a different view, and on April 25th the board started talks about a deal, which concluded extremely rapidly! In a note to Bret Taylor (Twitter Chairman and Salesforce Co-CEO, who has had a busy week) Musk writes “If the deal doesn’t work, given that I don’t have confidence in management …”, which suggests to me that Taylor might have more time to focus on Salesforce soon. I’ve mentioned in a number of previous stacks that his star seems to have been in constant ascent, but now we get to see how he deals with a little adversity!