SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, today announced general availability of Salesforce1 Lightning Components and App Builder, allowing anyone to visually assemble apps with drag-and-drop ease using pre-built, reusable components. Salesforce also announced AppExchange for Components, expanding the world's leading marketplace for enterprise apps to include components developed by Salesforce and its partner ecosystem. AppExchange for Components is launching with the fifty components that have been most requested by customers. Salesforce customers like CROSSMARK, Ocado, and The Financial Times are using the new Salesforce1 Lightning tools to build apps for every part of their business.

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    --  "Salesforce1, the #1 PaaS, is transforming app development for the
        enterprise," said Tod Nielsen, executive vice president, Salesforce1
        Platform. "We're creating the tools and ecosystem that IT needs to build
        user-centric apps so that companies can innovate faster and succeed."
    --  "At CROSSMARK, we are creating a new generation of app builders with
        Salesforce Lightning," said Mike Anderson, chief information officer,
        CROSSMARK. "Components, from both Salesforce and its partners, will be
        critical to our app development strategy moving forward."
    --  "Components represent the future of enterprise app development," said
        Hideya Sato, chief executive officer, TerraSky, a Salesforce partner.
        "AppExchange for Components is a great channel for us to engage with
        Salesforce customers and enable their innovation."
    --  "As the build-your-own-app (BYA) trend gains momentum, leadership will
        center on speed of app assembly and ease of use," said Maureen Fleming,
        program vice president of BPM and Middleware Research, IDC. "Key to this
        is a comprehensive library of components and reusable services that make
        it easy to build what you need right out of the box."

Overcoming The "App Gap": Leveraging Components to Build Engaging Apps Fast

Businesses want the connectivity, immediacy and ease of use that consumers experience using apps on their phones every day. But delivering compelling business apps has become a bottleneck for enterprises. Gartner reports that "through 2017, the market demand for mobile app development services will grow at least five times faster than internal IT organization capacity to deliver them."(([1]))

Today, Salesforce is unleashing innovation in IT departments by delivering component-based app development, a faster way to develop engaging apps. While traditional app development requires developers to write code and create features from scratch, component-based app development lets business users, not just developers, compose and build apps by dragging and dropping components, like snapping together LEGO blocks. Components democratize app development, allowing anyone to create enterprise apps faster.

Salesforce is accelerating the shift to component-based app development for the enterprise with the delivery of Salesforce1 Lightning Components, Lightning AppBuilder and AppExchange for Components.


    --  Lightning Components: Lightning Components, which are based on
        JavaScript, are the reusable building blocks of apps. Components can be
        as simple as single UI elements, or as robust as microservices with
        embedded data and logic. Examples of components include e-signature,
        compensation calculators, maps, calendars, buttons, and number entry
        forms. Developers can share components so that anyone can easily build
        sophisticated user experiences that are dynamic, mobile, and work for
        any screen. Businesses can save time and development resources, as well
        as reduce redundancy, by reusing components across different apps.
        Lightning Components include standard components built by Salesforce and
        custom components developed by customers, as well as partner components
        created by third-party developers, ISVs and system  integrators.
    --  Lightning App Builder: Businesses no longer have to build apps from
        scratch. Using Lightning App Builder, anyone, not just developers, can
        draw from an extensive library of reusable, well-defined components to
        compose apps in a drag-and-drop visual interface. Salesforce components
        are pre-installed in the App Builder, and partner components can be
        integrated directly from the AppExchange for Components.
    --  AppExchange for Components: An entirely new category on the AppExchange,
        AppExchange for Components makes it easy for developers, partners, and
        customers to find and use components in order to accelerate the building
        of apps. Components are put through the same rigorous reviews as apps
        listed on the AppExchange, ensuring they can be trusted. And for
        developers who create components, they can list them on the AppExchange
        either for free or monetize them.

Leading Global Companies Build Apps Faster with the Salesforce1 Platform, the World's #1 PaaS
 With the Salesforce1 Platform, the world's #1 PaaS, companies can transform IT departments into centers of innovation and leapfrog the competition. With more than four million apps and two million developers, the Salesforce1 Platform is the trusted and proven platform for innovative companies around the world. Companies like CROSSMARK, Ocado, and The Financial Times are building apps faster on Salesforce1 Lightning to help every user move at the speed of business. The more than 4,100 customers who participated in a recent study conducted by a third party on behalf of Salesforce reported 52 percent faster application deployment, 50 percent faster new application design, 52 percent faster application configuration and 42 percent decrease in IT cost using the Salesforce1 Platform.

Pricing and Availability


    --  Salesforce1 Lightning Components and App Builder are generally available
        with the current release of Salesforce and are included in all CRM and
        Force.com admin licenses.
    --  The AppExchange for Components is live and available for everyone to
        access. Partner components on the AppExchange are priced individually on
        a per user or per Salesforce instance basis.

Additional Information
 Learn more about the Salesforce1 Platform: http://www.salesforce.com/platform

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About Salesforce
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(([1])) Gartner, "The Enterprise App Explosion: Scaling One to 100 Mobile Apps" Published: 7 May 2015

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