Cutting Edge Cloud Development Tools for Force.com

BrainEngine Founder – Brian Matthews Codesion Cloud Services – Willie Wang

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Cutting Edge Cloud Dev

• Goals – Cloud development and deployment madness

– Force.com development best practices

– Be a happy Force.com developer

• Takeaways – Use Source Control to your advantage

– Leverage IDE to shorten development time

– Deploy with traceability

– Start Now

Who We Are

• Willie Wang – VP, Products and Services Codesion Cloud Services

• Brian Matthews – Founder, BrainEngine

Previous Life

• Former Salesforce.com Integration Specialist

• Former Siebel EAI/UAN Product Manager

– Member of Siebel’s integration expert group whose mission was to:

• Support Siebel’s Top 10 Must “Succeed Accounts”

• “Fix Projects gone totally wrong” – Siebel SWAT Team

From this experience, BrainEngine was conceived

So What Did I Learn?

• Over 100+ projects, I constantly saw the same issues over and over again. Issues like:

– Poor Team Communication

– Inefficient Processes

– Redundant Configuration

– Disconnect Tools

– And many more…

Problem Solved?

• Traditional toolsets were already addressing these issues, while enterprise software development wasn’t.

.NET Java Ruby

force.com Migration Tool

Text Editor MS Excel

IM Bug /Issue

Tracker

force.ide

Apex Data Loader Apex Explorer

PHP

Development Issues

Error-Prone Process

+

Lack of Insight

+

Difficult Troubleshooting

=

Higher Total Cost of

Ownership

Disparate Asset Stores

Reactive Process

Manual Tasks

What are people working on?

Zero-Accountability

Sequential Deployments

Lack of Reporting

No Version Control

BrainEngine Platform

BrainEngine

Developers Project Managers

Business Analysts

• BrainEngine is cloud based development and team collaboration platform built from the ground up to empower force.com development teams.

BrainEngine Architecture

BrainEngine powered by CollabNet

Developer Tools

Agile Tools Subversion Team

Collaboration

Desktop IDE Online IDE TeamForge salesforce

Developers

Project Managers/Business Analysts/QA

BrainEngine Deployment Manager

Metadata Files Classes

Triggers

Dashboards

Reports

Layouts

Etc.

Deployment Assets Deployment Manager Target Instances

Build Deploy Monitor

Production

QA

Unit Test

Solution Demo

• ACME Financial needs to update their Customer Check-In form to include additional fields.

• Focus Areas • IDE Overview

• Source Control

• Code Deployments

• Team Collaboration

Codesion Publisher for Force.com

What is Publisher?

One Click Deploy your Code to Cloud Servers

Force.com Recipe

• Lead Dev / Prod Mgr

• DevOps, Sys Admin

Click Publish Get Zip

Deployment Package

Meta API Login into Force.com

Publish Zip Deployment

Package

Publish Log Finished

Add Force.com Publisher Target

Add Force.com API Credentials

Add TeamForge Login

Credentials Add Release ID

Save Recipe

Codesion Force.com Product Mgr Dev Ops

Publisher Force.com Demo

• One Click Publish

• Setting up a Target

Tools Used

Codesion Dev Tools

• Enterprise grade SVN, git, CVS • On Demand Agile Mgmt Suite

(TeamForge) • Open Source Task and Bug

Tracking (Trac, Bugzilla) • One Click Deploy (Publisher) • Commit Ticket Integration to

other Agile Mgmt Tools • 99.9% SLA • Enterprise Support • Trusted Vendor

The BrainEngine Toolset

Data Management

TeamForge ALM

• BrainEngine allows developers to work in a way that bests suits them.

Testing and Monitoring

Object Modeling

Scripting Editor

Integration Development Environment

Subversion Integration

http://info.codesion.com/Codesion-BrainEngine.html

BrainEngine Developer Next + CollabNet TeamForge

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