Salesforce

Salesforce.com is an American cloud computing company.
Salesforce offers Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which helps in Customer Relationship Management.
It has a multi-tenant architecture and subscriptions.

 The following are the application clouds in Salesforce CRM.
1. Sales Cloud
2. Service Cloud
3. Marketing Cloud
4. Data cloud
5. App Cloud
6. Analytics Cloud
7. Community Cloud
Salesforce also offers Platform as a Service (PaaS) using Force.com sites.
People involved in Salesforce Implementation
1. End User ( Customer)
2. Administrator
3. Developer
4. Consultant
 
The following are the list of Salesforce Certifications.
1. Certified Administrator
2. Certified Advanced Administrator
3. Certified Sales Cloud Consultant
4. Certified Service Cloud Consultant
5. Certified Force.com Platform App Builder
6. Certified Force.com Platform Developer I
7. Certified Force.com Platform Developer II
8. Certified Technical Architect
 

What is Apex?

  • Apex is a programming language for salesforce (only).
    • Object Oriented Program, in which the data types have to defined.
    • Allows developers for flow execution in force.com platforms.
    • Enables developers to add business logic to most system events including button clicks, related record updates and visualforce pages.

Datatypes in Apex

  • Primitives

Apex primitives include the following datatypes.

  1. Integer
  2. Boolean
  3. Decimal
  4. Double
  5. Date
  6. Date Time
  7. Time
  8. String
  9. Long
  10. ID- Any valid salesforce.com Id.
  • sObjects
    • Any  object that can be stored in force.com platform database.
    • sObject variable unlike primitive variable refers to row of data in salesforce. That is a complete record as a variable.

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