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Lightning Process Builder Growing Role Salesforce Admin
1. The Lightning Process Builder and the Growing Role of
the Salesforce Admin
Admin Theatre – World Tour London
Adam Pearless
Nimbostratus
adam@nimbostratus.co.uk
@NimbostratusCo
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4. Salesforce Admin since 2009
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Instructor at Salesforce University
Implementing solutions for customers
Based in Bristol, United Kingdom
Twitter: @NimbostratusCo
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Adam Pearless
5. 1. To understand what
the Lightning Process
Builder is, and see it in
action…
2. To see how this
functionality gives you
as an admin more
power…
3. To see how this
brings you as an
admin into the
conversation on how
your company runs
The Lightning Process Builder and the Growing Role of the Salesforce Admin
Key Takeaways
6. Introducing the Lightning Process Builder
The Lightning Process Builder and the Growing Role of the
Salesforce Admin
7. An overview
Introducing the Lightning Process Builder
A Business
Process
Automation Tool
Allows for a
sequence of actions
to be fired based
upon complex
business logic
Removes the need
for users to
complete repetitive
manual work
Enforces
standardized and
efficient business
processes
A user friendly
interface
8. An overview
Introducing the Lightning Process Builder
Powerful
declarative
functionality
Reduces the
reliance on apex
triggers
Putting you as
the admin in
control!
Provides enhanced
functionality over
workflow rules
9. Identify business goals and challenges
Work with the key stakeholders from your business
We need to streamline
and standardize our
sales process across
teams
I’ve noticed the sales
team rely too much on
setting reminders and
we need to increase
productivity
We want to improve
collaboration between teams
so that everyone knows
what’s going on with our
customers
27. Business Goal:
Demonstration
When a new business
opportunity is won we need
to automate aspects of the
new customer onboarding
process and ensure that
teams collaborate. We also
need to make sure that we
don't miss out on renewal
opportunities
28. Create a case and
assign it to the
Compliance Team to
complete a credit check
Post to the Onboarding
Chatter group
Schedule a new
opportunity to be
created for renewal
next year
Type = “New Business” && Stage = “Closed Won”
When an opportunity meets the criteria…
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My name is Adam Pearless and I started out as a Salesforce Admin back in 2009. I currently have 5 salesforce certifications and have also had the opportunity to be an instructor at Salesforce University, helping other admins to get certified. I now spend my time implementing Salesforce solutions for customers, and I’m based in Bristol, in the UK. Please feel free to follow me on twitter @NimbostratusCo, or to add me on LinkedIn. I also blog occasionally at nimbostratus.co.uk
Now, I have THREE key takeaways for you in this session:
To understand what the Lightning Process Builder is and to see it in action. I’m going to give you a tour of the process builder and show you a live demo, so that you know what it is and how to drive it.
For you to see how this increased functionality gives you as an admin more power. There’s so much that we can now achieve with the Process Builder, functionality beyond that we had previously, adding to our automation tool kit. But most importantly….
I want you to see how this brings you as an admin into the conversation on how your company runs. We can now play a key role in decision making at an operational and strategic level within our organizations.
It’s a business process automation tool, which allows for a sequence of actions to be fired based on complex (or simple) business logic. It removes the need for our users to complete manual repetitive work > Saving us time. It enforces standardized and efficient business processes > Making sure we do things the right way, every time. It also comes with an attractive and user-friendly interface > making it easy for us to see what’s happening
And what does it mean for the Salesforce Admin? It gives us powerful declarative functionality, reducing our reliance on apex triggers, providing enhanced functionality over workflow rules, putting you as the admin in control.
The Lightning Process Builder is all about the automation of business processes – So first we need to work with the key players in our business to identify our goals, our areas for improvement, to find out what problems we are having, and to work out what we need to do to overcome these challenges. So here are some senior stakeholders, and let’s see what they are saying…
Our Regional Sales Manager says… How can we save our sales reps time and make them more productive? We can use the process builder to automate their manual repetitive work, giving them more time to focus on selling
Our VP of Global Sales says… How can we ensure that our sales reps follow a consistent sales process? We can use the process builder to help automate quotes for opportunities, automatically submitting discounts for approval and generating orders when opportunities are won –making sure we do things the right way every time
Our Customer Support Director says… How can we increase collaboration? We can use the process builder to automatically post to chatter when customers have problems or when is big project is about to kick off.
So I’ll now take you through the steps of creating a process. First select your object, for example opportunity, and decide when you want the process to start. Do you want to apply the process to new records, or to new and existing records? We also have an option here to evaluate the record multiple times, if for example the record is also updated by another workflow or process.
We then define the criteria – under what conditions do we want to fire some actions? You can specify the conditions, or use a formula, or choose to fire the actions every time.
We then decide which actions we want to fire immediately when the criteria evaluates to TRUE. You can see the full range of actions here – which we’ll discuss in more detail later.
We can also add scheduled actions into our process to happen a later time, for example 14 days after an opportunity has closed, or a year from now.
We can create new records! This is a really powerful and new action, that we couldn’t really do with workflow. And this is for any object not just a task. This is a real opportunity to remove the manual work for our users – to make our sales process streamlined and efficient. We could use this to automatically create a quote when an opportunity reaches a certain stage, and to automatically create orders and contracts when the opportunity is closed won.
We can perform record updates! This builds on workflow as we can now update ANY related record as well as the record itself, the parent record, and child records
If you are using Quick Actions in Salesforce1 or in the Chatter Publisher - or now with the new Lightning Experience - you can also use these actions here in your processes to create new record, update a record or to log a call.
We can also launch a flow from a process. If you like the power of the Lightning Process Builder you should definitely check out Visual Workflow. It has a range of similar powerful actions, based on more complex decision logic – and we can now fire a headless flow from a process, without needing the user to manually click a button. People are doing some really cool things with flow, and if you want to know more about Visual Workflow then I recommend you attend a session to take a closer look.
Just like workflow we can use email to send a notification as an action…or
If you want to be slightly more ‘with-it’ you can post an update to chatter. This is something new and really cool for the admin using the process builder. You can now automatically post to chatter to make sure everybody knows what’s going on – you can @mention users, you can post to chatter groups and you can post to records and their followers.
Another great action now available to us in being able to submit records for approval. If you’re using approval processes we were previously reliant on the user remembering to click the ‘submit for approval’ button. Now we can put records automatically into an approval process based on meeting the criteria which we define.
Our VP of Sales says….
So this is what we’re going to do to meet the challenge of the business goal…
As we have seen the Lightning Process Builder opens up new avenues for the Salesforce Admin. We build processes to help drive our business – And to do this we need to be collaborating with the key players, the head of sales, the director of customer support, even the CEO, so that we can help realise the strategic vision for our organizations and to bring the business processes into life
So you can see that the Lightning Process Builder brings it all together: We find ourselves collaborating with our people, to define the business process, and building it on the salesforce platform. And this put Salesforce at the centre of our business.
And if Salesforce is at the centre of our business – what does this mean for the Salesforce Admin? We collaborate with our key stakeholders and can be the voice of our users. We have the powerful functionality of the Lightning Process Builder and the Salesforce platform at our fingertips – Enabling us to have input on how our companies run operationally on a day to day basis – and enabling us to help shape our organization’s strategic vision for the future