Getting Started with Force'com Sites

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Getting Started with Force.com Sites
Tour de Force Platform Fundamentals

• David Brooks, Salesforce.com
• Tom Scott, Appirio
• Stephen Brown, Sofiaworks

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David Brooks VP Product Management Administration
Distribution
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Agenda

• High Level Description
• Use Cases
• Branded Domains
• Security Model
• Release Status
• Thomas Net (Appirio)
• Marina VIP (Sofiaworks)

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High Level Description

• Force.com Sites are
• Public, Unauthenticated Web Sites Apps
• Accessed from Branded Domain Names
• Built with Visualforce pages
• From Data and Content in a Salesforce
  Organization
• Cached at the Edge Around the World

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Use cases

• Public Entry for Portals
• Registration
• Branded Login
• Public Knowledge Bases
• Partner Finders
• Web Forms
• Web to Anything from a Hosted/Branded Wizard
• Customer / Supplier Surveys

• Intranet Sites
• Employee Directory
• Facilities
• Rich Internet Applications
• Event Registration and Management
• Recruiting App
• Commerce Site
• RSS Feeds from Salesforce Data

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Branded Domains
New Domain
CNAME
universal.force.com
www.universal.com
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Multiple Sites per Organization

• Each Site can have
• A Unique Security Model
• A Unique Top Level Domain
• A Unique Look and Feel

http//universal.force.com/locations/index
Force.com Domain
Path
Home Page

• Domain Uniquely Identifies the Organization
• Domain Path Identifies a Site
• All Pages Retrieved from /apex collection
• Until we Implement Hierarchies for Pages

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Authentication and SSL

• Authentication
• To a Portal User
• To a Platform/CRM User ( Roadmap )
• Over SSL like we do today
• SSL Options
• Wildcard Certificate for .force.com subdomain
  included
• Top Level Domain ( Roadmap )
• Salesforce.com Hosts your SSL Certificate
• Dedicated IP Addresses in Both Data Centers

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Release Status Next Steps

• Developer Preview at Dreamforce
• Sign Up for Sites in your Developer Org
• Limited Release Targeted for Spring 09
• General Available Expected Summer 09
• Hands On Training 330 South 104, 445 South
  103
• Monday Night Sites 545 Esplanade 302 Tour de
  Force Zone
• Tour de Force Mastering the Force Platform
  Tuesday 1130

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Tom Scott Director East Coast Professional
Services
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All About Appirio
Appirio provides products and services that help
enterprises accelerate their adoption of
on-demand solutions like Salesforce Google Apps

• INDUSTRY SaaS Products and Professional Services
• EMPLOYEES 75
• USERS 75
• GEOGRAPHY US Japan
• KEY STATS
• Track-record of innovative custom application
  development and implementation
• 3 of the top 10 apps on AppExchange
• Entire business runs on the Cloud

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All About ThomasNet
ThomasNet is the leading online industrial
destination site where buyers and engineers from
companies of all sizes go to search for and
purchase everything they need from printed
circuit boards to laboratory equipment to
machinery.

• INDUSTRY Media
• EMPLOYEES 700
• USERS 385
• GEOGRAPHY International
• PRODUCT(S) USED
• SFA, Salesforce Service and Support, Ideas,
  Public Sites, and various AppExchange products

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Stephen Brown Solutions Guru
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All About Sofiaworks
Award winning force.com technology partner
Founded by former PSFT employees 100 focused
on software as a service Salesforce.com and
Google services provider
www.sofiaworks.com
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