Salesforce Lightning Experiance

Salesforce CRM is gearing up day by day. Lightning experience is a salient feature, that will provide efficient environment of work with  beauty components. Good to see, feel and work.

It is available in : Group Edition, Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition, Performance Edition, Unlimited Edition, Developer Edition
Not available in : Personal Edition, Contact Manager Edition, Database.com Edition, Chatter.com Edition

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Introduction :
Lightning Experience is modern and beautiful user experience from Salesforce with sales-centric mindset that provides  an intuitive, intelligent interface that helps sales reps work more efficiently and manage deals faster way. Lightning Experience takes the cool stuff from the Salesforce1 mobile experience and brings it to the desktop. It is a flexible, interactive tools that sales reps can use to visualize data and work deals in flight. It enables sales reps focus on the right deals and the right activities, every time they log in.

Nomenclature:
The name "Lightning" derived from the concept of lightning during storm. Isn't it fast? Isn't it beautiful, Isn't it unique ? Similerly  "Lightning"  experience is  fast, beautiful, and it is unique to each sales rep.

Switch between Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic :
Salesforce sharing capability to developers to switch between Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic. Once a new user registers, he is automatically login to lightning tool. He can switch back to classic and vice versa using the link available at setup menu.

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Lightning Experience v/s Salesforce Classic :

Salesforce Data

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Home

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Accounts and Contacts

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 Campaigns

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Opportunity & Leads

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Opportunity Kanban

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 Data.com

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 Reports

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 Dashboards

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 List Views

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Other Features and Products

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Advantages:

• Effective navigation.
• Quick access to productivity tools.
• New record layouts that focus on what you can DO instead of what you can VIEW.
• Start your day fast with a intelligent customizable  page.
• See timely news articles about customers, partners, and competitors with News instantly.
• See upcoming meetings and tasks due today with priority.
• Use the Assistant to identify key issues to work on today.
• Focus your selling activities on your Top Deals.
• Easily filter and visualize your data.
• Sleek report views that you can filter quickly to see important data.
• Beautiful dashboards.
• Create records, access recent records and lists for certain items directly using navigation bar.
• See open tasks, planned meetings, and accomplishments in the activity timeline.
• Find your tasks on a new page for tasks,
• Use phone features without ever leaving Salesforce. 
• Celebrate richer file preview experience that doesn’t require Adobe Flash Player.
• Send email through Gmail or Office 365 accounts with your Salesforce email.

ie it will provide a high fie ambiance to start of work.

Disadvantages:

• Custom buttons (with JavaScript content source )aren’t supported.
• If an app is supported in Lightning Experience, a Lightning Ready sash appears on its AppExchange listing. If an app isn’t supported in Lightning Experience, use it in Salesforce Classic instead.