Overview
Congratulations on deciding to start your salesforce journey. Salesforce is ranked number 1 in the CRM products in terms of the market share. On top of that Salesforce is a cloud based platform with no need to install any software. Users can signup with Salesforce in a matter of minutes and get going with managing their business on in. As someone looking to start his/her career in salesforce, salesforce offers 2 distinct paths to you.
The first path takes you to the administration side of salesforce. Salesforce is a vast application with multitude of modules with configuration setting for each one of them. To manage these settings, companies hire System Administrators. The role of System Administrators is to manage the org, its various modules while following best practices for security as provided by Salesforce and as per the particular org’s needs.
The second path offered by Salesforce is the development path. Although Salesforce is an exceptionally vast platform with a vast number of modules, there are always some use cases which cannot be implemented with off the shelf modules provided by Salesforce. Here the programmatic capabilities provided by Salesforce comes to the rescue. Salesforce is a powerful development platform where you can build custom applications to suit very particular needs of businesses.
Steps to create the developer org
- In your browser, open the url https://developer.salesforce.com or click here to open the url. One the webpage opens, click on the “Sign Up” button on the top right.
- In the signup form, enter you first name and last name, email address, role,company name (enter your name if you do not have any company name), country, postal code or zip code and username. The username must be in email format. This means you can either put your email address as the username or simply use a made up username like [YOUR_NAME]@demo.com or anything in this format. Once you are satisfied with the data entered by you click on the “Sign me Up” button.
- The Salesforce org creation will take a couple of minutes and once your org is ready, you will get an email in the email address provided by you during the signup process.
- Click on the “Verify Account” link in the email. This will open a new tab in your browser asking you to setup your password and password recovery question. Once you have entered the required information, click on the “Change Password” button and there it is, your shiny new Salesforce org.
The developer org created has Salesforce Sales and Service apps as well as some other apps preinstalled and test data for Opportunities, Accounts, Leads and Contacts already preloaded. Depending on the path you have chosen you can immediately start development in the org or start making changes in the default settings as per your need if you are interested in the administration side of things.