Drive Customer Success With Connected Products

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Bodymedia?s Fitness Tracking Device, the FIT LINK, is a great example of a connected product that helps the customer and the business at the same time. Join us to get to know the FIT LINK and gain an understanding of how to connect it to the Salesforce Platform. We'll leverage Apex, the REST API and Visualforce, and we'll take a deep dive into Analytics features, as well as the Chatter API. You'll leave understanding issues related to both this device and to connected products in general.

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Drive Customer Success with the Internet of ThingsDrive Customer Success with the Internet of ThingsUsing small devices to connect with customers and win opportunities

Jayvin Arora

@JayvinArora

Jayvin AroraJayvin Arora

-Salesforce Development Manager

-Philadelphia Salesforce User Group Leader

-Dev 401 Certified

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- @JayvinArora

-Salesforce Development Manager

-Philadelphia Salesforce User Group Leader

-Dev 401 Certified

-

- @JayvinArora

Overview

1. Technical trends and why you should care

2. Ways to connect devices to Salesforce

3. Ways to use the data

4. Case study

Technology Trends

From Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013 The Internet of Things

The Personal Cloud

Hybrid IT and Cloud Computing

Companies have access to multiple cheap data sources

about their customers that need to be accessed securely.

So What?

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Company uses devices on their Contacts/Leads Companies don’t have

to manufacture these devices in order to leverage them. They can leverage them to win an opportunity

Methods to access the Data

HTTPS connectivity is required to connect to SFDC .

OAuth 2.0

OAuth 1.0

Proxy (If device doesn’t allow for HTTPS Connectivity)

No need to reinvent the wheel- there are plenty of libraries to help.

Authentication – Oauth 1.0

Get Request TokenReturn Request

Token

Direct User to Authorization

User Authorization

Exchange Request Token for Access

Token

Get Access Token and Token Secret

API requests Responses

Case study- Body Media Fit Link + Salesforce = Like Fit Link- Tracks activity, intensity, and more…

API

Authentication: Two key methods (Part 1)

Authentication: Two key methods (Part 2)

Using the Data

Demo Time

Salesforce

Additional Directions

1. Additional Use Cases- Get all customer’s workouts on a nightly

basis.

2. Expand fitness library for additional devices.

How do I get the Code?

https://github.com/JayvinAroraProfessionalAcct

References1. http://blogs.salesforce.com/company/2012/11/making-real-the-internet-of-things.html

2. http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/top-10-technology-trends/

3. https://developer.bodymedia.com/docs/read/BodyMedia_Authentication

4. http://hueniverse.com/oauth/guide/

5. http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Digging_Deeper_into_OAuth_2.0_on_Force.com

6. https://github.com/jesperfj/sfdc-oauth-playground

Jayvin AroraJayvin Arora

Salesforce Development ManagerPhiladelphia User Group Leader

@JayvinArora

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