Salesforce released a platform Thursday meant to help vendors foster channel ecosystems by extending internal sales tools to their indirect partners.
Lightning Partner Community introduces major design and capability upgrades to its predecessor, Salesforce Partner Community, including the ability for Salesforce-aligned systems integrators to build custom industry solutions for their customers, who then pass the technology to their own partners.
The new platform takes design inspiration from consumer-facing solutions, can pull data from multiple Salesforce and third-party sources, integrates advanced machine learning capabilities and offers a mobile device experience, said Mike Stone, Salesforce’s senior vice president of product marketing.
