The Lightning brand has been part of the Salesforce ecosystem since October 2014, when the San Francisco-based company announced the Salesforce1 Lightning Framework, a toolkit for developers to ...

Sales Cloud Lightning integrates SteelBrick CPQ, technology from an ISV partner that the company recently acquired, with a popular quote-to-cash solution built on the Salesforce platform.

“Our goal was to remove barriers,” said Salesforce’s Moxley. “With Lightning Voice, with this breakthrough, we’re connecting clients to what matters most to them—their customers.

For Salesforce, the upside to open sourcing Lightning Web Components is that it could gain more developers. Salesforce may also be able to leverage the open source community for new features and apps.

Salesforce.com has today officially released Salesforce1 Lightning Connect, which brings data in real time from back-office systems into applications built on the Salesforce1 Platform. The technology, ...