Are you still a Salesforce Classic user? If so, then it is high time you migrate to Lightning Experience. Salesforce Lightning offers a simple UI that is easy to navigate, customize, and use. Its advanced automation, analytics, and low-code development capabilities along with the latest upgrades make it the go-to solution for Salesforce users.
With Salesforce Lightning, you can redesign pages, create processes, and automate workflow in a manner that you couldn’t do in Classic. Powered up with Einstein Analytics, Kanban View, Lightning Voice, and App Builder, Lightning Experience is what you need for optimum business output.
While migration to lightning is important to bring scalability and raise the productivity of the workforce, it can be a daunting task for businesses. However, with Salesforce Lightning Support, you can overcome most of the migration challenges and register better output.
Here are some considerations to keep in mind while planning for Salesforce Lightning Migration:
- Get a Buy-in Approval
Getting a purchase or buy-in approval can be difficult but considering the limitations of
Classic, it is a necessary move for your organization. For this, you need to convince both management as well as daily users. By highlighting advanced features of lightning and the necessity for migration for your productivity and ROI, you can get fast approval from the leadership.
2. Perform a Readiness Check
The Salesforce Readiness Check Report evaluates how you currently use Salesforce Classic and what you can expect post-migration. It can estimate the effort required for the switch over, highlight issues in code, and identify features that will not be available post-migration. With the help of Salesforce Lightning Services, you can carry out a proper gap analysis along with a readiness check.
3. Conduct Optimizer Report
After you have a clear-cut idea about how the transition process will affect your organization and what possible issues will surface during the switch over, you can start to determine allocation. By conducting an optimizer report, you can identify inactive workflow rules, app exchange apps, custom profiles, objects, data relationships and simplify, enhance, or improve their functioning before migration.
4. Use Migration Assistant
You can use Lightning Experience for a test run using Lightning Migration Assistant. The assistant can guide you through the process of initiating Lightning for your organization and offer you a preview of how your organization will work when you turn on Lightning for all users. Take advantage of this test as an opportunity to try apps, features, and experiment with customizations that were not evaluated during Lightning Experience Readiness Check.
5. Planning for User Adoption
Lightning Experience implementation should be done by a Salesforce Lightning Services team that runs end-user testing for every group. This can help you collect data and metrics as evidence to provide proof to the rest of the team and assist in future buy-in. The adoption team can also highlight choke points that will help in improving the adoption rate and user experience.
Bottomline
The migration process requires careful planning and consideration. By following the above tips, you will be able to plan migration better and carry out a hassle-free switch over from on-premise systems to Salesforce Cloud. To realize the maximum benefits of migration, consider aligning with a certified Salesforce Lightning Migration expert.
Damco Group is a Salesforce Lightning Services provider with over 25+ years of implementation, consulting, and training experience in Salesforce and other software platforms. At Damco, we have helped numerous clients have a glitch-free transition to Lightning and we can help you too.