New Force.com Checkout Launches a New Era in Enterprise Cloud Computing, Making Buying and Selling Applications Dramatically Easier
For the first time, customers have a single source for trying, buying and deploying native
Force.com applications
Together, the Force.com platform, AppExchange and Checkout offer a comprehensive set of
services for developers and partners to build and sell native Force.com applications with
unprecedented ease and speed
Partner applications spanning recruiting, accounting, supply-chain management, ERP and more
now available through Force.com Checkout
"Cloud computing democratizes access to powerful enterprise applications by making them radically easier to try, buy and install," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO. "Force.com Checkout gives partners a cloud computing distribution channel to reach the enterprise. Customers can now benefit from a seamless buying experience for both salesforce.com and Force.com partner applications."
"The Force.com AppExchange and Checkout gives us the ability to reach thousands of customers," said Philip Loeffel, President of Riptide Software, an innovative provider of on-demand solutions. "Salesforce.com is providing us with turnkey distribution services for marketing, selling, invoicing and delivering our products so we can focus on building great applications and making our customers successful. More than ever, Force.com is the fastest path to success."
"We needed a SaaS application to help manage our growing executive search business and found Riptide among the recruiting solutions on the AppExchange," said Mike Tognotti, CEO of Raindance Partners, a biotech recruiting/executive search firm. "Being able to test, purchase and deploy Riptide to multiple locations in just a few minutes shows how much salesforce.com has revolutionized the way customers buy enterprise applications. Getting Riptide through Force.com Checkout was as easy as buying a song on iTunes."
Force.com Checkout: Extending the Benefits of Cloud Computing Beyond CRM
More than 40,000 application installs by more than 18,000 salesforce.com customers in 75 countries have taken place already on the Force.com AppExchange, demonstrating a high degree of adoption and momentum in extending the benefits of cloud computing beyond CRM to IT departments, HR, financials, order management, ERP and every area of the enterprise. Now, with Force.com Checkout, customers and partners can streamline the evaluation and purchasing process, accelerating their success with cloud computing.
Force.com Checkout is launching as a pilot program with 12 partners and 19 partner applications. These companies have built and delivered applications that run 100 percent natively on the Force.com platform and showcase the types and kinds of business applications that can be delivered in the cloud.
Applications now available through Force.com Checkout include: productivity tools from Appirio, compensation management from Callidus, financials and accounting ERP from CODA, non-profit constituent relationship management from Convio, fleet management solutions from Datasul, Salesforce CRM administrator tools from DrivEnable, order management ERP solutions from Glovia, a subsidiary of Fujitsu, staffing solutions from Jobscience, mobile expense reporting from Model Metrics, recruiting, real estate, and customer reference tracking from Riptide, stakeholder risk management from StakeWare and financial relationship management from StraightThrough.
"We were able to transform years of product know-how, experience and IP assets into the glovia.com Order Management application on Force.com in just a few months," said Randy Ehler, executive vice president, Glovia International, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd. "Now we are taking our ERP solution to market with Force.com Checkout, saving the cost of building out a separate sales channel. By enabling us to rapidly deliver a cloud computing application and an instant sales and distribution channel, salesforce.com has helped glovia.com to maintain a laser focus on innovation and customer success."
Force.com Checkout - Accelerating Customer and Partner Success in the Cloud
Customers are able to purchase participating partner applications directly through Force.com Checkout on the AppExchange. Customers will benefit from integrated commerce and interacting with a single vendor for both their salesforce.com and partner subscriptions. Force.com Checkout provides customers a single place for ordering, billing, invoicing, provisioning and account management services.
Similarly, Force.com Checkout provides a comprehensive set of services to enable developer and partner success on the Force.com platform. Applications available through Force.com Checkout program run entirely on the Force.com platform, and inherit the security, reliability and availability of salesforce.com's proven global infrastructure. Salesforce.com will process transactions for and distribute subscription fees to partners. Force.com Checkout will help salesforce.com grow the cloud computing economy by driving customer success with partner applications.
For more information on Force.com Checkout or how to join the Force.com Checkout partner program, please visit: https://www.salesforce.com/form/contact/contactme_checkout.jsp
Force.com Checkout Availability and How to Order
Partner applications in the Force.com Checkout pilot program are now available for order at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
Salesforce.com customers will not be charged additional fees for using Force.com Checkout.
Force.com Checkout services are free for partners until 2010.
Partner applications in Force.com Checkout are currently available to customers in the United States in $USD. Salesforce.com applications are available through Force.com Checkout to all customers worldwide.
Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available.
About Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com Platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) enables customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud. Based on salesforce.com <http://salesforce.com> 's real-time, multi-tenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.
As of July 31, 2009, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 63,200 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks.
Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
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