Application Development with Force.com

Enterprise application development with traditional software is complex and expensive. But now cloud computing has emerged to address these problems. Applications that run in the cloud are delivered as a service, enabling companies to gain considerable time and cost saving advantages. So, there’s no more hardware and software to run their applications. Nor huge IT teams to manage and maintain complicated deployments.

Just as cloud-based Salesforce CRM has become the leading CRM solution, the application development world is beating a path to the Force.com platform. With its unlimited power to innovate, Force.com is revolutionising custom application development, making it possible to quickly create robust, enterprise-class solutions for almost any business need.

Enterprise Application Development Old and New

• The old way: slow and inefficient application-building The old way of creating and running business applications is dead. It requires too many moving parts to buy, install, configure, and maintain—including hardware and software. Plus, the entire infrastructure requires constant maintenance to keep it working smoothly.
  
• The new deal: application development productivity in the cloud. With cloud computing and salesforce.com’s Force.com platform application development takes place—and all applications run—entirely on the Web. All you need to access them is a Web browser.
  With just an Internet connection, your developers enter an application development environment with all the tools and resources they need. They can develop complete enterprise applications without the cost and complexity of buying and maintaining an on-premises development infrastructure.
• More business value from IT Equally important is the impact of Force.com on the responsiveness of your IT systems. You can add developers instantly, anywhere in the world, and give them full access to application development resources. This way, they quickly build and deploy solutions, reduce application development cycle time, speed up the response to user requests, and deliver the IT agility required to exploit new business opportunities.

Custom Application Development with Force.com

Force.com provides an extremely powerful, scalable, and secure platform for application development. Developers benefit from a complete technology stack covering the ground from database and security to workflow and user interface—so you can focus on assembling, building, and instantly deploying solutions. This makes custom application development possible without the headaches and expense of buying, configuring, and managing development hardware and software.

Force.com also speeds up innovation through a powerful yet easy-to-use application development and deployment model.

Force.com lets you implement business logic with workflow rules, approval processes, and custom code. You can store structured data, support Web browsers and mobile devices, integrate with other applications, do reporting and analytics, and scale up or down—all with the sub-second response time, high availability, and security you need to run your business applications.

Custom Application Development: Build and Run Your Entire Business in the Cloud

The Force.com platform is the fastest path to complex enterprise application development. Companies and ISVs are using Force.com to build a range of applications across the entire spectrum of business functions and industries in days or weeks. This includes supply chain management, billing, audit, tax calculation, event management, compliance tracking, brand management, pricing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, billing, HR, payment processing, employee on-boarding, claims processing.

There are more than 100,000 custom applications running on Force.com, and the platform supports more than 150 million transactions per day.

Enterprise Application Development Made Easy

With Force.com, you get a full enterprise application development stack—including a complete user interface to your data, comprehensive reporting and analytic capabilities, a flexible security and sharing model, and workflow and approvals - all available and integrated from the start. You can even leverage extended features such as built-in internationalisation, full support for mobile devices, and integration with existing systems.

It’s easy to access to Force.com through a Web browser, with both development and deployment taking place in the cloud. The platform provides everything you need for robust enterprise application development through a combination of clicks, components, and code – a uniquely productive blend for developers. Application capabilities come from simple declarations of attributes through pre-built capabilities and extend to a fully flexible application development environment.

With simple clicks, Force.com lets you include rich functionality in all your applications. You can define your data structures and relationships, expose user interfaces to interact with this data, extend internal data with logical representations, and define workflow actions and approval processes. It’s simply a matter of shaping the built-in capabilities of the platform to your needs by setting the values of attributes.

There’s one more application development advantage too. The entire Force.com reporting and analytics system is automatically built into all your applications, giving you integrated functionality that lets you mine your data store for additional value.