Development as a Service

Returning Developers to the Business of Development

Why start from scratch building a business application when a proven on-demand framework already exists? There’s no more need to build your own user interface, security model, reporting functionality, integration capabilities, and so on. With salesforce.com’s Force.com platform and associated technologies, you can:

  • Leverage existing customer, partner, and other data in new ways.
  • Use the award-winning Salesforce user interface to manage diverse business processes and collaborate with other departments.
  • Give the right people access to data, regardless of department or role, using Salesforce's advanced sharing model.
  • Integrate easily with existing Salesforce applications or HR, ERP, IT, and other systems.
  • Run reports on consolidated information from different departments and applications.

 

Developing on the Force.com Platform

IT developers can create powerful business solutions leveraging the secure and reliable Force.com infrastructure. Instead of focusing on buying and maintaining hardware and infrastructure for their development projects, the community of more than 25,000 Force.com developers and their organizations are focusing on business innovation.

The Force.com platform includes the set of technologies that power salesforce.com's own applications, which are made available to developers through powerful extensibility functionality and Web services APIs. Developers can use the Force.com platform to create applications that not only extend the capabilities of CRM, but provide for a wide range of business needs, using a host of on-demand development tools ranging from a point-and-click customization tool, toolkits for the most popular development environments, and the upcoming Force.com programming language, Force.com.


Many of the innovations from the vibrant and rapidly growing community of Force.com developers and partners is made available to salesforce.com customers in the AppExchange directory, salesforce.com’s popular marketplace for on-demand applications that are pre-integrated with Salesforce.

 
For Developers and IT

Force.com means freedom from the endless infrastructure maintenance, upgrade, and scaling burden so that they can focus on core development work and creating true business value.

 
For ISVs

Salesforce.com offers not only the platform, but also a marketing and distribution channel (the AppExchange directory) that puts their products in front of a highly qualified set of businesses seeking business solutions.