Industry Analyst Report Finds Application Development on Force.com Cloud Computing Platform 4.9 Times Faster Than on JAVA or .NE
May 14 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Nucleus Research finds that IT departments and ISVs experience more
rapid time to value, lower cost and greater on-going flexibility
developing in the cloud with Force.com SAN FRANCISCO, May 14
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the
enterprise cloud computing company, today announced the research
findings from independent analyst firm Nucleus Research comparing
application development in the cloud with traditional on premise
application development. The results of the research, an in-depth
analysis of 17 companies that had developed in both environments,
found significant and quantifiable savings in time to development
and ongoing support costs with Force.com. Specifically, the
research showed that developers found they could deliver
applications 4.9 times faster on Force.com than on JAVA or .NET.
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"Companies are accelerating their adoption of the cloud for
application development," said Marc Benioff, CEO and chairman,
salesforce.com. "The benefits of the Force.com platform for
enterprise cloud computing are immediate: CIOs get a real-time
global infrastructure that enables application development and
delivery five times faster at half the cost." "Our in-depth
analysis shows that cloud computing is dramatically changing the
cost and time equation for custom application development," said
Rebecca Wettemann, vice president, research, Nucleus Research.
"Given the rapid time to value, lower cost, and greater ongoing
flexibility, Force.com is likely to grow in popularity as an option
for custom application development." "We used the Force.com
platform and our expertise from publishing more than 120,000 book
titles to develop a system that is transforming our business," said
James Stanley, CIO of Author Solutions. "Our Force.com projects
came in under budget and ahead of schedule." Force.com: A Proven
Enterprise Cloud Computing Platform for ISVs and CIOs Force.com is
the only proven enterprise platform for building and running
business applications in the cloud. Unlike a stack of disparate
client/server hardware and software products, Force.com unifies the
development and deployment model from the database to the device,
allowing developers to easily assemble applications with clicks,
components and code, and then instantly deploy them on
salesforce.com's trusted global infrastructure. The Force.com
platform powers the Salesforce CRM applications, more than 750 ISV
partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more
than 110,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 55,400
customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint
Nextel. Research Methodology Nucleus Research conducted an analysis
of 17 Force.com projects and found significant savings in time to
development and ongoing support costs. In selecting the companies
analyzed, Nucleus only included companies that could accurately
compare development times in both Force.com and JAVA or .NET
environments. In its interviews with developers, Nucleus discussed
the details of the projects as well as developers' estimates of the
time, in terms of total developer hours and total time from
selection to deployment, each project would take to develop in
Force.com versus a JAVA or .NET environment. The analysis included:
-- Companies that had moved existing applications to Force.com --
Companies that had evaluated both traditional (JAVA and .NET)
development environments and Force.com and selected Force.com --
Systems integrators that had worked with customers who selected
Force.com -- ISVs that had evaluated traditional development
environments and selected Force.com The report cited a number of
reasons why Force.com was faster than traditional environments: --
Custom objects that can be quickly built and re-used across
projects -- Administrator tools and user interface capabilities,
which can be quickly configured rather than requiring developers to
build and test interfaces and tools from scratch -- Workflow engine
- the rules, forms, and processes of Force.com's workflow engine
can be quickly configured to support custom workflows -- Pre-tested
- Force.com provides a pre-built and tested production environment,
including database, database connectivity, application server,
security protocols, and other application infrastructure items,
such as load balancing, so developers have to make fewer technology
strategy decisions and spend less time on testing before moving to
production. The report is freely available on the salesforce.com
and Nucleus Research Web sites: -- Salesforce.com:
http://www.salesforce.com/platform/tco/ -- Nucleus Research:
http://nucleusresearch.com/ 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's real-time, multi-tenant architecture,
Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer
success with cloud computing. As of January 31, 2009,
salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately
55,400 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones
Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks.
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