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Salesforce.com’s Development-as-a-Service Has the Web Talking

January 21, 2008

Salesforce.com’s announcement of their new Force.com Development-as-a-Service last week, has prompted coverage and opinions from several main stream tech sites over the weekend.

Visit this link, for an in person account of the official Development-as-a-Service announcement written by Salesforce Times contributor, Jason Stewart of Demandbase.

Weekend DaaS Coverage:

“Salesforce.com has extended its platform as a service offering with the addition of Force.com Development-as-a-Service – a new set of development tools and APIs that help enterprise developers harness the full potential of cloud computing. In a complementary move, the company has also announced its new Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture option, a pay per log-in utility pricing model.”

See the full article on Computer Weekly.

“More than 50,000 custom applications have been developed with Force.com, such as accounts receivable, bug enhancement tracking, employee compliance and training, emergency room staffing, expense reporting, food ingredient management, recruiting and time management.

The new utility pricing model is flexible. Users in the accounts payable department, for example, may use expense reporting applications on a daily basis. Thus, they would be more likely to pay for unlimited access. Sales or marketing people, on the other hand, may need to access an expense reporting application just once per month on a per-login basis.”

More on DaaS from CRM Buyer

“Cloud computing is giving developers around the world access to unlimited computing power delivered completely as a utility service,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “Just as Platform-as-a-Service provides enterprise IT with a new model for platforms to run applications in the cloud, Development-as-a-Service provides a new model for development tools, giving developers the power to create applications for the cloud. The addition of Development-as-a-Service to the Force.com Platform will accelerate the transition of IT from last generation software to a new generation of services.”

Here more from Marc Benioff via the official release on CNN Money.

“Benioff illustrated how Salesforce’s new development service will be able to reach out to other Internet resources, as well as Salesforce’s existing database, user interface, and security services. Narinder Singh, founder of Apperio, showed how he built a cinema sound management system that tapped intoGoogle (NSDQ: GOOG)’s Chart API. It delivered a chart as needed to illustrate the functioning of an individual theatre’s sound system.”

Continue reading via Information Week.

Written by Adam Killam · Filed Under Salesforce.com News 

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