10 Reasons Why Force.com is the Ideal Remedy for Lean Times
Force.com offers a radical new approach to building software solutions. It provides an ideal option for companies looking for a fresh way to cut costs and improve their organizations in a cost-effective manner.
With Force.com, you can:
1. Build powerful applications for free. Force provides you with an incredibly wide set of tools for free. You can build your applications without spending a penny, and you automatically inherit functionality like Google and Facebook integration as part of the platform.
2. Deploy applications in no time and with little money. There is no hardware to procure, software to install and keep updated, or backup to plan for. There is only a simple per user monthly fee that can be paid for with a credit card – and stopped at any time. And once a user has a Force license, you can build them as many applications as they need without incurring any additional cost.
3. Get to market faster. Using the Force development and deployment platform offers the fastest way get an application delivered because of the plethora of capability that comes out-of-the-box. In addition, it allows many applications to be built and deployed by a single person, instead of having to spread functionality across many different “experts” (database administrators, system administrators, technical architects, etc.).
4. Experiment with new solutions. Force makes it quick and easy to build an application and try it out without having to worry about deployment costs. If it doesn’t work out, shut it down. It costs nothing more than the time it took to develop the application.
5. Add workflow capability easily. Making business processes more efficient is critical to cutting costs and improving customer service. Automating workflow is one way to do this. Workflow capability is built into the platform, and adding workflow to an application is simple and effective – without any additional costs.
6. Build situational applications. Force is the ideal tool for building situational applications – small applications that are built for a very specific set of users with a very specific situation to be addressed. Situational applications can be built quickly in Force and they can easily be scaled to handle more users, more data and more functionality.
7. Let users build their own applications. Force provides a set of easy to use point-and-click tools that allow end users to develop their own database applications, much as they develop their own Excel solutions. With Force, IT can make enterprise data available to users in a secure and controlled manner, thereby increasing the value of the solutions that can be built by the users on their own.
8. Revisit applications that were previously too difficult to justify. Applications that were seen as too difficult to write, too costly to implement, or too brittle to customize and maintain once deployed can now be re-evaluated in the light of the advantages offered by Force.
9. Embrace change. Change is the enemy of traditional applications. Requirements are frozen in time, and are only changed with great reluctance, because change creates a cascading affect across the various roles involved in the process. Force makes changing applications much more efficient.
10. Use the same platform for all application levels. Force can be used for enterprise-level applications, departmental applications, workgroup applications, and individual applications. This is a huge advantage – applications and components can be easily shared, training and support can be streamlined, and the same monthly user fee can be spread across many different types of applications.