Cloud computing applications branch out well beyond CRM. Salesforce.com customers are building more apps, and building better apps. All with less cost and less hassle, thanks to the Force.com cloud computing platform. Developers everywhere are using Force.com for business application development, creating cloud computing applications like enterprise resource planning (ERP), human resource management (HRM), and supply chain management (SCM). The Force.com cloud computing platform is the fastest way to get from idea to app. It’s about more innovation and less infrastructure. It’s about running your business in the cloud.
Most people jump to conclusions that cloud computing is same as SaaS (Software as a Service Model). However SaaS is only a part of this larger concept. Cloud Computing includes three core aspects. These are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), SaaS and Internet based development (Platform as a Service).
Most people jump to conclusions that cloud computing is same as SaaS (Software as a Service Model). However SaaS is only a part of this larger concept. Cloud Computing includes three core aspects. These are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), SaaS and Internet based development (Platform as a Service).
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Most people jump to conclusions that cloud computing is same as SaaS (Software as a Service Model). However SaaS is only a part of this larger concept. Cloud Computing includes three core aspects. These are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), SaaS and Internet based development (Platform as a Service).
Chatter : Designed to be "Facebook for the enterprise," Chatter is a real-time collaboration platform that brings together people and data in a secure, private social environment. Rather than making people search for the data and documents they need to do their job, information is proactively fed to them via a real time news stream. Users can follow coworkers and important data to receive broadcasted updates about, for example, the status of an important sale or what a coworker is working on. Additionally, users can form groups and post messages on each others' profiles to easily collaborate with one another. Chatter was released on June 22, 2010. Mobile support: In April 2009, Salesforce released a slimmed down version of their application for subscribers with Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows mobile devices.[18] In January 2010, Salesforce started to promote the use of 2D Barcodes (SPARQCode) for exporting contact information to mobile handsets
Cloud computing giants Salesforce.com and VMware have announced a joint-venture which will enable Java developers to port their enterprise applications to a public cloud. The joint venture, dubbed VMForce, will introduce a PaaS (platform as a service) hosted by Salesforce.com in which Java apps adapted for the cloud using the SpringSource Java application framework will run on a lightweight version (tc runtime) of the open source Apache Tomcat web server. These apps will have available to them all of the smarts of Salesforce's Force.com platform (search, chat, analytics, feeds, deployment on mobile devices etc.) and can further be managed using VMware's vCloud tools. The two companies claim that organisations will be able to port existing enterprise Java applications to the VMForce cloud with relative ease. Lindsey Armstrong, executive vice president of international field sales at Salesforce.com said that any app already written in Java could potentially move to Salesforce.com's cloud "without re-writing or starting anything from scratch. VMForce will be hosted in Salesforce.com data centres, which for Australian customers means a choice of having the data hosted in the United States or in two Equinix-run data centres in Singapore. The two companies expect to announce a developer preview, pricing and availability later in the year.
Panorama software has partnered with Google and Salesforce.com to provide developers with a powerful way to integrate analytics and reporting into their salesforce.com applications for free! Following the latest announcement by Salesforce.com on its native support of the Google's Visualization API, Panorama has extended its analytics solution enabling any programmer to integrate, in a few simple steps, dashboards and interactive reports with their salesforce.com application. By simply using the tools made available by Salesforce.com, including code snippets and APIs, and combining it with Panorama’s analytics solution, you can now deliver a set of applications that range from powerful executive dashboards to custom reporting applications over live Salesforce data that can then be published on any webpage.