The Cloud: Providing Golden Opportunities
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Can you save your company millions of dollars and two years in time-to-market on your next product? If you think it’s impossible, maybe you should look to the cloud.
While reading this article on the promise of cloud computing, one of the article’s examples really stood out to me. CODA, a UK-based financial management services provider, built their latest product entirely on salesforce.com’s development platform Force.com. By building on top of a platform, they saved millions of dollars and years of development time. CODA 2go is the first enterprise accounting software built on Force.com — but with stats like this, I can almost guarantee it won’t be the last.
Because of accessibility, stability and relatively low cost, Force.com is empowering a whole set of developers who may never have had the resources to build a killer app. In the midst of all of the recession gloom and doom, I’m looking forward to seeing some Cinderella stories about developers striking gold by harnessing the power of the cloud.
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Hi – I’m from the original team at CODA that evaluated the market and opted to build CODA 2go on Force.com. The great thing about using the platform is that we could apply our 30 years of accounting expertise in creating an application, without having to reinvent the wheel – or in this case, the platform – to deliver a SaaS solution.
Because we know that salesforce is a solid, reputable company and the platform is proven and secure, we start from day one with the advantage of a ‘new’ application but on a technical infrastructure that has years of track record.
Not bad, hey?