what you need to know on force.com in 10 slides
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This presentation covers generalities about the platform (development, licensing, marketplace...)TRANSCRIPT
Cloud Offering Topology
IaaSPaaS
Salesforce.com = Force.com?
Source: Salesforce.com – Link
Force.com Mental Model
Business application in the cloudWrite application in less time with less codeHighly abstracted Development Framework: most common objects definitions, logics, workflows can be defined in a browserComplex or specific business cases can be handled through Force.com’s language Apex in a browserThere are no deployment, no package, no tables, no hardware, no infrastructure
Force.com is business application orientedSalesforce CRM backgroundIntegration with ERP systemsForce.com is out-of-the-box workflow-enabled (tasks, emails, field updates)It holds all application business users (as per the T&C)
Force.com Dollar Model
From end customers (i.e.: organizations installing applications on the cloud): Force.com is adopting a similar $/user/month model as for Salesforce CRM
$50 / user / month Up to 10 applications Data: 20MB/user File Storage: 600MB/user 200 database objects (~tables)
$75 / user / month Unlimited apps Data: 120MB/user File Storage: 600MB/user 2000 database objects (~tables)
On top of the above, there are limitations in bandwidth, API calls/day, page views/month
From developers: having an application listed on the marketplace has a cost, listing applications on the marketplace
Source: Salesforce.com – Link
Vmforce.com, the Java bridge to the Force.com cloudVMforce should be available in fall 2010 for developers It allows to natively run Java applications in the cloud from a standard Spring Eclipse-based IDE Unlike Azure where java runtimes need to be executed
“manually”Brings the elasticity of the cloud platform for app servers, databases and infrastructure
VMforce applications will run on SpringSource “tc” server, the Enterprise version of Apache Tomcat
Microsoft Azure is a step ahead on Force.com/VMware on Java support
The PaaS Java Integration Race
Developing on Force.com – Browser + Forms
Developing on Force.com – Force.com IDE
The Force.com markerplace
Appexchange, dedicated to Salesforce customers 29% are Sales applications (Compensation Management,
Contract Management, Quoting and Order, Forecasting…) 17% are Marketing applications 15% are Collaboration applications Trialforce, dedicated to non-Salesforce customers Force.com developers can automatically provision an
instance of their application to their potential customers who are not prior Salesforce customers (i.e.: do not own a Salesforce account)
Free for the end customerTrialforce and Appexchange are complimentaryRevenue model for developers can be $ / user /
month or ELA-based