Going 5x Faster in App Development

The compelling financial argument for moving to world-class cloud computing ecosystems and adopting the Force.com cloud computing foundation is based upon:

The way that you can achieve up to 5x savings in creating new data-driven social apps is simply by leveraging the Clicks + Code features of this cloud platform. In practice, this means that typically 80%+ of the work required is enabled by mouse Clicks and the analysts - leaving just 20% to Code and the software developers.

Clicks + Code means significantly less time, less software developers and with this, an ability to focus more on investing in business analysts and designers to create a compelling and intuitive app. The difference is often results in days and weeks, versus months and years, to create a new app: a truly compelling Return on Investment (ROI) for any IT operation.

The economics of Clicks + Code result in a major shift in core competencies required in the cloud. Investing more in business analysts and designers, with less software developers required. changes the face of cloud ventures and IT organisations in a significant way. Analysts, who understand the business and designers, who focus on user experience, become better able to interpret business needs versus traditional business-IT interfaces.

Thanks to the underlying pre-built business logic of Force.com, IT organisations do not have to 're-invent wheels' to create the common code that defines most data-driven apps. From this inherent advantage, analysts, designers and software developers can focus on what matters - solving business problems - not building IT infrastructure.

Clicks + Code with Force.com helps IT organisations to spend more time innovating and less time 'keeping the lights on'. The Force.com PaaS enables significant and measurable time and cost savings in app design and development: going 5x faster at a minimum.