Salesforce.com is a Software Company that provides customizable business software on a subscription basis. They provide Software as a Service (SaaS) in the cloud platform. With this, businesses can eliminate all the complications surrounding hardware, software and all related IT resources. Businesses subscribe and pay for the service they need and Salesforce.com takes care of managing hardware and software. In other words, it is an Internet based service. You sign up and access your software through a browser. Nothing to install, no hardware to buy. But it is a shared platform with each business having their own "space" in the cloud.
Salesforce business suites provided by the company, Salesforce.com, is a customer relationship management (CRM) tool providing the Sales, Service and Marketing applications. These are pre-built applications with all the pre-built data model, business logic and user interface. However, the application running in your space is yours. You can customize and enhance to meet your specific business needs.
And now to our second question - what is Force.com?
We just read that the Salesforce CRM applications can be customized. The platform that allows you to customize the predefined functionalities of these applications is called Force.com. Force.com is the underlying platform that includes the data model, business logic and user interface using which your Salesforce application is built. By this development platform, you have access to all these pieces of your application.
However, Force.com platform is not for just customizing Salesforce.com pre-built applications. This platform allows developers to create any kind of business applications and host it on Salesforce cloud platform as a service. You can design your own data model, apply business logic, create user interface, generate reports and queries based of your data, all using the Force.com platform.
Force.com development platform itself a cloud computing platform. You will access it using the browser via Internet for all your development needs. Salesforce.com provides a free Developer Edition account. It is a fully functional version of Force.com. You can obtain yours at http://developer.force.com.
We will be looking at the Force.com platform in much more detail in the future articles.
Happy cloud computing using Salesforce!
Salesforce business suites provided by the company, Salesforce.com, is a customer relationship management (CRM) tool providing the Sales, Service and Marketing applications. These are pre-built applications with all the pre-built data model, business logic and user interface. However, the application running in your space is yours. You can customize and enhance to meet your specific business needs.
And now to our second question - what is Force.com?
We just read that the Salesforce CRM applications can be customized. The platform that allows you to customize the predefined functionalities of these applications is called Force.com. Force.com is the underlying platform that includes the data model, business logic and user interface using which your Salesforce application is built. By this development platform, you have access to all these pieces of your application.
However, Force.com platform is not for just customizing Salesforce.com pre-built applications. This platform allows developers to create any kind of business applications and host it on Salesforce cloud platform as a service. You can design your own data model, apply business logic, create user interface, generate reports and queries based of your data, all using the Force.com platform.
Force.com development platform itself a cloud computing platform. You will access it using the browser via Internet for all your development needs. Salesforce.com provides a free Developer Edition account. It is a fully functional version of Force.com. You can obtain yours at http://developer.force.com.
We will be looking at the Force.com platform in much more detail in the future articles.
Happy cloud computing using Salesforce!
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