Apprivo Custom Development

The Power of the Platform

Where your business is concerned, one size does not fit all. You deal with a variety of business processes and a wide range of partners, customers, and other third party relationships; it would be nearly impossible to productize every conceivable feature you need.

No one understands this better than salesforce.com. By design, their Force.com Platform-as-a-Service allows custom applications to be rapidly prototyped and developed at a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional development platforms. It’s a primary reason Apprivo selected salesforce.com as our product and platform partner of choice.

Force.com Benefits

A recent IDC study, which you can read in full here, found that participants experienced five key benefits when building custom enterprise applications on the Force.com platform, compared to traditional in-house development.

• Faster. Custom applications were developed and deployed in 76% less time and required 76% – 85% fewer developer hours.
• Lower cost. Companies were able to reduce their three-year TCO by 54%, saving $560,000 per application.
• Higher quality. Users of the custom applications built on the Force.com platform reduced annual downtime by 97% and spent 60% less time dealing with the service desk.
• Better performance. The combination of the first three benefits contributed to better business performance and generated an additional $3.9 million in annual revenue for each firm.

Build versus Buy

Using Force.com to build your custom applications is definitely better than trying to build using traditional in-house development platforms. But Salesforce frequently releases new features and platform enhancements. So there may be times when it’s better to wait for a release than to build a custom application. Apprivo works closely with salesforce.com, so we can help you decide when it makes sense to build versus buy.