Salesforce.com Raises the Stakes for Enterprise Cloud Computing Platforms With New Force.com Visual Process Manager
2010年2月3日 - 10:30PM
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Force.com now the first cloud computing platform that enables
companies to design and deploy business processes inside their
apps, without software Powerful new platform service extends
Force.com's 'five times faster' advantage over .NET and other
software platforms Liberates corporate IT to focus on innovation,
not infrastructure, with point-and-click process design versus
low-level coding SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing
(http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/) company, today
announced the availability of Force.com Visual Process Manager, a
new capability of the Force.com platform that will help companies
rapidly automate any business process. With the Force.com Visual
Process Manager (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/process),
customers can, for the first time, visually design any complex
business process with an intuitive, visual design tool, and
instantly run it in the cloud. (Logo:
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in a wide variety of industries, including telecommunications,
financial services, and manufacturing are looking for faster,
easier and less complicated ways to automate their important
business processes that connect their customers, employees, and
operations. With Force.com Visual Process Manager, organizations
can now build business process applications with greater
flexibility and automate processes across all departments. Examples
include: -- Sales: Call scripting and sales methodology automation
-- Service: Customer issue resolution and product returns --
Finance: Billing and collections -- HR: Employee onboarding and
performance management -- Legal: Contract management and
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance -- Operations: Surveys and supplier
management Prior to the Force.com Visual Process Manager, companies
had to buy expensive on-premise software, hardware and
infrastructure to automate processes. Furthermore, they could not
innovate on these processes once they were deployed because the
complexity of the software made changes cost-prohibitive. Force.com
Visual Process Manager: Rapidly Automate Business Processes in the
Cloud The Force.com Visual Process Manager combines the elegance of
visual process design with the simplicity, low cost, and quick
results of the Force.com cloud computing platform - empowering
customers to continuously refine and enhance processes to improve
operational efficiency or fulfill regulatory compliance. Since it's
part of the Force.com platform, businesses can create dynamic and
sophisticated business processes within their current Sales Cloud 2
and Service Cloud 2 deployments or custom Force.com applications.
Force.com Visual Process Manager helps companies automate specific
business processes by guiding users through multiple steps and
recommending the next course of action, all without any coding.
Features of the Force.com Visual Process Manager include: --
Process Designer - The Process Designer enables companies to easily
design business processes via an intuitive user interface. It
includes a library of process components such as presentation
components like forms, questions, and choices, and logic
components, like task assignments, decision trees, and approval
processes. These components can be added to a visual process design
diagram through simple drag-and-drop actions. -- Process Wizard
Builder - The Process Wizard Builder enables companies to easily
design wizards that walk end-users, step-by-step, through their
business process. -- Process Simulator - With Process Simulator,
customers can optimize the process design by simulating complex
processes before they are deployed. For the first time, companies
can now test the process flow entirely in the cloud, identify
bottlenecks and conflicts, and immediately revise by reviewing each
phase of a process. -- Real-time Process Engine - The real-time
process engine runs all of a company's sophisticated processes and
automatically scales to meet the needs of any size business. Based
on the engine, complex processes can be carried out while enforcing
business rules and adhering to best practices. The Force.com Visual
Process Manager is based on technology acquired from Informavores.
Salesforce.com acquired Informavores in 2009. Terms were not
disclosed. Comments on the News -- "The new Force.com Visual
Process Manager is another example of why Force.com has become the
cloud computing platform of choice in the enterprise," said George
Hu, executive vice president, marketing and alliances,
salesforce.com. "By eliminating the cost and complexity of legacy
on-premise platforms like .NET, Websphere, and Lotus Notes,
Force.com's multitenant approach helps enterprises build apps five
times faster and at half the cost." -- "The use of Force.com Visual
Process Manager furthers Saveology.com's goal of consolidating our
technology architecture and moving more of our business processes
into the cloud leveraging the Force.com platform," said Barry
Newman, vice president of IT, Saveology.com. "We continue to see
improvements in productivity and time to market for new offerings
and processes." -- "Building and managing business processes with
on-premise software has been needlessly complex and costly,
requiring too much custom code and expensive infrastructure," said
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies and founder
of the SaaS Showplace. "Force.com Visual Process Manager offers an
easy-to-use process design tool that organizations can use on a
pay-as-you-go basis to more quickly and cost-effectively build and
manage business processes via the cloud." Force.com - The
Industry's Leading Enterprise Cloud Computing Platform -- Force.com
is salesforce.com's enterprise cloud computing platform
(http://www.salesforce.com/platform/cloud-platform/). -- Force.com
provides everything companies need to quickly build and deliver
business applications in the cloud, including a cloud database,
powerful analytics, real-time workflow and approvals, programmable
cloud logic, integration, mobile deployment, programmable user
interface and Web site capabilities. -- Customers and partners have
built more than 135,000 custom applications on Force.com to run
their businesses, including, supply chain management, compliance
tracking, brand management, accounts receivable, claims processing,
time-off applications and much more. -- Force.com enables companies
to build and deliver applications five times faster and at about
half the cost of traditional client/server software platforms.
Pricing and Availability -- Force.com Visual Process Manager is now
generally available to existing Enterprise and Unlimited Edition
subscribers for $50 per user per month -- For more information,
please visit http://www.salesforce.com/platform/process About
salesforce.com Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing
company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications,
available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has
revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate
with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The
company's Force.com platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/)
helps customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful
business applications to run every part of the enterprise in the
cloud. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant
architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path
to customer success with cloud computing. As of October 31, 2009,
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