Salesforce.com, Outsourcing, Application, Development
Salesforce.com is outsourcing application development
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This week's launch of Apex, a new on-demand development platform that runs on its own multitenant infrastructure, is a daring move by Salesforce.com to sustain its breakneck growth by outsourcing future applications development to its partner and customer ecosystem.
In the race to establish AppExchange as the operating system for the Business Web, Salesforce.com needs to extend its enterprise application footprint far faster than it can by internal development alone. Outsourcing future application innovation to outsiders may sound like an odd thing for an enterprise applications vendor to do, but of course Salesforce.com is no ordinary applications vendor. In fact, examining the detail of the Apex project demonstrates how extraordinary this company is.
Salesforce.com has set out to accelerate the expansion of the Apex ecosystem at a record-breaking pace. The stand-out moment for me was Accenture's CSO saying the packaged software model was broken.
by Phil Wainewright
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