Salesforce.com Raises the Stakes for Enterprise Cloud Computing Platforms with New Force.com Visual Process Manager
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, January 21, 2010 -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing 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, 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.
Companies 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
Quote from Saveology.com®:
Early adopters are impressed with the speed of the VPM. Barry Newman, vice president of IT, Saveology.com said: "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. "We continue to see improvements in productivity and time to market for new offerings and processes."
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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.