Symphony Services to Help Independent Software Vendors Build Applications on Salesforce.com’s Force.com Platform
2008-07-15 13:42:00
Symphony’s Product Development Focus,
Engineering Expertise and Successful History Building
Software-as-a-Service Solutions for ISVs will address market demand
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(EMWNews)–Symphony Services, the leader in global
product engineering services, today announced a new initiative to
help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) leverage Salesforce.com’s
award-winning Force.com
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to build the next generation of Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) solutions for enterprise customers around the world.
Force.com, the world’s first PaaS for business
applications, is an integrated set of tools and application services
that ISVs use to build enterprise applications and run them on the same
infrastructure that delivers the salesforce.com applications. A natural
extension of the significant market momentum of PaaS in recent years,
Force.com is the only complete technology stack that includes a scalable
database, a workflow engine and user interface design tools. All
applications running on Force.com get built-in reporting and analytics,
support for multiple languages and currencies, and can be integrated
with on-premises applications and Web 2.0 services such as Google Apps.
As a salesforce.com consulting partner, Symphony will leverage its award-winning
software engineering capabilities and deep SaaS expertise to ensure
ISVs can maximize the power of the Force.com PaaS to create critical
business applications with the functionality, integration,
point-and-click integration and scalability that has distinguished
salesforce.com as a technology and market leader.
“Salesforce.com is one of the driving forces
behind the SaaS movement and their Force.com platform offers a
compelling vision for the future of software development for ISVs
looking to create On Demand solutions. Becoming one of the first
Salesforce.com consulting partners focused specifically on Force.com
enablement marks an important milestone in our long and successful track
record of creating SaaS solutions for independent software vendors,”
said Glenn Gruber, associate vice president, strategic marketing,
Symphony Services. “The combination of
salesforce.com’s market-leading SaaS solutions
and our unparalleled product engineering expertise brings tremendous
value to ISVs.”
The SaaS market, which many industry analysts predict will grow to $20
billion by 2011 is rapidly changing the technology landscape as ISVs
move from a traditional license based model to an on-demand one. Moving
to a SaaS model, however, changes almost every aspect of the business,
from pricing, delivery, sales structure and channels and the development
of appropriate Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Symphony has been
following the SaaS market since its inception and has helped many
enterprise software firms adopt a SaaS delivery model and extend their
products through a combination of consulting, development and
operational services.
“We chose Symphony Services because of their
specific focus on software product development and their exceptional
record of working with ISVs to develop market leading products. Building
products requires a different set of skills than you find in most system
integration firms. Symphony delivers unrivaled software development
skill, SaaS expertise and bandwidth that ISVs need to create the highest
performing solutions that their customers demand,”
said Polly Sumner, President, Platform, Alliances and Services,
salesforce.com. “We look forward to working
closely with Symphony to ensure ISVs can quickly translate their
business goals into deployed Force.com applications in record time.”
ISVs that are interested in building applications on Force.com can visit http://www.force.com/
for more information, e-mail us at [email protected]
or call Heather Dalloul, director, business development at
1.650.935.9534.
About Force.com
Force.com, (http://www.force.com) the
world’s first PaaS for business applications,
is an integrated set of tools and application services that ISVs use to
build enterprise applications and run them on the same infrastructure
that delivers the Salesforce applications. Force.com delivers a complete
technology stack that includes a scalable database, a workflow engine,
and user interface design tools. All applications running on Force.com
get built-in reporting and analytics, support for multiple languages and
currencies, and can be integrated with on-premises applications and Web
2.0 services such as Google Apps. Force.com allows applications to be
easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via the
Force.com AppExchange marketplace, (http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/)
enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to be easily
distributed to the entire on-demand community.
About Symphony Services
Symphony Services is a global
provider of product engineering outsourcing services dedicated to
helping clients compress time to market, achieve higher innovation
yields and improve productivity to increase the value from their R&D
investments. From strategic and operational consulting guidance to
complete product lifecycle capabilities, the company is distinguished by
a singular focus on product development and collaborative, end-to-end
solutions. Symphony brings domain expertise and deep commercial-grade
software and embedded real-time systems capabilities to its partnerships
with software vendors, software-enabled businesses and companies whose
products contain embedded software. Symphony Services is headquartered
in Palo Alto, Calif., with offices in North America, India, Europe and
China. For more information, please visit www.symphonysv.com,
e-mail us at [email protected]
or call Heather Dalloul, director, business development at
1.650.935.9534.
Copyright © 2008 Symphony Service Corp.
All Rights Reserved. All other brand names, product names, or
trademarks belong to their respective holders.
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