The power of the Force…
We’ve started demoing the early product with internal and external people, and this week (5th/6th March) we’re going to be showing it to a global team of Salesforce executives in San Francisco, which is really exciting. The more we do this, the more we highlight how powerful this application is going to be, and also what benefits we’ve gained from being on the Force.com platform.
For example, in building our on-premise application release, Neon, we developed a new workflow system from scratch – and to be honest our development team did a really awesome job. But on Force.com, we just had to plug CODA 2go into the existing workflow that comes with the platform.
It’s a similar story with reporting – instead of having to build a reporting tool or data dictionaries into standard BI-type tools, they are already there with the platform. So that way we’ve saved loads of time and been able to focus more on getting the fundamental design right, and on meeting the challenges inherent with building a finance application in a SaaS world, instead of just a CRM…
March 7th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Although its interesting to note how many processes in the finance department share common requirements to CRM - there’s lots of chasing, follow-ups, reminders, attached documents, note taking and task assignments. As such to be able to take all that functionality in force.com and apply it to Finance gives us the ability to rapidly build a functionally rich application while we focus on the ‘heavy lifting’ technical accounting functions such as currency handling, cash application, tax handling, etc.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:31 am
I just want to thank Jeremy and Debbie for bringing their energy and excitement to our management offsite and showing off the incredible progress you guys are making on our platform. Just know that Coda is becoming a household name at salesforce.com HQ in San Francisco and that we believe your success is also our future with our platform. Thanks for the belief in what we are doing and working with us when you hit the occasional bump. And keep up the great work!
March 17th, 2008 at 6:38 am
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