Pre-integrated with Salesforce CRM

“Integration ready” or already integrated?

Whilst other SaaS accounting systems can be integrated with Salesforce CRM, it will cost you more time, money and effort to achieve less than what you get with FinancialForce applications from Day One. Our solutions are not merely integrated with Salesforce CRM; they are designed, built and delivered on the same shared platform-as-a-service: Force.com. That gives you immediate, seamless, joined-up working across your accounting and CRM applications, including shared customer account details, extended process support (for example: invoicing directly from details of closed deals, without rekeying customer and purchase details) and built-in reporting tools.

The advantages of PRE-integration

Integration is a key consideration, when choosing between the growing number of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications now available. Whether you adopt a purely on-demand model or a hybrid approach mixing on-premise and on-demand applications, an important differentiator between vendors is the resulting cost, quality and flexibility of the integration between your core systems.

For FinancialForce Accounting and FinancialForce Billing – our cloud-based financial management applications – we have worked in close partnership with SaaS market leaders, salesforce.com. The result is an application that does not simply connect with the Salesforce CRM application – it has been built into the application and works as an integral part of it, with the same, familiar interface and tools.

The underlying shared “platform-as-a-service” of Force.com delivers a range of immediate benefits for users:

• Secure and dependable – highly effective access and data security, combined with excellent system reliability, upgradeability and ease of use (see http://www.salesforce.com/platform/service-delivery/ for more details)
• Out-of-the-box features – including real-time reporting and analytics tools, easy point & click customization and pre-integration with the Sales Cloud and Service Cloud applications for smarter process support.
• Automated upgrades – system enhancements are carried out for you, automatically, on our single, shared cloud platform (not each user’s machine). And upgrades preserve all your customizations and software integrations.

Save money and avoid stress – choose FinancialForce.com

In comparison with other leading SaaS accounting providers, our pre-integrated applications mean that Salesforce CRM customers gain a significant “head start” and lower setup costs by choosing us. Because the main integration is already done for you, FinancialForce applications can be up and running without the costs, delay and risks, which would be involved in implementing and deploying a separate SaaS application that then has to be integrated with Salesforce CRM from scratch.

You can also read more feature spotlights - detailing some of the many other advantages of being a FinancialForce.com customer.