Force.com As Your Key to the Cloud Kingdom

“Before you start questioning whether the application can be developed in Force.com you need to figure out if you will survive a move to the Cloud. The worst thing you can do is to spend a year’s worth of time and money and then dump the entire effort.”

Navatar Co-founder Alok Misra and Nimbus CEO Ian Gotts take you inside the world of salesforce.com. Whether you are a CEO or CTO, this is the only comprehensive and unbiased guide you will need to figure out whether Force.com is the right fit as well as what’s needed to be commercially successful.

In this book, the industry veterans help ISVs and Enterprise IT CIOs answer the many burning questions around if, how, and when to move their business to the Cloud and whether they should consider the Force.com as their platform to enable that transition.

The book also includes a foreword by Parker Harris, co-founder of salesforce.com and widely known as the “creator” of the Force.com platform.

Foreword

“…This book is your key to unlocking success in the cloud. Nothing is left unexamined: Misra and Gotts explore the issues from both business and technical perspectives, but focus on the one intent that matters most: commercial success on Force.com…”

Reviews

“It’s interesting that over the past 50 years, the software industry has not only gone through business cycles but also business model cycles. And even more interesting is that the critical issues in successful business models keep being forgotten, or assumed are being solved in the next newest iteration. What Gotts and Misra have done in their thinking here is to frame the problem well and clearly. Then by using the Q&A approach, they provide not only a great check list, but also a bite-sized chunks process to allow the reader to think about and understand the key issues at a engaged and detailed level. I’d recommend the book to any ISV or enterprise CIO thinking about what they might or could do in the cloud space.”

“Thinking about building an app on Force.com? Well don’t, at least not until you have read Alok and Ian’s book. They’ll guide you through the decisions you need to make to ensure you build a successful app, but more importantly lead you through the commercial questions you must address in order to make sure you can successfully monetize your development investment. Alok and Ian are well respected in the Force.com community and this book is a great place to start your journey with the Force.com platform.”