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Symphony Services to Help Independent Software Vendors Build Applications on Salesforce.com's Force.com Platform
PALO ALTO, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- 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/ or www.symphonyservices.com for more information, e-mail us at info@symphonysv.com 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 info@symphonysv.com or call Heather Dalloul, director, business development at 1.650.935.9534.
Copyright (C) 2008 Symphony Service Corp. All Rights Reserved. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.
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