Platform as a Service: Essential to Your Future

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sfdc_ppt_corp_template_10_20_2012.ppt Platform as a Service: Essential to Your Future Rosie Pongracz Product Marketing Director, Salesforce Platform Learn How PaaS Equips Enterprises to Innovate Faster Dana Gardner Principal Analyst, Interarbor Solutions

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This slide deck from a webinar conducted by Interarbor Solutions' Dana Gardner and Rosie Pongracz from Salesforce.com explains how platform as a service (PaaS) equips enterprises to innovate faster. The inevitability of PaaS will accelerate development activities, while reducing complexity for enterprise IT, allowing IT to focus more on innovation than operation.

Transcript of Platform as a Service: Essential to Your Future

  • 1. Platform as a Service: Essential to Your Future" Learn How PaaS Equips Enterprises to Innovate Faster" Dana Gardner! Rosie Pongracz !! Principal Analyst, Product Marketing Director, Interarbor Solutions! Salesforce Platform!sfdc_ppt_corp_template_10_20_2012.ppt
  • 2. Speed Development Up, Complexity Down! PaaS capabilities on the fast track for improvement! Gets you out of the hardware and software infrastructure business! Make better use of cloud and software as a service (SaaS)! PaaS forms key new ingredient to IT and business transformation!
  • 3. PaaS Flips IT s Focus from Operations to Innovation! Innovation" Innovation!Keeping the Business lights on Innovation Governance Governance &! & Change Management! Change Management! Infra ! Infrastructure Mgmt! Management!
  • 4. Business is demanding new apps IT isstruggling to deliver with existing platforms! Manual, Trapped" Hard to DeliverDisconnected " Data" Customer" Business Social Apps" Processes" Hard to Innovate! Types of business problems!
  • 5. How PaaS Fits in Now! Cloud s middle layer! Integration of application lifecycle functions! Maintains choice on tools and IDEs ! Best-of-breed as a process! Forces standardization and automation! Governance and security easer to implement, manage!
  • 6. PaaS: Innovation. Not Infrastructure! Cloud App Platforms" (Platform as a Service) ! Cloud Services"Business Value! Globalization! APIs! Mobile! Software Stack" Security! Database Services! Analytics! Infrastructure" App Server Services! Search! Messaging Services! Collaboration! as a Service" Directory Services! Identity! Hardware Servers! Hardware Storage! Hardware Networking! Business Services!
  • 7. Variations on PaaS! Micro-sites to Big data! Highest levels of Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, abstraction! Node.js, more ! Lower Higher Clicks + code! Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL! Abstraction Abstraction VisualForce, Apex! Git based workow! SOQL! Data model outside SFDC! Native SFDC workow! Best for new applications Data model within SFDC! & refresh of existing apps! Integrated & Extended via! Database.com! Open APIs (REST, SOAP)! Open source toolkits & libraries!
  • 8. PaaS Applications! Optimization: Agility: " Innovation: " Automate Your Build Social" Create Engaging Business" Front Ends" Customer Apps" 29%" Increase in Innovation! Increase Unlock Legacy" Create new Productivity! Data! Customer Channels!Source: Market Tools Salesforce.com Customer Relationship Survey Results May 2012
  • 9. Inhibitors to PaaS Adoption! Murky denitions! Lots of new entrants! What type of apps?! Concerns on portability and migration! Ability to govern, secure apps! Data access and privacy! Trust!
  • 10. Inevitability of PaaS! Built-in PaaS Services" Your Innovative" Infrastructure! Application! Operations! Platform! Touch! Social! App" Services! Services! Services! Services! Services! Services! Lose the infrastructure, gain speed!
  • 11. Case Study: Kelly Servicestransformed their business with PaaS Supplier Mgt App! Tracks key suppliers ! Chatter provides collaborative workspace! Deployed across 27 countries and 5 continents! Delivers real-time visibility across the company with no new infrastructure!
  • 12. Zimmer Builds iPad Digital Catalog onPaaS! iPad Digital Catalog App! Leading supplier of orthopedic devices, and surgical products needed real time, global business visibility! Provides touch based navigation to identify key surgical content ! Integrated with salesforce Content! Native iPad demo for eld use by global workforce!
  • 13. Case Study: Macy s reacts faster,stays competitive, builds in social onPaaS!
  • 14. ummary and ConclusionsSummary and Conclusions! Mobile, social apps fast! Strong tactical benets! RAD and mobile apps! On-ramp to more clouduses! Time to experiment now! Maturing offerings point tostrategic benets! Process level focus forbusinesses! Productivity and costs gains! Transformation benets!
  • 15. Salesforce Runs on the Platform! OUR Apps" YOUR custom apps" PARTNER apps" Social Mobile Real-time
  • 16. Q & A" Learn more" salesforce.com/platform" salesforce.com/paas" Salesforce platform free trial" Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst Interarbor Solutions 603-528-2435 Follow me on Twitter @Dana_Gardner [email protected]_ppt_corp_template_10_20_2012.ppt