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Information technology departments everywhere want to create custom applications. These apps should provide real value to their company, employees, and partners, and support the pace of business today. At the same time, IT must have agility and accelerate development speeds, while decreasing costs and aligning with the strategic goals of the broader organization.
Cloud application platforms, also known as Platform as a Service (PaaS), provide the infrastructure needed to build and run apps over the Internet. A new IDC white paper, sponsored by salesforce.com, focuses on the core values of PaaS, and more specifically, the advantages experienced by organizations that have built a broad portfolio of apps on the Salesforce1 Platform.
Read on for six of the benefits that point directly to why to the Salesforce1 Platform should be the choice for companies who want to innovate faster.
Customers of the Salesforce1 Platform are using the technology to build larger-scale and more sophisticated non-sales applications.
Many customers of the Salesforce1 Platform report developing applications end-to-end in weeks, instead of months, and accomplishing this with much smaller teams.
The study found that the Salesforce1 Platform customers increased their application time-to-market by 70% and upped the number of annual applications they launched by 80%.
Customers analyzed were able to reduce labor costs while growing their application environment by 44% annually.
IDC also reports that customers decreased the infrastructure costs associated with developing and deploying apps by 75-95%.
Not only did the Salesforce1 Platform pay for itself in seven months, customers surveyed said the platform delivered a combined 520% ROI.
To read more on how IT can innovate faster and save big by building their app portfolio on the Salesforce1 Platform, download the complimentary IDC white paper, sponsored by Salesforce.com, Salesforce1 Platform: Accelerate App Dev with Huge ROI.
