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Contact UsSo Dan Galorath has noticed Force.com and started to quantify the savings he believes users can achieve with it. It looks like Marc Benioff sent the results around to all of SFDC. With good reason – Galorath estimates 30-40% lower costs when compared to Java.
Very cool. And consistent with my experience.
In an explanatory article, How Galorath Quantified the Salesforce.com Platform, there are a couple of interesting nuggets hidden all the way at the bottom:
"For applications that are consistent with the built in capabilities of the SalesForce.com Platform, there appears to be about an 80% reduction in the actual development effort. Because of the ability to create with point-and-click operations to support prototyping, the requirements and design effort is reduced with estimates ranging from 10% to 25%."
You read that right: 80% reduction in development effort. Wow.
And, since I’m a nitpicker, I’m going to pick on one thing. Galorath writes:
"APEX does not provide UI services or support external web service calls, the primary focus is to provide data oriented transactional services – more like Stored Procedures in Oracle or SQL Server."
The web services call issue is just incorrect. APEX absolutely supports those. And the UI services section — I think this is splitting hairs. APEX doesn’t, but Visualforce does.
Oh and since I’m really a nitpicker, it’s not "SalesForce.com" with a capital "F". It’s lower case. C’mon people.
Glad to see Force.com getting some good formal attention. Now if we could just get some Z notation animators for it.
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