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Welcome to the Business Cloud

Building and running business applications with traditional software has always been too complex, slow and expensive. A new model, called Cloud Computing, has emerged over the last decade to address this problem. Applications that run in the Cloud are delivered as a service so companies no longer have to buy and maintain hardware and software to run them. Salesforce.com pioneered this model with our CRM applications over the last decade. More recently, we've opened up our infrastructure and made it available to anyone to build any business application and run it on our servers using our platform called Force.com.

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The Force.com Platform is the fastest platform for building complex enterprise apps. What used to take months can now be done in days or weeks. Unlike a stack of separately designed and developed hardware and software products, Force Platform unifies the development and deployment model from the database to the device through a powerful yet easy-to-use programming model. Users easily assemble applications with clicks, components and code then instantly deploy them to salesforce.com's trusted global infrastructure. Force Platform is the most proven platform for building enterprise applications that run in the Cloud. It currently runs all of the Salesforce CRM apps, over 800 ISV apps like those from Thompson, Fujitsu and CODA and over 70,000 custom apps used by over 47,400 customers such as Dell, Cisco and Symantec.

Force.com - The Fastest Path to SaaS

ISVs and commercial developers everywhere are using Force.com to build core business applications, like enterprise resource planning (ERP), human resource management (HRM) and supply chain management (SCM). It?s the fastest way to go from idea to app. It?s about more innovation and less infrastructure. It?s about running your business in the Cloud.