How Galorath Quantified the Salesforce.com Platform With SEER For Software (SEER-SEM)
The following summarizes the report prepared by Galorath’s Dr. Tarbet on the process of building specific Knowledge Bases and validation of SEER for Software (SEER-SEM) for the Salesforce.com platform (Force.com). Force.com enables you to deliver enterprise-class Web applications on demand—without the cost of deploying infrastructure, supporting the software-as-a-service paradigm (SaaS). This was customer funded (by a potential user of salesforce.com).
Galorath established a technical interface with internal Salesforce experts, consultants with extensive experience developing software in the Salesforce.com Platform, and with current users of the on-demand SaaS capabilities provided by the platform. From the technical discussions, preliminary analyses of expected effort impacts on the software development effort for an IT project were derived. A Salesforce.com Platform Knowledge Base and a language definition for the APEX language has been developed for SEER-SEM from the technical inputs.
Bottom Line 30% to 40% Savings: The model indicates that effort can be expected to be reduced from 30% to 40% over developing the same project in JAVA for projects that are aligned to the Customer Relations Management model, which serves as the basis for the Salesforce.com Platform. Read more
The Cost of Cloud in the Sky Computing Part 1
Looking at ways to increase IT infrastructure without worrying about power, heat, space and other constraints…. Cloud in the sky computing (or cloud computing) may be an upcoming solution. Cloud in the sky essentially is buying
Amazon Web Services is an example. Costs, as I understand them are about $0.10 per hour of usage plus storage costs at $.15 per gig per month for a clone of an HP Tower server. If an application is hosted and not used there is no cost. Not bad. I suppose we could add to the advantages that they back up the whole system without you worrying about it. On the other hand, your data is out of your control.
Galorath recently did a study of the costs / benefits of force.com, Salesforce’s environment with some similarities to Amazon. I need to find out if our results are publishable. But I can tell you we found force. com to be attractive in the appropriate environment.
We will use SEER for IT to do a general analysis of cloud versus local computers soon.
