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Dave Turner riffed on my piece about SageLive. In doing so, he makes a valid point that shows benefits for both customers and suppliers on the on-demand world:
[We are] building CODA 2go on top of Salesforce’s Force.com platform rather than our own infrastructure. From our standpoint, using a proven, scalable platform has been a great decision. It’s cut years off our time to market and given us the freedom to focus on application development, which is what we do best. It also gets us quickly past any security concerns that users might have, by using a hosting service and infrastructure with an outstanding record over many years…
The Salesforce.com platform development approach isn’t for everyone. But as I discovered when talking to Cybersafe, an early Coda2Go customer, it delivers benefits when you are putting customers at the centre of your business.
The question for many is whether finance folk will be happy to see their transaction data held in the internet cloud or whether they will be happier having it under their control in an on premise environment. My personal take is that the difference is perceptual. If you are running your systems through an outsourced arrangement or have your data centres managed remotely then the point is moot.
However, it doesn’t remove the necessity for performing due diligence on the offering, understanding the cost implications and satisfying yourself that the vendor has a solid strategy in place should the wheels fall off. If anything, it adds a set of new questions with which you need be familiar.
Disclosure: Coda2Go is an AccMan sponsor
UPDATE: Emma Hoyle pinged me with a summary of resources put into Coda2Go.
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