Software is Dead!! (or so salesforce.com would have us believe)
SalesForce have made significant improvements with the changes to their new VisualForce offering – basically, you can now develop just about any application on their platform. If it’s related to contacts and companies – even better, you can get around about 60-70% of your code already written.
Basically, it’s a hosted development, sandpit and live environment. You can mash in your existing applications at both the front and back-end – and best of all – they manage and provision the whole platform for you.
We’re trying out moving some of our Java/SQL applications across in the coming weeks to see how much code we can re-use and what the performance is like. It will be interesting to see how the reporting and dashboards can be enhanced with things like JQuery and graphical objects such as Flot.
