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1. Coding the Clouds: Building
Enterprise Apps Using Force.com
and Other Cloud Services
Dave Carroll
Principal Developer Evangelist
September 2008
2. Safe Harbor
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3. Our Strategy: The World’s First Multi-Application,
Multi-Category SaaS Company
4. Why PaaS? -- What if all your resources could be
focused on only what’s unique about your apps?
Delivered
Idea Infrastructure
Services
Application
Services
Operations
Services Application
Network Security Authentication
Storage Sharing Availability
Operating System Integration Monitoring
Database Customization Patch Mgmt
App Server Web Services Upgrades
Web Server API Backup
Data Center Multi-Language NOC
Disaster Recovery Multi-Currency
Workflow
Analytics
Multi-Device
Messaging
Search
5. PaaS lets developers focus on what their apps do,
rather than the software and infrastructure to run them
Force.com You
Infrastructure Application Operations
Build Your
Services Services Services
Apps!
7. Global Infrastructure as a Service
150M+Transactions Daily $100s Millions Investment
2 Fully Mirrored Data Centers
Average Speed 210ms
Scalable Architecture
~37%Global Deployments Disaster Recovery
Globally Distributed Data Centers
8. Your Database on Our Service
8,700,000+ Create any table
Schema Edits
Add any field
160,000 Build any relationship
SQL Statements per Sec Security & sharing built-in
Scales from Automatic audit history tracking
1-XXX,000+ users Automatic tuning
Automatic backups
Automatic upgrades
9. Your Integrations on Our Service:
Designed to Integrate with Any IT Architecture
Web Services API
1.75 Billion Packaged SAP & Oracle
Integrations
API calls per month
Breakthrough SOA On Demand
28+ Billion Back-end and Desktop Integration
Total API calls
Over 40 Integration Partners on
AppExchange
All Integrations Are Upgraded With Zero Customer Effort
10. Your Workflow on Our Service
Declarative
97,000+ A B D Programmatic
workflow rules Approvals
Intelligent
7 Million+ Time-Based
automated tasks C
Formulas
Outbound Messaging
11. Your Logic on Our Service
Declarative Logic (point and click)
Audit History Tracking
Assignment Rules
Escalation Rules
Workflows Rules
Approval Processes
Formula-Based Logic (similar to excel)
Formula Fields
Data Validation Rules
Procedural Logic (code)
Apex Triggers (logic before or after a save,
update or delete)
Apex Classes
Apex Web Services (logic that can be called by
an external system)
12. Your Code on Our Service
2M
Apex Code Lines of Code
Integer NUM = 10;
Characteristics 1.8M
Account[] accs;
Apex requests per day
Your Code
// Clean up old Java-like syntax Schema-aware
data
accs = [select id
from account where Strongly typed Governed
name like 'test%'];
delete accs;
Powerful Capabilities
commit; Transactional Secured
accs = new
Database Triggers
Metadata
Web Services
Infrastructure
Transactional logic
Multi-Tenant Virtual Machine Our
First Multi-Tenant
Programming
Language
13. Create Any Application and Any Interface
10,500+ Custom
Interfaces Created Any User Interface
Any Application
Any Device
Visualforce opens up a new world of possibility for user interface design.
It helps us build compelling user interfaces packed with powerful business logic.
-Tim Tribe, Head of Product Management
