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Coding the Clouds: Building Enterprise Apps Using Force and Other Cloud Services

Learn about the benefits and strategies of building enterprise applications using cloud services like Force.com. This book covers topics such as multi-application development, platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure services, and more.

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Coding the Clouds: Building Enterprise Apps Using Force and Other Cloud Services

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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 Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on July 31, 2007 and in other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These documents are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

  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 Application Idea Operations Services Infrastructure Services Application Services Authentication Availability Monitoring Patch Mgmt Upgrades Backup NOC Network Storage Operating System Database App Server Web Server Data Center Disaster Recovery Security Sharing Integration Customization Web Services API Multi-Language 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 Services Application Services Operations Services Build Your Apps!

  6. Definition of Platform as a Service

  7. Global Infrastructure as a Service 150M+Transactions Daily Average Speed 210ms ~37%Global Deployments $100s Millions Investment 2 Fully Mirrored Data Centers Scalable Architecture Disaster Recovery Globally Distributed Data Centers

  8. Multi-Tenant Global Scalable Architecture Scalable “Pod” Architecture NA1 NA2 NA3 EMEA AP “n” Pod Servers Pod Architecture Database cluster App servers Fully mirrored in DR facility Add new pods for scalability API Search APP Multi-tenant clusters Database Clusters

  9. The Most Trusted & Secure Infrastructure Transparency Security SAS 70 Type II SysTrust Certified Network and Physical Security IP Restricted Access Option Flexible Single Sign-On Options Identity Confirmation

  10. Your Database on Our Service 8,700,000+Schema Edits 160,000SQL Statements per Sec Scales from 1-XXX,000+ users Create any table Add any field Build any relationship Security & sharing built-in Automatic audit history tracking Automatic tuning Automatic backups Automatic upgrades

  11. Your Integrations on Our Service:Designed to Integrate with Any IT Architecture Web Services API Packaged SAP & Oracle Integrations Breakthrough SOA On Demand Back-end and Desktop Integration Over 40 Integration Partners on AppExchange 1.75 Billion API calls per month 28+ Billion Total API calls All Integrations Are Upgraded With Zero Customer Effort

  12. C A B D Your Workflow on Our Service Declarative Programmatic Approvals Intelligent Time-Based Formulas Outbound Messaging 97,000+ workflow rules 7 Million+ automated tasks

  13. 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)

  14. Your Code on Our Service First Multi-Tenant Programming Language Programmatic Business Logic Stored Procedures Data Validation Complex Transactional Logic 1.5 Million Apex System Requests per Day 1.6 Million Lines of Apex Code

  15. Your Code on Our Service 2M Lines of Code Apex Code 1.8M Apex requests per day Characteristics Integer NUM = 10; Account[] accs; // Clean up old data accs = [select id from account where name like 'test%']; delete accs; commit; accs = new • Schema-aware • Governed • Secured • Java-like syntax • Strongly typed • Transactional Your Code • Powerful Capabilities • Database Triggers • Web Services • Transactional logic • First Multi-Tenant Programming Language Metadata Multi-Tenant Virtual Machine Our Infrastructure

  16. 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

  17. Create Any Application and Any Interface Any Design Any Interaction Any Device

  18. How Does it Work? Use the intelligence of Apex to build any interface logic Run your user interface code on our service Our Pages Your Code Leverage our library of standard interface components Page Form Text Style Image PanelMessage

  19. Mash-Ups: Integrating the User Experience • Build Business Mash-ups, exposing back office data like • Order History • Pending Invoices • Payment History • Credit Limit/Exposure • etc. along with data in your force.com database • SOAP or REST or RSS Account, Opportunity data Order Management data

  20. Demo – Using the Platform Layers • Recruiting Application • Track Jobs and Applicants • Workflow – alerts, confirmations • Business Logic – no duplicates please • UI – intranet style job page • Mashup – schedule interviews and share on google calendar

  21. Getting Started Is Easy! Visit developer.force.com Get Free Developer Edition Begin Building Apps

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