Salesforce.comhas extended its
platform as aservice offeringwith the addition of
Force.com Development-as-a-Service - a new set of development tools
andAPIsthat help enterprise developers
harness the full potential ofcloud
computing.
In a complementary move, the company has also announced its new
Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture option, a pay per log-in
utility pricing model.
Force.com Development-as-a-Service includes the new Force.com
IDE, Force.com Metadata API, Force.com Code Share, and Force.com
Sandbox systems. These provide developers with a comprehensive set
of services to build enterprise software as a service
applications.
Force.com Platform-as-a-Service and Development-as-a-Service
provide the necessary building blocks for enterprise success in
cloud computing, the firm said.
Providing full access to the database, logic and user-interface
capabilities of the Force.com platform, Development-as-a-Service
unites the productivity of development and IT collaboration tools
with the power of Force.com Platform-as-a-Service, said
salesforce.com.
"Cloud computing is giving developers around the world access to
unlimited computing power delivered completely as a utility
service," said Marc Benioff, CEO at salesforce.com.
"Just as platform as a service provides enterprise IT with a new
model for platforms to run applications in the cloud, development
as a service provides a new model for development tools, giving
developers the power to create applications for the cloud," he
said.
"The addition of development as a service to the Force.com
platform will accelerate the transition of IT from last generation
software to a new generation of services," said Benioff.
Force.com provides the global infrastructure and services for
database, logic, workflow, integration, user interface, application
development and application exchange to support cloud computing for
the enterprise.