Unleash the Power of Force.com

A new Gartner report says that by 2014, citizen developers will build at least 25% of new business applications. A citizen developer is defined as an end user who creates business applications for consumption by others using corporate-IT-sanctioned development and runtime environments. This has profound implications for the future of IT in your organization. For citizen developers to succeed, they will need a new set of tools, as well as a new approach to application development and delivery. There will also be a critical new role to be played by IT in supporting citizen developers and bringing them out of the shadows. Unleash the Power of force.com addresses this new wave of IT - what it is, what it means, and how your organization can take advantage of it. This book describes: the burgeoning digital economy and how it is driving the need for citizen developers; the foundation and building blocks for a consistent enabling platform to support citizen developers; an implementation plan for a smooth transition to citizen application development; and a comprehensive description of force.com as a ready-to-go, complete citizen developer enabling platform. This book will give you a comprehensive understanding of the enormous challenges that IT faces today, and what can be done about them by leveraging the power of force.com. Early Reviews If times like these have you considering new and better ways to build and deploy systems your company needs then I recommend you read Unleash the Power of Force.com. This book is clear, concise and to the point. You will get ideas you can act on today. Developing applications is no longer a once every few years event; applications are so intertwined with business operations that development is happening all the time. Unleash the Power of Force.com shows you how to combine the advantages of a powerful cloud based development platform with an agile systems development approach. - Michael Hugos, author of Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World and Essentials of Supply Chain Management. The big question that this book addresses is not what is the role of the IT department in an enterprise, but what role technology should be playing in an enterprise to change its business model and competitive positioning in our new world of ubiquitous technology in the hands of customers, employees, suppliers, and partners. All business and IT staff need to read the answers that Jonathan provides in Unleash the Power of Force.com. - Andy Mulholland, Capgemini Global Chief Technology Officer, co-author of Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual The fundamental way cloud computing will change the business world centers on the emergence of situational applications, not replacing core enterprise applications. To find out the what, why and how of situational applications read this book, especially if you are a non-techie business person. You'll learn that situational applications aren't primarily about technology, they are about gaining extreme competitive advantage. - Peter Fingar, internationally recognized expert on business strategy, globalization and business process management, and author of Dot.Com: The 21st Century Business Platorm and Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation. Visit http://unleashforce.com for ongoing book updates.