Industrial Affiliates in partnership with Salesforce.com

Industrial Affiliates develops referring agents networks on large geographical markets.

 

Industrial Affiliates is now registered in Salesforce.com Cloud Computing partner program. Based on the same principles of  collaboration and transparency prmoted in the "Cloud Computing" program, Industrial Affiliates invites its economic partners to collaborate to develop an implement export clusters on large geographical markets.

 

Salesforce.com is mostly recognized in two areas: its sales automation software (CRM) and its platform Force.com.

 

Sales force automation
Sales force automation (SFA) enables salespeople to be more productive by automating manual and repetitive tasks and by providing them with better, more organized data about current and prospective customers. SFA helps companies establish a system and process for recording, tracking, and sharing information about sales opportunities, sales leads, sales forecasts, the sales process, and closed business, as well as managing sales territories. SFA also helps sales organizations manage unstructured information such as sales collateral, presentations, price lists, and video assets.

 

Industrial Affiliates interest in SFA is based on the followings :

• Conformity with governmental and economic development agencies interested to develop referring agents networks involved in trade;
• Real time analysis and reports helping to make decisions;
• Immediate deployment of the application online worldwide and off line;
• A user friendly CRM system whit hundreds of thousands of users;
• Capacity to modify and adapt the application to the needs of the customer relationship value chain;
• Software proposed as a service online (saas);
• The "Cloud Computing" approach will help Industrial Affiliates to deploy its Opportunity Management system more quickly;
• The Affiliate Marketing approach and the export cluster approach proposed by Industrial Affiliates share the same principles of the Cloud Computing: increase efficiency (increase sales, reduce costs) through the aggregation of resources coming from multiple members located in large geographical markets.

 

This partnership also increases our capacity to manage large number of stakeholders through a hub which increases business relationships between the members of the customer relationship value chain as well as to provide real time reports and analysis to governments and trade agencies.

 

Force.com
Industrial Affiliates partnership with Salesforce.com Cloud Computing (force.com) also increases its capacity to develop and distribute its Opportunity Management system.

 

Industrial Affiliates also shares the view of Salesforce.com in regard to the needs to develop trust to increase performance. As such trust networks that are open on the Internet are based on collaboration and transparency.

 

For more information about Industrial Affiliates services click on http://www.industrialaffiliates.net/

 

For more information about Salesforce.com click on  http://www.salesforce.com/company/investor/

 

NOTES
Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”)
SaaS enables businesses to subscribe to a wide variety of application services that are developed specifically for, and delivered over, the Internet on an as-needed basis with little or no implementation services required and without the need to install and manage third-party software in-house.

 

SaaS contrasts with the traditional enterprise software model, which requires each customer to install, configure, manage and maintain the hardware, software and network services to implement a software application in-house. Moreover, traditional enterprise software vendors must maintain support for numerous legacy versions of their software and compatibility with a wide array of hardware devices and operating environments. As a result, they either have to dedicate fewer resources to innovation, or incur higher research and development expenses as a percentage of revenue compared with on-demand application service providers.

 

Salesforce.com believes the market should not discriminate between small and large companies, and businesses of all sizes and across all industries should be able to use the same software based on a multi-tenant architecture. This architecture enables Salesforce.com to leverage a common infrastructure and software code base across all customers who benefit from access to the most current release of the application, automated upgrades, more rapid innovation and the economies of a shared infrastructure.

 

Salesforce.com believes the shift to SaaS applications provides significant benefits even beyond those associated with multi-tenant infrastructure. Businesses are able to realize many of the benefits offered by traditional enterprise software vendors, such as a comprehensive set of features and functionality and the ability to customize and integrate with other applications, while at the same time reducing the risks and lowering the total costs of owning enterprise software. As a result, Salesforce.com believes the continued emergence of SaaS applications is bringing about a fundamental transformation in the enterprise software industry as businesses will be able to replace their purchased software with subscriptions to a wide range of application services.

 

Cloud Computing
Cloud computing refers to the use of Internet (“cloud”) based computing, storage and connectivity technology for a variety of different services. The pervasiveness of the Internet, along with the dramatic decline in the pricing of the technology components has enabled this new generation of computing, in which dynamically scalable and often virtual resources are provided as a service to both enterprises and consumers. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure “in the cloud” that supports them. In the context of enterprise business applications, cloud computing fundamentally changes the way business applications are developed and deployed. Application developers no longer need to create and manage their own infrastructure of servers, storage, network devices, operating system software and development tools in order to create a business application. Instead, the entire infrastructure is managed in the cloud, and developers simply use an Internet browser to access the development environment. Application users are able to gain access to a variety of business applications via an Internet browser or mobile device, and are able to take advantage of a robust, secure, scalable and highly available application at a relatively low cost, without the cost and complexity of managing the application.

 

Enterprise cloud computing, which refers to business applications that are developed using the cloud and a technology platform that customers and developers use to build and run business applications, includes both application Software-as-a-Service for users and Platform-as-a-Service for developers

 

It powers nearly 60,000 businesses running more than 100,000 applications that 1.5+ million users count on every day. http://www.salesforce.com/platform/cloud-infrastructure/  

 

The AppExchange is the complete marketplace for cloud computing with 1000+ apps and services that extend use of Salesforce CRM and the Force.com platform http://sites.force.com/appexchange/apex/home