Unleash the Power of force.com: How to Thrive in the New Digital Economy (salesforce.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.

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