1 SaaS in the Obama Economy Opportunity Challenge Necessity Peter Coffee Director, Platform Research salesforce.com CE O Needs Operational Governable Affordable CIO M andates Productive Reliable Secure Platform as a Servic e …while on-premise IT offerings followed familiar trajectories 2001 2009 Business imperatives kept moving in new directions… • Governance requirements • Threat environment • Competitive challenges Not just another year of “Do more with less”… Most of the time, CIOs’ actual mandate has been to “do a lot more with just a little more…” …but not last year
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SaaS in the Obama Economy
Opportunity
Challenge
Necessity
Peter CoffeeDirector, Platform Research
salesforce.com
CEO Needs
Operational
Governable
Affordable
CIO Mandates
Productive
Reliable
Secure
Platform as a Se
rvice
…while on-premise IT offerings followed familiar trajectories
2001 2009
Business imperatives kept moving in new directions…• Governance requirements• Threat environment• Competitive challenges
Not just another year of “Do more with less”…
Most of the time, CIOs’ actual mandate has been to
“do a lot more with just a little more…”
…but not last year
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IT had a very bad year
� Global IT spending estimated down 5.2% during 2009� Spending won’t return to 2008 level until 2012� Half of CIOs will see zero growth or further cuts this year
– Gartner (informationweek.com, 26 Oct.)
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� Hiring won’t turn up soon(per Financial Forecast Ctr 12/20/09)
� U.S. GDP will stay flat(per Financial Forecast Ctr 11/30/09)
� Pressure will persist to seek
radical economies
What are the Obamanomics of SaaS?
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� Public-sector CIOs have the green light to pursue SaaS solutions
– Vivek Kundra, administration CIO: Federal gov’t “has been building
data center after data center…We cannot continue on this trajectory.”
– In a joint effort between the IRS and the Department of Education, it
has become possible with one click of a mouse button for IRS data to
populate the [federal student aid application] form, Kundra said,
eliminating more than 70 questions and 20 screens
(Daniel Terdiman, cnet.com, 12/15/2009)
� Domino effect is under way
– In October, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved the
plan to switch from Novell GroupWise to Google Apps... More than
8,000 of the city's 30,000 employees have signed up [for pilot effort]…
– Los Angeles Chief Technology Officer Randi Levin…has received 27 or
28 inquiries from California governments
(Matt Williams, govtech.com, 11/17/2009)
What are the Obamanomics of SaaS?
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� Conspicuous, quantified success stories and policy statements:
– In a traditional IT procurement environment, it would have taken us
about six months to upgrade USA.gov to better meet the needs of our
citizens. However, in the cloud environment we are now able to do
upgrades in one day – giving us greater agility and saving taxpayers
approximately $1.7 million annually in computing infrastructure costs
associated with USA.gov.
David McClure
GSA Associate Administrator
Office of Citizen Services and Communications
– We will...work with industry to ensure cloud-based solutions are secure
and compliant thereby reducing duplication of security processes
throughout government.
Casey Coleman
GSA CIO
gsa.gov, 9/15/2009
What are the Obamanomics of SaaS?
U.S. Census BureauIncreasing Response Rates for the Decennial Census
Deployed a custom app in three months
Record, track and manage contacts and
activities between census staff and external
partners
App will scale up as decennial census
approaches
Manages 2,200 users temporary workers
geographically dispersed at headquarters and
12 regional offices
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� Make your message part of the “Obamacare” story:
– The February 2009 health industry cost saving initiatives proposed by President
Obama directs the industry to rapidly transition…to an instantaneous electronic
mechanism… The Company's MD@Hand technologies allow physicians to gain
access and securely store electronic medical records…
Instacare Corp. press release, 11/23/2009
� Gain leverage from established cloud platforms:
– Practice Fusion is launching its patient health record on Force.com,
“There are some strong technical security arguments in favor of Cloud Computing… (Craig Balding, Fortune 500 security practitioner)
� Password security policies
� Rich Sharing Rules
�User Profiles
� SSO/2-factor solutions
Login… Authenticate…Apply Data Security Rules… View Filtered Content
Cloud security: all the way down
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� Credible customer stories
– In their industry
• Relevant to their needs
• Threatening them with competitor advantage
– In their region
• Addressing issues of governance, compliance, and skills
� Negligible downside, guaranteed upside
– For example: salesforce.com initiatives include…
• Developer Account is free
– Tools and references are free
– On-line training is free
• Force.com Free Edition triggers viral growth
– Show people that status quo is the high-risk strategy
– Get people to stop saying “can’t” and start saying “how?”
• Certified Developers and Admins are waiting for your call
What do CIOs want?
Real-world results: financial services
� The Phoenix Companies sought a new CRM solution with flexibility, ease of use, mobile accessibility, low-cost modification capabilities, minimal user training requirements, and simplified integration with other apps.
� Changeover to Salesforce CRM took less than two months. Working with salesforce.com partner OKERE (now part of Fujitsu Consulting), Phoenix used the Force.com platform to create customizations for contracts and underwriting.
� Using the Force.com API, Phoenix integrated several legacy systems with Salesforce CRM to provide consolidated, real-time access to information.
� The Salesforce CRM implementation cost the company less than one-fourth of the project’s original budget.
� By streamlining communication between field and inside sales within SalesforceCRM, Phoenix has reduced phone and email inefficiencies, boosted productivity, and, in 2005, increased life insurance sales by more than 33%.
� Following its upgrade to Salesforce CRM Unlimited Edition, Phoenix achieved 96% user adoption.
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Development reinvented, not just relocated
� Nucleus Research analyzed Force.com deployments: found average 4.9 times faster development (range 1.5x-10x) versus Java or .Net
– Custom objects
– Administrative tools
– Workflow engine
– Pre-tested platform
� Galorath Inc. compared developers’ Force.com productivity to Java development
– Requirements definition time reduced 25% due to rapid prototyping
– Testing effort reduced by (typically) more than 10%
– Development productivity of new code 5x greater
– Overall project cost 30-40% less
� CustomerSat sampled more than 1,100 Force.comdevelopment teams during summer 2009
– Average experience: 4 applications deployed to date
– Average project cost savings: 48%
– Average project acceleration: 5.1x
Real-world results: health care
� CRC Health—the nation's largest provider of drug and alcohol treatment services—acquired the country’s largest youth treatment provider. The combined organization required a platform to manage patient intake, track Web entities, and streamline operations to increase revenue.
� The company used ACT!, spreadsheets, and other proprietary systems to manage extensive patient data. Only one call center operator could open the spreadsheet at a time, making the process inefficient, opaque, and unscalable.
� The company developed a customized user interface on Force.com for 12 users. With help from salesforce.com partner Appirio, CRC Health extended the application to broadly leverage the platform.
� Security levels are matched to what’s required to comply with HIPAA and other industry regulations. Open APIs enable tight integration with legacy tracking systems, Microsoft Outlook, eFax, and other third party apps. Web marketing effectiveness tracking within Salesforce CRM indicates to the dollar what is performing and what is not.
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� Bottom line: assurance that this is ready for prime time
– Real companies are building real solutions
– Stop fearing the myth-perception of the proprietary cloud
• There is one cloud: a global, public network using standard protocols
• In part of that cloud, buy computing in bulk from Amazon
• In part of that cloud, buy collaboration tools from Google
• In part of that cloud,
– Find the world’s most effective
and most user-approved
CRM portfolio…
…and build better applications
in less time with Force.com
What do CIOs want?
May-July 2009
• 99.997% of planned availability
• Continually narrower maintenance windows
Live System Status
Security Best Practices
Historical Performance
Full Public Disclosure
Amazon
Google
Trust through openness
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Trust through openness
Moving toward an ideal: “Zero, One, Infinity”*
0 On-premise infrastructure
Acquisition cost
Adoption cost
Support cost
1 Coherent and resilient environment – not a brittle “software stack”
∞∞∞∞ Scalability in response to changing need
Integratability/Interoperability with legacy assets and other services
Customizability/Programmability from data, through logic,
up into the user interface without compromising robust multi-tenancy
* From The Jargon File: “Allow none of foo, exactly one of foo, or any number of foo”
What it means to promise “The Cloud”
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This isn’t the bleeding edge
� 40% of IT execs have been using cloud computing for more than
three years
– 62% of surveyed firms plan to increase their use of SaaS this year
– 60% project SaaS in vertical apps within two years
� By 2011, more than 70% of U.S. enterprise data centers will hit the
wall on power, cooling and space:
– More than 1/3 of companies expect IT investment reductions in 2009
– Outsource data-center demand is up 14% in the last 12 months;
capacity has grown by only 6%
– Data center costs have doubled in many markets; in London, they're
up sixfold
� 37% of firms are replacing current on-premise systems with SaaS
� Nothing is perfect…
…but some things are improving more quickly than others
� If “the cloud can’t do that” today, what about next year?
� Can today’s mature traditional models say the same?
This is the leading edge
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� Nothing is perfect…
…but some things are improving more quickly than others
� If “the cloud can’t do that” today, what about next year?
� Can today’s mature traditional models say the same?
This is the leading edge
� Nothing is perfect…
…but some things are improving more quickly than others
� If “the cloud can’t do that” today, what about next year?
� Can today’s mature traditional models say the same?