As an early Salesforce partner, Soliant delivers turn-key, custom cloud computing applications with zero deployment overhead.

Cloudshare

There's been a lot of buzz about "the cloud" in the last few years — applications and services that are hosted on the Internet itself, avoiding the need to purchase, configure and maintain your own software. Google's Gmail and Apps have been a big hit, as have consumer-focused "cloud" services such as remote backup. But many businesses are increasingly eager to lift some of their key applications into the cloud as well.

Soliant is one of the first Salesforce partners to be focused primarily on building custom business applications on the platform.

Custom Applications for the Cloud

Salesforce.com began over ten years ago as a vendor of hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. An early proponent of the Application Service Provider model, it was one of the relatively few ASP vendors to survive the bursting of the tech bubble. Today, Salesforce is building on its immensely successful position in the CRM niche, leveraging the data centers, security measures and programming techniques it developed for its CRM market, into a true cloud computing platform: Force.com — a place in the cloud where it's possible to build and host custom applications of almost any kind.

For Soliant, Force.com is yet one more means to deliver exciting, custom-built software to our customers. Force.com applications, once built, are available on a subscription basis. They are a good fit for organizations who need to give a physically widespread audience access to key applications, who wish to avoid the complexities of configuring and maintaining server and database software, and who prefer a monthly subscription fee to the bumpier cost cycle of hardware and software specification, acquisition and upgrades.

Powerful Partnerships

The Web has always been about connections. No application today, and especially not one delivered on the Web, exists in a vacuum. Integration and interoperability are key determining factors for nearly every system we build for our clients. The Salesforce platform is enriched by strong partnerships with other leading platform vendors like Adobe, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Business applications built on the Salesforce platform can thus draw on technologies such as Adobe Flex, Amazon EC3 cloud storage, or Google Applications to further extend their reach and functionality — giving us at Soliant an even deeper set of tools from which to draw in meeting our clients' ever-evolving needs.