EDL has leveraged the advantages of Cloud Computing in order to provide our clients with unparalleled business value. We have been able to reduce our implementation timeframes for delivering Cloud Computing based solutions by orders of magnitude when compared to traditional software approaches. More importantly, clients that implement Cloud Computing solutions have achieved sustainable competitive advantage by reducing long-term maintenance costs while substantially increasing the velocity with which process improvements can be deployed.

Advantages for choosing a Force.com Cloud Computing based solution:

Economies of Scale

• Runs 40,000 customers and more than 1,000,000 subscribers
• Often supports over 140,000,000 transactions per day
• Allow you to add thousands of users with no additional investment of infrastructure and support personnel
• Provides governing limits and enforced test coverage to reduce performance risk

Platform Maturity

• Point and click to create custom objects, fields, page layouts, workflow's, approval routings, dashboards and reports
• Triggers, APEX classes, Visualforce pages are used to provide advanced logic and visualization

Ease of Integration

• Enterprise, partner, metadata API WSDL downloads
• Custom Apex class WSDL Download
• Integration with GoogleApps, iPhone, Exchange and others

Consumption-Based Pricing

• Pay only for what is used
• Dial up/dial down as needed to respond to business cycles

Ease of Deployment

• Focus is on business process improvements vs. infrastructure and support structure
• Browser-based interface familiar to all end users
• Out-of-box internationalization

Ease of Operations

• End-user based administration tools simplify the overall administrative burden
• Built-in compliance audit trail
• Tested and proven security and authentication model
• End-user administered workflow capabilities