Salesforce.com’s new Force.com VAR Program is the first channel program to help partners build a profitable and successful cloud-computing business.
Cloud computing has dramatically changed how companies build, run, and use applications. By getting rid of the headache of building and maintaining IT infrastructure, cloud computing offers you a faster, easier model for deploying enterprise applications and eliminates an up-front capital investment by your customers.
Force.com is cloud computing for the enterprise. It’s both an easy-to-use cloud platform and a proven cloud infrastructure that includes everything you need to quickly build and deliver business applications in the cloud: unlimited database customizations, a programmable user interface, programmable cloud logic, a real-time workflow and approval engine, the ability to run sites, mobile clients, an integrated content library, real-time analytics, granular security and sharing rules, 800+ preintegrated third-party applications, and lots more.
What used to take months or years can now be done in days or weeks at a fraction of the cost. Force.com lets you build and deliver applications 5 times faster, at about ½ the cost of traditional software platforms. With Force.com, you can focus your resources on the things that matter most to your customers: driving innovation and achieving measurable business results.
The Force.com VAR Program is the first channel program to help partners build a profitable and successful cloud-computing business. With the Force.com VAR Program, our partners can sell Force.com user licenses directly to their customers as part of an overall customer solution.
As a member of the program, you can:
- Partner with the leader – With 63,200+ customers, salesforce.com is the market leader in enterprise cloud computing. By joining the Force.com VAR Program, you’ll align your organization with a company that is committed to the success of the cloud-computing market and dedicated to growing a thriving partner community in the cloud.
- Build a profitable business – The program is free to join and lets partners resell Force.com products at a substantial margin, providing significant upside opportunity for the cloud solutions you deliver to your customers. Because user licenses are subscription-based, reselling Force.com also offers the
- stability of a predictable, recurring revenue stream to help grow your cloud-computing business.
- Develop cloud expertise – Force.com VARs get access to a wide range of technical tools, training, and go-to-market resources to ensure their success:
The Sales Resource Center, which provides access to the complete Force.com sales kit, competitive information, industry insights, and other exclusive sales tools such as demo orgs and customer references
The Consultant Resource Center, which is home to a helpful set of implementation resources, including best practices, community discussion boards, and design guidelines and templates
Partner University technical training, which includes role-based online courses and a comprehensive Force.com certification program
Leverage proven technology – Salesforce.com pioneered the cloud-computing model with our applications business and we’re now offering our cloud infrastructure as a platform for building custom apps. With the Force.com VAR Program, partners get to work with the leading cloud technologies and deliver real innovation for their customers.
