Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Salesforce CON's (CIS512- Assignment B)

#2- What are some of the disadvantages of Salesforce.com?

Its a bit spendy....
If you are a larger business, with a multitude of users, requiring constant administrator support, but don't have a large budget this might not be the product for you.

Users without decent Web access or connections...
One of the biggest disadvantages is a requirement for fairly robust access to the World Wide Web, unless an Enterprise package is purchased, which might be costly for a smaller enterprise. Enterprise edition touts off-line access where developers and technicians might require special access relationships with a company in order to work with a specific data set. As an example, many Government entities operate on stand-alone or protected networks. Another possible disadvantage is user overload or application server outage, realizing of course that almost any network in any office experiences outages and upgrade related degradation of service issues.

Might not play well with others...
Another disadvantage is migration from a legacy 'in-house' applications, where both services are required to communicate or work together but the WEB based server isn't compatible with the in-house solution.

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