Why the Cloud
Learn why Life Sciences companies are moving business to the cloud
Unparalleled time to value. Minimize the risk involved in implementing business applications like CRM by eliminating the need for up-front capital investment, making the path to CRM success exceptionally short. Starting with Salesforce CRM as the core and then designing a solution around key business processes, 360 Vantage implementations usually take less than three months and rarely exceed four months, compared to 12 months or longer with legacy software solutions. According to a recent study by Triple Tree and the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), cloud-computing deployments are 50 to 90 percent faster, with a total cost of ownership five to ten times less than installed software.
Less expensive initially—and in the long run. It’s easy to see why a multitenant, on-demand solution is much less expensive initially. There is no hardware to purchase, scale, and maintain, no operating systems, database servers, or application servers to install, no consultants and staff to manage it all, and no need for periodic upgrades.
Even more important, however, are the long-term savings. Gartner estimates that two-thirds of IT time and budgets is spent on maintaining infrastructure and dealing with updates. That’s a thing of the past with the cloud-computing model.
Better service delivery. Due to the cloud computing model's tremendous economies of scale and our focus on service delivery, we can provide higher service levels than the vast majority of companies can achieve on their own. We use the best technologies, policies, and procedures to ensure maximum uptime and continuous availability; and to provide a performance record we’re proud of. That means your internal staff can focus on running and optimizing the core business, rather than administering and maximizing the CRM system.
Better scalability. Successful businesses are continually changing and growing: Employee growth, transaction growth, the launching of new products and services, mergers and acquisitions, or any number of business events can dramatically and suddenly alter business needs.
Solutions from large enterprise software vendors are expensive to scale because of the complexity and cost of scaling each layer of the hardware and software stacks, which often require messy system replacements and data migrations. Customer-specific systems developed with J2EE, .NET, or open source tools are similarly difficult to scale because of such infrastructure issues and changing or unforeseen business requirements. Thanks to multitenancy and meta-customizations, Force.com (which our solutions are built upon) is the only platform that grows, scales, and adapts with your changing business.
Users are more satisfied and productive. A major reason on-premise deployments often fail is because of low user adoption—data that’s cluttered or difficult to get to quickly results in user resistance. Our easy-to-use solution has resulted in the highest user adoption rates in the industry.
Even more important, however, are the long-term savings. Gartner estimates that two-thirds of IT time and budgets is spent on maintaining infrastructure and dealing with updates. That’s a thing of the past with the cloud-computing model.
Solutions from large enterprise software vendors are expensive to scale because of the complexity and cost of scaling each layer of the hardware and software stacks, which often require messy system replacements and data migrations. Customer-specific systems developed with J2EE, .NET, or open source tools are similarly difficult to scale because of such infrastructure issues and changing or unforeseen business requirements. Thanks to multitenancy and meta-customizations, Force.com (which our solutions are built upon) is the only platform that grows, scales, and adapts with your changing business.