Salesforce.com and Appirio reportedly announced that ServoTerra has deployed an asset planning application and Business To Business (B2B) trading exchange built exclusively on the former’s Force.com platform and by leveraging Appirio’s cloud computing capability.

 

Officials at both companies claimed that ServoTerra had given Appirio, its preferred vendor, only 12 weeks to design, develop and deploy a hardware asset planning application and B2B marketplace entirely in the cloud so that its customer base could continue achieving 35 percent higher return on average than other models, but at significantly higher speeds, with more agility and less application and data occupancy on their own systems.

 

ServoTerra, claim official sources, help their customers to dispose IT asset solutions, including Software as a Solution asset life cycle planning, virtual consignment, and environmental compliance tracking.

 

Similar to competitive applications, the company’s new solution delivers automated detailed activity recording, allows users to integrate to applications via a gateway and a structured, scalable fees per module model. SaaS (News - Alert) is a Web-based application, which allows customers to use software via the Internet, freeing the customer from costs related to downloads, upgrades, software version control, and dependency on internal hardware.

 

“Appirio lived up to its reputation as the leader in Force.com development,” said Steve Wagner, chief executive officer of ServoTerra. “We gave Appirio a 12 week time-frame from initial meeting to first customer release. They were able to quickly understand the business model and translate it to design requirements, which allowed them to provide a flexible development plan and key resources for success. As a result, ServoTerra was able to exceed our customers’ expectations in terms of time to market and functionality through our strong partnerships with Appirio and salesforce.com.”

 

Officials say that ServoTerra places an important advantage in the hands of the customers by giving them a clear cut value roadmap of every asset at each point in time and allows them to choose the best combination of time and cost to dispose of the assets. This gives companies advance disposal information and allows for transparent and real time budget prediction, control and instant auditing.

 

“Force.com is revolutionizing how companies, like ServoTerra, bring disruptive innovation to market,” said Chris Barbin, Chief Executive Officer of Appirio. “The cloud model lets businesses focus on rapid business process innovation rather than managing infrastructure. It’s success stories like these that are accelerating the drive to enterprises running completely in the cloud.”

 

Within the entire hardware product life cycle management there is a thriving used equipment and second hand network assets market, which according to a survey, yielded revenues of nearly $2.5 billion in 2008 and that translates to six and a half percent of networking Original Equipment Manufacturer market share. A majority of respondents claimed that since companies are refraining from buying product upgrades and investing in network migrations they are demanding second hand spares and guaranteed repair back-up for all pre-owned asset purchases.

 

salesforce.com claims that ServoTerra benefits in more ways because the new solution works seamlessly with ServoTerra’s existing Salesforce CRM application, has access to unlimited real time customization, workflow and approvals, powerful analytics, and provides it with a trading exchange available as a public facing Web space.

 

A market survey recently found that salesforce.com’s Force.com Cloud Computing Platform is 4.9 times faster than JAVA or .NET (News - Alert) for premise application development.

 

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