• My Capital Budget has been eliminated
• There is a large backlog of IT Requests
• We can't afford a big development effort
• We just went through staff reductions

Today's computing environment is changing to be more agile and service oriented. There are many services and platforms available that a business can leverage to better service their customers. No longer are you required to have long term ERP type implementations or have a large capital investment in computing hardware and software. Instead, the latest Cloud Computing Services allow the rapid development of a business idea thru production. In most cases, without affecting the current IT priorities.

To help continue the conversation, Perficient, Salesforce.com and Google posted their presentations. Feel free to download or pass the URL.

If you have any questions, please email cloudcomputing@perficient.com.

PRESENTATIONS

Meeting Today's Business Challenges: Nearly everyone has been faced with the challenge of maintaining or even increasing output with a reduced budget. How can businesses achieve a competitive advantage in today's tight economy without large upfront investments? In this session, Perficient will cut through the hype and explain how to quickly demonstrate and deliver value solutions through our partnerships with leading providers such as Salesforce.com and Google.

Steven Warshawsky - Perficient

Reducing time to market - Force.com Platform: Force.com is the fastest platform for building and deploying enterprise applications.  What used to take months can now be done in days or weeks.  Unlike a stack of separately designed hardware and software products, Force.com speeds innovation through a powerful yet easy-to-use development model.  Assemble applications with clicks, components and code then instantly deploy them to the salesforce.com infrastructure. We will discuss and demonstrate of what you can do with the Force.com Platform.

Gregg Reid - Salesforce.com

Lowering Costs while increasing Employee Productivity: The Google Enterprise team delivers business solutions that make it quick and easy to communicate, collaborate, and connect employees, partners, and customers to the information they need. Over 10,000 companies around the world are using Google Enterprise solutions to increase employee productivity and significantly lower operating costs.  In these current economic conditions, many companies are looking to reduce cost and finding their messaging/collaboration cost with Microsoft and IBM as possible areas that can be lowered.  The momentum is starting to build as many Larger Enterprise Companies are moving to Google.

Andy Haaf - Google, Chicago

Rhonda Stites - Google, Detroit

Marc Berman - Google, Indy

Embracing the challenges of the Cloud: Cloud computing is a game changing technology. Capabilities and services can quickly be delivered IF they can be cohesively integrated with your IT Strategy. Companies that embrace the Cloud will find challenges and solutions on how to leverage the cloud creating a competitive advantage.  From Security to Data Integration or Policies to Development Practices, your development and integration strategy can be affected. We will discuss best practices to integrating Cloud Computing capabilities into your IT Strategy. 

Lee Burch - Perficient