eBook created for Progress Rollbase. Describing how users can extend your mastery beyond salesforce.

1. EXPAND YOUR
FORCE.COM STRATEGY
Salesforce only serves apps in its own public infrastructure.
Your apps deserve a broader playing field—and so does your business.

2. GROW YOUR BUSINESS
QUICKLY AND EASILY EXPAND YOUR SALESFORCE APPS
TO SERVE NEW MARKETS
With minimal cost, disruption, and effort, Progress® Rollbase® lets you
expand your Salesforce apps beyond the Salesforce infrastructure.
Rollbase opens a whole universe of new opportunities.
SERVE MARKETS AND CUSTOMERS WHO MUST:
ΔΔ Deploy in highly secure, private, or non-Salesforce
cloud infrastructures.
ΔΔ Meet regulatory mandates in highly regulated industries.
ΔΔ Gain greater control of infrastructure.
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3. YOU’VE SUCCEEDED WITH FORCE.COM, BUT…
Due to its single focus as a hosted, public cloud environment, your apps
on Force.com, including Salesforce CRM, cannot accommodate:
ΔΔ Data residency, privacy, security, or regulatory requirements.
ΔΔ The need to deploy on-premises.
Your apps on Salesforce cannot serve:
ΔΔ Many in the financial, healthcare, retail, government or other
highly regulated sectors with stringent security and data
housing requirements.
ΔΔ Those who need more control over infrastructure and unfettered
access to the database.
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4. YOUR APPS DESERVE ALL THE
MARKET THEY CAN CAPTURE;
YOUR PLATFORM SHOULDN’T
LIMIT THEM.
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5. MAINTAIN THE ENVIRONMENT AND INTERFACE
YOU KNOW
Rollbase uses familiar point-and-click and drag-and-drop tools to speed and simplify application
development and extend your applications to any cloud or on-premise infrastructure, including Amazon,
Rackspace, on-premise, or local data center.
TOOLS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN FORCE.COM
practically eliminate the learning curve.
Force.com developers can learn Rollbase
very quickly.
RISK-FREE QUICK START
includes everything you need to
convert existing applications to
Rollbase infrastructure.
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6. THE BENEFITS OF USING PROGRESS ROLLBASE
YOU CAN RUN
IT ANYWHERE
Unlike with Force.com,
you can deploy on
Amazon, Rackspace,
or any other cloud
infrastructure, including
your own data center.
IT’S MORE AFFORDABLE
Monthly pricing starts at
ΔΔ $15/month for
Private Cloud
ΔΔ $19/month for
Hosted Cloud.
NO PROPRIETARY
LANGUAGES
Rollbase developers code
in industry standard
JavaScript. Build and
customize faster
without learning
proprietary languages.
100% WHITE LABEL
Customers and users will
never see anything but
your domain and your
brand, from the login
page down to every URL,
image, and help page.
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7. WITH ROLLBASE, IT’S ABOUT YOUR
BUSINESS—NOT THEIRS
EVERYTHING IS A CUSTOM OBJECT
You can customize or replace anything, whereas in Salesforce.com and
Force.com, many entities are not fully customizable objects.
IT’S NOT ABOUT CRM
With no roots in any particular domain, we have much less incentive to tilt the
platform’s capabilities toward CRM or other specific usage.
IT’S ALWAYS YOUR STACK
Rollbase Private Cloud runs on Linux, Unix, Solaris, Windows, among other, and
runs the most reliable relational database: Progress OpenEdge, in addition to
MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle.
It runs on Tomcat and WebSphere and can be fronted by Apache or other Web
servers. You can extend the schema, write custom code, and hook up analytics
and other tools directly to the database because it’s your stack, not ours.
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8. SERVE APPS WITHOUT LIMITS
ROLLBASE HAS NO SUCH LIMITS.
With Rollbase in a private cloud, there are no
such prohibitive mechanisms. You don’t have
to do extra work—or pay more—to get around
artificial roadblocks.
You or your customers have complete
control over your servers and your
networking infrastructure—something
Salesforce cannot offer.
Salesforce has a prohibitive governor mechanism that limits your access to the system.
SALESFORCE LIMITS:
ΔΔ Number of applications
ΔΔ Amount of data
ΔΔ Number of records
ΔΔ Number of objects in an application
ΔΔ Number of API calls
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9. EXTEND YOUR APPS COST-EFFECTIVELY
A familiar development
approach speeds and
simplifies extending your
apps’ reach beyond the
Salesforce environment.
Simpler pricing cuts costs.
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10. WITH ROLLBASE, EXTEND YOUR MASTERY
BEYOND SALESFORCE
While maintaining your success with the Salesforce platform,
easily open avenues for endless opportunities with customers
who can’t or won’t deploy in a less secure public platforms.
EXPAND YOUR REACH TO INCLUDE ON-PREMISES OR
CLOUD ENVIRONMENT.
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11. GROW YOUR BUSINESS TO ITS
NATURAL LIMITS—NOT JUST TO
YOUR PLATFORM’S.