Salesforce.com Enablement Services Summary

Developing products for Salesforce.com with Altoros is not just making the same functionality available on a new platform faster; it is an opportunity to improve quality and manageability of your Salesforce.com applications.

• Proven Salesforce.com enablement methodology
  By partnering with Altoros, you can tap into a proven, phased, and carefully documented Salesforce.com enablement approach to eliminate delayed product releases, avoid additional costs, and reduce market and technology risks.

• Product Development Expertise
  The technology leaders Hewlett-Packard, Sony, R.R. Donnelley, and Autodesk leverage Altoros’s exclusive focus on software product development to accelerate software release cycles, reduce technology risks, and concentrate in-house resources on core business initiatives.

• Improved Productivity
  Altoros has already invested in tailoring the entire software development life cycle for quick and easy deployment of products on the Salesforce.com Apex platform. Altoros has addressed the limitations of Salesforce.com API by developing migration and integration tools around Salesforce.com API. Altoros is committed to assuring your investment in a new Salesforce.com product by combining increased development efficiencies of global software engineering model and unmatched predictability.

Salesforce.com Advantage

Altoros can help you break the learning curve and limitations of Salesforce.com API and make deployment of AppExchange-tailored applications faster and easier than ever. Object-oriented architectures, high degree of language interoperability, reliance on open standards such as XML, and SOAP and deep knowledge of Salesforce.com API, Apex and Custom Object standards make Altoros a provider of choice for development of new, and porting of existing software products for many Independent Software Vendors and SaaS (Software as a Service) Providers.

Altoros Salesforce.com Enablement Services Benefits:

• Accelerate Time-to-Market
• Focus Internal Resource on Core
• Increased Developer Productivity
• Richer User Experience
• Offline capabilities using Smart Client technologies
• Integrated reporting and analytics using
• Business process automation and integration using Web Services
• Reduced Cost of Maintenance

Altoros Salesforce.com Enablement Services for ISVs:

• High-Level Design
• Low-Level Design
• Development & Testing
• Maintenance/Enhancements
• End-user Support

Altoros Difference

Development of new applications for Salesforce.com is not the same as new application development or porting an existing application to SAP ERP. Unlike most consultants and contractors, Altoros brings you a proven, phased, scalable, and carefully documented Salesforce.com enablement approach.

Altoros’s Salesforce.com enablement framework guides each and every Salesforce.com enablement project from start to finish, ensuring that the entire process is predictable and efficient.

Altoros’s Salesforce.com enablement methodology supports the full spectrum of typical activities that constitute a new development or porting project - migration goals, impact study, deliverables, size and complexity of the project.

During the last five years, partnership with Altoros allowed companies such as Autodesk, Hewlett-Packard and Sony to accelerate new revenue generation by focusing in-house resources on core strategic business initiatives while Altoros manages the product development, testing, and maintenance activities.

Reduce Risks

Altoros brings you the tools and roadmap to eliminate cost overruns and avoid delayed releases through a leverage of a proven Salesforce.com enablement methodology.

1. Impact Study	Understanding the existing system and its development environment Cost-benefit/Risk Analysis Establishing design goals for the new system Preparing a migration strategy and project plan with timeline
2. Reverse Engineering	Program-level code walk-through and detailed analysis Recovering and reconstructing functional specification document and other high level artifacts of the existing system
3. Migration and Unit Testing, Integration and System Testing	Low-level Apex design Migrating the existing application code to Apex Unit testing/module testing/system testing/ integration testing and user acceptance testing
4. Release; Transition to a Support and Warranty Phase	Reviewing results of user acceptance testing and initiate corrective action Release procedures as per Release Plan Releasing the new application

To learn more about how Altoros can help your company take advantage of the Saleforce.com platform, call (617) 848-5959.