Today, SuccessFactors, Inc., the global leader in business execution software, announced an agreement with
VMware to empower its customers and partners to extend SuccessFactors
applications using the VMware Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS)
beta.
"We're thrilled to launch our Cloud Foundry project with SuccessFactors.
Cloud Foundry continues to gain traction as the PaaS of choice for modern and
open cloud application development," said Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware. "This new
project takes the Cloud Foundry vision one step further, enabling customers to
extend and build custom applications around SuccessFactors to address specific
business and vertical use cases, without restricting the choice of development
frameworks, data or application services. Cloud Foundry helps ensure customers
can build applications using open and industry-standard development technologies
while preserving the flexibility to deploy across both public and private
clouds. SuccessFactors and VMware are both committed to enabling custom
development and integration across a broad ecosystem of SaaS providers."
"This agreement is the revolution the cloud industry needs. Our announcement
with VMware represents a paradigm shift in the way companies will consume cloud
services. We believe SuccessFactors has the world's largest cloud deployments,
and we plan to empower our 3,500+ customers with 15 million subscription seats
and our partners to rapidly develop custom extensions and integrations of our
solutions on Cloud Foundry(TM) in an open and non-proprietary manner. This open
approach will allow CIOs to leverage the skills they already have on their team,
and further unlock the value from their investment with SuccessFactors," said
Lars Dalgaard, founder and CEO, SuccessFactors. "This is a strategic move for
our customers because as their use of our various applications is increasing, in
many cases customers are using 5-10 SuccessFactors applications, the ability to
interface and extend into other business areas is irresistible for them. Where
we don't want to build them ourselves, through Cloud Foundry we can extend
business data from our apps into company specific apps and extensions connecting
us deeper into our customers' business, at a low cost to them and without cost
to us. The cloud belongs to all of us and this agreement presents CIOs and
business leaders with immense flexibility to extract much more value from their
public and private clouds, and we believe, create unseen cross functional
business value and multi-directional business execution data in and out of
SuccessFactors' BizX Suite. This significantly increases its value for existing
customers and makes it much more attractive and lower risk to new customers."
SuccessFactors was able to build its first application on CloudFoundry.com
within hours that integrated Google Maps data with SuccessFactors' employee
location data from its next generation Core HR Information System platform,
Employee Central. Today, SuccessFactors' customers and partners have the same
ability to easily build, test and run their applications on CloudFoundry.com. In
the near term, the new SuccessFactors integration with Cloud Foundry will enable
customers and partners to combine its capabilities with other web applications.
"The unique competitive advantage of this platform is that it is open and
enables development on standard development languages such as web service APIs,
Java, PHP, Ruby-on-Rails, HTML, Ajax, Javascript and the Spring Framework
(Java)," said Aaron Au, co-founder and chief technology officer, SuccessFactors.
"Our customers can create a Cloud Foundry account, integrate with SuccessFactors
data via our APIs and create, deploy and scale their own applications within
hours. We believe this is the future of enterprise cloud computing."
More information is available at
http://www.successfactors.com/info/en/vmware-cloud-foundry.