VMware’s Cloud Foundry project now has a new participant in the form of SuccessFactors, an alliance which will allow customers and partners to extend and customise SuccessFactors apps.
Cloud Foundry helps businesses to build applications using open and industry-standard development technologies while preserving the flexibility to deploy across both public and private Clouds. SuccessFactors says it was able to build its first application on CloudFoundry.com within hours.
This application integrated Google Maps data with SuccessFactors’ employee location data from its next generation Core HR Information System platform, Employee Central.
Lars Dalgaard, founder and CEO, SuccessFactors, said:
“This agreement is the revolution the Cloud industry needs. 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. 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. ”
He added:
“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."
The two firms state that all a SuccessFactors user has to do is register a CloudFoundry.com account, use SuccessFactors APIs to bring in their data, then build, deploy and scale their applications. Cloud Foundry supports a wide range of programming languages, including Java, PHP, Ruby-on-Rails, HTML, Ajax, Javascript and the Spring Framework (Java).
Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, commented:
“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.”
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