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ISV Partners: How a PDO Can Help You Get to Market Faster. Jason Dodds Director of Engineering – CodeScience [email protected] @doddsilla Assessing the value proposition of partnering with a Product Development Outsourcer. Brian Walsh CSO– CodeScience [email protected] om @thepartycow

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ISV Partners: How a PDO Can Help You Get to Market Faster.

Jason DoddsDirector of Engineering – [email protected]@doddsilla

Assessing the value proposition of partnering with a Product Development Outsourcer.

Brian WalshCSO– [email protected]@thepartycow

Jason Dobbs
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Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services.The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of any litigation, risks associated with completed and any possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year and in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter. These documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site.Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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A little about us…The tallest guys in the business

Jason DoddsDirector of Engineering

Brian WalshChief Strategy Officer

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• Founded in 2008• 60 Employees• Offices in Chattanooga & San Francisco• Built 70+ products on the AppExchange• Clients range from Fortune 5 to five-person startups• Deep expertise in Communities, HCLS, Finance and Higher

Education• First partner in the Product Development Outsourcing (PDO)

Program• Lightning Certified PDO• @codescience• We’re hiring: http://codescience.com/careers/

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• How many of you are ISV’s/SI’s?• Are you currently building or are planning to build an app for the AppExchange?• Anyone building Force.com embedded application?• Are you developing an AppExchange product internally?• Have you gone through Security Review?• Pass/Fails?

Let’s get to know each otherA little about you

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• We are Product Development Outsourcers• Seasoned experts in the Salesforce ecosystem• Focus on all phases of the product development lifecycle• Experienced in developing for the AppExchange• Understand ALM processes in Salesforce• Mastery of the Security Review process• AppExchange, Trialforce, LMA, COA, and Business Org expertise

Our bread and butterWhat is a PDO?

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PDO’s:• Installed in thousands of Orgs• Applications that serve various lines

of business• Mandatory security review and

packaging• Various license types and security

mechanisms• Unknown data models and processes in

target Orgs

SI’s:• Customizations for single Orgs• Well defined data models and processes

in Org• Customers in various lines of business• Well known and Pre-defined license

types

How a PDO differs from an SIBuilding for the AppExchange

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Strategic product development partner• Ideation, planning, implementation and delivery

Overextended organizations• Hiring, learning curves, packaging problems. Sound familiar?

Searching for verification• You want a 3rd party to give you the piece of mind that you are on the right path

Calling the Batphone• When you are in a crisis, we answer the call

A little something for everyoneWho leverages a PDO?

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The Process• Ideation• Discovery• Development• UAT• Security Review• Deployment• Delivery• Support

The Players• Product Owner • UX• Solution and Technical Architects• Engineering• QA & QE• Packaging Specialists• Sales & Marketing Consultants

Our ApproachWe provide the most value when we are introduced in the early stages

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• Competitive analysis• Project risk assessment and paths to mitigation• Technology risks• User interviews• Personas, user flows, scenarios, sitemaps, user journeys• MVP definition• Prototyping and proof of concepts• Go-to-Market strategy

Learning your businessIdeation/Discovery

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• Architect and develop MVP using Salesforce domain expertise• Packaging and platform limitations• Understanding performance, security and scalability

• Page performance, large data sets and license types• Building configurable, extensible apps• Product development focus areas

• Namespacing, Connected Apps, authentication and integration• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes

• Continuous Integration, Environment Hub, and Trialforce

On any platform, product development poses unique challengesBuild

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The Process• When to submit • What you need to submitThe Scans• Checkmarx –Salesforce code analysis• Burp/Zap – Penetration scanning of your Web/Desktop/Mobile/On-Premises Application• Blackbox – what the scanner won’t captureThe Results•You passed – Let’s go to market•You Failed – What needs to be addressed?

You don’t know what you don’t knowSecurity Review

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• Defect elimination• Go-to-market review• AppExchange listing guidance• Setting up alphabet soup:• ISV Business Org• License Management App (LMA)• Channel Order App (COA)• Trialforce

• Tier 3 technical support• Knowledge transfer

Our value doesn’t stop at developmentLaunch and Support

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• Get you to market 40% faster• Can stand up variably sized, qualified teams quickly• Play any of the roles in the product development lifecycle• Can be brought in at any stage• Equipped to support your product management, marketing and sales teams• Provide superior domain knowledge• Review your team’s architecture and development • Leverage best of breed solutions and processes

Why you partner with usThe value of a PDO to you

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Partner CommunityYour one-stop shop for education and engagement

http://partners.salesforce.com/

• Partner Program Details• Communications• Training• Leads, Opportunities, & Projects• AppExchange Publishing• Webinars & Recordings• Office Hours• Sales & Marketing Resources• Technical Support

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Looking for the Partner Session Replays and Slides?See the Partner Community Calendar – September 15-18, 2015

http://p.force.com/calendar

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New ISV Module on TrailheadEarn your badge!

https://trailhead.salesforce.com/module/isvforce_basics

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Get into the Zone: The Partner Zone!:: Partner Community Theater:: Live feeds of the major Keynotes:: Free lunch served daily!:: Concierge:: Tech Expert Bar:: Partner Program Staff:: Charging stations:: Featured Partner Services:: Coffee Bar:: Prize Giveaways

Daily partner networking events – 3:00pm - 5:00pm• Tuesday, Sept 15 – Luau Theme• Wednesday, Sept 16 – Global Theme• Thursday, Sept 17 – Fiesta Theme

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Celebrate Success at the AppBashAppBash “I left my Cloud in San Francisco”When: Wednesday, September 16Where: City View at the MetreonWho: Partners and CustomersAccess: Full Conference or Booth Pass plus ID requiredTime: 7:00pm – partners & alliances employees9:00pm – customers and employees welcome

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Thank you