Fail first, fail fast

Whenever you develop it is very important to fail first and fail fast. Fail first gives you and ability to learn more about what your project and risks involved. Fail fast ensures that you have ample of time in developing the application via other alternatives.

I started with an e-book on force.com fundamentals. I thought that the book will give me an insight on how to use the Platform for development. I was surprised that it taught me how to use the platform along with developing my first app on the cloud. It was amazing. 

After all the things that Force.com provides, the best part about it is drastically reduces the development time of your applications. Time is the most important factor for business today. There are so many ideas that never really see the light of the day because of development time. Imagine that you have the power to implement your ideas real time! I can see that for many applications which have critical time frames for market release for the ones which depend on the current market scenarios, Force.com can be a boon.

Force.com has defined every object and connections between objects in a very modular way which can fit any business need. Different relationships between objects can be designed if you have the right knowledge about your application architecture. There are various workflow and approval options that can be used to design a custom workflow for your application. Data security settings are amazing. Access rights and specifications have the granularity till the field or record level. This enables modular privacy settings for any hierarchy of users. Adding users and roles is also very simple. Creation and generation of reports are very simple and easy to configure. User Interface provided by default is very simple to use. However, you can add custom user interfaces via Visual Force. To sum it all up, it is as modular as possible accommodating anything you can think of.

In addition to all this, Force.com development adheres to FDA CFR 11 compliance. This compliance includes secure SSL encryption, daily backups, audit trails just to name a few. This makes Force.com the best and most secure in the business of cloud computing.

I guess Force.com can do anything. So, I my fail first, fail fast strategy enabled me to make my first application on the cloud, a sample recruiting application for the HR team of any organization.