It's still early days for Force.com - Salesforce.com's application development platform - but Nucleus's in-depth analysis of projects developed by both customers and ISVs suggests significant advantages in time to value for the Force.com development model. Nucleus conducted an analysis of 17 Force.com projects and found significant savings in time to development and ongoing support costs.

Analysis included:

• Companies that had moved existing applications to Force.com
• Companies that had evaluated both traditional (JAVA and .NET) development environments and Force.com and selected Force.com
• Systems integrators that had worked with customers who selected Force.com
• ISVs that had evaluated traditional development environments and selected Force.com

This report from Nucleus Research highlights the advantages of Force.com that allow ISVs, on average, 4.9 times faster application development than traditional .NET or JAVA environments.