Peter Coffee emphasized the benefits surrounding cloud computing, of opening doors to the creation of customer and partner communities that propel rapid product and service improvement in his presentation, Our Newest Tools for You: salesforce.com.

By reducing capital investment burdens and radically accelerating application deployment, cloud computing represents a key component of competitive IT strategy for any organization, of any size. Removing the unproductive complexity of application development tools and practices allows organizations like those in workers’ compensation instead devote their developers’ talent and time to tasks that make an organization more competitive.

Key points from the session include identifying and green-lighting a pilot project using cloud application platforms and services and evaluating the forward-looking costs of current applications versus cloud-based alternatives in order to develop appropriate transition plans.

The audio recording and handouts from this session are available for purchase here.