Rising business demands at a time of tightening operating budgets are forcing CIOs to consider new ways to reallocate their limited internal resources to better support their priorities. This is driving them to rely more heavily on 3rd party services to augment their in-house capabilities and better satisfy the needs of their corporate executives, end-users, customers, and partners.

Enterprise cloud computing has become the most exciting development and delivery alternative to arise in the new millennium. It permits CIOs to quickly and economically access the latest application development and delivery resources and innovations via the web, to dramatically reduce the time and cost of meeting specific business needs with more powerful functional capabilities. This whitepaper will examine how a growing number of CIOs are adopting enterprise cloud computing solutions, and Salesforce.com Force.com enterprise cloud computing platform in particular, to meet their escalating requirements and achieve their business objectives.