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FinancialForce.com is a cloud applications company headquartered in San Mateo, California

San Mateo, California

San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of approximately 100,000 , it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the east, Belmont to the south,...

, that provides business applications for Force.com

Force.com

Force.com is a cloud computing platform as a service system from Salesforce.com, that developers use to build multi tenant applications hosted on their servers as a service. The company pushes the "development as a service" phrase, but it has not gained acceptance outside the context of their...

, a cloud computing platform from salesforce.com

Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

. FinancialForce.com supplies Accounting, Billing

Billing

Billing may refer to:*The process of sending a bill to customers for goods or services is called billing...

, Professional Services Automation (PSA) and Services Resource Planning (SRP) applications.

Origins

FinancialForce.com was founded in 2009 with an investment from UNIT4, and salesforce.com

Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

. The resulting SaaS offering is a single-ledger design that enables real-time financial management.

The company started by specializing in accounting and billing solutions that are built on the Force.com platform, therefore making them closely coupled with Salesforce CRM applications. In December 2010, FinancialForce purchased Appirio's Professional Services Enterprise (PSE) product, which later was renamed FinancialForce Professional Services Automation.

Locations

FinancialForce.com is headquartered in San Mateo, California

San Mateo, California

, with EMEA headquarters in Harrogate

Harrogate

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, UK (which also covers the Asia Pacific region). Other offices are located in Manchester, NH and Lakewood, CO.

Products and services

FinancialForce Accounting is a financial management system that runs in the cloud. The product can be used for multi-dimensional analysis and is designed to support companies of all sizes. FinancialForce Accounting Spring '11 was released in June 2011.

Professional services automation software

Professional services automation software

Professional Services Automation is software designed to assist professionals, such as IT consultants, with project management and resource management for client projects...

is also a cloud-based services solution that is built on the Force.com platform. It allows companies to manage professional resources, customers, projects and financials in one integrated services management application. Because PSA works natively with Force.com, it utilizes the same data for sales, services and finance on one system.

FinancialForce Services Resource Planning connects Salesforce CRM, FinancialForce Accounting and FinancialForce PSA. It supports professional services organizations in managing sales-based activities, including the hand-off from sales to services, resource management, project & portfolio management, accounting and billing.

Mobile support

FinancialForce supports mobile usage through FinancialForce Mobile, along with the Force.com mobile application platform, supporting BlackBerry

BlackBerry

BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion since 1999.BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more...

, iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

and iPad

IPad

The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...

Awards and recognition

THINKstrategies, Inc., the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market, awarded FinancialForce.com the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award.

External links

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