Salesforce is the World’s no.1 CRM platform because of its highly usable, scalable, and customizable capabilities for each business and Salesforce AppExchange is the most extensive marketplace offering tools and apps built to extend the functionalities of the Salesforce platform to meet the specific business needs of Salesforce customers. Salesforce AppExchange tools’ market size is estimated to reach USD 1130828.92 million by 2028 from USD 41627.13 million in 2022, with a CAGR of 73.38 percent. The staggering growth of AppExchange Marketplace reflects the increasing usage of tools and apps by Salesforce users globally (i.e., over 1,50,000 customers). Who builds these tools and apps for Salesforce AppExchange? Of course, the Salesforce PDOs.
Salesforce Product Development Outsourcers (PDO partners) either solely or collectively build and list these purpose-built apps and tools with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other businesses. PDOs play a crucial role in the success and growth of ISVs and other businesses by turning their ideas into commercial business apps. This blog discusses the top four reasons to choose the right PDO partner for the sustainable success of your commercial business app on Salesforce AppExchange.
How does Salesforce PDO help you in building products?
A Salesforce PDO possesses deep functional and technical expertise in offering custom Salesforce-based solutions and products. Upon partnering with a PDO partner, their team works as an extension of your team and takes complete ownership, responsibility, and accountability of the product development lifecycle from initial conceptualization to development, deployment, training, and ongoing support.
Top 4 reasons to consider choosing the right Salesforce PDO partner:
Continuous Guidance: A professional PDO provides expert guidance from the discovery and analysis phase to understand the feasibility of proposed ideas and brainstorm with your teams to define the features and functionalities of the proposed product. This helps you to refine your vision, translate it into actionable plans, and ensure alignment with Salesforce best practices and industry standards. At the same time, your Salesforce PDO partner designs the solution architecture and drafts detailed documentation to lead the development process from analysis, planning, and architectural designing to listing products on Salesforce AppExchange.
Rapid Development: Before leveraging technical prowess, a PDO partner seeks your approval on the proposed strategy for integrated product development on Salesforce. Further, your Salesforce PDO partner builds the app, ensures the streamlining of the development process, maintains high-quality standards with rigorous testing, and accelerates time to market. In this phase, the PDO partner’s efficiency and expertise are invaluable in reducing the costs, efforts, and time for product development.
Constant Innovation and Security Checks: A visionary and expert Salesforce PDO partner team develops your product with cutting-edge features and functionalities, ensuring it remains competitive and relevant in the market for the coming years with continuous upgrades. The PDO partner’s team also conducts thorough security assessments regularly to protect data as per Salesforce security standards.
Product Listing and Promotion: An ideal Salesforce PDO partner knows how to handle increased user loads or extend product capabilities and scale effortlessly, besides ensuring the product passes the security checks in the first go while listing it on Salesforce AppExchange. Thus, following and executing the marketing strategies and guidelines given by the PDO partner team makes it easier to list the product and increase product visibility on the Salesforce AppExchange Marketplace.
As a Salesforce PDO partner, Dextara has assisted renowned companies to #Build>Great> products on Salesforce. Our highly skilled and certified Salesforce developers, architects, and consultants focus on the quality and performance of the products we deliver to our Clients. With years of deep Salesforce expertise, Dextara offers industry-specific solutions emphasizing customer satisfaction, leveraging the latest technologies and methodologies to provide innovative, future-proof solutions that drive business growth.
Have an outstanding revenue-generating app idea? Talk to our team at sales@dextara.com. Let’s collaborate and innovate!