Summary: FinancialForce keeps financial teams in the loop about salespipeline and progress update. Developed with force.com, the applicationsupports the Chatter collaboration tool.
摘要：FinancialForce团队坚持致力于销售链及过程改进，与force.com集成开发，应用程序支持的Chatter的协作工具。
Small businesses with an investment in the cloud customerrelationship management (CRM) application from Salesforce.com might want toconsider a companion service that handles both accounting and professionalservices automation.
小企业在投资运作Salesforce.com的云客户关系管理（CRM）时可能要考虑的是一个处理计算和专业服务自动化的配套服务。
The service, delivered by FinancialForce.com, was developedusing the force.com cloud-software delivery platform. What that means, in anutshell, is that the modules for the application are embedded into theSalesforce.com application, so that users only need one log-in and theinterface conventions look the same. Workflows can be passed back and forth.
FinancialForce.com交付的服务是基于force.com云的软件交付平台开发的。是什么意思，概括地说，是应用程序的模块嵌入到Salesforce.com应用程序，一旦用户登陆，接口看起来是一致的。工作流可以来回传递。
The benefit from a back-office standpoint is that salespipelines being managed in Salesforce.com can be kept in closer synchronizationwith invoicing, billing and expense workflows, said Tom Brennan, vice presidentof product marketing for FinancialForce.com. “You don’t see the lines betweenone and another,” he said.
FinancialForce.com产品营销副总裁汤姆布伦南说，从后台办公的角度来看的好处是被Salesforce.com托管的销售链信息可以保持更密切的发票，帐单和费用的工作流程的同步。 “你不会看到混乱的销售链信息”他说
So, for example, expense reports associated with customerprospecting activities could be generated as the salesperson is updating theprospect or account record with information about the visit.
因此，例如，有关于调研活动的费用报告，可以在销售人员更新调研活动或帐户记录与访问有关的信息时才生成。
FinancialForce.com is targeting businesses are primarilyservices based with its application; to make its cloud application moreappealing, it has created a series of mobile components, such as time entry,that can be used on the Apple iOS platform. Unlike some other accountingapplication, FinancialForce.com was also built from the ground up to handlemultinational business or accounts, Brennan said.
FinancialForce.com企业的目标主要是基于它的应用程序的服务，其云应用更具吸引力，它创造了一个系列移动部件，如时间输入，可以在苹果iOS平台使用。布伦南说，不像其他一些计算应用，FinancialForce.com也是从基础到处理跨国经营或账目起家的。
One other noteworthy feature: FinancialForce makes use ofthe Chatter collaboration tool, enabling users to comment on accounts orannotate workflows. FinancialForce.com suggests several potential uses for thisfeature. For example, a sales team could alert a series of employees about theprogress of an especially large deal, including not just the sales personnelbut also the finance team, which might offer pricing suggestions or paymentterms that might help close the deal.
另一个值得注意的特点：FinancialForce Chatter协作工具的使用，使用户可以发表评论帐户或注释工作流。 FinancialForce.com建议此功能的一些潜在的用途。例如，一个销售团队，通过通知一批相关人员有关特殊大单的进展情况，不仅仅是销售人员，还包括财务团队，这批涉及人员提供的定价建议或付款条件，这可能有助于达成交易的进展。
FinancialForce.com exited its beta test phase inmid-September 2011; it now has more than 20,000 users on its cloud servicesplatform. A typical one-year subscription cost for FinancialForce.com would runabout $9,000 for one year, depending on the number of users being supported,according to Brennan.
从汤姆布伦南得知，FinancialForce.com完成了其在2011年9月中旬的beta测试阶段，现在拥有超过20,000个用户使用云服务平台。一个典型的为期一年的订阅费用为FinancialForce.com运行一年约9,000元，取决于所支持的用户数量。
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