The Benefits of a Force Platform App
To better understand what the platform is best suited for, let’s look beyond the core elements of tabs, forms, and links, and into the types of applications they enable. Two huge benefits start to come into focus when you look across Force Platform apps in general: they’re both data-centric and collaborative.
Data-Centric Apps
Because the platform is centered around a database, it allows you to write apps that are data-centric. A data-centric app is an application that is based on structured, consistent information such as you might find in a database or an XML file. We can find these data-centric apps everywhere, in small desktop databases like Microsoft Access or FileMaker, all the way to the huge systems ...
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