Certinia Professional Services Cloud vs Function Point

Certinia Professional Services Cloud connects sales, staffing, project delivery, billing, and renewals for services businesses. The product is native to Salesforce and uses Salesforce customer records, user experience, and analytics. Projects, resources, and financials share one platform, with listed capabilities including resource planning, time tracking, utilization reporting, project financials, billing and invoicing, and a client portal. Veda adds intelligence across the services lifecycle using operational data. The service runs on web and API platforms and is paid, with pricing available on request. Open RESTful and SOAP APIs support CRUD operations, asynchronous bulk loads, near-real-time data streams, and social collaboration features. Named partners include Avalara, Concur, DocuSign, Expensify, Microsoft Outlook, MuleSoft, Plaid, Xactly, and Zenkraft. Application data resides on Salesforce cloud infrastructure under shared security responsibility. Certinia lists penetration testing, code review, scanning, release approvals, remediation, hardening, and monitoring.

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