About Us
CloudForward was created to assist Salesforce.com customers in maximizing their investment by delivering low cost, high value integration and training programs customized to match your specific needs. CF works with you to focus on individual company and industry specifics to seize opportunities and allow you to reach immediate and long term goals faster and with more control. Guaranteed!
Feel free to call us now at 1-415-202-5221 for any help regarding Salesforce.com integration, data management, customization, or training.
Vision 
Our vision closely matches the vision of cloud computing, with one small twist. We seek to make cloud computing as customized and personal to your business needs and objectives as possible.
Why Salesforce? 
Over 1,000,000 people are using Salesforce to manage their client, customer, and donor information. Salesforce, as a cloud computing platform, is inheriting the earth right now, in a technological sense. Salesforce has managed to become the platform where just about anything is possible, through its approach to openness, standards, and its investment in its data centers and related technologies that has made it so reliable.
Why not Salesforce? 
Without the right technology partner, the Salesforce ecosystem and platform can be a little intimidating. We specialize in understanding exactly where you are coming from, and meeting you there, so you will find at least the success on the platform that everyone else is having, hopefully more!
Team 
Alan Marcus
CloudForward was founded by Alan Marcus, a recognized official Salesforce.com implementation and consulting partner. Before founding CF Alan worked directly for Salesforce and was ultimately selected to teach and deliver their Administrator courses. During his tenure he recognized a critical need to help Salesforce customers fully utilize the Salesforce platform. He created CloudForward to fill this important growing niche market. He is a well respected expert in this field.
David Thomson
David Thomson is a seasoned technology executive with almost 20 years experience in the technology industry. He has held various development, sales, and management positions at companies such as the Shiva Corporation, Inergy Online, Open Market, and Cisco. His consulting engagements over the past eight years have given him experience working with many types of financial services companies such as hedge funds, broker dealers, private equity firms, venture capital firms, and real estate firms. He is also a founder of a leading cloud computing user group, Silver Lining.