This is the same reason I rolled out Salesforce for a couple workflow apps for a few teams in our company. I could bootstrap a .Net/Java/whatever app to do the

This is the same reason I rolled out Salesforce for a couple workflow apps for a few teams in our company. I could bootstrap a .Net/Java/whatever app to do the same thing, but our team is swamped with a backlog years long - I could only afford a couple days to develop and release this so a dozen Force.com licenses ended up saving tons on development and ongoing maintenance costs.