Salesforce.com
is adding support for
Google
Apps to its
Force.com
service. The initiative will tie Google's App engine to the Force.com hosted
enterprise software system.
The engine will enable Force.com users to craft new Google Apps which use
data and components from the Salesforce.com service.
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The new feature completes an
interoperability
project which Salesforce.com and Google have been attempting since last
summer, when Salesforce.com began adding support for Google's hosted services to
Force.com.
"We have an open vision for cloud computing," said Salesforce.com founder and
chief executive Marc Benioff.
"Developers now can take advantage of the easy-to-use and rapidly scalable
cloud computing infrastructures from Google and Salesforce.com to build and
deliver powerful business applications."
Salesforce.com began as an online provider of customer relationship
management software, and has since branched out into a hosted service-oriented
architecture system provider with Force.com.
Google, meanwhile, has focused its efforts on producing an online
productivity and communications suite with Google Apps.
The two companies feel that their services are largely complementary, and the
deal has led to some speculation that Google may be considering a future
acquisition of Salesforce.com.
The Wall Street Journal reported last year that the two sides were
in
direct
talks on an acquisition deal.
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