Application integration with Force.com
Enterprise application integration is a business necessity today. And CRM integration is especially critical—, with sales success depending on seamless data exchange with corporate databases, ERP systems, and other key sources of customer information.
Application integration requires IT to unify diverse technologies and systems , and traditional on-premises CRM platforms have never really improved the situation. Now, the cloud-based Force.com platform is changing the landscape—and reducing the time and expense—of enterprise application integration.
Enterprise application integration made easy
A comprehensive array of technologies built on top of the Force.com API dramatically simplifies enterprise application integration. Whether you’re connecting your Sales Cloud to SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, or any other on-premises or cloud-based application, Force.com makes CRM integration easy. With Force.com you can integrate to anything—free of system incompatibilities, technical roadblocks, and the restrictions of vendor lock-in.
And Force.com makes it easy to integrate for partners as well as users. A single, native Force.com solution is all every salesforce.com customer needs.
CRM integration: Choose the best route for your needs
With Force.com you can satisfy your specific technical, business and user needs. You can mix and match proven paths, complete application integration in less time, and realise greater value from the systems you’ve already invested in.
- Native connectors to popular office tools. With Force.com’s proven, native connectors you can easily integrate your CRM with everyday office tools such as Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes. This ensures everyone in your organisation adopts Salesforce CRM .
- Native connectors for Oracle and SAP. salesforce.com also supplies native connectors for both Oracle and SAP, simplifying enterprise application integration and ensuring seamless data exchange. Once deployed, they provide bidirectional customer data synchronisation plus prebuilt customer-master integration templates for a consistent customer view across all systems.
- Application integration middleware. All popular middleware platforms and solutions work smoothly with Force.com. Browse the AppExchange under Integration and Data Management and you’ll discover more than 160 certified, pre-packaged partner solutions for enterprise application integration between Salesforce CRM and widely used back-office and legacy systems. These solutions provide the flexibility and predictability you need to get the most from Salesforce CRM while maximising your existing investment in SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Quicken, Microsoft Dynamics, and many more. You can choose from prebuilt ERP connectors, middleware and SOA platforms, integration appliances, mashups and composites, computer telephony integration (CTI), and ETL and data integration.
- Application integration services and solutions. Visit the AppExchange under Integration and Data Management, and you’ll also find more than 75 technology partners offering deep enterprise application integration experience and a track record of hundreds of successful Salesforce CRM integration projects..
- In fact, over 800-applications and components are waiting for you on the AppExchange. And because each and every one is pre-integrated and many are 100 percent native on Force.com, application integration is as easy as a single mouse click.
- Developer toolkits. For do-it-yourself CRM integrations—and enterprise application integration in general—Force.com includes support for all major development tools and IDEs, such as .NET, Java, PHP, the AJAX Toolkit, and many more.
Force.com application integration points range from off-the-shelf native ERP connectors to Web services, email, syndication feeds, and HTTP-based REST callouts. The Force.com API enables integration with other languages and environments, providing the basis for in-browser mashups.
Hands-on developers can call Web services right from the Force.com platform or expose classes on the platform as Web service end-points. You can also work with external HTTP end-points, react to incoming email messages, and send automated outbound messages when various events occur. With just a little more sophistication, you can perform enterprise application integration with the SOAP-based Force.com API.
Application integration with other clouds
You can also use the Force.com platform to tap into the power and reach of the most popular cloud services and social networks, such as Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Google AppEngine, and Twitter.
- Connect with Amazon S3 and EC2. You can easily integrate Force.com and Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the Force.com for Amazon Web Services toolkit. Blending native access to the AWS Simple Storage System with Amazon Machine Images (AMI) and an authentication framework, the toolkit makes these Amazon services directly available to Force.com. You can access and manipulate S3 objects within the Java-like Force.com code (Apex). You can then launch application integration with EC2.
- Combine Facebook with Force.com. For CRM integration with Facebook, all you need is our free set of tools and services: Force.com for Facebook. Right from within Force.com code, you can use the Facebook APIs to build user experiences and social graph apps that link to the database, application integration, logic, and the Force.com pages (Visualforce) features of Force.com sites.
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