Application integration with Force.com
For today’s organisations, enterprise application integration is a business necessity. All components of your IT infrastructure must fit together so that applications talk to each other, and business prospers. CRM integration is critical— here. Sales success depends on seamless data exchange with corporate databases, ERP systems, and other key sources of customer information.
In the past, IT found it tough to unify these diverse technologies and systems for application integration. And traditional on-premises CRM platforms never really improved the situation. Today, the cloud-based Force.com platform is changing this, 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 simplifies enterprise application integration. Whether connecting your Sales Cloud to SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, or any other on-premises or cloud-based application, Force.com makes CRM integration easy. In fact, with Force.com you can integrate to anything—free of system incompatibilities, technical roadblocks, and vendor lock-in restrictions.
Force.com makes application integration easy for partners as well as users too. All a salesforce.com customer needs is a single, native Force.com solution .
CRM integration: Select the best route to suit your needs
With Force.com you realise greater value from your systems. You can mix and match various proven paths, complete your application integration in less time, and satisfy the specific technical, business and user needs of your organisation.
- Native connectors to popular office tools. With Force.com’s proven, native connectors it’s easy to integrate your CRM with everyday office tools like Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes. You impact on sales and gain adoption of Salesforce CRM throughout your organisation.
- Native connectors for Oracle and SAP. Are you tired of trying to access decades of data siloed in your legacy systems? And what would you give for a consistent view of your financials in Oracle and your customer master data in SAP? Many organisations desperately want solutions to these drags on user productivity, process efficiency, and customer satisfaction. That’s why salesforce.com supplies native connectors for both Oracle and SAP: to simplify enterprise application integration and ensure 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. And to ensure you speed time-to-value for routine ERP integration projects, you also get packaged transformation of customer records.
- 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.
- Application integration services and solutions. Visit the AppExchange under Integration and Data Management, and you’ll also find more than 75 technology partners with a track record of hundreds of successful Salesforce CRM integration projects.< li>
- Preintegrated apps, components, and extensions.Want to extend Salesforce CRM integration to further automate and simplify your processes and workflows? Add functionality specific to your industry? How about expanding your Sales Cloud beyond CRM, by integrating diverse business applications that handle risk management, finance and administration, business intelligence, and lots more? You’ll find over 800-applications and components on the AppExchange.
- 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 certain events occur. With just a little more sophistication, you can integrate enterprise applications with the SOAP-based Force.com API.
Application integration with other clouds
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.
- Connecting 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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