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Platform as a Service: Visualforce is Here

Summer '08 delivers breakthrough technologies that let you build any user interface and any application on Force.com. With Visualforce now generally available in every edition, it's easy to build custom user interfaces using Visualforce and new custom components from the Force.com developer community.

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Software as a Service: Success for Your Entire Community

Summer '08 delivers breakthrough applications for your communities with Salesforce Content and Ideas now globally available in the Customer and Partner Portals. And with more than 50 new CRM features and our new Salesforce for Google Apps office, it's easier than ever to collaborate with your employees, customers, and partners.

Salesforce for Google Apps | Salesforce Content | Salesforce Ideas

 

Key Highlights from Summer '08

 


Build Any User Interface, Any Application with Visualforce

A breakthrough for the Force.com platform as a service, Visualforce, generally available in all editions, let’s you create your own user interfaces, both for your Salesforce applications and any custom applications your users need.

Create Your Own User Interface: With the first-and-only user interface tool delivered as a service, you can customize existing Salesforce interfaces or create entirely new interfaces for your custom applications.

Deliver the Right Interface, Wherever It’s Needed: Different users… unique information… diverse devices. With Visualforce, you can deliver the right experience for every user in any scenario, whether you’re designing an interface for a field-service person using a handheld device, a consumer using a kiosk, or a machine operator with a tablet on the machine shop floor.

Leverage Our Library of Components: Visualforce has over 50 components that correspond to standard Salesforce.com user interface elements. You can also create and leverage your own custom components to decrease development time.

 

  
  

Salesforce for Google Apps: A New Way to Work

Salesforce for Google Apps is transforming businesses by providing the most commonly used business applications as a service. Salesforce for Google Apps is a simple, yet powerful combination of your applications that work together and make it incredibly easy for users to communicate, collaborate, and share business information. Take your business communication and collaboration to a new level with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Docs all working seamlessly within Salesforce. 


Manage and Share Content with Your Community

Summer '08 revolutionizes how you share unstructured content such as documents, presentations, and much more.  Through the use of Salesforce Content in the Customer and Partner Portals, you can  provide your user community rapid access to documents, track which materials are most useful, and collaborate to get more value from the content you create.  With global availability of Salesforce Content, you can collaborate with employees, customers, and partners worldwide, in their local languages.  The Salesforce Content application takes the best features of the consumer web and applies them to enterprise content management. 



Build a Community of Ideas

The Summer 08 release reinvents the way that organizations source and manage the best ideas from their communities. With Salesforce Ideas, you can build your own community Web sites to collaborate directly with your employees, customers, partners, or other communities in an interactive, online forum. Just like on the consumer Web, the best ideas bubble to the top as your customers and partners vote in the Salesforce Customer and Partner Portal.