Salesforce.com for Google Apps Announced.
April 14, 2008
This could be the Outlook / Office killer we’ve all been waiting for.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff announced today that Salesforce.com and Google have expanded their partnership and launched Salesforce for Google Apps, a complete integration between Salesforce.com and Google’s online office productivity apps.
See a video on YouTube here and the official Salesforce.com blog announcement here.
You can now use:
- Salesforce + Gmail
- Salesforce + Google Talk
- Salesforce+ Google Docs
- Salesforce + Google Calendar
- Salesforce + Google Start Page
From the official announcement:
Today, along with our global strategic partner, Google, we’re opening an exciting new chapter in The End of Software: Salesforce for Google Apps @ $10/user/month.
At an event in San Francisco today, salesforce.com and Google will announce Salesforce for Google Apps. We are expanding our successful partnership by combining the power of our award-winning CRM apps with Google’s on-demand Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs, spreadsheet, and presentation applications. Best of all, they are all seamless integrated. The Office has a new home in the cloud, and it’s now live to our more than 41,000 customers and 1.1 million subscribers around the world. We are also entering into a major reseller agreement with Google by offering our customers the opportunity to have a single source for support and billing for the most powerful combination of the best SaaS applications in the world.
Salesforce for Google Apps is built on a combination of Force.com and Google’s open platform, together the world’s largest cloud computing platform-as-a-service. This new phase of our partnership represents great opportunities for entrepreneurs around the world as the world’s largest cloud computing platform is now available for building the SaaS killer apps of tomorrow. The Force.com and Google platforms are making cloud computing ready for the enterprise.
Are you excited? What is this going to mean for businesses? What will the impact be? Post thoughts to comments.
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