Salesforce.com Delivers First Client/Service System Built Exclusively with Java; Sun ONE Portal and Identity Server the Foundation for Salesforce.com's Trusted Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2003 Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) and salesforce.com, the world leader in delivering software-as-service, today announced an expansion of their global strategic alliance to bring the advantages of sforce, the salesforce.com client/services application development builder, to enterprises via the Web using open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced . In related news, salesforce.com also announced its membership in the Liberty Alliance, an industry group dedicated to developing open standards for federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. network identity (see accompanying release Salesforce.com Joins Liberty Alliance Project). Sun is a founding member of the Liberty Alliance (www.projectliberty.org). Using the Liberty Alliance specifications, salesforce.com will become a trusted identity provider within "circles of trust" it will build and develop for partners, developer communities and customers. To build this Liberty-enabled circle of trust, salesforce.com is joining with Sun to use the Sun(TM) Open Network Environment (Sun ONE(TM)) Identity Server, the industry's first commercially available product to support the Liberty specification v1.1 and SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) An XML-based format from OASIS for exchanging security information for single sign-on. The "assertions" are statements from a SAML authority that authenticate a user, confirm some attribute about the individual and grant or . Sun's network identity technologies deliver the infrastructure foundation for circles of trust, allowing partners in the trust circle to federate fed·er·ate v. fed·er·at·ed, fed·er·at·ing, fed·er·ates v.tr. To cause to join into a league, federal union, or similar association. v.intr. To become united into a federal union. identities across multiple sites and improve and enhance the user's Web experience. With salesforce.com's launch of sforce, developers are able to create extensions to their salesforce.com CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. service. Companies can use these modules or extensions with the Sun ONE Portal Server (1) A network server that deploys portal services to a public Web site or internal intranet. See portal. (2) An application that is used to develop, deliver and maintain a Web portal. to integrate CRM with other proposal or billing systems. Sforce developers can also use Sun ONE Portal Server for other Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. created by sforce. Thus, companies residing within salesforce.com's circle of trust will be able to publish and consume Web services as well as utilize the Liberty Alliance specification to federate identities. This solution will allow customers to integrate high-value, personalized content with corporate applications while quickly improving employee productivity. "Sforce utilizes a Java platform to reduce the complexity and risk of application development so that companies can reduce demand on IT resources, easily create new business applications in a centralized and secure environment and speed integration time with existing applications," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , salesforce.com. "Through this important alliance, developers and enterprises can leverage the Sun ONE Identity and Portal Servers, using client/service computing to create new portal applications and integrate with existing applications, at greatly reduced cost and security risk. Sforce is changing how applications are built as significantly as salesforce.com has changed how applications are being delivered." "Utilizing Solaris Operating Systems, the Java platform, and now the core Sun ONE technologies for building the identity foundation for secure Java Web services, salesforce.com via sforce reduces the complexity and risk of application development, while at the same time providing developers with easy access to a secure enterprise class deployment environment," said Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of software, Sun Microsystems, Inc. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com. About salesforce.com Salesforce.com is the world's leader in delivering software-as-service. It offers the award-winning salesforce.com family of products for integrated online sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. , customer service and support management, and marketing automation applications to help companies meet the complex challenges of global customer communication. It has also introduced sforce, a new service that will change how applications are built as significantly as salesforce.com changed how applications are delivered. The company has over 6,700 customers in 110 countries running its services in 10 languages. Founded in 1999, salesforce.com is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, Sun ONE, JavaOne and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Salesforce.com and The End of Software are registered trademarks of salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, Calif. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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