Salesforce.com announces Microsoft Office System sforce Developer Program.Salesforce.com Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is an on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution vendor. History Origins Salesforce.com was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff. , a provider of on-demand On-Demand refers to a service or feature which addresses the user's need for instant gratification and immediacy of use. In most cases the value proposition for an on-demand service is wrapped up in the fact that the user or consumer of the service avoids a significant up-front customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ), recently announced the creation of the sforce Developer Program for Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. . Through this program, millions of developers building on Microsoft Office 2000 or newer versions will have access to free tools and resources to help them create solutions that integrate key sales, marketing and support information directly into the Microsoft Office System productivity applications, including Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. and Microsoft Office Word. Together, these solutions allow Salesforce.com's approximately 214,000 subscribers and 13,300 customers worldwide to extend how they share and manage information, combining the success of on-demand with the productivity of Office. The new Microsoft Office System integrations are accomplished through sforce, salesforce.com's client/service integration platform. Today, a variety of systems and platforms, including enterprise applications, desktop solutions, mobile devices and IP phone systems, integrate with salesforce.com and Supportforce.com via the sforce Web service API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. , making key business information available to users from all of their favorite applications and tools. The sforce Developer Program for the Microsoft Office System includes the sforce Toolkit An integrated set of software routines or utilities (tools) that are used to develop and maintain applications and databases. There are toolkits for developing almost anything. See tool, developer's toolkit, library, class library and CASE. for Office, designed to make it easy for developers to access the sforce API directly from within those products, simplifying the creation of new integrations and Office-based solutions; Office Directory in On-Demand Marketplace, which was launched last year, is being extended to include a new category for Office solutions, allowing developers and ISVs to easily reach salesforce.com's customer base; and Sforce Developer Community, which now includes dedicated message boards for developers creating Office solutions, as well as popular open source projects demonstrating how integrations can be used, including the sforce Connector for Excel. www.salesforce.com For information and subscriptions, visit www.TMCnet.com or call 203-852-6800. |
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