Salesforce.com and Google Expand Global Strategic Alliance With Force.com for Google App Engine
Salesforce.com, (NYSE: CRM) the enterprise cloud computing company, today
announced an expansion of its global strategic alliance with Google with the
availability of Force.com for Google App Engine(TM). Force.com for Google App
Engine is a new set of tools and services to enable developer success with
application development in the cloud. The new offering brings together
Force.com and Google App Engine, connecting two of the industry’s leading
cloud computing platforms and enabling the creation of entirely new Web and
business applications. Force.com for Google App Engine builds on the
relationship between salesforce.com and Google, spanning philanthropy,
business applications, social networks and cloud computing.
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“We have an open vision for cloud computing,” said
and CEO, salesforce.com. “Developers now can take advantage of the easy to use
and rapidly scalable cloud computing infrastructures from Google and
salesforce.com to build and deliver powerful business applications.”
“At Google, as at salesforce.com, we are committed to enabling developer
success with cloud computing,” said Tom Stocky, director of product management
at Google. “Bringing together Google App Engine and Force.com will foster the
creation of new Web applications and further demonstrate the power of the Web
as a platform.”
Force.com for Google App Engine – Connecting the Clouds
Force.com for Google App Engine provides a new set of tools and services
that will foster the creation of new kinds of Web and business applications
built and delivered entirely in the cloud. Instead of managing and maintaining
their own client/server infrastructure, developers can use cloud computing
infrastructure from Google and salesforce.com to build, run and deliver new
applications on the Web. Web applications developed on App Engine are easy to
build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as traffic and data storage needs
grow. App Engine offers a rich developer community and libraries to power
consumer-oriented interactive web applications.
Similarly, Force.com provides developers a complete environment to quickly
build business applications that run on salesforce.com’s trusted global
infrastructure. Now, consumer-oriented Web applications built on App Engine
can leverage enterprise data stored in Force.com.
For end users of these applications, the integration of Force.com and
Google App Engine means that applications can be powered by both systems while
providing a seamless user experience and the trust and reliability of two of
the world’s leading cloud computing platforms.
Using Force.com for Google App Engine, developers can build applications
that span both salesforce.com and Google’s cloud computing platforms, and take
advantage of the sum of their features as desired. Force.com for Google App
Engine provides:
-- A means to leverage Python in a scalable cloud environment and interact
directly with database, workflow and logic capabilities in Force.com.
-- Force.com for Google App Engine enables the creation of Python
libraries that when placed on Google App Engine, allow App Engine apps
to read and write to Force.com using the Force.com API.
-- App Engine developers get access to Force.com services and capabilities
including mobile, analytics, security and sharing models, user
authentication, multi-language and currency support and more.
“In times like these, companies are asking for ways they can take
advantage of the low-cost and low-risk benefits of cloud computing for their
enterprise application development projects,” said
Appirio, a leading salesforce.com and Google Enterprise partner. “Force.com
for Google App Engine brings together the leaders in cloud computing to help
address those needs and allows corporate IT to easily scale up or down to meet
changing business conditions.”
Building on Success
The companies have been working together to advance philanthropic causes
as well as the benefits of cloud computing for developers and customers.
Beginning in 2003 with joint work around the creation of Google.org, the
alliance has been extended to work together on mashups, Salesforce for Google
AdWords(TM), Group Edition featuring Google AdWords, OpenSocial, Salesforce
for Google Apps(TM), Force.com for Google Data APIs and now Force.com for
Google App Engine.
More than 5,000 salesforce.com customers are using Google Apps today, and
more than 10,000 are using Salesforce for Google AdWords. And, 5 of the top 10
most popular applications on the Force.com AppExchange marketplace come from
Google-related partners, demonstrating the growing developer opportunity and
customer demand for third-party applications that leverage multiple cloud
computing platforms.
Force.com for Google App Engine – Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing
for Developers
Force.com for Google App Engine will help developers create new Web and
business applications that leverage the capabilities of App Engine, at the
same time allowing access to Force.com data and APIs from directly within App
Engine projects and applications. Force.com for App Engine includes:
-- Getting started guide
-- Python library documentation
-- Examples showing Python code accessing Force.com
-- Testing harness for the provided library
-- Wiki FAQ page on developer.force.com with best practices, latest tips
and tricks
Availability
Force.com for Google App Engine is freely available at
http://developer.force.com/appengine and at http://code.google.com.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company’s
portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM, available at
http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that
customers manage and share business information over the Internet. The
company’s Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners to build
powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy
across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.com platform, available
at http://www.force.com/, can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a
few simple clicks via salesforce.com’s Force.com AppExchange marketplace
available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.
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