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Integration with Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is used by millions of people for sales-force automation, CRM, case
management, and much more. In addition to the Software as a Service offerings like
Salesforce.com CRM, Salesforce.com's Force.com platform powers high-traffic
collaborating on numerous solutions since the launch of Google Apps to bring the two
cloud offerings together.
Before App Engine was released, Google and Salesforce.com had 10 integration
options that were shipping with every Salesforce.com org. In Salesforce.com
vernacular, an “org” is the equivalent of an “environment,” or, more generally
speaking, the segregated section of a customer's data in the multitenant
environment. Recall from our earlier discussions that multitenant environments
allow multiple customers to share the same data and application tiers while
maintaining segregation of the actual customer data.
From attaching documents to synchronizing your contact lists, combining Google
Apps, App Engine, and Salesforce.com made it possible to build more complex
application architectures that met more business requirements without reverting to
on-premise software. If you're building a business application for a company that
uses one of Salesforce.com's offerings, you can quickly integrate the two platforms
using the Force.com toolkit for Google App Engine. In the following section you'll
create a Salesforce.com development org and integrate it with App Engine.
