Integration

The Benefits of On-Demand Integration


A New Model for Integration Success

In addition to dramatically reducing the effort, time, and cost associated with application integration, Force.com Connect provides a host of benefits that will help you align your IT strategy with your business goals:

  • Simplified Integration Success
    Just as salesforce.com’s multitenant architecture simplifies deploying, customizing, and managing enterprise applications, having all customers share a common infrastructure and code base simplifies the integration task immensely. The Force.com on-demand platform includes the Force.com API, a single Web services API to easily access all standard and custom data stored in Salesforce. 

  • Integration Flexibility and Choice
    Solutions available through Force.com Connect can meet any integration need. With hundreds of pre-integrated applications and mash-ups, native connectors for ERP and desktop integrations, a wide range of middleware connectors provided by integration partners, and developer toolkits for complete freedom in developing complex custom integrations, we’ve got your integration needs covered. 

  • Proven Customer Success
    The salesforce.com community has reached a critical milestone—of 3.7 billion quarterly transactions, there are now more Force.com API transactions than Salesforce page views, making the Force.com API one of the most popular enterprise APIs available today. While these statistics illustrate the simplicity of Salesforce integrations, the phenomenal integration success stories of our customers tell the real story. With thousands of customers creating integrations with everything from Google maps to mission-critical data in their enterprise systems, salesforce.com proves that it supports the integration needs of organizations large and small.  

  • Rapid Time to Value
    Using the resources of salesforce.com and its integration partners, integrations now takes days or weeks, not months. Based on the Force.com API, native connectors, and middleware connectors from our integration partners, customer integrations with a variety of back-end systems are helping to streamline processes for recruitment, forecasting, order management, quoting and invoicing, and more. 

  • Efficient Resource Allocation
    By providing all the benefits of integration while reducing its complexity, businesses are freed to focus on their core competencies. Because partners know that all salesforce.com customers use the same version, the integration development burden can be shifted from the customer to the partner. Customers benefit because they can shift IT resources from infrastructure maintenance to creating business value.