Friday, 27 June 2008

Salesforce Delivers New Toolkit for Google Data APIs

Salesforce.com has expanded its alliance with Google, making it easier for developers to harness the power of cloud computing for Web and business application development and deployment.

The new Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs provides a set of tools and services to empower
developers to take advantage of Google Data APIs, a common set of standard APIs for interacting with data in Google services, within their applications and projects on Force.com.

The new toolkit, which is based on a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model, aims to help developers bring together data and content in Google Apps with the database, logic and workflow capabilities in Force.com.

"Bringing together the Google and salesforce.com platforms will enable the creation of powerful new applications delivered completely in the cloud," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com.

"Developers now can take advantage of the virtually unlimited power and infrastructure of multiple cloud computing architectures from Google and salesforce.com to build the next-generation of business applications."

The new Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs is avaialbe for free at http://developer.force.com/ and http://code.google.com/p/apex-google-data