Salesforce for Google Apps

Here’s another exam­ple of a web-based appli­ca­tion suite for enter­prises: Google has announced a new ver­sion of Sales­force for Google Apps.

Sales­force is a sales man­age­ment suite that lets com­pa­nies man­age cus­tomer lists, related email and other sales-related information.

Con­nect­ing Gmail’s enter­prise edi­tion and the Google Cal­en­dar to Sales­force helps com­pa­nies keep con­trol of sales infor­ma­tion. Data from other Google Apps, includ­ing spread­sheets and pre­sen­ta­tions, can be con­nected via Sales­force and stored in Google’s servers, not on vul­ner­a­ble mobile computers.

I won­der how long it will take Microsoft, Ora­cle, ACT and other com­peti­tors to respond.

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