Pre-Integrated Apps

Fastest Way to Integration Success

With the AppExchange, salesforce.com provides the only marketplace for on-demand applications, including pre-integrated enterprise applications and CRM extensions that are available with the click of a button. Many of the over 700 solutions in the AppExchange marketplace are enterprise mash-ups based on Web services. These solutions display data from different sources in an at-a-glance format—such as dashboards, maps, interactive graphs, or other highly interactive interfaces. Pioneered as consumer services by vendors such as Amazon.com, Google, and eBay, such applications have changed user expectations—people now expect all software to be easy and intuitive to use.

From CRM Extensions to Enterprise Apps

Examples of available mash-ups include email marketing, data management, order management, product configuration, and analytics. Created by salesforce.com, customers, developers, and partners, you can browse and test drive these apps, install them with a click, and run them on the Force.com platform alongside existing on-demand applications. Using point-and-click tools, you can easily customize these solutions and benefit from a key on-demand advantage—automated upgrades that leave your customizations and integrations intact.

Mash-ups: The Future of Integration is Now

While traditional integrations connect and map to systems that are typically closed and proprietary, Web services are by definition open and accessible. As a result, data exchange between two Web services is as easy as if they were on the same computer, with all the advantages of a multitenant platform. Web services can be integrated with existing data warehouses and ERP systems as well, making it possible to combine data from any source in a mash-up.