Salesforce for Google Apps Offers Cloud Business

By: Bill Waters
Published: Apr 14, 2008
Updated: Mar 18, 2010

Salesforce for Google Apps is a simple, yet powerful combination of essential applications which enables businesses to effectively communicate and collaborate.

Salesforce.com, Inc., makers of the Customer Relationship Management suite, and Google, Inc. have announced a global strategic alliance to make it easy for companies of all sizes to run their business in the cloud.

Salesforce for Google Apps is a combination of the Google Apps suite and the Salesforce suite of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) which enables businesses to effectively communicate and collaborate without any hardware or software to download. The collaboration also opens up more development opportunities for developers and partners.

"Google and salesforce.com have always had similar models and philosophies about delivering innovations made possible by the Internet," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. "Salesforce.com was a pioneer in Software-as-a-Service and a year ago we joined them in this mission to bring the benefits of cloud computing to businesses of all types. Together, we are making more applications and services available online so customers can focus on building their core business rather than the applications that support it."

Both salesforce.com and Google have noticeably altered the software landscape by delivering SaaS applications, for CRM and productivity respectively, over the Internet. As of Monday, this shift in the technology industry is being referred to as cloud computing, and salesforce.com and Google are well poised to deliver it to the enterprise.

Salesforce for Google Apps is a simple, yet powerful combination of essential applications for business productivity including email, calendaring, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, instant messaging while CRM enables an entirely new way for business professionals to communicate, collaborate, and work together in real time over the Web.

Salesforce for Google Apps is available as of Monday to all salesforce.com customers at no extra charge.

Salesforce.com also will be offering Salesforce for Google Apps Supported, a package that includes integrated telephone end user support, unified billing and provisioning, enhanced platform APIs, added third party applications, and advanced Google Apps functionality, all for $10 per user, per month.