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Facebook and Salesforce.com create new opportunities for enterprise applications
03 November 2008
Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com and Facebook have introduced a new suite of tools to merge next-generation business productivity applications to the interpersonal power of social networks.
The new offering called Force.com for Facebook is designed to foster a global development community for Facebook's users and salesforce.com's 100,000 developers.
The new tools will bring together the Facebook and Force.com platforms to build new kinds of social and business applications. Force.com provides a complete feature set for the development and delivery of business applications. By leveraging the social graph data on Facebook Platform, developers will have the capability to create applications that take advantage of the best of both platforms.
Full support for FQL and API calls, FBML generation for native Facebook applications, xFBML support, profile presence support, custom components for Facebook Pages is available.
"Facebook users are always eager to try new applications that can improve their ability to connect and share in a trusted environment." said Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook.
"Our work with salesforce.com will give developers the tools to create and deliver a new class of business applications for Facebook's 120 million active users."
"We are seeing social meet CRM and the enterprise for the first time," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com.
"This is the premier social graph fully integrating with the premier enterprise cloud computing company - this is the true power of Internet."
Force.com for Facebook enables developers to easily use the Facebook APIs within their Force.com applications.
Force.com for Facebook is freely available at http://developer.force.com .
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