Google Teaming Up With Salesforce.com
April 14th, 2008 | by admin |
It is being reported that the search engine giant Google is set to announce a partnership with Salesforce.com.
The partnership will result in Google’s new Apps software teaming up with customer relationship management offered by salesforce, in otherwards, a sheer nightmare for rival Microsoft.
Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, said, as quoted by PC World: “The combination of our leading CRM applications and Google’s business productivity applications pushes forward the transformation of the industry to cloud computing. The end of software is here.”
Currently a beta version of the joint venture is in circulation, and the entire idea was brought about by users of the site.
Benioff added that with the joint venture, people will be more able to use services that are relative to everyday computer related tasks, meaning that they are offering a solution that is better suited to the computer user than is Microsofts’ Office.
“In the history of hosted software to date, applications could be like islands,” said Dave Girouard, Google’s vice president and general manager. “They don’t really work together seamlessly. This is a first of its kind.”
