Salesforce Adds Google Apps Integration In Deal With Google

Boston (dbTechno) - Salesforce.com and Google have finally made a deal official, stating the two companies have joined to enhance Google Apps. Salesforce.com will be integrated into Google Apps. Their CRM (customer relationship management) applications will be available Salesforce.com customers.

The deal between Salesforce and Google will be made official later on Monday.

Salesforce.com customers will have the option to use versions of Google Apps linked to the site.

Salesforce.com, in the past, has offered similar integration with Microsoft Office as well as Outlook. This is the first time they have branched out though for Web-based applications.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt put out a statement saying the two companies “always had similar models and philosophies.”

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff stated “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.”

They will not charge for the integration with Google Apps, it will be free for customers.

Some customers have already tried it out via beta test mode.