At its annual Dreamforce user conference, Salesforce.com announced new offerings to please developers, including a new integrated development environment for Salesforce CRM Winter '09 and a new Force.com Sites offering.Salesforce.com ushered in its annual Dreamforce conference with a
slew of announcements, including partnerships with key platform
companies such as Facebook and Amazon.com, enhancements to its
Force.com platform, and enhancements to its core CRM solution.
At Dreamforce in San Francisco, Salesforce.com, which refers to
itself as "the enterprise cloud computing company," announced to
thousands of its users and developers that its Salesforce CRM Winter
'09 release has gone live. And with more than 50 new features,
Salesforce CRM Winter '09 enables customers to manage their customer
interactions across sales, marketing and customer service. Salesforce
CRM is built on the Force.com platform.
Company officials said Salesforce CRM is helping more than 47,700
enterprises and 1.1 million subscribers better serve their customers
without any of the cost, risk or complexity of traditional, on-premises
software.
Meanwhile, for developers, Salesforce.com delivered the Force.com
IDE (integrated development environment) for Winter '09. In an
interview with eWEEK, Peter Coffee, director of platform research at
Salesforce.com, cited the new IDE as one of many highlights for
developers among the Dreamforce announcements.
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