Toolkit Helps Corporate and ISV Developers Create On-Demand Applications for
The Business Web(TM)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - EclipseCon, March 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the technology and market leader in on-demand
customer relationship management (CRM), today announced it has joined the
Eclipse Foundation and released a new AppExchange Toolkit for Eclipse.
Available as a free download from the AppExchange Developer Network
(http://developer.appexchange.com), the Toolkit provides developers with tools
to customize, integrate and build on-demand applications on the AppExchange
platform. ISVs and corporate IT organization developers alike can use the
AppExchange Toolkit for Eclipse to create applications for use in existing
Salesforce deployments or for sharing and distribution via the AppExchange.
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Built on the popular Eclipse development platform framework, the Toolkit
extends Eclipse beyond traditional software development and provides
developers with a robust development, debugging and testing environment to
create on-demand applications and mashups for the AppExchange. With the
Toolkit, developers can directly access and explore the AppExchange data model
and objects, extend the AppExchange's native Web presentation capabilities,
and build and debug applications and mashups that use the popular AppExchange
AJAX toolkit. Because the Toolkit is built on the Eclipse Web Tools Project
(WTP), developers get code editing, source control and project management
features out of the box, for free.
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on
providing an extensible platform for application development. Salesforce.com
is joining the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Provider. As an Add-in
Provider, salesforce.com will stay abreast of all the projects in the Eclipse
open source community, and help shape the direction of Eclipse's support for
on-demand application development. Other Add-In Providers to the Eclipse
Foundation include Business Objects, iWay, Macromedia, Mercury, SAS, and
webMethods.
"We are delighted to have salesforce.com join the Eclipse Foundation,"
said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation.
"Salesforce.com has shown how on demand will change not only how applications
are delivered, but also how they are built. Uniting the technology of Eclipse
and the power of salesforce.com's Web services is a win-win for developers."
More than forty percent of salesforce.com's transactions take place via
the AppExchange Web services API, making AppExchange one of the world's most
widely used enterprise Web services. With the toolkit, Eclipse developers can
easily leverage this API to build on-demand applications, and combine
salesforce.com with other services to create new business mashups. Giving
developers the power to easily combine Web services to create new on-demand
applications is a cornerstone of The Business Web, a new Internet-centric
approach to creating and delivering business applications.
"Developers now have the ability to use the power and sophistication of
Eclipse to build on-demand applications," said Adam Gross, vice president,
developer marketing, salesforce.com. "We are excited not only to bring our
developer community the benefits of the Eclipse Platform for their projects
today, but also to help Eclipse developers eager to embrace the power and
flexibility of the on-demand model."
"The ability to integrate Salesforce with the rest of our systems and to
build new applications on the AppExchange platform is key to our company's
success," said Chip Vanek, Director of Corporate and CRM Applications at Magma
Design Automation, Inc., a longtime salesforce.com customer that runs Eclipse
as its standard development platform. "Using the sophisticated capabilities of
the Eclipse environment with AppExchange will let our developers integrate and
build on-demand applications with more power, speed and success."
The AppExchange Toolkit for Eclipse is available for free download at
AppExchange Developer Network (http://developer.appexchange.com), a new Web
site that provides the community, tools and resources to help developers build
new on-demand applications for the AppExchange. Now any developer in the world
-- with access to just a Web browser and Internet connection -- can harness
the power of the world's most popular on-demand platform to create new
applications from scratch. With toolkits and resources for most popular
development environments, languages and frameworks -- including AJAX, Eclipse,
Java, .NET, PHP and Ruby on Rails -- AppExchange developers can also combine
those applications with other Internet services to create new business
mashups, allowing developers, ISVs and IT organizations to easily leverage The
Business Web in their projects and offerings.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer
relationship management (CRM). The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand
applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales,
support, marketing and partner information on -demand. AppExchange,
salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers and partners to build
powerful new applications quickly and easily, customize and integrate the
Salesforce suite to meet their unique business needs, and distribute and sell
on-demand apps at http://www.appexchange.com. Customers can also take advantage of
Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and
best practices offerings.
As of January 31, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for
approximately 20,500 customers and approximately 399,000 paying subscribers
including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Avis/Budget Rent
A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and
SunTrust. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other
press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be
delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com
applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are
currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with
offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under
the ticker symbol "CRM." For more information please visit
http://www.salesforce.com , or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
NOTE: Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and AppExchange, The
Business Web and Successforce are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San
Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
SOURCE salesforce.com, Inc.
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