Salesforce.com announces Microsoft Office System sforce Developer Program.

Salesforce.com, a provider of on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), recently announced the creation of the sforce Developer Program for Microsoft Office. Through this program, millions of developers building on Microsoft Office 2000 or newer versions will have access to free tools and resources to help them create solutions that integrate key sales, marketing and support information directly into the Microsoft Office System productivity applications, including Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Word. Together, these solutions allow Salesforce.com's approximately 214,000 subscribers and 13,300 customers worldwide to extend how they share and manage information, combining the success of on-demand with the productivity of Office. The new Microsoft Office System integrations are accomplished through sforce, salesforce.com's client/service integration platform. Today, a variety of systems and platforms, including enterprise applications, desktop solutions, mobile devices and IP phone systems, integrate with salesforce.com and Supportforce.com via the sforce Web service API, making key business information available to users from all of their favorite applications and tools.

The sforce Developer Program for the Microsoft Office System includes the sforce Toolkit for Office, designed to make it easy for developers to access the sforce API directly from within those products, simplifying the creation of new integrations and Office-based solutions; Office Directory in On-Demand Marketplace, which was launched last year, is being extended to include a new category for Office solutions, allowing developers and ISVs to easily reach salesforce.com's customer base; and Sforce Developer Community, which now includes dedicated message boards for developers creating Office solutions, as well as popular open source projects demonstrating how integrations can be used, including the sforce Connector for Excel.

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