Yeah, I never thought I’d see this day. This is an utterly incredible partnership to create solutions that connect salesforce.com’s CRM apps/platform to Microsoft Office and Windows.
In a nutshell, here’s what we can anticipate from the partnership:
- Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 Salesforce apps
- Office 365 & Salesforce interoperability
- Office Mobile, Office for iPad & Office 365 access to Salesforce content
- OneDrive for Business/SharePoint Online as storage options from Salesforce
- Salesforce app for Outlook to provide PIM integration
- Excel & Power BI for Office 365 connectivity to Salesforce data
Basically, customers using Salesforce.com today are going to love using Office 365 & the Office family of applications on Windows, Windows Phone, iPhone, Android & iPad.
Read more here:
- Microsoft and Salesforce.com announce global, strategic partnership
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/may14/05-29mayannouncementpr.aspx
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