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Posted by Scott McMullan, Google Apps
Partner Lead, Google Enterprise

A little less than a year ago, we href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/salesforce_alliance.html"
id="xvmx" >partnered with Salesforce.com to create Salesforce
Group Edition featuring Google AdWords. It combines
Salesforce.com’s CRM applications with AdWords to make it easier
for businesses to generate leads, track, and close them.

Since then, people have offered up a constant stream of requests to
streamline even more of the CRM process. At the top of list are
everyday tasks like improved efficiency sending and sharing account
emails, easier ways to create and share documents and
presentations, and simpler ways to schedule meetings and
events.

To address these requests, we set out to collaborate on another
product integration. Live today, we're happy to unveil href="http://www.salesforce.com/products/google/apps/" >Salesforce
for Google Apps, a new product for all of those using
Salesforce.com available at no additional charge. It brings the
collaboration and communications features of Google Apps directly
into the user experience of Salesforce.com, and is focused on
streamlining the activities most frequently requested by our users.
(There's href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/04/run-even-more-of-your-business-in-cloud.html" >
more detail on our Enterprise Blog.)

Here's a quick look at the problems we're trying to solve
with Salesforce for Google Apps:

Regarding improvements, we'd like to remind developers that
these new features — as well as those announced today by our
partners href="http://www.astadia.com/about/astadia_press_release-salesforce.com-google-products-launch.aspx" >
Astadia and href="http://www.appirio.com/about/pr_products_041408.php" >Appirio
– were created using our respective open APIs. We share with
Salesforce.com a commitment to make the web the best platform for
application innovation.

Thanks to everyone for your good ideas so far. We hope you'll
continue to href="http://ideas.salesforce.com/popular/google" >share your
thoughts

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