Integrating with Salesforce.com
Continue Reading March 22nd, 2010 Jorge Balderas
In this blog post I will provide an overview of considerations when integrating with a specific SaaS provider: Salesforce.com (SFDC). Salesforce.com is one of the most popular SaaS applications in the market and it is one the leading SFA (Sales Force Automation) solutions available to date. Salesforce.com provides very comprehensive integration capabilities. To narrow the scope of this post, I will focus on integrating through their Enterprise Web Service API. The discussion will also be focused on the technical aspects of the integration. There are several business and data modeling decisions that will not be covered here, but are covered at a high-level on an earlier post of this series.