Adobe and Salesforce.com form strategic alliance
ConvergenceAsia staff
27/10/2009

Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, and Adobe Systems have announced the availability of a new offering that unites the Force.com platform with the Adobe Flash Platform to enable a new generation of cloud-based rich Internet applications (RIAs).

The new offering, Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com, integrates the two platforms to bring the richness of the consumer web to enterprise cloud applications to enable a significantly improved level of developer productivity.
"Adobe and salesforce.com share a common vision for accelerating developer success with cloud computing," said Ariel Kelman, vice president, platform product marketing, salesforce.com. "Bringing together Adobe Flash Platform and Force.com will enable the creation of exciting new kinds of business applications that run in the cloud and are as compelling and easy to use as the best of the consumer web."

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com is a jointly developed integrated development environment (IDE) that provides a single, powerful tool for building cloud-based RIAs, which can easily be deployed to end users through the browser using the Adobe Flash Player or directly to the desktop via Adobe AIR. This tight integration enables client-side data management and synchronisation between cloud and client, simplifying the development of applications that seamlessly run online or offline across operating systems and devices, while taking full advantage of the scalability, security and reliability of the Force.com platform.

"This strategic partnership with salesforce.com has opened up a significant opportunity to tightly integrate our platforms for the development and delivery of rich, highly productive business applications that can be quickly deployed in the cloud, adapted and scaled as the business changes and grows," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe.

Developers can use Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com to extend or enhance existing Salesforce CRM implementations and custom-built Force.com applications, or build entirely new applications to provide customised user experiences for any business need.

The developer preview of Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com is now available on the salesforce.com developer web site at http://developer.force.com/flashbuilder. Expected final delivery is currently scheduled for the first half of 2010.

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