Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Jan 24th salesforce.com web services presentation
The presentation focussed on app-exchange platform created by salesforce.com....
www.sforce.com provides free developer accounts, limiting the number of calls that can be made to the API.
Their basic demo was on how the web site can be used for applications much more than just CRM, and any business application could be written. The platform provides an easy way to prepare one's own custom database, provide 'SQL like' queries on it, and expose the fields in the web services APIs.
The site does have scaling issues related to queries, so only a subset of SQL is released; transaction commands such as 'UPDATE' are not available.
The big restriction currently is that application logic cannot sit inside sforce.com, the only piece there is table rows and a bit of metadate. Either a proxy server or the javascript code within the browser is supposed to do rest of the work.
(TBD: what other facilities does the platform provide ?
Lucky me: won a paypal USB flash drive :)
However they talked about roadmap and did talk about putting
www.sforce.com provides free developer accounts, limiting the number of calls that can be made to the API.
Their basic demo was on how the web site can be used for applications much more than just CRM, and any business application could be written. The platform provides an easy way to prepare one's own custom database, provide 'SQL like' queries on it, and expose the fields in the web services APIs.
The site does have scaling issues related to queries, so only a subset of SQL is released; transaction commands such as 'UPDATE' are not available.
The big restriction currently is that application logic cannot sit inside sforce.com, the only piece there is table rows and a bit of metadate. Either a proxy server or the javascript code within the browser is supposed to do rest of the work.
(TBD: what other facilities does the platform provide ?
Lucky me: won a paypal USB flash drive :)
However they talked about roadmap and did talk about putting
# posted by Rahul Jain @ 11:43 PM 
