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Publish Date : 02-Jun-2014

Software giant Microsoft declared a strategic partnership with Salesforce this week a deal that will observe the two firms link their enterprise-focused cloud services together.

The firms declared the impending availability of the Salesforce1 platform for Windows Phone 8.1, which will permit Salesforce customers to run any Salesforce-based application on Windows devices, and integration of Salesforce’s CRM with Office 365, OneDrive and Outlook.

The two firms in addition plan to link Salesforce data directly to Excel and PowerPI to bolster data visualisation between both platforms.

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft said, "We are excited to partner with salesforce.com and help customers thrive in a mobile and cloud-first world".

"Working together we’ll deliver new solutions that connect the customer insights of Salesforce to the cloud productivity of Office 365, the cloud platform of Azure and the mobility of Windows, so our customers can do more."

The move comes as Salesforce continues to shift aim from SaaS to mobile PaaS, and put together its services with a rising range of enterprise cloud service providers. Salesforce earlier this year launched a connector that bridges Oracle software with its CRM system; the two inked another deal previous year that saw the CRM provider commit to using Oracle Linux as the basis of its cloud service as well as its Exadata system.

The companies said that most of the integration features announced this week will arrive this fall in limited release, with a public release scheduled for 2015.

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