Cloud Computing: Oracle builds a bridge to Salesforce.com with new adapter
January 17, 2014
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.
Kicking off an initiative to better bridge cloud services with its own software, Oracle has released an adapter that allows organizations to copy data between their Salesforce.com accounts and Oracle software. "We’re encapsulating standard Web services calls into easier-to-use adapters," said Demed L’Her, Oracle vice president of product management.
The Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce is an extension of the Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle’s software for integrating enterprise applications through the use of Web services standards. It will be the first in a number of connectors that the company plans to offer that connect cloud services with on-premises Oracle applications, L’Her said…
The company already offers over 300 adapters for connecting different Oracle and non-Oracle enterprise software packages and now the company will extend this catalog to include adapters for cloud services. Although Oracle and Salesforce.com are fierce competitors in the enterprise software market, the two companies agreed to a partnership last June to facilitate greater interoperability between both company’s products and services…
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