Cloud Computing: Salesforce.com updates SDK, enables quicker app development
April 9, 2013
Grazed from DeveloperTech. Author: James Bourne.
Enterprise cloud computing giants Salesforce.com has launched Salesforce Platform Mobile Services, a tool to help accelerate mobile app development for customers and partners on the Salesforce cloud platform. The platform, which runs Salesforce CRM and, according to the company, is home to over three million custom apps and a million developers, is of course the cornerstone of one of tech’s giants.
The majority of cloudy polls put Marc Benioff’s company near the top, most notably being crowned the number one software as a service (SaaS) player last month – bearing in mind Salesforce was one of the founding fathers in the SaaS space and one of its closest rivals, Oracle, was reluctant to initially use the term ‘cloud computing’…
The open source Salesforce Mobile SDK 2.0 will be updated and available in June, allowing for a wide variety of options for developers. These include added capabilities for HTML5-based apps, as well as nifty connectivity for enterprise data to any app, be it mobile, HTML5 or hybrid, and cross-operability for iOS and Android. Another interesting addition includes a number of Developer Mobile Packs, enabling developers to access Salesforce.com’s APIs through JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile…
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