Salesforce connects SharePoint files to its cloud with new tool
December 17, 2014
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Matt Weinbergber.
Salesforce, the not-so-little cloud CRM company that could, is furthering its play to bring everybody everywhere into the fold with the launch of Salesforce Files Connect, a new tool that brings files from on-premises Microsoft SharePoint into a company’s cloud workflow.
The general idea is that attaching files to things, in general, is way harder than it has to be: Salesforce Senior Vice President of Marketing for Community Cloud Michael Stone cited a recent IDC study that found 61 percent of employees have to find files from four different data sources in the course of their day to get the job done. Salesforce wants to pull all of those data sources into one place — specifically, Salesforce…
Salesforce Files already lets you add and index files — but you had to do it yourself, by hand, with files copied and pasted manually…
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