Salesforce will use Google Cloud Platform to bring the power of cloud to businesses globally.
Salesforce and Google are announcing their new strategic partnership which will enable customers to be more productive and work smarter.
Salesforce has named G Suite as its preferred email and productivity provider and plans to use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for its core services as part of the company’s international infrastructure expansion.
Both teams are working together to develop new integrations that will connect Salesforce CRM with G Suite to offer the only cloud-native collaboration platform of its kind. These integrations will enable companies to surface powerful intelligence about your customers from Salesforce directly within Gmail, Sheets, Calendar, Drive, Docs and Hangouts Meet.
According to Google, some other things customers will be able to experience through this collaboration are:
Salesforce Lightning for Gmail: Surface relevant Salesforce CRM data in Gmail, as well as customer interactions from Gmail directly within Salesforce, to service your customers faster. Identify high priority emails and suggest next steps based on the email content to work with customers faster than before.
Salesforce Lightning for Google Sheets: Embed Sheets anywhere in Salesforce, and with a single click push content from Salesforce Records or Reports to a new Sheet. Data will automatically update bi-directionally to ensure everyone has the most recent information.
Quip Live Apps for Google Drive and Google Calendar: Quip Live Apps will integrate with Google Drive and Calendar, allowing you to access information in a more collaborative, open cloud environment, and embed any list of Drive files, including Google Docs, Slides and Sheets, or your Google Calendar inside Quip. This new combination of Quip and G Suite will create a modern alternative to legacy intranet content services.
Salesforce for Hangouts Meet: Access relevant customer and account details, service case histories and more from Salesforce CRM directly within the Hangouts Meet interface. This gives you powerful insights directly in the communications platform to conduct better sales conversations or efficiently resolve customer service issues. To help take advantage of the combined Google and Salesforce experience, qualified Salesforce customers can receive G Suite for up to one year at no additional cost—restrictions apply, and more details can be found on our site.
“Our partnership with Google represents the best of both worlds for our customers,” said Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce. “There has never been an easier way for companies to run their entire business in the cloud—from productivity apps, email and analytics, to sales, service and marketing apps, this partnership will help make our customers smarter and more productive.”
We look forward to see this partnership evolve, enabling more companies to take advantage of the cloud, providing an unmatched experience for customers.
About Salesforce
Salesforce.com, inc. provides enterprise cloud computing solutions to various businesses and industries worldwide. The company offers social and mobile cloud apps and platform services, including Sales Cloud for sales force automation, which enables companies to grow their sales pipelines, close deals, improve sales productivity, and gain business insights; Service Cloud that enables companies to connect with their customers and address their service and support needs; Marketing Cloud, which enables companies to bring in data from any source and deliver personalized interactions to any customer across any channel through email, mobile, social, Web, marketing automation, and data analytics from a single platform; and Salesforce1 Platform, a cloud platform for developing customer apps. It also provides professional services, including consulting, deployment, training, implementation, integration, and campaign services to its customers to facilitate the adoption of its social and mobile cloud solutions.