Integration Overview
The force.com platform provides a rich on-demand development and deployment platform, but you probably have applications and data running outside this platform. How can you integrate these different platforms so that they can share data and processes?
You can get a good overview of the range of integration solutions available with this Designing Salesforce Integrations with the Force.com Platform paper, which covers a number of approaches.
Looking for more details? The Enterprise Integration series is a set of recorded presentations designed to help you understand the integration capabilities built in the Force.com platform. This series consists of the following presentations -
- Overview of Salesforce.com Enterprise Integration - This presentation introduces you to the various methods you can use to integrate the Force.com platform with your existing systems.
- Web Services and Force.com SOA - This presentation covers how to expose your Apex Code to the outside world as a Web service, and how to access Web services from the Force.com environment.
- Force.com SOA: Deep Dive - In this screencast, you will learn how web services and APIs can be used to integrate and mashup applications. Learn more about how to use Force.com SOA for your own apps and get your hardest questions answered by the R&D team behind this breakthrough technology!