Microsoft and Salesforce seal partnership with focus on Office 365, Windows integration

by Jason Gumpert, Editor
published May 29, 2014

As reported earlier today, Microsoft Corp. and Salesforce.com confirmed this afternoon a strategic partnership to create new solutions that connect salesforce.com's customer relationship management (CRM) apps and platform to Microsoft Office and Windows.

In what Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff described in a conference call as "step one" in the new partnership, the companies will be working to integrate Saleforce's CRM software with Microsoft's Office 365 and Windows "at a deeper level than was previously available."

Salesforce will also start using Azure more in its development environments, Benioff said. Microsoft has also renewed its intention of using Salesforce's ExactTarget email marketing software.

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Prior to co-founding MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason was a Principal Software Consultant at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he implemented solutions, trained customers, managed software development, and spent some time in the pre-sales engineering organization. He has also held consulting positions at CSC Consulting and Monitor Group.

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