Salesforce Automation System

According to this post on TechCrunch, Salesforce is announcing their "Salesforce-to-Salesforce" (S2S) service today.

The service will allow companies using Salesforce.com to share data with one another. The cost of $100 per month will be paid by the company that initiates the connection.

Salesforce claims to be modeling S2S off the sharing functionality of social networks like Facebook. To share data, such as leads or plans, you simply search for contacts from within your browser and create “connections” with them. Data objects land in their inboxes, from which they can choose to accept the objects or not. Once accepted, updates to the objects will show up for both companies that have access to them. Company representatives say that data sharing can also be set up to occur in a more automated fashion.

The company also announced that they will top the 1 million subscriber mark by the end of December.

Read the full post on TechCrunch.

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