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Salesforce.com API Series: Integrating Applications with Force.com August 7, 2013

Salesforce API Series: Integrating Applications with Force.com Webinar

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Force.com APIs allow you to easily integrate back-office applications with Force.com while leveraging existing platform choices for systems like ERP, Financials and other custom applications. This webinar, the first in a series covering all Salesforce APIs, focuses on the SOAP and REST APIs, and will present asynchronous integration options, showing how they can be used to access data in Force.com and connect other applications to Force.com. Future webinars will focus on the APIs specific to Service Cloud, Collaboration, Metadata and the Tooling API. Watch this webinar to learn how to make basic API calls using Java, and implement inbound and outbound calls to and from Force.com. Key Takeaways Learn about the various API options available to you when integrating Force.com with other applications. See how the basic SOAP and REST APIs work in an application. Implement a commonly used pattern to integrate information from Force.com to an external system. Intended Audience Force.com developers or Integration developers and architects with a working understanding of Web Services.

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Salesforce.com API Series: Integrating Applications with Force.com August 7, 2013

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Safe Harbor

Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:

This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services.

The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of intellectual property and other litigation, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2012. This documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site.

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Speakers

Sohail Sikora Salesforce Services

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Vasu Bhandarkar Salesforce Services

@vasubhandarkar

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Agenda

§  The What and Why

§  Building Blocks

§  Speci!cs…

§  Give me more!!

§  Q & A

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The What and Why

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The What and Why – Strategy

A careful plan or method for achieving a particular goal usually over a long period of time 

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The What and Why - Three Steps to Success

Define Process •  Data •  Tasks •  Timing

Identify the Layers •  User Interface •  Application Logic •  Data Model

Choose the Approach •  Build vs. Buy •  Integration

Methodology •  Resources

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The Building Blocks

§  Supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol SSLv3

§  Username/Password Credential Authentication

§  Support for Oauth §  OAuth – Open Standard for Authorization. Determines what a logged in user can do based on

who they are

§  Support for custom token authorization mechanisms §  Delegated Authentication

§  Mix n Match…hybrid models

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Speci!cs…

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The Force.com SOAP API

§  SOAP – A way to exchange structured data using web services

§  WSDL – Language used to describe the Web Service Interface

§  The Force.com SOAP API securely exposes data to other systems

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WSDL Flavors

§  Enterprise WSDL •  Speci!c to your

Salesforce.com org

•  Strongly typed

•  Contains objects speci!c to your salesforce.com org

§  Partner WSDL •  Generic, can be used

against any org

•  Meta-data driven and dynamic

•  Programmer must use introspection

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WSDL Wisdom

§  With the Enterprise WSDL, if you change your objects, you must pull the WSDL down again and re-consume the WSDL

§  Import limitations of some WSDL2xxx tools

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SOAP in Action

§  Login() to Salesforce.com

§  Other operations that we will see –  Query()

–  Create()

–  Update()

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The Force.com REST API

§  REST – An architectural style used to expose API using Web Services

§  JSON – A text based data interchange format (contrast with SOAP that uses XML)

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The Force.com REST API

§  Standards-Based Security

§  Same Data Model as the Soap-based Web Services API

§  Supports JSON/XML

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REST in Action

§  Get a session id from Salesforce.com

§  Other operations that we will see –  /vNN.N/search/?q=SOSL search string

–  Create a record

–  Updating a record

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Give me more!!

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Data Integration in the Cloud

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Key Considerations

§  Built-in, reliable, scalable integration

§  Built-in APIs

§  Ability to build custom APIs

§  Partner tools to lighten the load

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Resources

•  Integration Developers: http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Documentation

•  Integration Recipes: http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Integration

•  Integration on the AppExchange: http://appexchange.salesforce.com/results?keywords=integration

•  Integration Patterns and Practices: http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/integration_patterns/integration_patterns_and_practices.pdf

§  What API should I use?https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=integrate_what_is_api.htm&language=en_US

§  Architect Core Resources:http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Architect_Core_Resources

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Q & A

Sohail Sikora Salesforce Services

@Abbrevtalk

Vasu Bhandarkar Salesforce Services

@vasubhandarkar