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XAware Open Source Data Integration Plug-in for Salesforce Now Available on the AppExchange PDF  | Print |  E-mail

XAware gives Salesforce users unprecedented control over customer data and makes it possible to extend the capabilities of current SaaS solutions


ECLIPSECON 2008, SANTA CLARA, Calif. - March 17, 2008 - XAware, Inc. today announced that its open source Plug-in for Salesforce is now available on salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the leading online marketplace for on-demand, or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), products. Salesforce.com customers, numbering more than 41,000 companies worldwide, utilize the AppExchange to find additional applications to extend the benefits of SaaS throughout their business and operational objectives.

Available as a free download at www.xaware.org, and at www.salesforce.com/appexchange,  XAware’s Plug-in for Salesforce is an open source product that enables users to rapidly migrate, manage, share and mashup data from various systems. XAware features an Eclipse-based design environment and also offers an Eclipse plug-in to the thousands of developers who use Eclipse as their standard development environment. The XAware Plug-in for Salesforce gives the salesforce.com community immediate access to the leading open source data integration product for creating and managing composite data services for SOA and Web 2.0 applications.

“The powerful data integration capabilities in XAware’s Plug-in for Salesforce will help users accelerate customer lifecycle issues, such as campaign and lead management, order management, billing and customer support,” said Jim Steele, the chief customer officer and president of international operations at salesforce.com. “Additionally, XAware’s unique ability to rapidly integrate data from existing in-house systems and external hosted systems allows organizations to extend the capabilities of their current SaaS solutions.”

“Combining XAware and Salesforce gives businesses unprecedented control over all customer data, whether it’s hosted or in-house,” said Bill Miller, CTO of XAware. “With real-time data flowing in and out of Salesforce, and all visible in a single view, XAware gives Salesforce users the power of an on-demand application that can now leverage critical enterprise applications, databases and legacy systems. This will help businesses identify and take advantage of market opportunities, as well as provide a higher level of customer service.”

XAware is one of more than 800 applications that are now available on salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the world’s first marketplace of SaaS applications. Customers of all sizes can quickly and easily extend Salesforce with additional on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

Available to all developers under an open source GPL v2 license, XAware enhances the productivity of other development tools and frameworks by building composite data services. These services provide real-time access to information and the ability to abstract, transform, aggregate and mashup data. Developers use XAware capabilities to create a services-based data virtualization layer, which delivers a single view of data thatcan be consumed or served up easily.

Availability

Available immediately, the XAware Plug-in for Salesforce is open source and free in XAware’s Eclipse Plug-in. Support subscriptions are available upon request. For more information on features and release status, please visit http://www.xaware.com/Alliances/salesforce.php or visit the XAware Community at www.xaware.org.


 

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