Apple & Salesforce Bring Together the Best Devices for Business & the World’s #1 CRM
Enabling Powerful Apps & Customer Experiences Exclusive to iPhone & iPad
Apple® and Salesforce today announced a strategic partnership that brings together the number one customer relationship
management platform and iOS, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, enabling powerful new mobile apps for business.
Working with Apple, Salesforce is redesigning its app to embrace the native mobile platform with exclusive new features on iOS. The
companies will also provide tools and resources for millions of Salesforce developers to build their own native apps with a new
Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS, and a new iOS app development course on Trailhead, Salesforce’s free, web-based learning
platform.
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The redesigned Salesforce Mobile App will add exclusive new features on iOS, including Siri Shortcuts integrated
with Salesforce Einstein Voice. (Photo: Business Wire)
“We’re excited to work with Salesforce and that their industry-leading CRM will embrace native iOS and deliver exclusive new
features on iPhone and iPad,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “With the powerful combination of iPhone, iPad and iOS — the best
hardware and software for business — together with native Salesforce apps and the new Salesforce SDK, we can deliver great customer
experiences for businesses around the world.”
“With this partnership, we’re bringing together the world’s #1 CRM platform with iPhone and iPad, the world’s best devices for
business,” said Marc Benioff, Chairman and co-CEO, Salesforce. “Together, Salesforce and Apple are defining a new era of mobile
innovation with native apps on iOS, and empowering millions of people with access to Trailhead and the skills they need for the
jobs of the future.”
The initial focus areas of this strategic partnership include:
- Native Salesforce iOS apps for business: Salesforce, working with Apple, will redesign the
Salesforce Mobile App to give customers rich experiences exclusively on iOS, with unique Apple capabilities such as Siri®
Shortcuts, Face ID®, Business Chat™ and more. Salesforce will also introduce the first ever Trailhead Mobile App, first on iOS.
The partners will also deliver powerful iOS apps for industries and small business that will serve their specific customer
needs.
- Empowering Salesforce developers on iOS: Apple and Salesforce are developing the first
Salesforce Mobile SDK that is optimized for Swift™, Apple’s powerful and intuitive modern programming language. The native SDK
will enable businesses and developers to build and deploy apps for iPhone® and iPad® on the Salesforce Lightning Platform, adding
to the hundreds of thousands of iOS apps for business in the App Store® today.
- Accelerating developer learning and career growth: Apple and Salesforce believe strongly in
the democratization of technology and empowering developers — with any education level or background — to learn skills for the
jobs of today and tomorrow. To support developer learning and career growth, Apple is launching a new Get Started with iOS App
Development Trail that will teach anyone how to build native iOS apps in Xcode® with Swift.
Attendees of Dreamforce 2018 can get an early look at the new Apple and Salesforce offerings in the Salesforce Campground
(Moscone South Halls ABC) or the Trailhead Area (Moscone West Level 1). For more about the partnership, please visit
salesforce.com/apple or
apple.com/business/partners.
Availability
- The Get Started with iOS App Development Trail is available today at
trailhead.com/apple.
- The new Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS will be available by the end of 2018.
- The rebuilt Salesforce Mobile App will be available in early 2019; the first ever Trailhead Mobile
App will launch later next year.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple
Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving
the world better than we found it.
Salesforce, the global CRM leader, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. For more information
about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit:
www.salesforce.com.
Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available
and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase Salesforce applications should make their purchase decisions
based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia,
and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “CRM.” For more information please visit
https://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
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