AppExchange at the heart of the Salesforce Sandbox

Salesforce.com previewed Salesforce Sandbox in the first fortnight of December 05′. The application, which is a hosted tested and training application, is expected to be available in the latter part of this quarter. The application replicates the existing Salesforce.com deployments and enables training on hosted applications from AppExchange, which is an online directory of online applications.

AppExchange is intended to further the interests of Salesforce.com that are currently limited to hosted sales and service applications. AppExchange offers 80 applications on the sforce development platform. techtarget.com says:

Using Sandbox, companies planning to implement add-on tools on AppExchange, like Diamond Data, the data cleansing tool from Trillium Software, can set up a cloned database to test the cleansing operation before a deployment.

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