NEW DELHI, INDIA: Salesforce.com announced the availability of a new offering that unites the power of the Force.com platform with the richness and ubiquity of the Adobe Flash Platform on Oct 27.

It is designed to enable a new generation of cloud-based rich Internet applications (RIAs). The new offering, Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com integrates the two platforms to bring web applications and cloud applications and ensures an improved level of developer productivity.

"Adobe and Salesforce.com share a common vision for accelerating developer success with cloud computing," said Ariel Kelman, VP—Platform Product Marketing, Salesforce.com. "Bringing together Adobe Flash Platform and Force.com will enable the creation of exciting new kinds of business applications that run in the cloud and are as compelling and easy to use as the best of the consumer Web."

"This strategic partnership with Salesforce.com has opened up a significant opportunity to tightly integrate our platforms for the development and delivery of rich, highly productive business applications that can be quickly deployed in the cloud, adapted and scaled as the business changes and grows," said David Wadhwani, GM &VP, Platform Business Unit, Adobe.

Developers can use Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com to extend or enhance existing Salesforce CRM implementations and custom-built Force.com applications, or build entirely new applications to provide customized user experiences for any business need.

"Bringing together Flash and Force.com has completely changed the speed at which we can deliver great user interfaces for our clients' business applications," said John Barnes, CTO, Model Metrics. "Our customers have been thrilled with the ease of use, and the ability to continue working whether connected or not," he continued.