Salesforce unveiled the world’s first enterprise cloud computing app for wearables, Salesforce Wear.
Leading other enterprise cloud players and customers, it anticipates the near-future introductions of wearables: Salesforce’s initiative precedes the Apple’s iWatch launch, rumored to be this Fall. It also preempts the introduction of other important wearables.
Salesforce Wear is Salesforce.com’s effort to stay ahead of the social, mobile & cloud curves for industry.
Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce Wear
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Salesforce Wear, Industry’s first initiative for wearable computing in the enterprise
Salesforce Wear intends to support Android Pebble Watch, ARM, Fitbit, Google Glass, Philips, Samsung Galaxy and Gear, and other devices to accelerate the adoption of wearables in the enterprise industry.
Instead of taking out your mobile device to check out their calendar appointments, and who they’re meeting with, users will now see basic information about that person.
Integrating Clouds & Humans with Salesforce and Android Wear
Salesforce Wear Pack for Android Wear was created by James Ward to help developers start building cloud-driven wearable apps for emerging devices like smart watches.
Check out a short demo of the sample app he built in the video below (courtesy of Salesforce.com).
Essentially, Salesforce Wear is an app development platform. It contains reference apps, demos, open-source code, and other documentation that can be used to develop apps for six wearable device types.
Salesforce has launched its Salesforce Wear Developer Pack, a collection of apps that will allow software developers to build wearable apps that work with its systems, according to the company’s website.