webMethods Adapter for Salesforce is an add-on to webMethods that enables you to interact with Salesforce.com and Database.com. Salesforce.com is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution that is Software as a Service (SaaS), on-demand, and Web-based. Database.com is a cloud database managed by Salesforce.com.

Salesforce.com provides Force.com as a computing platform, from which it exposes access to its CRM data via a Web services API. Salesforce.com publishes a WSDL file to describe the Web services. Adapter for Salesforce uses the API to interact with Salesforce.com. Using adapter service templates, you can create adapter services that use the API to perform operations against the Salesforce.com CRM data. Your Integration Server Administrator clients can create and run services that use these adapter services to create, query, retrieve, update, and delete CRM data. For example, you can use Adapter for Salesforce to synchronize non-Salesforce.com CRM data with CRM data in Salesforce.com.

Database.com is a multitenant enterprise cloud database managed by Salesforce.com and designed to store data for mobile, social, web, and desktop applications. Salesforce Developer, Enterprise, and Unlimited editions use Database.com in the background when performing tasks, such as creating custom objects, managing security, or importing data using the Force.com platform and API. However, Salesforce.com and Database.com have different logon credentials. Based on the logon credentials you use, Adapter for Salesforce connects to either Salesforce.com, or Database.com.