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Salesforce overview

Salesforce is a cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution for sales teams to manage contacts and sales activities. Use Salesforce to store and manage contacts and data of the sales activities of your organization.
Salesforce provides a Streaming API that enables streaming of events using the push technology. You can use the Streaming API to subscribe to Salesforce platform events, PushTopic queries, and change events. You can also publish messages to Salesforce platform events in near real time.