As the bulk of Internet sites and services have moved or are moving to using the REST API (Yahoo, Flickr, Google, Facebook), salesforce.com is also moving in that direction. Amazon's Jeff Barr has acknowledged that although both REST and SOAP APIs are offered, 85% of the calls to Amazon Web Services use REST.
Since Model Metrics prefers to be on the leading edge of technology, we have already developed an application that enables order entry on an iPad and communicates to Salesforce using the new REST API functionality. It's a truly elegant, yet simple to use application. Check out the video of it in action:
Tags: ipad, order entry, rest api, Salesforce
