Little noticed in the recent flurry of Salesforce.com activity this week was an announcement Wednesday that Informatica will be delivering a new product, PowerCenter Connect for salesforce.com, that is intended to help customers integrate Salesforce with existing, internal data. Integration is still the Achilles heel of SaaS (software as a service), so this is significant — particularly for existing customers of Informatica, which specializes in data integration (or “data as a service”) solutions. Over the long haul Informatica intends to provide hosted data integration among business partners, which the company predicts will boost BPO (business process outsourcing) efforts.(By Eric Knorr) Software Development