Apex REST

In plain words: Integrating Google Drive with Salesforce allows your CRM to directly read, list, and upload files to Google Cloud storage. By authenticating via OAuth 2.0 and executing REST callouts in Apex, teams can offload heavy file storage from Salesforce, organize customer documents into Google Drive folders, and maintain real-time access right from record pages. Salesforce orgs frequently hit data and file storage limits when storing heavy contracts, collateral, and customer uploads as native ContentDocument records. Integrating directly with Google Drive via the Google Drive REST API v3 offers a cost-effective, scalable solution. This guide walks through setting up OAuth credentials in Google Cloud, structuring robust Apex callout methods, and executing multipart file uploads safely.

In plain words: Integrating the Google Address & Geocoding API with Salesforce allows your CRM to convert partial or unstructured address strings into validated street names, cities, postal codes, and precise latitude/longitude coordinates. By making HTTP callouts from Apex or Lightning Web Components (LWC), organizations can standardize billing and shipping addresses automatically and eliminate bad data before records are saved. Inaccurate customer addresses lead to delivery delays, bad tax calculations, and dirty CRM data. While Salesforce provides native custom address fields, verifying real-time global addresses and fetching geolocation coordinates requires an external location intelligence service. Integrating the Google Maps Geocoding & Places API into Salesforce solves this by giving users autocomplete validation, street-level accuracy, and clean data parsing directly in their CRM workflows.