--- schema_version: "1" id: 922e074459d7d8d0a65ee4f9c8c7725429c119c60481c2bde221450dbe7000e2 title: Extend the Reach of Your Organization collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/platform/264-0-0/extend_click_reach.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.extend_click_reach.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: e21313330f86bbeed2a0b18f4c8efc09ee8d041eccb1733abc5227e3a11a880c description: Sometimes your users need to work with data and services that are outside your Salesforce org. There’s a variety of ways you can provide seamless access across org boundaries. products: - Salesforce Platform - Security release: "264" --- # Extend the Reach of Your Organization Sometimes your users need to work with data and services that are outside your Salesforce org. There’s a variety of ways you can provide seamless access across org boundaries. - **[Provide Actions, Buttons, and Links](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.working_with_buttons_links_actions.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Buttons and links let users interact with Salesforce data and with external websites and services, such as search engines and online maps. Salesforce includes several standard buttons and links. You can also create custom ones. Actions let users do tasks, such as create records in the Chatter publisher and in the Salesforce app. - **[Manage Your MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Connections](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.mulesoft_manage_your_anypoint_platform_connection.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Enable cross-platform features between Salesforce and Anypoint Platform by establishing a tenant relationship. - **[API Catalog for Salesforce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.api_catalog.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Bring your APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers into API Catalog for Salesforce. Your catalog is a single place to view your APIs and MCP servers from different sources and make them available to use in Salesforce. - **[External Services](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.external_services.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Connect your Salesforce org to an external API by using zero lines of code. Use declarative tools and OpenAPI specifications to describe the external API functionality, and External Services automatically creates invocable actions within Salesforce. Use External Services for outbound integrations from Salesforce by using low-code, process-based integrations or to turbocharge your Apex integrations. Call the invocable actions natively from Apex, or create a custom agent action, flow, or Einstein bot that interacts with the external API source. - **[Access External Data With Salesforce Connect](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.salesforce_connect.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Salesforce Connect lets your users view, search, and modify data that’s stored outside your Salesforce org. Instead of copying the data into standard or custom objects, use external objects to access the data in real time via web service callouts. - **[Work with External Data Sources](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.external_data_sources.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** An external data source specifies how to access an external system. Salesforce Connect uses external data sources to access data that's stored outside your Salesforce organization. Files Connect uses external data sources to access third-party content systems. External data sources have associated external objects, which your users and the Lightning platform use to interact with the external data and content. - **[Connect Business Processes with Real-Time Events](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.event_notifications.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Publish and subscribe to platform events to connect business processes in Salesforce and external sources through the exchange of real-time event data. Also, use event relays to integrate platform events and change data capture events with Amazon EventBridge. - **[Event Studio Overview](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.event_studio_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Salesforce Eventing encompasses Platform Events and Change Data Capture. Event Studio allows you to track existing event publishing and consumption activity on your Salesforce Event Bus based on event publishers and event subscribers. - **[Sync Data Between Salesforce and Heroku](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.heroku_connect_about.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Heroku Connect lets you sync data between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres. - **[Extend Salesforce to External Apps with Lightning Out 2.0](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.lightning_out_intro.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Embed custom Lightning web components (LWC) into external, non-Salesforce apps by using Lightning Out 2.0, a special Salesforce app that you create and configure in Setup. Developers can embed the generated Lightning Out 2.0 app script into a page of your company’s external app. Lightning Out 2.0 uses session-based authentication that logs users into Salesforce without leaving the external app, so authenticated users can seamlessly interact with the embedded components as if they were in Salesforce.