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# What Makes Salesforce Foundations Special

Salesforce Foundations provides a 360-degree view of your customer relationships across sales, service, marketing, and commerce through integrated applications and unified data. It also boosts productivity with streamlined, visually friendly user interface improvements, that you can turn on or off per your requirements.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_editions.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Salesforce Foundations is included in supported editions of select Salesforce Clouds. This topic provides information about the editions and Clouds that support Foundations.">View supported editions.</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

- **[360-Degree View of Your Customers](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_360.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Salesforce Foundations comes with integrated applications, the ability to unify your customer data, and dashboards that provide a comprehensive view of customer interactions. So every employee gets a full picture of the customer.
- **[New Home Experience with the Home App](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_home_app.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The Home app provides a visually friendly, uncluttered experience that helps you focus on the tasks that are most important to you.
- **[Simplified Navigation and Easy Access to Important Tasks](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_easy_access.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Salesforce Foundations navigation makes it simpler and faster to find the information and tasks you need. It’s important that you understand some key differences between standard Salesforce navigation and Salesforce Foundations navigation.

#### See Also

- [User Interface and Navigation Enhancements](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_ui_nav.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Learn how to turn on the user interface features that come with Salesforce Foundations. Boost your productivity with simplified navigation and manage app visibility for your users.")