The document discusses using Salesforce.com to provide web services. Salesforce.com is an enterprise software known for its customer relationship management product. The project described uses Salesforce to create a webpage linked to a database for storing user login information. Apex programming language is used to build the frontend along with HTML, XML, and JavaScript, while the backend links to the Salesforce database. Key lessons discussed include using Visualforce, Database.com, and Site.com to create websites connected to Salesforce data.