Force.com changing how companies develop, deploy and manage enterprise applications
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com
(NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced it has been named to the
2008 SD Times 100 in the Web Development category. The 6th annual SD Times
100 list, which was published in the June 1, 2008 issue of BZ Media's SD
Times, recognizes companies that most broadly 'set the agenda' for software
development managers, developers, and the industry through leadership and
innovation during the past calendar year. The complete SD Times 100 list can
be found at: http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32287
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'The SD Times 100 is a list of the most innovative organizations that are
driving significant change and positive advancement in the art of
development,' said Alan Zeichick, editorial director at SD Times. 'In
determining the winners, we carefully considered each company's offerings and
reputation, and looked for those that truly set the industry agenda. We
believe these companies are the best of the best.'
'We created the Force.com platform with the agenda of changing the
development landscape. Instead of struggling with cumbersome and unwieldy
software deployments, our customers can design and build applications suited
specifically for their business,' said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO at
salesforce.com. 'Being recognized on the SD Times 100 is further testament
that the game has changed. Companies want to -- and can -- control their own
enterprise applications.'
Force.com has dramatically changed how companies develop, deploy and
manage enterprise applications. The platform, combined with easily
customizable Salesforce applications and the ability to add functionality
through AppExchange, provides unmatched flexibility for companies looking to
create cost-effective and powerful applications that meet their specific
business needs.
Force.com Platform and the AppExchange
Force.com reinvents the traditional development, deployment and
distribution of any business application with platform-as-a-service.
Developers, customers and partners can use Force.com to easily create a new
generation of on-demand applications and deploy them worldwide as a service.
Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed
with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace,
enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to be easily distributed
to the entire on-demand community.
The AppExchange economy continues to expand, with thousands of customers
installing thousands of applications via the AppExchange. Customers of all
sizes can quickly and easily extend Salesforce with additional on-demand
business applications available on the AppExchange, found at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The company's
portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM, available at
http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that
customers manage and share business information over the Internet. The
company's Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners to build
powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy
across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.com platform, available
at http://www.force.com/, can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a
few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace available at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.
As of April 30, 2008, salesforce.com manages customer information for
approximately 43,600 customers including ABN AMRO, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan
Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, Sprint Nextel, and SunTrust Banks. Any
unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or
public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time
or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make
their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available.
Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and
Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol 'CRM'.
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