Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17 /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 that it has been positioned
in the Leaders quadrant in Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Sales Force
Automation(1). According to Gartner, 'Leaders demonstrate market-defining
vision and the ability to execute against that vision through products,
services, demonstrable sale figures and solid new references for multiple
geographies and vertical industries. A characteristic of a leader is that most
competitive vendors will tend to measure their own success against the success
of the leading vendors.'
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'We are honored to be placed in the leaders quadrant. Salesforce.com's
unmatched pace of innovation is setting the standard for both the SaaS and CRM
industries,' said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO at salesforce.com. 'In my
opinion, this honor is a testament to the success of our customers and the
business value that salesforce.com's SaaS and PaaS solutions deliver.'
Since 1999, when salesforce.com pioneered Software-as-a-Service, the
company has been developing and expanding the capabilities of Salesforce CRM,
which is designed to provide a 360-degree view of customers to employees
anytime in any location. Today, Salesforce SFA is an integral part of
Salesforce CRM, a comprehensive suite of business applications that help
companies improve business processes and increase revenue potential.
In the past year, salesforce.com has delivered three releases, Salesforce
Spring '08, Salesforce Summer '08 and most recently Salesforce Winter '09.
Driven by feedback from customers on salesforce.com's IdeaExchange, more than
150 new features were released for Salesforce CRM customers, raising the bar
for the CRM and SaaS industries.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with
permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace
at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how
certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in
the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors placed in the 'Leaders' quadrant.
