Salesforce.com Named To Intelligent Enterprise's List Of 'Companies To Watch'
AppExchange and Sandbox Noted for Ability to Support Service-Oriented Architecture Integration
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) , the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced it has been named to Intelligent Enterprise magazine's list of "Companies to Watch." As part of Intelligent Enterprise's annual Editor's Choice Awards, the "Companies to Watch" list is determined by extensive editorial research, reviews and conversations with the Intelligent Enterprise community of readers and contributing experts. Salesforce.com was noted for its AppExchange and Sandbox which, according to Intelligent Enterprise, "build out development and service-oriented architecture (SOA) integration in ways befitting a full-fledged enterprise-application platform vendor."
"We long ago predicted the end of enterprise software. The growing success of AppExchange and our increasing customer base is evidence that on-demand is the model of choice," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO. "We're grateful to the editors at Intelligent Enterprise for distinguishing salesforce.com as a 'Company to Watch' for 2006."
The full list of companies named to this year's "Companies to Watch" can be viewed online at http://www.intelligententerprise.com/.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. AppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers and partners to build powerful new applications quickly and easily, customize and integrate the Salesforce suite to meet their unique business needs, and distribute and sell on-demand apps at www.appexchange.com. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
As of April 30, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 22,700 customers and approximately 444,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust. 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". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com/, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.