Salesforce.com Named to Fast Company's List of the Top 10 Most Innovative Web Companies
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Posted on March 5, 2010 at 8:14:01 AM
Salesforce.com Named to Fast Company's List of the Top 10 Most Innovative Web Companies
Enterprise cloud computing leader ranked #6 amongst Digg, Facebook, Google and Twitter; Recognized for the Service Cloud 2 and Salesforce Chatter
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5 -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced it has been named to Fast Company's list of the top 10 Most Innovative Web Companies (http://www.fastcompany.com/mic/2010/industry/most-innovative-web-companies). Salesforce.com is ranked #6 along with other Web leaders Digg, Facebook, Google and Twitter.
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As Fast Company reports, salesforce.com is recognized for: "Part sales management tool, part developer platform, and part mashup of public and private customer-insight data, salesforce.com is the undisputed leader in helping sales hordes track prospects and win business. New in 2009: Service Cloud, a customer-service software system that also analyzes comments and complaints on Twitter or Facebook; a collaboration with Cisco that offers an online-call-center capability; and Chatter, an internal Twitter-like feed service that will let sales forces interact, securely and in real time. Last November, the company announced third-quarter revenue of $331 million, up 20% year over year."
"We're excited to part of this esteemed group of Internet innovators," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. "Salesforce.com and our millions of users have shown that the Internet has the power to revolutionize business just as it has the consumer world."
This honor comes on the heels of salesforce.com being ranked #43 on Fortune Magazine's Best Places to Work list (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2010/full_list/) and as a finalist for the ".com 25" honors (http://www.25yearsof.com) along with Amazon.com, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, and Twitter for their contributions in shaping the Internet.
The list and related stories appear in the March 2010 issue of Fast Company magazine, on newsstands currently and online at http://www.fastcompany.com/MIC.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) helps customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.
As of January 31, 2010, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 72,500 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, 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". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com/, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
Copyright (c) 2010 salesforce.com, inc. All rights reserved. Salesforce and the "no software" logo are registered trademarks of salesforce.com, inc., and salesforce.com owns other registered and unregistered trademarks. Other names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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CONTACT: Jane Hynes of salesforce.com, +1-415-901-5079,
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Web Site: http://www.salesforce.com/
Enterprise cloud computing leader ranked #6 amongst Digg, Facebook, Google and Twitter; Recognized for the Service Cloud 2 and Salesforce Chatter
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5 -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced it has been named to Fast Company's list of the top 10 Most Innovative Web Companies (http://www.fastcompany.com/mic/2010/industry/most-innovative-web-companies). Salesforce.com is ranked #6 along with other Web leaders Digg, Facebook, Google and Twitter.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO)
As Fast Company reports, salesforce.com is recognized for: "Part sales management tool, part developer platform, and part mashup of public and private customer-insight data, salesforce.com is the undisputed leader in helping sales hordes track prospects and win business. New in 2009: Service Cloud, a customer-service software system that also analyzes comments and complaints on Twitter or Facebook; a collaboration with Cisco that offers an online-call-center capability; and Chatter, an internal Twitter-like feed service that will let sales forces interact, securely and in real time. Last November, the company announced third-quarter revenue of $331 million, up 20% year over year."
"We're excited to part of this esteemed group of Internet innovators," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. "Salesforce.com and our millions of users have shown that the Internet has the power to revolutionize business just as it has the consumer world."
This honor comes on the heels of salesforce.com being ranked #43 on Fortune Magazine's Best Places to Work list (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2010/full_list/) and as a finalist for the ".com 25" honors (http://www.25yearsof.com) along with Amazon.com, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, and Twitter for their contributions in shaping the Internet.
The list and related stories appear in the March 2010 issue of Fast Company magazine, on newsstands currently and online at http://www.fastcompany.com/MIC.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) helps customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.
As of January 31, 2010, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 72,500 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, 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". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com/, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
Copyright (c) 2010 salesforce.com, inc. All rights reserved. Salesforce and the "no software" logo are registered trademarks of salesforce.com, inc., and salesforce.com owns other registered and unregistered trademarks. Other names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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Source: salesforce.com
CONTACT: Jane Hynes of salesforce.com, +1-415-901-5079,
jhynes@salesforce.com
Web Site: http://www.salesforce.com/