Salesforce.com Announces a Year of Enterprise Cloud Computing Milestones
February 25 2009 - 4:10PM
PR Newswire (US)
Surpasses 1.5 million net paying subscribers SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the
enterprise cloud computing company, today announced a series of new
milestones in enterprise cloud computing reached in its past fiscal
year. Most notably, the company announced it has reached 55,400
customers and surpassed 1.5 million net paying subscribers,
demonstrating the growing demand for its cloud computing services.
The announcement comes as salesforce.com reported its financial
results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009 (see separate
press release at http://www.salesforce.com/investor). (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) "This past
year marks a watershed for salesforce.com and enterprise cloud
computing," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com.
"Not only have we extended our leadership with Salesforce CRM, but
our customers have discovered how to leverage the power of our
cloud computing model in a multiplicity of ways - to build
applications, websites, and interact with their customers and
communities." Enterprise Cloud Computing Milestones Salesforce.com
has achieved several major milestones that speak to the adoption of
enterprise cloud computing: Technology innovation -- More than 12
billion transactions in the fourth quarter alone -- 100,000 custom
applications built on Force.com -- 166 native applications
available via the Force.com AppExchange -- 124,000 Force.com
developers -- 452,000 custom database tables created -- Launched
Force.com Sites, which has already led to the launch of 1500 sites,
130 million hits and 15 million total page views -- Launched the
Service Cloud, enabling customer service organizations to join and
manage customer service conversations in the cloud -- Released
Spring 09, the 28th generation release of Salesforce CRM --
Announced partnerships with Amazon.com Web Services and Facebook;
extended partnership with Google Company momentum and industry
validation -- Reached $1 billion in revenue, the first enterprise
cloud computing company to reach this milestone -- Ranked the #3
fastest-growing technology company behind Google by Forbes -- Won a
Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Force.com --
Named to Fortune's list of the 100 Best Places to Work -- Held its
largest Dreamforce user conference ever with more than 10,000
attendees, and its first Dreamforce Europe Salesforce.com
Foundation implementation of the 1/1/1 Model -- 1% Time: More than
125,000 employee hours have been donated in service -- 1% Product:
More than 5200 nonprofits in 60 countries are utilizing donated and
discounted licenses of Salesforce CRM -- 1% Equity: More than $13
million in grants distributed to organizations around the world
such as Kiva.org, Room to Read, Transfair, U-Turn Homeless Ministry
and World Toilet Organization About salesforce.com Salesforce.com
is the enterprise cloud computing company. 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 Force.com
AppExchange marketplace available at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/. As of January 31, 2009,
salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately
55,400 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones
Newswires, 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) 2009 salesforce.com, inc. All rights reserved. Salesforce and
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respective owners.
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