Salesforce CRM named Best Relationship Management Solution for eighth consecutive year, as well as Best Business Software Solution and Best Software-as-a-Service Solution SAN FRANCISCO, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that the Software & Information Industry (SIIA) has bestowed five of its prestigious CODiE Awards to salesforce.com's applications and platform. Salesforce CRM received honors as "Best Business Software Solution," and "Best Software as a Service Solution," and - for the eighth consecutive year - "Best Relationship Management Solution." Force.com was deemed the "Best Web Services Solution" and Salesforce CRM Ideas was named "Best Collaboration Solution." (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) "Cloud computing is completely changing how companies conduct business, making it faster and easier to adapt operations to constantly changing business demands," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO at salesforce.com. "We're excited to be named by the SIIA judges as best in class for our Salesforce CRM, Force.com and Salesforce CRM Ideas, which enable companies to fully enjoy the benefits of cloud computing and become more agile, more effective and more competitive." "These accolades are a testament to our ever-pioneering spirit and focus on customer success," Benioff continued. "I thank the SIIA judges and commend our salesforce.com staff for the commitment, ingenuity and dedication that help make salesforce.com the success that it is today." Salesforce.com's CODiE awards follow a series of distinctions that salesforce.com and its solutions have been recognized for this year, including being named to the Ethisphere Institute's 2009 list of the "World's Most Ethical Companies;" being positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner's CRM Customer Service Contact Centers Magic Quadrant; being named to Fortune's 2009 "100 Best Companies to Work for" list; being rated among the top three IT vendors for Customer Satisfaction in 2008 by VendorRate; winning SearchCRM.com's 2008 "Products of the Year" award, and being named as one of the most influential companies for smart enterprises as part of the 10th Annual Intelligent Enterprise 2009 Editors' Choice Awards. More details regarding the SIIA CODiE Awards can be found on the Software & Information Association Web site at http://www.siia.net/codies/2009/winners.asp. 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/) enables 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, multi-tenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing. 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 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. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: salesforce.com CONTACT: Katy Dormer of salesforce.com, +1-415-901-8585, Web Site: http://www.salesforce.com/

Copyright