Software & Information Industry Honors Salesforce.com With Five CODiE Awards
May 13 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
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."
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"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
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