Salesforce.com Placed in the Leaders Quadrant for Sales Force Automation Magic Quadrant
August 11 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Evaluation based on ability to execute and completeness of vision
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com
(NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today
announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant in
Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation(1).
According to Gartner, "Leaders demonstrate market-defining vision
of how technology can help the top sales executives achieve
business objectives. Leaders have the ability to execute against
that vision through products, services and demonstrated solid
business results in the form of revenue and earnings. Leaders have
significant successful customer deployments in North America,
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia/Pacific in a
wide variety of vertical industries with multiple proof points
above 500 users." (Logo:
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"Salesforce.com is thrilled to be placed in the leaders quadrant.
We believe the company is not only setting the standard for the CRM
industry, but cloud computing as well," said Marc Benioff, chairman
and CEO at salesforce.com. "Most importantly, we would like to
thank our nearly 60,000 customers - it is their unparalleled
success that motivates us everyday." A decade ago, salesforce.com
pioneered cloud computing for the enterprise by developing and
delivering the world's most popular CRM application, Salesforce
CRM, made up of the Sales Cloud and the Service Cloud. The Sales
Cloud is the world's leading sales application. With 29 major
releases over the last ten years and partnerships with other major
cloud computing companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon.com, the
Sales Cloud has been providing companies with a 360-degree,
real-time view of customers regardless of location or device.
Today, the Sales Cloud is loved by reps and depended on by managers
because it helps sales organizations be more productive and close
more deals. Almost 60,000 companies like Dr Pepper Snapple Group,
Cisco and Dell have already standardized on the Sales Cloud. About
the Magic Quadrant The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by
Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is
a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific
time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors
measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service
depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology
users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders"
quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool,
and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner
disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this
research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose. 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 April 30, 2009, salesforce.com
manages customer information for approximately 59,300 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. (1) July 22, 2009: Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant
for Sales Force Automation by Robert P. DeSisto
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