Salesforce.com Named Entrepreneurial Company of the Year by Harvard Business School Association of Northern California
Salesforce.com Selected for Its Position as a Category Leader in the CRM Market
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com
(NYSE: CRM), the technology and market leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced that the Harvard Business Association of Northern California has named salesforce.com the 2005 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year. The award was presented to salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on October 24th.
The association presents the Entrepreneurial Company of the Year award annually to accomplished Bay Area companies that are category leaders, and that are managing well in a high-growth environment. Past winners include Apple, Yahoo!, eBay, Juniper Networks, and others.
"Salesforce.com has experienced tremendous growth in its subscriber and customer base over the past few years, and is the clear leader in the CRM market," said Sean Jacobsohn, president of the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California. "Salesforce doesn't stop moving when it comes to constantly innovating its product and creating new applications that the market demands."
Founded in 1999, salesforce.com launched a revolution in the enterprise software world, eliminating the need for expensive and lengthy implementations of premise-based customer relationship management applications. With continued growth in both revenues and customer deployments, salesforce.com went public in June, 2004. The company continues to redefine both the CRM industry and on-demand computing, most recently with last months' introduction of AppExchange, the first on-demand application sharing service.
"Even while we introduce new features and solutions to our customers at a rapid pace, we're conscious of providing them the best possible service, and listening to what they tell us about the value of CRM to their businesses," said Benioff. "The Harvard Business School Association has recognized the hard work we've done, and continue to do, to stay at the top of the CRM market."
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on demand. Appforce, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers to build whole new powerful applications quickly and easily, as well as customize and integrate the Salesforce suite to meet their unique business needs. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
As of July 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 16,900 customers and approximately 308,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust. 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 services 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 www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
NOTE: Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and Appforce and AppExchange are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE Salesforce.com
10/25/2005
CONTACT: Jane Hynes of Salesforce.com, +1-415-901-5079, or jhynes@salesforce.com/
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