Salesforce.com Reaches 7,800 Customer Milestone as Inter-Tel Selects Salesforce.com S3 for up to 520 Users

Salesforce.com wins over on-premise CRM software as a better fit for their sales operation with better ease of use, quicker time to implement, and lower total cost of ownership

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - October 07, 2003 - Salesforce.com®, the world leader in delivering software-as-service, today announced that Inter-Tel, Incorporated (NASDAQ:INTL), a leading provider of voice and converged communications solutions for small- to mid-size enterprises, has licensed 520 users nationwide on salesforce.com S3, becoming salesforce.com's 7,800th customer. The company chose salesforce.com's innovative customer relationship management (CRM) service over conventional software vendors on the basis of usability, cost and deployment time, completing initial deployments in less than 60 days.

"Salesforce.com's software-as-service model delivers superior usability for our sales force and a lower overall cost of ownership over traditional installed software," said Norman Stout, executive vice president and CAO at Inter-Tel. "We were able to get up and running on a solution configured to our needs very quickly. The solution is designed to enable our team members to respond to inquiries quicker and with more information at their disposal."

With salesforce.com S3, Inter-Tel now has a single on-demand system that enables the secure management of sales force automation, customer service and support, as well as sharing of documents and files. Inter-Tel has configured the salesforce.com application with particular views appropriate to the needs and usability of each unit. With salesforce.com, Inter-Tel has been able to take advantage of the combination of relatively quick deployment and lower total cost of ownership for its customer relationship management.

"Over 7,800 customers worldwide are now turning to salesforce.com for CRM success without software," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. "The clear advantages of the utility model for these companies - benefits such as low risk and cost, high flexibility and rapid deployment - are the driving force behind salesforce.com's profitability and its customers' success. We're excited to have reached this significant customer milestone with this latest agreement."

With more than 7,800 customers and 100,000 subscribers worldwide, salesforce.com is the world's most successful application utility and the first profitable software-as-service provider. Salesforce.com S3 allows the scalable, secure management of sales force automation, campaign management, customer service and support, as well as documents and files. Salesforce.com S3 is built on sforce, the salesforce.com client/service application system, allowing it to be easily customized by tools from BEA (NASDAQ: BEAS), Borland, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Sun (NASDAQ: SUNW). The new salesforce.com Integration Server powered by TIBCO (NASDAQ: TIBX), available to salesforce.com S3 customers, offers integration with almost every corporate system including SAP (NYSE: SAP), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), PeopleSoft (NASDAQ: PSFT), and Siebel (NASDAQ: SEBL) applications.

About Inter-Tel

Inter-Tel (NASDAQ: INTL) is an Arizona-based corporation. Focused on the small- to medium-sized enterprise, Inter-Tel offers value-driven communications products; applications utilizing networks and server-based communications software; and a wide range of managed services that focus on voice and data network design and traffic provisioning, custom application development, and financial solutions packages that respond to business communications needs. An industry-leading provider, Inter-Tel employs over 1,700 people and services business customers through a network of more than 50 direct sales offices and over 250 authorized dealerships in the United States, United Kingdom and Asia. More information is available at www.inter-tel.com.

About Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). 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 July 31, 2008, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 47,700 customers including ABN AMRO, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, Sprint Nextel, 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.

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