Salesforce.com Receives 2004 CRM Excellence Award from Customer Inter@ction Solutions Magazine

Salesforce.com wins top honors two years running for helping companies of all sizes, industries and geographies experience CRM success

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - August 10, 2004 - Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market leader in customer relationship management (CRM) on-demand, today announced that salesforce.com Enterprise Edition received a CRM Excellence Award for 2004 from the editorial staff of Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC™)'s Customer Inter@ction Solutions® magazine. Customer Inter@ction Solutions® has been one of the premier publications in the CRM, call center and teleservices industries since 1982.

The CRM Excellence Awards honor the top CRM vendors in the industry. Award recipients were selected by an editorial team based on product excellence, vision, and proven benefit to customers and clients. The awards were featured in the May and June issues of Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine, available online at http://www.tmcnet.com/cis/. This is the second year in a row that salesforce.com has received CRM Excellence Award.

"Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine implemented the CRM Excellence Awards as a way of honoring the companies that have proven to be true CRM partners to their customers and clients," said Nadji Tehrani, Chairman and CEO of TMC. "Salesforce.com has demonstrated to Customer Inter@ction Solutions that its products and services have substantially improved the processes of its clients' businesses by streamlining and facilitating the flow of information needed for companies to retain their most precious asset... their customers."

Salesforce.com's industry honors also include: three consecutive PC Magazine Editors' Choice designations; the Codie Award for Best CRM Solution for the past three years; the Gartner CRM Excellence Award in 2003; three consecutive Top 10 CRM Implementation awards from 2001-2003 from the Aberdeen Group; and InfoWorld's Best Hosted Application as well as one of their 2004 Technology of the Year awards.

TMC®

Celebrating more than 30 years as a leading publisher, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions, and Internet Telephony® magazines, and the online publications, TMCnet.com®, Planet PDA Magazine, Alternative Power™ and BiometriTech™. TMC® is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC® Labs. TMC® produces The VoIP Developer Conference and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMC offers live and online certification programs through TMC University. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 online newsletters. Visit www.tmcnet.com for details.

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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