Vocus, Inc. Switches to Salesforce.com for Superior Customization Capabilities

Salesforce.com empowers Vocus, Inc. to create its own CRM that precisely fits its unique global marketing mix

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — October 20, 2004 — Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced that Vocus, Inc., the global leader in on-demand software for public relations and government relations has replaced its Siebel (NASDAQ: SEBL) CRM OnDemand—UpShot Edition with Salesforce.com across offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Vocus is successfully using Salesforce.com to automate and streamline its international sales and marketing processes. Salesforce.com enables Vocus to customize its global CRM to meet specific workflow requirements, as well as add custom fields and tabs to match its business requirements, without any programming effort.

"We were looking for a comprehensive CRM system that would deliver on several fronts — one that would give us full CRM, and at the same time offer the best in quality service, system reliability and value for our investment," said Gary McNeil, vice president of marketing, Vocus. "After Upshot was purchased by Siebel, we decided to migrate to Salesforce.com to immediately meet our CRM requirements. Salesforce.com provided the customizable on-demand capabilities that we needed to better manage our unique marketing mix and assess revenue impact."

Vocus completed its global roll out of Salesforce.com in June 2004. The company credits Salesforce.com's integrated on-demand CRM with creating significant new operational efficiencies, as well as global business insight. Leads are now seamlessly transitioned to the sales organization for follow up, and all opportunities are visible in real-time with a single click. In addition, for the first time, Vocus is able to track and gauge the success of its international marketing campaigns.

Vocus is one of the 12,000 companies of all sizes, industries and geographies that comprised the Salesforce.com customer base as of September 30, 2004.

About Vocus, Inc.

Vocus is the global leader in on-demand software for public relations and government relations. Vocus offers Web-based software that helps companies to meet today's local and global communications challenges, and to build and manage relationships with reporters, analysts, elected officials and other key audiences. Our award-winning software helps customers manage media relations, news monitoring and analysis, interactive email campaigns, online newsrooms, government relations and PAC reporting. Vocus software is delivered as an easy-to-use and cost-effective annual subscription, with no need for internal hardware, software or IT support. Vocus has received broad industry recognition and is used around the world by more than 2,000 organizations in five languages. Vocus is a privately held company with headquarters in metropolitan Washington and offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information please visit www.vocus.com or call 800.345.5572.

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/.

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