Windows IT Pro Readers Rate Salesforce the Number One CRM Business Application

Salesforce.com's solution wins top CRM solution award for second year in a row

SAN FRANCISCO — October 2, 2006 — Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced that it has received the Windows IT Pro Readers' Choice Award for Business Applications. Windows IT Pro noted that the Salesforce suite was ranked first for CRM solution for the second consecutive year, commenting that Salesforce "beat the competition by a wide margin" because it is "easy to deploy and use" and "doesn't require an expensive upfront software purchase." The awards were published in the September 2006 edition of Window's IT Pro.

"To be recognized by the readers of Windows IT Pro, who understand the complexities of deploying and managing business applications, is a great testament to the significant advantages that Salesforce on-demand solutions provide," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO at salesforce.com. "This accolade echoes the feedback we hear regularly from new customers when they see first-hand how Salesforce can transform and improve their business."

Windows IT Pro Readers' Choice Awards were developed in 2002 as a way to let readers evaluate and recommend the best technology products in the industry. This year readers chose Salesforce from nearly 750 products that were nominated in 12 major technology categories.

Penton's Windows IT Media, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, includes flagship print publication Windows IT Pro. First published in 1995, Windows IT Pro is the editorial leader in its field and has a paid subscription base of 105,000. The magazine is published in 13 languages and has an international reach into 160 countries.

About Salesforce.com

With more than 100,000 customers, salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company that is leading the shift to the social enterprise. Social enterprises leverage social, mobile and open cloud technologies to put customers at the heart of their business. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, the company's platform and application services allow customers to:

  • Create employee social networks with Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce Rypple and Salesforce Force.com.
  • Develop customer social networks with the Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Data.com, Salesforce Service Cloud, and Salesforce Site.com.
  • Connect with customers on public social networks with Salesforce Heroku and Salesforce Radian6.
  • Empower small business to become social enterprises with Salesforce Desk.com and Salesforce Do.com.
  • Extend a company's social enterprise with apps from the leading enterprise app marketplace, AppExchange.
  • Run apps on Database.com, the first social enterprise database.

 

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