Salesforce.com Announces First-Ever Developer Conference

Guy Kawasaki, Marc Benioff and other industry visionaries to present

Learn how to build the next generation of on-demand applications on the Salesforce Platform

SAN FRANCISCO- May 7, 2007 - Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced the first-ever Salesforce Developer Conference, designed to foster the next generation of on-demand applications and businesses. Attendees will hear from and network with industry visionaries, such as Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director, Garage Ventures, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com, and Parker Harris, co-founder and EVP Technology, salesforce.com. The Salesforce Developer Conference will be held May 21, 2007 at the Santa Clara Marriott.

The conference will provide developers the opportunity to get hands-on with the Salesforce Platform and the Apex programming language, as well as the opportunity to meet with salesforce.com's platform R&D and AppExchange teams. Attendees will be able to attend tracks and sessions to learn how to build a global business with on-demand applications. Tracks at the Salesforce Developer Conference will include:

  • Salesforce Platform: Learn directly from salesforce.com technology experts as they discuss how to build robust on-demand apps on the Salesforce Platform
  • Enterprise Mashups: Learn to extend on-demand applications by leveraging leading Web Services APIs
  • On-Demand Startups: Go from idea to cash using the Salesforce Platform and the AppExchange

For more information on sessions, speakers and tracks, or to register, please visit: http://www.salesforce.com/campaigns/developerconference/.

An audio webcast of Mr. Benioff's keynote will be available on salesforce.com's website at http://www.salesforce.com/investor.

Create and Build On Demand with the Salesforce Developer Network
Comprehensive developer resources to build on the Salesforce Platform are available at a new Wiki-based developer site, the Salesforce Developer Network, at http://developer.salesforce.com. The Salesforce Developer Network provides the community, tools and resources to let developers use the Salesforce Code programming language to build new applications for the AppExchange. Now any developer in the world - with access to just a Web browser and Internet connection - can harness the power of the world's most popular multi-tenant platform to create new applications and mashups from scratch. With toolkits and resources for most popular development languages, including AJAX, Flex, Java, .NET and PHP, developers can also combine those applications with other Web services to create new business mashups, allowing developers, ISVs and  IT organizations to easily leverage The Business Web in their projects and offerings.

Developers interested in using the toolkits and the Salesforce Platform can sign up for a free Developer Edition at http://developer.salesforce.com.

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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