Salesforce.com Announces 2nd Annual Appy Award Winners at Dreamforce

Appy Awards honor salesforce.com customers, developers and partners who are leading the Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service revolution

SAN FRANCISCO - salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference - September 19, 2007  -  Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the technology and market leader in on-demand business services today announced the winners of the 2nd Annual Appy Awards at a special award ceremony held at Dreamforce '07, the salesforce.com User and Developer Conference. Appy Award winners represent the salesforce.com customers, partners and developers who've taken salesforce.com and the on-demand industry to new levels of development, customization and application excellence. The 16 Appy Award categories recognize achievements in innovation leveraging both Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service.

"The driving force behind salesforce.com's success has always been the innovation developed by our community. The Appy Awards honor this contribution and represent the best of our 35,300 customers, 50,000 developers and thousands of partners," said salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff.

On September 18, Benioff and salesforce.com President Jim Steele presented awards to each winner in the 16 separate categories to a capacity crowd at San Francisco's Moscone Center.

The 16 categories are: Dreamforce Best in Show, Best Force.com Native App by Customer and Partner, Breakthrough App of the Year, Best Apex Developer, Outstanding Customer Innovation Award, Best Non-Profit Deployment Award, Best Industry Deployment, Best Global Enterprise Deployment, Best Force.com Integration, Best AppExchange Adopter, Chief Innovation Officer Award, Salesforce Sales Excellence Award, Salesforce PRM Excellence Award, Salesforce Customer Service Excellence Award and Salesforce Marketing Excellence Award. Winners were chosen by an internal panel of experts based on a combination of usage metrics, technology innovation and business success related to their use of Salesforce applications and the Force.com platform. In addition, over 50 AppExchange partners were nominated for the Dreamforce Best in Show award and the winner was voted on by the attendees of Dreamforce and users of Salesforce IdeaExchange.

Dreamforce Best in Show: VerticalResponse

Best Force.com Native App - Customer: Electronic Arts for Recruiting Application

Best Force.com Native App - Partner: Apttus Contract & Proposal Management

Breakthrough App of the Year: Model Metrics for Accelerate4Pharma

Best Apex Developer: Glenn Wilson, CRMfusion

Outstanding Customer Innovation Award: Dell for IdeaStorm

Best Non-Profit Deployment Award: Family Service Agency of San Francisco

Best Industry Deployment: TD AMERITRADE

Best Global Enterprise Deployment: Informa plc

Best Force.com Integration: KONE

Best AppExchange Adopter: SIRVA

Chief Innovation Officer Award: Doug Menefee, The Schumacher Group

Salesforce Sales Excellence Award: Sybase

Salesforce PRM Excellence Award: GFI Software

Salesforce Customer Service Excellence Award: QUALCOMM

Salesforce Marketing Excellence Award: SunGard

Force.com Platform and the AppExchange
Force.com reinvents the traditional development, deployment and distribution of any business application with Platform-as-a-Service. Developers, customers and partners can use Force.com to easily create a new generation of on-demand applications and deploy them worldwide as a service.  Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to be easily distributed to the entire on-demand community.
 
The AppExchange economy continues to expand, with thousands of customers installing thousands of applications via the AppExchange. Customers of all sizes can quickly and easily extend Salesforce with additional on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

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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