Salesforce.com to Surpass One Million Subscription Milestone
On-demand pioneer and leader will reach major milestone as industry shifts to
Software-as-a-Service
Fueled by massive customer adoption and momentum for Force.com Platform-as-a-Service and
Salesforce Software-as-a-Service Applications
More than 3,400 developers are already innovating with Visualforce User
Interface-as-a-Service
"Our strategy of delivering both the Force.com Platform-as-a-Service and Salesforce core Software-as-a-Service applications has driven a remarkable shift in the industry over the last eight years," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "It took seven years to reach the first 500,000 paying subscribers and only another 16 months for the second 500,000. That's incredible global momentum and adoption for businesses of all sizes. For a million subscribers around the world, it's truly The End of Software."
Force.com and Salesforce Applications Deliver Customer Success
With 38,100 customers and nearly 1 million subscriptions, salesforce.com is driving success on demand for customers worldwide. Just as customers have adopted Salesforce first for SFA, and then the full suite of CRM applications, they are now adopting the Force.com platform to extend the benefits of on-demand applications throughout their entire enterprises.
The Force.com Platform-as-a-Service offers the most comprehensive set of capabilities for building any application on demand. Force.com PaaS provides the building blocks necessary to create and deploy any business application and lets companies and developers focus on what their applications do, rather than the software and infrastructure to run them. By replacing the complexity of software platforms with a complete, scalable service, Force.com provides developers the fastest path to turn ideas into business impact. The multi-tenant Force.com platform encompasses a complete feature set for the creation of business applications, including the ability to create any database on demand, a workflow engine for managing collaboration between users, the Apex Code programming language for building complex logic, the Force.com Web Services API for programmatic access, mash-ups, and integration with other applications and data, and Visualforce for a framework to build any user interface.
Achieving Major Milestones in On Demand
In addition to reaching the one million subscription mark during the month of December, salesforce.com has achieved several major milestones that speak to the growth of its service and breadth of its offerings:
Force.com Platform-as-a-Service Momentum
- More than 62,000 developers in the Apex Developer Network using the Force.com platform
- More than 750 AppExchange applications
- Approximately 280,000 test drives on the AppExchange
- Approximately 38,000 installations from the AppExchange
- More than 3,400 developers have built more than 5,800 custom interfaces with Visualforce
- Approximately 39 AppExchange companies have raised more than $400 million in venture funding
- More than 8 billion transactions in Q3
- First 130-million transaction day (November, 2007)
- Released 24th edition of salesforce.com's service to all customers (November, 2007)
- Average Q3 page-delivery times of less than one-third of a second (about the time it takes to blink)
- 2,800 nonprofits now using the company's on-demand service free of charge
- More than 70,000 employee hours donated across the globe
- More than $10 million in grants distributed
About Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com Platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) enables customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud. Based on salesforce.com <http://salesforce.com> 's real-time, multi-tenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.
As of July 31, 2009, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 63,200 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks.
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