Salesforce.com CEO Deemed One of the "10 Most Influential Leaders in Business" by TechRepublic

Marc Benioff recognized for unparalleled impact on evolution of business technology

SAN FRANCISCO - January 16, 2008 - Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service, today announced that Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of the company, has been named one of TechRepublic's "10 Most Influential Leaders in Business."  Recognized for his unparalleled impact on the evolution of business technology, Benioff was lauded both for championing the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) movement and for developing a full SaaS platform, Force.com. Benioff was honored in the company of industry leaders including John Chambers of Cisco, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie of Microsoft, and Steve Jobs of Apple.

"I'm excited to be recognized amongst this distinguished group of industry leaders for having the greatest impact on the evolution of business technology in 2007 with Software-as-a-Service," said Benioff.  "Recognized by TechRepublic as one of the 10 most important business technology products in 2007, our SaaS applications have seen incredible momentum over the past year, and we only see the SaaS movement gaining more steam with our newest innovation, the world's first Platform-as-a-Service."

Being named to the TechRepublic "10 Most Influential Leaders in Business" is the latest in a series of accolades given to Marc Benioff for his outstanding vision and accomplishments.  Other recent honors include:  Ernst & Young 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year Award; eWeek 2007 Top 100 Most Influential People in IT; Silicon.com Top 50 Agenda Setters for 2007; and being named a CRM Magazine 2007 Influential Leader.

To view the complete listing of TechRepublic "10 Most Influential Leaders in Business," visithttp://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=572.

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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