Salesforce.com Placed in the Visionaries Quadrant of Enterprise Application Server Magic Quadrant 2Q08
Force.com Platform-as-a-Service provides the necessary tools and services for business application creation and delivery - without the cost and complexity of software infrastructure
"We believe the Force.com Platform being named to the Visionaries Quadrant by Gartner in its Enterprise Application Server Magic Quadrant signals the industry's inevitable shift to SaaS and PaaS for application creation and delivery," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. "Salesforce.com is honored to be named to the quadrant and we will continue to be dedicated to industry leadership, technology innovation and customer success on demand."
"We have been able to build Apttus into a profitable company in a less than a year's time by choosing the Force.com Platform," said Kirk Krappe, CEO of Apttus, a provider of on-demand contract and proposal management solutions. "The efficiencies created by developing on the Force.com Platform significantly improved our time to market, and allowed us to focus on building an innovative contract and proposal management application, instead of managing and maintaining software infrastructure."
Force.com PaaS Moves Application Development and Delivery into the Cloud
The Force.com Platform-as-a-Service gives ISVs and corporate IT departments a comprehensive set of tools and application services to build any business application and run it in the cloud on the salesforce.com infrastructure. Force.com is being used to build everything from departmental applications - like project management and approval tracking - to large scale, business critical applications processing thousands of transactions per second - like financials and contract management.
Force.com provides the ability to define the data, business logic, security policies and user interface of an application. Applications also get built-in reporting/analytics, support for multiple languages, multiple currencies and can be integrated with on premise applications like SAP, Oracle Financials, or Web 2.0 services like Google Apps. Applications running on Force.com leverage the same proven platform that powers the salesforce.com CRM applications, which support tens of thousands of customers and more than a million users. High availability and disaster recovery services are built into the core of the platform and are automatically inherited by any application running on it.
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Salesforce.com placed in the visionaries quadrant of Gartner Enterprise Application Server Magic Quadrant 2Q08. Register now to access this Gartner research: https://www.salesforce.com/form/pdf/gartner_eas_magicq.jsp
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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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