Awards
Product Awards

CRM Markets Awards
Midmarket Suite CRM (2007)
Small Business Suite CRM (2007)
SFA (2007)
Influential leaders - Marc Benioff (2007)
Forrester Research
Highest Overall Score (2004) Forrester Wave: Hosted Sales Force Automation—No. 1 for current product offering and market presence (Q1, 2005)

Beagle Research
CRM WizKids (2006)
Gartner
Vision Events Midsize Enterprise Summit: Best Execution of a Midmarket IT Solution (2004, 2005)
Customer Inter@ction Solutions
CRM Excellence Award (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006); Product of the Year Award (2002, 2003, 2004); Salesforce Partner Relationship Management (2007); Salesforce for service and support (2007)
Software & Information Industry Association CODIE Awards
Best CRM (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007); Best Software Service (2004); Best Application Management Solution (AppExchange, 2005); Best On-Demand Platform (2007)
Company Awards
- Forrester Groundswell Award – IdeaExchange
- San Francisco School Volunteers – Partnership of the Year: Salesforce.com Foundation and Jean Parker Elementary School
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Securities Industry News Capital Markets Award – Leading CRM
technology provider for capital markets
- 2007 Elite Enterprise CRM: Sybase - for salesforce.com and Eloqua
- Small Biz: Voices.com for salesforce.com deployment
- Mid-market: Roland DGA also won with MS Dynamics
- Info-Tech Research Group's Decision Diamond – Leader in CRM Solutions for Small Enterprises
- Gartner’s Magic Quadrant – Leader in Sales Force Automation
- 2007 San Francisco Business Times Top Corporate Philanthropists in the Greater Bay Area – salesforce.com ranked # 18
- Communications Solutions (TMCNet) 2006 Product of the Year– Salesforce Sales & Support
- Customer Interaction Solutions (TMCNet) 2007 CRM Excellence Award – Salesforce Winter ‘07
- Start-IT 2007 Hottest Companies
- American Business Awards, Best New Product/Service (Computer Hardware or Services) – Salesforce for Google AdWords
- CRN Top 25 Tech Breakthroughs of All Time - SaaS
- Nucleus ROI Award – ZoomInfo
- Baseline 40 Fastest-Growing Software Companies
- SD Times 100: Influencer (2007)
- Business 2.i Leadership Award: Web 2.0 and Internet Best Practices in the CRM Software Sector (2007)
- ISM Top 15 Software: Top 15 SMB (2007)
- The WIRED 40 (2007)
- 2007 Bulldog Award: Gold award in Technology, Business category (2007)
- CECP Award: 7th Annual Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award for Small Company (2007)
- CIO Insight Top 40 Vendor (2007)
- Forbes.com's Top 10 Disrupters of 2006
- Forbes Top 25 Fastest Growing Companies - salesforce.com ranked #3 (2007)
- AlwaysOn: Top 100 Private Companies (2003)
- BusinessWeek: Top 100 Most Innovative Companies (No. 79, 2006)
- CIO Decisions/Nucleus Research: ROI Awards (Bridge Street, 2005)
- CRM Magazine: Market Leader (2002, 2003, 2004); Market Leader, Midsized and Small Business Categories (2005)
- Forbes: Top Ten Disrupters (2006)
- Fortune: Cool Company (2001)
- Harvard Business School Association: Entrepreneurial Company of the Year, Northern California (2005)
- InfoWorld: InfoWorld 100 for IT Innovation and Resourcefulness (2004)
- San Francisco Chamber of Commerce: Ebbies Emerging Growth Award (2003)
- SD Times 100: Influencer (2006)
- searchCRM.com: Product of the Year—Sales Force Automation (2004, 2005)
- Software Development: Jolt Award Finalist—Business Integration and Data Tools (AppExchange, 2005)
- Software & Information Industry Association CODIE Awards: Corporate Achievement Award (2006); Excellence in Giving Award (2006)
- Start Magazine: Hottest Companies of... (2004, 2005, 2006)
- Wired Magazine: The Wired 40 (No. 20, 2005; No. 15, 2006; No. 7, 2007)
- Windows IT: Readers' Choice Award—CRM Software (2005, 2006)
Foundation Awards
- YMCA of San Francisco 2007 Building Strong Communities Award
- AOL/Time Warner: 15th Annual National Philanthropy Day Awards CeremonyRecognition (2001)
- Business Ethics Magazine: 100 Best Corporate Citizens (No. 7, 2006)
- City and County of San Francisco: Innovative Community Service Program Recognition (2005)
- Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy: Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award (CEO)
- Computerworld: Honors Laureate (2006)
- Domini Social Index 400 (salesforce.com added in 2005)
- Full Circle Fund Impact Award—Technology Programs (2005)
- KLD Social Index: salesforce.com added to the Domini Social Index 400
- Katrina Relief Project, katrinalist.net
- Points of Light Foundation: Award for Excellence in Corporate Community Service (2003)
- San Francisco Business Times: Corporate Philanthropy Top 50 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
- San Francisco Mayor's Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities: Employment Achievement Award (2006)
- San Francisco School Volunteers for Excellence: Allies for Education Award (2004)
- SOA Web Services Journal: "Best Grassroots Use of Web 2.0" (2005)
- Software & Information Industry Association: CODIE Award for Excellence in Giving (2006)
- Taproot Foundation: Pro Bono Service Award
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Corporate Stewardship Award (2003)
- Volunteer Center of San Francisco: Community Champion (Marc Benioff, 2004)
Executive Awards
- Inside CRM Top CRM 25 Influencers of 2007 – Marc Benioff #1
- TechRepublic’s 10 Most Influential Leaders in Business: Marc Benioff
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award: Marc Benioff
- Silicon.com’s 2007 Agenda Setter and Top Ten Business Leader: Marc Benioff
- VarBusiness: 60 Top Channel Executives
- BusinessWeek: ebiz 25 (CEO, 2003)
- Business 2.0: 50 People Who Matter Now (CEO, No. 11, 2006)
- Computerworld: Premier 100 IT Leader (CTO, 2002)
- CRM Magazine : Hall of Fame (CEO, 2005)
- CRM Magazine: Influential Leader (CEO, 2002, 2003, 2004)
- CRN Magazine: Innovator Award (CTO, 2003)
- CRN Magazine: Industry Game Changer (CEO, 2003)
- CRN Magazine: Top Five People to Watch in 2006 (CEO, 2006)
- DEMO@15: World Class Innovator (CEO, 2005)
- Ernst & Young: Entrepreneur of the Year, N. California (CEO, 2003)
- eWEEK: Top 100 Most Influential People in IT (CEO, No. 7, 2007)
- Forbes: Top 10 Entrepreneurs to Watch (CEO, 2003)
- Forum of Young Global Leaders (CEO, 2005)
- InfoWorld: Top 10 Technology Innovators (CTO, 2001)
- InfoWorld: 25 Most Influential CTOs (CTO, 2002)
- InfoWorld: CTO of the Year Award Runnerup (CTO, 2003)
- International Oracle Users Group: True Friend of the User Community (CEO, 1995)
- NEA: Outstanding Entrepreneur (CEO, 2006)
- President's Information Technology Advisory Committee: Nominee (CEO, 2003)
- San Francisco Business Times: CFO of the Year Finalist (CFO, 2006)
- SDForum: Visionary Award (CEO, 2004)
- Silicon.com: Top 50 Agenda Setters (CEO, 2003)
- Stevie Awards: International CEO of the Year (CEO, 2004)
- SunBridge's Entrepreneur of the Year (CEO, 2002, Japan)
- USC Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year (CEO, 2004)
- Wired: RAVE Awards Finalist (CEO, 2004)
- World Economic Forum: Global Leaders of Tomorrow (CEO, 2005)













