Salesforce.com Inc. is a global cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Though best known for its customer relationship management (CRM) product. Salesforce work in commercial applications including of social networking using acquisition. Salesforce is ranked first in the innovative company category of America in Forbes Magazine. Even Fortune magazine has ranked it number 7 in the 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2014 category.
Salesforce.com named World’s Most Innovative Company
For an unprecedented fourth year in a row, Forbes Magazine named salesforce.com the “Most Innovative Company in the World.”The company was founded in 1999. The founders are Parker Harris, Marc Benioff, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez. They started the company as specializing in software as a service (SaaS).
Industries and companies of all sizes can connect to their customers in a whole new way using the latest innovations in mobile, social and cloud technology to sell, service, market and succeed like never before. Salesforce.com’s dedicated employees, partners and customers have helped the company’s industry-leading customer platform become the world’s leading enterprise cloud ecosystem.
Salesforce.com migrated to Dell servers with AMD processors running Linux from Sun Fire E25K servers with SPARC processors running Solaris in 2008.In 2012, Salesforce.com announced plans to build a data center in the UK to handle European citizens’ personal data. In 2013, Salesforce.com and Oracle announced a 9-year partnership in which Salesforce.com will use Oracle Linux, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, and the Java platform to power salesforce.com’s applications and SaaS platform.
In a recent interview with Forbes, CEO Marc Benioff outlined three key ways salesforce.com manages to stay on top:
- A visionary product line
- Empowering employees through the V2MOM (Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Metrics) process
- Allowing employees to help shape the company vision.
The company has designed and developed its applications to be easy-to-use and intuitive solutions that can be deployed rapidly, customized easily and integrated with other software applications. Salesforce.com offers its services on a subscription basis, primarily through its direct sales efforts and indirectly through partners.
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