Salesforce.com Receives eWEEK Excellence Award for Best Business Application

Salesforce Spring '08 'continues to be the leading model for the industry'

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com
(NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis
Enterprise publication and one of the industry's leading enterprise IT
magazines, has named salesforce.com a winner in eWEEK's Eighth Annual
Excellence Awards program. eWEEK judged companies and their products based on
innovation, cost-effectiveness and potential for helping companies develop a
competitive advantage, among other criteria. Salesforce Spring '08 won as
best Business Application and was noted for continuing "to be the leading
model for the industry."
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"eWEEK's recognition of Salesforce Spring '08 as the best Business
Application is further testament to our ongoing leadership and continuous
innovation," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO at salesforce.com. "We're
proud to receive the eWEEK Excellence Award and to be honored for delivering
real value in time and cost-savings to our customers."
"Salesforce.com is one of the companies setting the pace in the merger of
robust business applications, the creation of a developer network and the
ability to make cloud computing a true business partner rather than a fancy
marketing term," said eWEEK editor Debra Donston. "The company continues to
address the biggest impediments to developing business applications -- time,
maintenance and upgrade cycles -- by offering a service-based model. After a
thorough review of the products submitted in this category, our judges voted
Salesforce Spring '08 the best Business Application."
The eWEEK Excellence Awards are designed to ease the technology decision
process by pointing IT buyers to the most promising new enterprise products
and technologies. The program provides enterprise professionals with a
comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and
services. More details can be found at http://www.eweek.com.
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About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The company's
portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM, available at
http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that
customers manage and share business information over the Internet. The
company's Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners to build
powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy
across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.com platform, available
at http://www.force.com/, can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a
few simple clicks via salesforce.com's Force.com AppExchange marketplace
available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.
As of July 31, 2008, salesforce.com manages customer information for
approximately 47,700 customers including ABN AMRO, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan
Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, Sprint Nextel, and SunTrust Banks. Any
unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or
public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time
or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make
their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available.
Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and
Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM".
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Katy Dormer of salesforce.com, +1-415-901-8595, kdormer@salesforce.com