Details

Last Funding Type

Post-IPO Equity

Industries

Analytics,CRM,Enterprise Software,SaaS

Founded date

Jan 1, 1999

Number Of Employee

10001 - max

Operating Status

Active

Stock Symbol

nyse:CRM

Investor Type

Venture Capital

Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. It is best known for its on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. It offers users a customer community, partner community, developer community, and an app exchange marketplace. Salesforce provides its products and services to various industries, including healthcare, finance, life sciences, automotive, media, retail, manufacturing, and communications.


Salesforce's products portfolio includes Sales Cloud: a platform that enables users to track customer information and interactions in one place via its contact management, opportunity management, sales collaboration, and sales performance management services; Service Cloud: tools that enable users to access personalized, 24/7, and intelligent customer service, along with multichannel support; Marketing Cloud: a platform that offers email, mobile, and social media marketing services, along with web personalization and advertising services; Community Cloud: an online collaboration platform that connects customers, partners, and employees; and Analytics Cloud: a platform that enables users to share datasets and insights, access them and find answers for their questions, and collaborate with their teams via any device.


Data.com is a cloud-based automated system with an online business directory of companies and business professionals that enables users to acquire and manage CRM records within a user's Salesforce.com account. Desk.com is a cloud-based helpdesk system for interacting with customers and solving customer issues. Pardot is a B2B marketing automation tool that enables users to optimize deliverability rates, target emails to a specific audience, and test the success rate of email content. Chatter connects employees with appropriate files, data, and expert help to handle their work.


The Salesforce1 platform brings together Salesforce.com, Force.com, Heroku, and ExactTarget into one family of cloud services. Salesforce.com provides companies with an interface for case management and task management, and a system to automatically route and escalate important events. Force.com is a platform as a service (PaaS) that allows developers to create multitenant add-on applications. Heroku is an app development platform.


Salesforce was founded by Parker Harris and Marc Benioff in 1999 and is based in California, United States.

Salesforce has had 14 exits. Salesforce most notable exits include Mikatus ,   Relationship Science

Salesforce has acquired 70 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Sendia on Apr 11, 2006. They acquired Sendia for 0.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Apr 11, 2006 Sendia	Marketing	acquisition	—	Detail
Aug 22, 2006 Kieden	Advertising	—	—	Detail
Apr 10, 2007 Koral Technologies	Information Technology	—	—	Detail
Aug 19, 2008 InStranet	Apps	—	$ 31.50M	Detail
Dec 11, 2009 GroupSwim	B2B	—	$ 7M	Detail