Who is Using Salesforce?

Salesforce.com is the acknowledged market leader in cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. Salesforce.com’s net paying customer base rose to 97,700 according to the latest Salesforce.com Q1FY12 Financial Results.

The beauty of Salesforce.com’s SaaS CRM is that it caters to businesses of all sizes: enterprise, medium, and small.

Salesforce Enterprise Customers

Google, Dell, Toyota, Canon, Lenovo, Siemens, Qualcomm, Starbucks, Cisco, ... Enterprise customers of Salesforce.com include many of the biggest names in world business. Here is a small sample of Salesforce.com’s enterprise clientele: 

Salesforce Mid-sized Customers

LinkedIn, LogMeIn, Nikon, Karl Strauss, WebTrends, ADT,  etc are some of the mid-sized customers of Salesforce.com:

Salesforce Small-Business Customers

The cloud-based, on-demand CRM solutions model has resulted in levelling of the playing field for  small businesses, which was historically skewed in favour of big players. Many small businesses are relishing the flexibility offered by the cloud model and Salesforce.com’s small business clientele include many names including Travelex, Mashable, DemandBase, ScholarBuys, OneLogin, etc:

For a comprehensive list of Salesforce.com customers, you may want to visit: Salesforce.com Customer Index & Salesforce.com Customer Showcase. In a future post, we would take a look at the rate at which Salesforce.com’s customer base has grown over its 12-year history and the forecast for the road ahead.

About Salesforce.com

Long long ago -- well, actually, in 1999, but ain’t a digital decade like aeons? -- a company was born: Salesforce.com! In an innovative tour de force, Salesforce.com has grown into a $1.6 billion business and captured more than half of the market for software-as-a-service CRM applications. 

Salesforce.com: Software as a Service

Here are some key facts about Salesforce.com:

• Founded: March 1999 , California.
• Founders:  Marc Benioff (Chairman &CEO) Parker Harris (Exec.VP, Technology).
• Type of business entity:  Public (NYSE: CRM).
• Website: http://www.salesforce.com/
• #1 Web CRM provider.
• #1 in Sales Force Automation. (Gartner: Magic Quadrant for SFA, 2010).
• #4 fastest-growing company (Fortune Magazine, 2010).
• #10 in "Best Places to Work" in IT (Computerworld, 2010).
• 50%+ market for enterprise cloud computing applications.
• Revenue:  1st enterprise cloud computing company to exceed $2.0 billion annual revenue run rate (Salesforce.com Q1FY12 Financial Results).
• Employees:  Approx. 6000.
• Customers: 97,700+
• Force.com Developers: 310,000+
• Custom apps built on Force.com platform: 200,000+
• Caters to: Businesses of all sizes (small, medium, enterprise).
• Awards: Galore!
• CRM Magazine’s 2010 Market Awards:
• Enterprise Suite CRM (2009, 2010)
• Midmarket Suite CRM (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
• Small Business Suite CRM (2007, 2009, 2010)
• Sales Force Automation (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)

By the way, 1999 was also the year in which my company, Mindfire Solutions, was born :-)