☁History of Salesforce.com☁

☁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.com has also expanded into commercial applications of social networking through acquisition.☁

It is currently ranked the most innovative company in America by Forbes magazine, as well as number 7 in Fortune magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2014.☁

☁It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the S&P 500 index.☁

☁The company was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez as a company specializing in software as a service (SaaS).☁

 ☁Harris, Moellenhoff and Dominguez, three software developers previously at Clarify, wrote the initial sales automation software.☁

☁In June 2004, the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol CRM, raising US$110 million.☁

☁Marc Benioff and Magdalena Yesil were the initial basic connection investors and board members.☁

☁Other early investors include Larry Ellison, Halsey Minor, Stewart Henderson, Mark Iscaro, and Igor Sill of Geneva Venture Partners, as well as Nancy Pelosi.☁

☁In July 2012 Salesforce applied to trademark the term "Social enterprise" in the US, EU and Jamaica where the term was in widespread use to describe businesses with a primarily social purpose.☁

☁ This was successfully challenged by a campaign called #notinourname which was launched by Social Enterprise UK resulting in Salesforce.com withdrawing their trademark application and agreeing not to use the term in their future.☁

☁Salesforce is one of the best CRM tool, it provided services to company and keep their clients satisfied with the particular company. Salesforce help other companies to keep their sales and client information up to date, start campaign for different companies and deal with their customers, sales and business deals.☁

☁Salesforce connect clients to different companies that’s why so many companies has shown their trust on Salesforce in a very good way and given it a five star rating among other CRM providers.☁

☁Salesforce also offer App Exchange which provide a platform for custom application building and sharing and Salesforce also conduct consulting, deployment and training session throughout the year.☁

☁Salesforce Foundation☁

☁The Salesforce.com Foundation donates 1% of the company's resources (defined as profit, equity and employee time) to support organizations that are working to "make the world a better place.☁

☁ It was officially launched at an event featuring former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in 2000, less than a year after the company’s formation.☁

☁ Salesforce provides a full-featured ten-seat user license available to nearly all United States 501c3 non-profit organizations or overseas equivalents.☁

☁ Additional licenses are deeply discounted for public interest groups.☁

☁As of March 2014, the Salesforce.com Foundation has donated 580,000+ volunteer hours, supports 20,000+ higher education & non-profit customers, and $53+ million in grants.☁

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☁Salesforce.com's customer relationship management (CRM) service is broken down into several broad categories: 

• Sales Cloud
• Service Cloud
• Data Cloud (including Jigsaw)
• Collaboration Cloud (including Chatter)
• Custom Cloud (including Force.com with over 100,000 customers)
• Community Cloud (Winter 2015 release)

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