Recently cited as a leader in the platform-as-a-service arena, Salesforce.com (News
- Alert) has been featured in two Forrester (News - Alert) Research studies. As a leader in the CRM cloud computing industry, Salesforce was named in Platform-As-A-Service For Vendor Strategy Professionals, Q2 2011 and The Forrester Wave and Platform-As-A-Service For App Dev And Delivery Professionals, Q2 2011.
Issued last month, both reports gave Salesforce the highest scores possible for its partner and product strategy and services. With an ISV Scenario evaluation, The Forrester Wave for PaaS for Vendor Strategy Professionals awarded Salesforce’s administration, management, cloud connectivity, corporate strategy, financial strength, and distribution channels.
The report stated, “Salesforce.com's aggressive investments to expand its Force.com portfolio certainly support that notion, as do the additional platform products salesforce.com added during late 2010 and the Heroku acquisition.”
The Service Provider evaluation also gave Salesforce high scores for application development, corporate strategy, architecture, and its leading product, the Force.com platform.
The report continued to state, “Forrester estimates that salesforce.com has more than 10,000 accounts using Force.com as a development platform (as opposed to using it for extending the salesforce.com applications), perhaps as many as 25,000. Salesforce.com markets the Force.com portfolio through its own field force, but hundreds of partners also promote and extend the platform.”
Salesforce received the highest scores possible for coders in the Forrester Wave for PaaS Application Development and Delivery Professionals as well as receiving mention for its product strategy for business experts.
Byron Sebastian, general manager at Heroku and SVP of Platform at Salesforce stated, “We believe our success in the PaaS market is the direct result of Force.com's proven ability to deliver the fastest path to success for business, IT and ISVs. Force.com is enabling the next generation of real-time enterprise applications that are social, mobile, and built for the cloud.”
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Juliana Kenny graduated from the University of Connecticut with a double degree in English and French. After managing a small company for two years, she joined TMC (News - Alert) as a Web Editor for TMCnet. Juliana currently focuses on the call center and CRM industries, but she also writes about cloud telephony and network gear including softswitches.
Edited by Jennifer Russell