[July 30, 2004] Salesforce.com Wins Third Consecutive SIIA Codie Award for Best CRM SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- July 30, 2004 -- Salesforce.com Also Named Best Software Service in the Only Peer Recognition Program in the Software and Information Industry Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in customer relationship management (CRM) on demand, today announced that its industry-leading on demand CRM service has been named by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) as the winner of the 2004 Codie Awards for Best Customer Relationship Management Solution and Best Software Service. This is the third consecutive year that salesforce.com has won the Best CRM Award, following similar recognition in 2002 and 2003. The Codie Awards showcase the finest companies, products and services in the software and information industry. Salesforce.com was honored for its achievement in product excellence by winning two of 44 Codie Awards, chosen from over 800 products by judges consisting of industry trade press, mainstream technology writers, industry experts and SIIA members. The Codie Awards provide the only peer recognition program in the software and information industry, a unique venue where companies compete for the praise of their competitors. "To win a Codie Award three years running is a tremendous honor and an important achievement," said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. "Salesforce.com has once again shown its product strength and industry influence with this year's awards. SIIA is proud to recognize salesforce.com as a true leader in its field." "Salesforce.com has democratized CRM success by providing companies of all sizes, in all industries, and in all parts of the world with integrated, scalable and completely customizable on demand CRM," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "We've relentlessly focused on innovation and customer success, and it is very rewarding to be recognized for our efforts with our third consecutive Codie Award for Best CRM." This award is the latest in a string of industry honors for salesforce.com that includes three consecutive PC Magazine Editors Choice designations and a Gartner CRM Excellence Award in 2003. Aberdeen Group honored salesforce.com with three consecutive Top 10 CRM Implementation awards from 2001-2003. InfoWorld named salesforce.com a 2004 Technology of the Year, as well as Best Hosted Application. About salesforce.com Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in customer relationship management (CRM) on demand. Through its award-winning salesforce.com family of products, the company provides a comprehensive suite of customer relationship management (CRM) services to help enterprises of all sizes, industries and geographies meet the complex challenge of managing customer information. Salesforce.com also offers sforce, the salesforce.com client/service platform, to allow customers and independent software vendors to customize and integrate salesforce.com, as well as build their own on demand enterprise applications. As of June 30, 2004, salesforce.com manages customer information for 10,700 customers and 161,000 paying subscribers including Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Dow Jones, America Online (AOL), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Polycom and SunTrust Banks. Salesforce.com is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM." For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE. About SIIA The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and information companies. For further information, http://www.siia.net. Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of salesforce.com, inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]