Salesforce.com Celebrates First Anniversary of the AppExchange by Reaching Major Milestone: 500 On-Demand Applications Now Available
More than 7,500 customers in 57 countries have installed more than 20,000 applications via the AppExchange in its first year
50 industry leaders demonstrate on-demand applications built with Apex at event today
SAN FRANCISCO — January 16, 2007 — Salesforce.com, Inc. [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, announced that on its first anniversary, the AppExchange has been a resounding success. In just one year, over 250 partners have made more than 500 applications built using Apex available on the world’s first on-demand application directory. Equally important, customers are using the AppExchange as an eBay-style marketplace to browse and find on-demand applications: more than 7,500 customers in 57 countries have installed over 20,000 applications over the past year. The AppExchange has also delivered 185,000 test drives since September 12, 2005.
“Momentum and adoption of the AppExchange are reaching a crescendo as more and more companies realize the power of the Apex on-demand platform and The Business Web,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “Brand new start-ups as well as established global technology companies are making applications available on the AppExchange that can be quickly and easily deployed by our thousands of customers worldwide.”
“The on-demand model has proven very successful for enterprise customers,” said Dave Laverty, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Cognos. “We are excited to make Cognos 8 BI available on the AppExchange, extending industry-leading business intelligence and performance management to salesforce.com customers in conjunction with the Salesforce Winter ‘07 release. Salesforce.com customers can now extend their implementations with Cognos 8 BI to share information with more people in the enterprise to improve and accelerate business decisions, and empower people to take action with greater confidence.”
The AppExchange averages 40 new partner applications listed every month. Some recent additions include: Access Computing, AppExtremes.com, Appirio, Arctique, BCE Elix, Bluewolf, Cognos, CRMOrbit, Finetix, Finaplex, Jaspersoft, Lucidics, Mapquest, Navatar, OKERE, Right90, ShoreTel, Siemens, Tango Consulting, TerrAlign, US Information Search, UtilIT and many others.
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