Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud software company headquartered in San Francisco, founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez. It built its business around customer relationship management (CRM) software delivered entirely over the internet rather than installed on customer hardware, an approach that helped popularize the software-as-a-service model, and it has since expanded through major acquisitions including Slack and Tableau.
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Company TypeAmerican enterprise software company 1 Founded Year HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, U.S. 1 Connections
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The Salesforce CRM platform is developed and sold by Salesforce, Inc.
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is an American enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is best known for customer relationship management software and related applications, which the corporation delivers through a software as a service subscription business model. It also provides software for sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, data analytics, artificial intelligence, agentic AI, and application development.
Founded by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff in March 1999, Salesforce experienced rapid growth in the sector in which it competed, debuting its initial public offering in 2004.
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