Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff Receives InternetNews.com 2009 CEO Vision Award
November 10 2009 - 7:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Top 10 listing honors "Fearless, Inspired and Foresighted" CEOs SAN
FRANCISCO, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE:
CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that
InternetNews.com (a Jupitermedia property; Nasdaq: JUPM), has
listed chairman and CEO Marc Benioff among the technology
industry's most visionary CEOs. As one of the top 10 industry
leaders to be honored with its 2009 CEO Vision Awards,
InternetNews.com recognized Benioff for his entrepreneurial spirit,
and for the company's innovation with the Force.com platform and
the Service Cloud. In addition to Benioff, the list included
industry luminaries such as Evan Williams, Twitter; Steve Jobs,
Apple; John Chambers, Cisco; Paul Maritz, VMware; and Carol Bartz,
Yahoo. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) "For 10
years we have worked to develop upon our unique vision of helping
customers run their businesses without the hassles of buying,
deploying and maintaining software," said Benioff. "These efforts
enable our customers to use our cloud computing solutions to make
their companies more effective, more agile and more profitable.
We're proud to be recognized by InternetNews.com for our Force.com
platform and for our leadership in cloud computing." The
InternetNews.com CEO Vision Awards are designed to honor technology
leaders "who best capture the ideals of today's successful,
visionary chief executives" and "shape the direction of the
technology sector itself." According to InternetNews.com, "They're
skilled. Fearless. Inspired. And foresighted." Editors and judges
at InternetNews.com and JupiterOnlineMedia commended Benioff for
building upon the company's software-as-a-service success to offer
Force.com, a platform-as-a-service. In addition, Benioff was given
accolades for his leadership in extending the benefits of cloud
computing to salesforce.com customers. For more information on the
InternetNews.com CEO Vision Awards, visit
http://www.internetnews.com/. About Jupitermedia Jupitermedia
Corporation (NASDAQ:JUPM), (http://www.jupitermedia.com/),
headquartered in Darien, CT, is a leading global provider of
images, news and original information, career Web sites and events
for information technology, business, media and creative
professionals. Jupitermedia includes Jupiterimages, one of the
leading images companies in the world with over 10.0 million images
online serving creative professionals with brands like BananaStock,
Workbook Stock, Brand X Pictures, FoodPix, Botanica, Nonstock, The
Beauty Archive, IFA Bilderteam, Comstock Images, Creatas Images,
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JupiterGreetings.com, AnimationFactory.com, RoyaltyFreeMusic.com,
StudioCutz.com, eStockMusic.com and Stockxpert.com. The
JupiterOnlineMedia division of Jupitermedia consists of five
distinct online networks: internet.com and EarthWeb.com for IT and
business professionals; DevX.com for developers; and
Mediabistro.com and Graphics.com for media and creative
professionals. These networks include more than 150 Web sites and
over 150 e-mail newsletters that are viewed by over 15 million
users monthly. JupiterOnlineMedia also includes specialized career
Web sites for select professional communities which can be found on
Mediabistro.com and JustTechJobs.com. In addition,
JupiterOnlineMedia includes JupiterEvents and Mediabistro's
media-related events, which produce offline conferences and trade
shows focused on IT and business-specific topics including ISPCON,
Mediabistro Circus, Web 3.0 Conference & Expo and Mobile
Content & Marketing Expo. About the Force.com Platform and
AppExchange Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for
building and running business applications in the cloud. The
Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM applications with more
than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu,
and more than 120,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's
63,200 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and
Sprint Nextel. Applications built on the Force.com platform can be
easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through
the salesforce.com AppExchange marketplace at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/. About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The
company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at
http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways
that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers
across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com
Platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) enables customers,
partners and developers to quickly build powerful business
applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud.
Based on salesforce.com's (http://salesforce.com/) real-time,
multi-tenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the
fastest path to customer success with cloud computing. As of July
31, 2009, salesforce.com manages customer information for
approximately 63,200 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell,
Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and
SunTrust Banks. Any unreleased services or features referenced in
this or other press releases or public statements are not currently
available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who
purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase
decisions based upon features that are currently available.
Salesforce.com has headquarters 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
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