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Salesforce.com firmed its presence in Asia

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Friday, July 17, 2009, 19:18
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The cloud CRM provider unveiled the facility at a company event here, with top Singapore trade officials also in attendance. The data center, located at the eastern side of the island-state, was first announced by the company a year-and-a-half ago. At the same time, Salesforce also unveiled a new offering that lets Singapore enterprises build and run their “first” application for free on Force.com, the company’s cloud computing platform. Singapore is the only country, outside the United States, where the company is availing the offer, though executives said it intends to make the same offer to the rest of the world in the “next two to four weeks.

The Force.com Free Edition, as Salesforce calls it, is intended to lure enterprises to have a taste of running an application over the cloud before they are charged for succeeding applications. Once hooked up, customers can develop their own applications or buy them from AppExchange, a marketplace for applications that run on Force.com. he company said “customers and partners” built about 120,000 business applications on Force.com, while there are some 800 applications available on AppExchange.

Salesforce officials said the Asia-Pacific region stands to benefit from cloud computing as both small and midsize businesses (SMBs), as well as big corporations can take advantage of the cheaper cost of operating a business over the Internet. As proof that a “paradigm shift” in the computing landscape has already transpired, Salesforce executives said it already exceeded US$1 billion in annual revenue early this year.

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