Friday 10 September 2010
The company surpassed 5,000 customers in APAC in its first fiscal quarter of 2010, including industry leaders Crocs, Pacnet, Ricoh and more. Salesforce.com cloud computing applications, including the Sales Cloud and the Service Cloud, as well as the Force.com platform for developing and deploying custom cloud applications, allow customers to focus on managing their businesses - rather than managing the cost and complexity associated with software and hardware infrastructure. Asia-Pacific is our fastest growing market, and there has never been a better time for enterprise cloud computing,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “Our new Singapore data center represents continued investment in our global real-time infrastructure to accelerate customer success with cloud computing worldwide.
SaaS is moving beyond its roots in customer relationship management (CRM) into every area of the enterprise, including platforms for application development,” said Dane Anderson, CEO of Springboard Research. “With all segments of the cloud computing market growing, we are seeing applications and platforms being adopted across the board by enterprises in the region and, perhaps most importantly, the enterprises we interview are very satisfied.
