Comments on: Salesforce Hits $1 Billion Dollars In Annual Revenues

By: Facebook is the Microsoft of Web 2.0 | Social Commentary: Social Media, Online Marketing, Podcasting, and Your Business

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:55:59 +0000

[...] 1.2 Billion in annual revenue as of 2007 and cleared what Facebook makes all year… in profit. Salesforce.com did one billion in revenue in [...]

By: Microsoft profits tumble: Big switch tipping point? « Nickpoint

Microsoft profits tumble: Big switch tipping point? « Nickpoint — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:58:36 +0000

[...] The good and bad news keeps coming thick and fast. Only two months ago the SaaS CRM provider Salesforce.com reported a 34% increased in revenues and broke the philological $1b revenue [...]

By: Sage Multiple Anticlimax

Sage Multiple Anticlimax — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:49:18 +0000

[...] bits of news recently: Salesforce.com, the darling of the SaaS industry, recently passed $1bn in revenue. Whilst Microsoft, the grandaddy of installed-software, have reported their first loss for 23 [...]

By: Balancing Platforms and Applications at Salesforce.com | CloudAve

Balancing Platforms and Applications at Salesforce.com | CloudAve — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:11:20 +0000

[...] steady growth, more than $1Bn in revenue last year, and a PR-grabbing tour just getting underway, Salesforce.com remains a company to watch [...]

By: The down side of a higher profile

The down side of a higher profile — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:23:43 +0000

[...] widely acknowledged that SaaS will benefit (and be beneficial) in an economic downturn. Oh, and Salesforce.com breaking the $1bn barrier helped [...]

By: émergenceweb : blogue » Cloud computing, guerre de données et un faible pour Gina…

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:24:04 +0000

[...] un dernier billet, à mon avis le plus significatif, paru sur TechCrunch, où on relate que : «Salesforce is now officially the first enterprise cloud computing company to hit $1 billion in annua…». Imaginez, un milliard $ de profits en pleine récession… Et ce n’est que la pointe [...]

By: Salesforce.com hits $1B | Wealth Alchemist

Salesforce.com hits $1B | Wealth Alchemist — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:24:11 +0000

[...] good idea and one worth thinking about. Techcrunch has more on its earnings release for Q4 2008 here. addthis_url = [...]

By: SaaSnut

SaaSnut — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:55:06 +0000

Sarah,

I think you’re confused on a lot of levels…and if this the real Sarah Lacey, your inability to understand even the basic tenants of interviewing and journalism make this comment no surprise to me…http://tinyurl.com/ca7luc (for reference to the 4 people that don’t already know what a clown Sarah is professionally)

I see SugarCRM’s end game as very different than Salesforce…as an open source company, they are not looking to be a billion dollar company (or maybe they are) but rather are changing the model of how companies work and run.

If SugarCRM is profitable now – after 4 years, as another commenter notes, then they are WAY ahead of salesforce.com, and with only 5% of the workforce. But that is the idea…gutting out inefficiency and giving users choice – not some lock-in model that preys on market buzzwords like “cloud computing” – a total BS phrase that means nothing.

If a lean company like Sugar gets to even 250m in top line revenue, it will be a tighter ship and generating more income than Salesforce.com ever will.

Also, as more true cloud platforms pop up – from Google, amazon, IBM, and (gasp) even Sun, companies will be deploying products like Sugar on SaaS/Cloud platforms they can actually control, for much elss money than Salesforce.com.

Simply put – Salesforce is the next Siebel, as has been noted many times in the past. The disrupter will soon be disrupted, if not by SugarCRM then by some other more efficient, faster and more robust product that costs less and doesn’t lock users in…

Yet again Sarah, you miss the boat entirely.

By: R. Davis

R. Davis — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:28:59 +0000

I’ve used SalesForce in the past and their services worked out pretty well for me. Another company that that. Another company that provides good service is http://www.24conference.com, the offer services such as teleconferencing, video conferencing, etc.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:17:40 +0000

The real value behind Salesforce is their platform.

I’ll let Marc explain if you care: http://blog.pma...hree-kinds.html

By: Thursday Morning Quick Hits « Intersecting Minds: Education, Business and Technology at the North Carolina State Jenkins Graduate School of Management

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:48:45 +0000

[...] the tech world, Salesforce crossed $1B of revenues for the year, while also posting quarterly net income of $13.7M. This is the first time [...]

By: tekkiegurl

tekkiegurl — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:10:02 +0000

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By: buckeye

buckeye — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:47:00 +0000

Sarah,

Why you selling SugarCRM short? They are profitable and picking up a lot of SFDC former customers, with a comparable product for much cheaper. My company made the switch and is pretty happy about it.

I went to the developer conference couple weeks back and was really impressed. If you are a startup and can get 600+ people to a convention in this economy, you got to be doing something right.

By: musicleaf

musicleaf — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:35:56 +0000

Congratulation!

By: KTG

KTG — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:33:22 +0000

They remind me of GOOG. They keep making profits against all odds, mainly because they generate value people don't know about in a way people don't understand. Therefore they are highly profitable, experience unusual growth, and have little viable competition. The results speak for themselves. However, there have been security issues with other forms of cloud computing. I use justaskgemalto for reviewing security issues.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:59:25 +0000

I’m using NetSuite’s ecommerce system and it’s pretty good. It has some rough edges (lots of them), and it’s expensive for what amounts to a Yahoo Store + integrated Quickbooks, but I see the promise in it.

Just like Salesforce adding any kind of Advanced Module starts to jack the prices through the roof. From the time we had a sales meeting and I signed a contract some of the things I had been told were included in the core application had been dropped out and made into pay-to-play options!

But I can really see the promise in their system. It’s fairly robust, and has the power to scale a company from 300 SKUs to 300,000 SKU.

My real wish is that Apple would buy it and streamline the user experience.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:54:25 +0000

My friends that work there say the pay is fantastic, but their options are currently underwater.

By: some dummy

some dummy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:46:55 +0000

like Act or Goldmine on steroids – on the web (not desktop)

helps companies keep the sales pipeline in order for sales mostly

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:46:15 +0000

Agreed. SugarCRM had their shot. The only company that has a chance of gaining any market share is Sage. They are rolling out a hosted version…..

By: Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:40:41 +0000

newsflash: sugarCRM is never getting big enough

By: Salesforceが年間収益$1Bを突破

Salesforceが年間収益$1Bを突破 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:33:33 +0000

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By: Talentshakes

Talentshakes — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:55:09 +0000

Amazing results.

Salesforce is definitely a bellwether.

Good Luck

By: howtocomputer247.blogspot.com

howtocomputer247.blogspot.com — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:40:32 +0000

Salesforce.com is a good computing company.
I no wonder if this company can reach revenue of approximately $1.077 billion.
Maybe it’s the best one in this world.

By: Melvin M. Tercan

Melvin M. Tercan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:25:18 +0000

true, I have even worked with SFDC but still don’t understand..

By: Benjamin Stein

Benjamin Stein — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:49:30 +0000

You really have to hand it to sales force for performing in such a tough economy.

However, Salesforce can’t be utilized to the full extent without a system or service in place to generate more leads and qualified referrals.

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Ben S.
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