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The story of why Marc Benioff gifted the AppStore.com domain to Steve Jobs

In Marc Benioff’s book, Trailblazer, he tells the tale of how Steve Jobs planted the seeds of the idea that would become the first enterprise app store, and how Benioff eventually paid Jobs back

How Salesforce paved the way for the SaaS platform approach

When we think of enterprise SaaS companies today, just about every startup in the space aspires to be a platform. That means they want people using their stack of services to build entirely new applic

Salesforce AppExchange Revolutionized Software Distribution When It Launched Ten Years Ago Today

The Salesforce AppExchange turned ten years old today and it represents quite a milestone for enterprise software development. In fact, the app store concept that Salesforce developed pre-dated Apple

Salesforce Launches A Private Version Of AppExchange For Companies To Manage Their Own App Stores

Salesforce.com is launching the capability for customers to install a private version of<a target="_blank" href="https://appexchange.salesforce.com/"> AppExchange</a>, the company's app marketplace.

Salesforce Is A Platform Company. Period.

You can bet what would have happened if Salesforce.com had not focused on becoming more of a platform company than a CRM provider. It would have faced a market with more modern CRM vendors, putting it

Salesforce Dives Deep into Google Adwords

Salesforce will announce the launch of a new service called Salesforce for Google Adwords on Tuesday. The new product will be available to Salesforce customers on AppExchange, which launched earlier t