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Salesforce management systems (also sales force automation systems (SFA)) are information systems used in customer relationship management (CRM) marketing and management that help automate some sales and sales force management functions. They are often combined with a marketing information system, in which case they are often called CRM systems
Salesforce Platform (formerly known as Force.com) is a platform as a service (PaaS) that allows developers to add applications to the main Salesforce.com application. [52] [failed verification] These applications are hosted on Salesforce.com infrastructure. [53]
A database application is a computer program whose primary purpose is retrieving information from a computerized database. From here, information can be inserted, modified or deleted which is subsequently conveyed back into the database. Early examples of database applications were accounting systems and airline reservations systems, such as ...
One of the best-performing stocks over the past six years has been Salesforce.com (CRM). During this time, its share price has gone from about $10 to $150, with a market cap now close to $20 billion.
Salesforce.com was the first company to provide enterprise applications through a web browser, and has maintained its leadership position. [ 59 ] Traditional providers moved into the cloud-based market via acquisitions of smaller providers: Oracle purchased RightNow in October 2011, [ 60 ] and Taleo [ 61 ] and Eloqua [ 62 ] in 2012; SAP ...
A cloud database is a database that typically runs on a cloud computing platform and access to the database is provided as-a-service. There are two common deployment models: users can run databases on the cloud independently, using a virtual machine image, or they can purchase access to a database service, maintained by a cloud database provider.
Applications are said to "run on" or "run on top of" the resulting platform. For example, to develop a web application, the architect defines the stack as the target operating system, web server, database, and programming language. Another version of a software stack is operating system, middleware, database, and applications. [2]
Certinia, until 2023 known as FinancialForce.com, Inc. [1] is a software company headquartered in San Jose, California, that provides enterprise resource planning (ERP) software based on the Salesforce Platform.