Salesforce claims it's on track to become a $10bn company next fiscal year Salesforce, the once self-styled antithesis of a software company, reckons it's on track to become a $10bn software company in its next fiscal year. Chief executive Marc Benioff made the claim as he announced third-quarter revenue growth of 25 per cent to $2.14bn for the three months to 31 October. Deferred deals grew by 23 …
People talk about Salesforce as a CRM, but really it's an object database and application platform with a web GUI.
You can create your own object types, build your own fields and validation rules and adjust the form layouts on screen, and when you get to the limits of that you can write business logic in their own programming language (Apex) and database query language (SOQL). And there's a marketplace where you can buy in third-party apps and link them to your data.
The "CRM" part is really just the default set of objects they give you (accounts, contacts, opportunities, products, quotes, orders etc)
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