San Franciscso (CA) - Salesforce.com has been around for ten years, aiding companies of keeping track of both their prospects and customers, perfect for the busy broker, or sales rep. Running applications via a web page rather than a software program has helped many companies take their data mobile, providing out of the office access to their employees.


Salesfore.com is shifting, and they are now beginning to take hints from companies such as Apple and Facebook who have had different successes. The changes going on within salesforce.com could change the face of enterprise software as a whole.

First off, the company is no longer a company that sells just a single corporate application suite. It has now added more features allowing its clients to develop websites that enable them to sell and interact with the general public.

The company is also in the works to develop applications that allow for the transfer of data between other companies offering cloud computing services such as Google, Amazon.com, and Facebook.

Salesforce.com’s inspiration comes a lot from the Apple App Store, only their applications are designed and geared toward businesses. Until recently third-party developers were required to manually process sales of applications that were delivered via the Salesforce system. Now they can simply utilize an online stores that allows users to purchase and add-on software themselves.

Salesforce.com is much like Facebook in the sense that it began as a tool to merely keep track of contacts, but has developed into a system of technology to not only keep in contact but also manage contacts. Companies can now create, and utilize a wide range of applications via salesforce.com.