Salesforce, founded in 1999, is the first major cloud-delivered, pay-as-you-go platform. Salesforce upended the world of enterprise applications by delivering software as a service (SaaS) and betting on a pure-cloud future. The company has remained the leader in online customer relationship management (CRM) tools.
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 Salesforce Tower in San Francisco | |
| Salesforce | |
| Type | Public |
| Industry | |
| Founded | February 3, 1999 |
| Founders | Marc Benioff Parker Harris Dave Moellenhoff Frank Dominguez |
| Headquarters | Salesforce Tower San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Key people | Marc Benioff (Chairman, CEO) Parker Harris (Co-Founder) |
| Products | Sales Cloud Service Cloud Platform Marketing Cloud Commerce Cloud Community Cloud |
| Services | Cloud computing |
| Revenue |  US$17.1 billion (2020) |
 US$297 million (2020) | |
| US$126 million (2020) | |
| Total assets | US$55.13 billion (2020) |
| Total equity | US$33.89 billion (2020) |
Number of employees | 49,000 (2020) |
| Subsidiaries | Quip Demandware Heroku MuleSoft Tableau Software |
| Website | salesforce |
Salesforce.com, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides customer relationship management (CRM) service and also sells a complementary suite of enterprise applications focused on customer service, marketing automation, analytics, and application development.
In 2020, Fortune magazine ranked Salesforce at number six on its list, "100 Best Companies to Work For," based on an employee survey of satisfaction.
