Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), a market and technology leader in on-demand business services, has announced in a press release today that the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has recognized the company as a finalist for four 2007 CODiE Awards. Salesforce.com received nominations for: Salesforce, for “Best CRM Solution”; Apex (formerly AppExchange), for “Best On-demand Platform”; Apex (formerly AppExchange) Mobile, for “Best Mobile Solution”; and IdeaExchange, for “Best Corporate Blog.” This is the sixth consecutive year that salesforce.com has been nominated for Best CRM Solution; the company won the award in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Established in 1986, the CODiE Awards are the longest-running awards program in the software and information industry, and acknowledge the most innovative products and services. SIIA, which presents the awards, is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. Over 1,200 product nominations were submitted for CODiE Awards in 72 categories.

The CODiE Awards nominations were judged by software and information industry trade journalists, national technology writers and analysts, and education technology specialists. The final round of judging will be conducted by members of SIIA, making this the only peer-review awards program in the industry.

In just a year, over 250 partners have made more than 500 applications available on the world’s first on-demand application directory. Equally important, customers are using the AppExchange as an eBay-style marketplace to browse and find on-demand applications: more than 7,500 customers have installed over 20,000 applications in 57 countries over the past year. The AppExchange has also delivered 185,000 test drives since September 12, 2005.

Apex and the AppExchange
Apex is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Apex reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM. All Apex components and applications can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com’s AppExchange directory, enabling all the innovation that Apex unleashes to benefit the entire on- demand community.

More than 500 applications are now available on salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the world’s first on-demand application directory, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

The Apex on-demand platform is generally available today. The Apex programming language is available today for developer preview, and is currently scheduled to be available in beta to salesforce.com customers later in 2007.

About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company’s Salesforce suite of on-demand CRM applications allows customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. Apex, the world’s first on-demand platform, enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications that extend beyond CRM to deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy and The Business Web across the enterprise. All Apex components and applications can be easily shared, exchanged and installed via salesforce.com’s AppExchange directory, available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com’s world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.

As of October 31, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 27,100 customers and approximately 556,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Avis Budget Group, Inc, Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust Banks. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “CRM.” For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com/, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.

Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and The Business Web, AppExchange and Successforce are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.