Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) , the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, has received the Stevie Award for Best New Product or Service – Computer Hardware or Service in The 2007 American Business Awards with Salesforce for Google AdWords. Salesforce for Google AdWords was launched in August of 2006 and is one of the cornerstones of Salesforce Marketing, enabling customers to effectively measure and evaluate their sales and marketing activities.

In winning the Stevie, salesforce.com beat out other leading companies like Hewlett Packard. Stevie Awards were presented in over 40 categories including Best Overall Company, Best Executive, and Best Corporate Social Responsibility Program. More than 2,000 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in the 4th annual ABAs.

“Salesforce for Google AdWords combines the power of Salesforce CRM applications with Google AdWords so that salesforce.com customers can effectively run their sales and marketing operations. For the Stevie Awards to recognize Salesforce for Google AdWords as the Best New Product is further testament to the power of this product and salesforce.com,” said George Hu, CMO at salesforce.com.

Hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” (New York Post , April 27, 2005), The American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing awards program honoring great performances in business. Members of the Awards’ Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs selected Stevie winners from among the Finalists. Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May.

Recently, salesforce.com and Google announced a strategic global alliance to help millions of businesses leverage the Internet to achieve success and released Salesforce Group Edition featuring Google AdWords. Combining the power of Salesforce on-demand CRM applications with the Google AdWords(TM) platform, Salesforce Group Edition featuring Google AdWords helps customers achieve integrated sales and marketing success. For more information, please visit http://www.salesforce.com/google.

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. The Salesforce Platform, 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. The Salesforce Platform allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks 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 April 30, 2007, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 32,300 customers including ABN AMRO, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, Sprint Nextel, Staples 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.

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