Awards

CRM Markets Awards
Enterprise Suite CRM (2009)
Midmarket Suite CRM (2007, 2008, 2009)
Small Business Suite CRM (2007, 2009)
SFA (2007, 2008, 2009)
Forrester Research
Highest Overall Score (2004) Forrester Wave: Hosted Sales Force Automation - No. 1 for current product offering and market presence (Q1, 2005)
Gartner
Vision Events Midsize Enterprise Summit: Best Execution of a Midmarket IT Solution (2004, 2005)
Customer Inter@ction Solutions
CRM Excellence Award (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006); Product of the Year Award (2002, 2003, 2004); Salesforce CRM Partner Relationship Management (2007); Salesforce CRM for service and support (2007)
Software & Information Industry Association CODIE Awards
Best CRM (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007); Best Software Service (2004); Best Application Management Solution (Force.com AppExchange, 2005); Best On-Demand Platform (2007)
2008 Product of the Year Award, Technology Marketing
InsideSales.com's PowerDialer for salesforce.com
- IP Contact Center Technology Pioneer Award, Best IP Contact Center Service - Service Cloud: salesforce.com
- InformationWeek 500, Most Innovative Business Technology Organizations: salesforce.com No. 5
- CODIE Award Winner, Best Business Software Solution: Salesforce CRM, salesforce.com
- CODIE Award Winner, Best Relationship Management Solution: Salesforce CRM, salesforce.com
- CODIE Award Winner, Software as a Service Solution: Salesforce CRM, salesforce.com
- CODIE Award Winner, Web Services Solution : Force.com, salesforce.com
- CODIE Award Winner, Collaboration Solution: Salesforce Ideas, salesforce.com
- Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Awards, Product Innovation - SaaS (Software as a Service) and Cloud Computing - The Service Cloud™, salesforce.com
- KMWorld's top 100 companies for knowledge management : salesforce.com
- CRM Service Awards: Salesforce CRM Service Cloud™ wins Rising Star Award
- CRN Channel Chief Awards: Bobby Napiltonia, Channels and Alliances
- Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Awards, Product Innovation - SaaS (Software as a Service) and Cloud Computing: The Service Cloud™, salesforce.com
- FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For: salesforce.com #55
- Winner of SearchCRM.com's 2008 "Products of the Year": salesforce.com
- ReadWriteWeb, Top 100 Products of 2008: Force.com Platform
- TechRepublic, The 10 most important business technology products of 2008: Force.com Platform
- bMighty.com Innovation Awards, CRM: salesforce.com
- InfoWorld 100, Outstanding IT Projects: NJ TRANSIT
- Groundswell Award: MyStarbucksIdea.com by Starbucks, embracing applications
- MIS Asia: Strategic 100 - Asia's Top IT Vendors - salesforce.com, Global top 50 - Big names on the world stage
- The 2008 CRM Magazine Elite Awards: QUALCOMM
- Ethisphere World's Most Ethical Companies: salesforce.com
- 2008 TMC Labs Innovation Award: Salesforce CRM Call Center and Customer Portal
- Customer Interaction Solutions 2008 IP Contact Center Technology Pioneer Award: Salesforce CRM Call Center and Customer Portal
- ISM Top 15 CRM Award (Included in ISM's Guide to CRM Automation): salesforce.com featured in top 15
- Customer Interactions Solutions: CRM Excellence Awards
- SearchCRM Product of the Year Awards: Salesforce CRM SFA - Best Software Automation, Salesforce CRM Customer Portal - Best Online Service
- 1to1 Impact Awards: Best Full Suite CRM, Voices.com (Customer Award)
- Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Award: Salesforce CRM Group Edition featuring Google AdWords, co-winner for Best Customer/Sales Management category
- Forbes 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies: salesforce.com listed as #2
- Intelligent Enterprise 2008 Editor’s Choice Awards: salesforce.com is listed in "The Dozen" as one of the 12 companies that will matter the most to the intelligent enterprise in 2008.
- Forrester Groundswell Award: IdeaExchange
- San Francisco School Volunteers - Partnership of the Year: Salesforce.com Foundation and Jean Parker Elementary School
- Securities Industry News Capital Markets Award: Leading CRM technology provider for capital markets
- 2007 Elite Enterprise CRM: Sybase - for salesforce.com and Eloqua
- Small Biz: Voices.com for salesforce.com deployment
- Mid-market: Roland DGA also won with MS Dynamics
- Info-Tech Research Group's Decision Diamond: Leader in CRM Solutions for Small Enterprises
- Gartner’s Magic Quadrant: Leader in Sales Force Automation
- 2007 San Francisco Business Times Top Corporate Philanthropists in the Greater Bay Area: salesforce.com ranked # 18
- Communications Solutions (TMCNet) 2006 Product of the Year: Salesforce CRM Sales & Support
- Customer Interaction Solutions (TMCNet) 2007 CRM Excellence Award: Salesforce CRM Winter '07
- Start-IT 2007 Hottest Companies
- American Business Awards, Best New Product/Service (Computer Hardware or Services) - Salesforce CRM for Google AdWords
- CRN Top 25 Tech Breakthroughs of All Time: SaaS
- Nucleus ROI Award: ZoomInfo
- Baseline 40 Fastest-Growing Software Companies
- SD Times 100: Influencer (2007)
- Business 2.i Leadership Award: Web 2.0 and Internet Best Practices in the CRM Software Sector (2007)
- ISM Top 15 Software: Top 15 SMB (2007)
- The WIRED 40 (2007)
- 2007 Bulldog Award: Gold award in Technology, Business category (2007)
- CECP Award: 7th Annual Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award for Small Company (2007)
- CIO Insight Top 40 Vendor (2007)
- Forbes.com's Top 10 Disrupters of 2006
- Forbes Top 25 Fastest Growing Companies: salesforce.com ranked #3 (2007)
- AlwaysOn: Top 100 Private Companies (2003)
- BusinessWeek: Top 100 Most Innovative Companies (No. 79, 2006)
- CIO Decisions/Nucleus Research: ROI Awards (Bridge Street, 2005)
- CRM Magazine: Market Leader (2002, 2003, 2004); Market Leader, Midsized and Small Business Categories (2005)
- Fortune Cool Company (2001)
- Harvard Business School Association: Entrepreneurial Company of the Year, Northern California (2005)
- InfoWorld: 100 for IT Innovation and Resourcefulness (2004)
- San Francisco Chamber of Commerce: Ebbies Emerging Growth Award (2003)
- SD Times 100: Influencer (2006)
- searchCRM.com: Product of the Year - Sales Force Automation (2004, 2005)
- Software Development: Jolt Award Finalist - Business Integration and Data Tools (Force.com AppExchange, 2005)
- Software & Information Industry Association CODIE Awards: Corporate Achievement Award (2006); Excellence in Giving Award (2006)
- Start Magazine: Hottest Companies of... (2004, 2005, 2006)
- Wired: The Wired 40 (No. 20, 2005; No. 15, 2006; No. 7, 2007)
- Windows IT: Readers' Choice Award - CRM Software (2005, 2006)
- 2008 Nucleus ROI Awards: Ryder for Technology ROI Award
- eWEEK Excellence Awards: Salesforce CRM Spring '08 for Business Applications category
- SD Times 100: salesforce.com for Web Developer category
- 2008 TMC Labs Innovation Award: Salesforce CRM Call Center and Customer Portal
- CRM Magazine 2008 Most Influential Leader Awards: Midmarket Suite CRM and Sales Force Automation
- Customer Interaction Solutions 2008 IP Contact Center Technology Pioneer Award: Salesforce CRM Call Center and Customer Portal
- Ethisphere World's Most Ethical Companies: salesforce.com
- Points of Light Corporate Engagement Award of Excellence, Outstanding Employee Volunteer Program: Foundation, salesforce.com
- Volunteer Center Serving San Francisco and San Mateo Counties: Corporate Community Involvement Award
- YMCA of San Francisco 2007 Building Strong Communities Award
- AOL/Time Warner: 15th Annual National Philanthropy Day Awards CeremonyRecognition (2001)
- Business Ethics Magazine: 100 Best Corporate Citizens (No. 7, 2006)
- City and County of San Francisco: Innovative Community Service Program Recognition (2005)
- Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy: Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award (CEO)
- Computerworld: Honors Laureate (2006)
- Domini Social Index 400 (salesforce.com added in 2005)
- Full Circle Fund Impact Award: Technology Programs (2005)
- KLD Social Index: salesforce.com added to the Domini Social Index 400
- Katrina Relief Project: : katrinalist.net
- Points of Light Foundation: Award for Excellence in Corporate Community Service (2003)
- San Francisco Business Times: Corporate Philanthropy Top 50 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
- San Francisco Mayor's Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities: Employment Achievement Award (2006)
- San Francisco School Volunteers for Excellence: Allies for Education Award (2004)
- SOA Web Services Journal: "Best Grassroots Use of Web 2.0" (2005)
- Software & Information Industry Association: CODIE Award for Excellence in Giving (2006)
- Taproot Foundation: Pro Bono Service Award
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Corporate Stewardship Award (2003)
- Volunteer Center of San Francisco: Community Champion (Marc Benioff, 2004)
- IntranetNews CEO Vision Awards: Marc Benioff
- Frost & Sullivan GIL Global Exclusive CEO of the Year Award, Award for Leadership: Marc Benioff
- Lifestyles Magazine, The Global Philanthropy Register: Marc Benioff #44
- SF Business Times Most Influential Women in Business Awards: Suzanne DiBianca, Susan St. Ledger and Polly Sumner
- TechRepublic’s Top Ten Influential Leaders in Business Technology, 2008: Marc Benioff
- Baseline’s 50 Who Make a Difference: Marc Benioff, Influencer in the Vendor Community
- 2008 InternetNews.com Visionary CEO Awards: Marc Benioff
- CRM Magazine 2008 Most Influential Leader Awards: Midmarket Suite CRM and Sales Force Automation
- CRO Magazine's 2008 CEO of the Year Award (in the Middle Market category): Marc Benioff
- 2008 CRN Channel Chiefs: Bobby Napiltonia
- Inside CRM Top CRM 25 Influencers of 2007: Marc Benioff #1
- TechRepublic’s 10 Most Influential Leaders in Business: Marc Benioff
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award: Marc Benioff
- Silicon.com’s 2007 Agenda Setter and Top Ten Business Leader: Marc Benioff
- VarBusiness: 60 Top Channel Executives
- BusinessWeek: ebiz 25 (CEO, 2003)
- Business 2.0: 50 People Who Matter Now (CEO, No. 11, 2006)
- Computerworld: Premier 100 IT Leader (CTO, 2002)
- CRM Magazine: Hall of Fame (CEO, 2005)
- CRM Magazine: Influential Leader (CEO, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009)
- CRN Magazine: Innovator Award (CTO, 2003)
- CRN Magazine: Industry Game Changer (CEO, 2003)
- CRN Magazine: Top Five People to Watch in 2006 (CEO, 2006)
- DEMO@15: World Class Innovator (CEO, 2005)
- Ernst & Young: Entrepreneur of the Year, N. California (CEO, 2003)
- eWEEK: Top 100 Most Influential People in IT (CEO, No. 7, 2007)
- Forbes: Top 10 Entrepreneurs to Watch (CEO, 2003)
- Forum of Young Global Leaders (CEO, 2005)
- InfoWorld: Top 10 Technology Innovators (CTO, 2001)
- InfoWorld: 25 Most Influential CTOs (CTO, 2002)
- InfoWorld: CTO of the Year Award Runnerup (CTO, 2003)
- International Oracle Users Group: True Friend of the User Community (CEO, 1995)
- NEA: Outstanding Entrepreneur (CEO, 2006)
- President's Information Technology Advisory Committee: Nominee (CEO, 2003)
- San Francisco Business Times: CFO of the Year Finalist (CFO, 2006)
- SDForum: Visionary Award (CEO, 2004)
- Silicon.com: Top 50 Agenda Setters (CEO, 2003)
- Stevie Awards: International CEO of the Year (CEO, 2004)
- SunBridge's Entrepreneur of the Year: (CEO, 2002, Japan)
- USC Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year (CEO, 2004)
- Wired: RAVE Awards Finalist (CEO, 2004)
- World Economic Forum: Global Leaders of Tomorrow (CEO, 2005)














