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SaaS brings innovation management to businesses.
Sep 25 2007- Built on Force.com Platform-as-a-Service, Salesforce Ideas enables online communities to submit, discuss, and promote ideas spanning product development, pricing, market research, branding, and training courses. Companies can tap into customers, employees, and partners across divisions and organizations to drive best ideas and innovations for their business. They will have instant focus groups on whatever topic they choose and be able to test ideas in real-time with targeted audiences.

PRM Software facilitates channel selling.
May 16 2007- Featuring channel collaboration, custom channel processes and branding, partner management, and performance reporting, Salesforce Partner Relationship Management (PRM) v2.0 offers integrated solution to manage multi-channel distribution network for high-tech products and services. Partners can share detailed plans or proposals for deal specific pricing terms or discounts and register deals including product lines to streamline their program approvals and rules.

Software provides tool to manage political campaigns.
May 16 2007- Campaignforce, Salesforce Political Campaigns Edition provides campaign and advocacy groups with ability to strategically manage constituent and donor relations. Built on Salesforce CRM application and Apex on-demand platform, it puts polling data, contribution tallies, and campaign efforts at fingertips of campaign managers. It features web-based control panel to access campaign data through any browser or Internet-enabled mobile device.

Portal Application enables on-demand customer engagement.
Apr 4 2007- Salesforce Spring '07 features AppSpace, which enables companies to engage with customers using Salesforce and AppExchange applications inside secure, branded online environment. Fully integrated with their company's Salesforce CRM deployment, AppSpace enables every department to collaborate directly with customer. Example uses range from document sharing and project management to collaborating via spreadsheet mash-ups or custom Apex applications.

Services fuel entrepreneurship in multi-tenant applications.
Nov 1 2006- With AppExchange Incubators, entrepreneurs can rent office space and work side by side with salesforce.com employees and AppExchange partners to leverage experiences and best practices of entire on-demand community. Incubators provide full package of business services, including access to Apex multi-tenant programming language and platform, technology infrastructure, product development, sales and marketing support, fundraising and business development assistance, and office space.

PRM/CRM Service connects enterprises and partners.
Aug 31 2006- Partnerforce, Salesforce Partner Edition, provides integrated on-demand Partner Relationship Management (PRM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) service that delivers single view across direct and indirect sales organizations. Through customized portal, solution promotes partner adoption and provides sales managers with accurate, integrated view into entire sales pipeline to facilitate distribution of sales and marketing information.

Service offers high speed conferencing facility.
May 25 2006- As part of Salesforce.com's AppExchange on-demand application platform, HighSpeedConferencing.com VoIP Conference Calling service enables customers to connect up to 500 conference call users within their Salesforce.com implementation. Conferencing utility has moderator features for call control, and call management capabilities such as volume control, participant announcing, conference locking and recording, and muting.

Software delivers wireless applications to mobile workforce.
May 15 2006- AppExchange Mobile combines on-demand platform with mobile technology to mobile-enable 60+ on-demand applications available on AppExchange. Model lets developers write application once on AppExchange on-demand platform and have it run on any mobile device, as well as any web-enabled PC, without additional coding. Designed to facilitate mobile application development and deployment, product helps AppExchange partners extend on-demand applications.

CRM Software helps build mash-up applications.
Sep 1 2005- Leveraging Javascript, XML, and Web services, Smashforce AJAX Toolkit enables enterprise developers to mix favorite Internet services into Multiforce applications. Companies can create mash-ups with salesforce.com that use Google Maps to show previous day's leads on map, leverage Skype's VOIP service to allow users to dial and talk with contacts, or create customizations for forms and workflows.

Sales Force Software delivers on-demand operating system.
Jul 5 2005- Summer '05 on-demand Salesforce and Supportforce CRM solutions include Multiforce v1.0 on-demand OS, Customforce v2.0 on-demand application customization tool, and Sforce v6.0 on-demand integration platform. Allowing enterprises to gather, organize, share, and communicate information, all applications share same data model. Singular security model allows same security and information sharing model to be used across all company data.