AppExchange = Future Growth
Salesforce.com recently announced the acquisition of its 10,000th European customer as well as a 70% increase in new customers over the first quarter of 2008. Chief Strategy Officer Bruce Francis credited the speed of cloud-based implementation as a prime factor in its growth. Speaking from the European Cloudforce Conference, Francis further also cited global recession as a reason for Salesforce’s success, adding "The economic crisis has caused many CIOs to look at alternative computing models.”



