Team Edition is for five users or less and is perfect for small departments or new businesses and will upgrade easily as small businesses grow. Finally, our Personal Edition is for the individual businessperson.
Company History.
In 1986, our CEO Mark Benioff graduated from the University of Southern California. He then went to work for Apple Computer and founded Liberty Software. After a short stay with Apple, Benioff went to work at Oracle Corporation, holding a number of leadership positions in sales, marketing, and product development. Most recently at Oracle he was a senior vice president reporting to company chairman Lawrence J. Ellison, a founding investor in salesforce.com. He would work for Oracle for thirteen years.
His vision would occur to him in 1996, while working for Oracle. At the time, they were the world's second-largest software firm. While browsing one day on Amazon.com, he asked himself why business software could not be delivered the same way. People who shop at Amazon do not have to worry about installing, upgrading or maintaining anything. They just get on the web and shop. The service is secure and reliable, and has millions of users. He went on to take a leave from Oracle and rented a house in Hawaii, where he dreamed of building a business that would do for corporate computing, what Amazon.com Inc did for consumers. It was the winter of 1999 when he left Oracle to start Salesforce.com. He finally had a chance to create an organization based on the ideas he had pulled together during his stay at Oracle. From the start, he decided that 1% of the company's stock, 1% of its profits, and 1% of employees time would go to charity. He calls this compassionate capitalism. .
Benioff would start salesforce.com in March 1999 and planned on being a hands off chairman. This would quickly change in November 2001, after a falling-out with tech veteran John Dillon, who had been hired to run the company.
The HSDP platform development included an alliance with Salesforce.com to leverage the company's leadership in enterprise cloud computing, innovation, and customer engagement. Salesforce.com bought in the state of the art privacy and data security elements in the HSDP and allowed additional applications to be layered on the top. ...