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Salesforce

• Founded in 1999 in San Francisco.

what is salesforce?

salesforce makes cloud-based business applications that helps businesses connect to their customers, prospects, partners and more. its the worlds #No.1 CRM platform that enables businesses sell, service and market effectively and efficiently.

Services provided by Salesforce

• SAAS - salesforce.com - you can directly use the sofware from anywhere with just internet connection.

"Software as a service (or SaaS) is a way of delivering applications over the Internet—as a service. Instead of installing and maintaining software, you simply access it via the Internet, freeing yourself from complex software and hardware management."

• PAAS force.com - offers frameworks and platform in which, you can build your own websites and App's.

" complete development and deployment environment in the cloud, with resources that enable you to deliver everything from simple cloud-based apps to sophisticated, cloud-enabled enterprise applications."

• IAAS -database.com -

"Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a system of cloud computing that delivers virtualized computing resources over the internet."

originally, started in 1999 with sales cloud to help businesses increases their sales. now, salesforce is active in many more domains. it has applications that are focused on customer service, marketing, analytics, application development and automation.

top apps owned by salesforce

• Quip - salesforce provide virtual collaboration app called Quip. it has task manager, teams chat, folders, document editor.
• slack -
• Tableau Software - interactive data visualization software company.
• Pardot - software as a service (SaaS) marketing automation platform.
• MuleSoft - provides integration software for connecting applications, data and devices.
• Heroku - cloud platform as a service supporting several programming languages.

top tools for Salesforce Development

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