Salesforce is a cloud Computing and a Software as a Service CRM. Salesforce has been transitioning from a software as a service to an application development platform as a service. Salesforce CRM is composed of Sales cloud,Service cloud ,Marketing cloud ,force.com,work.com and Chatter covering many basic functionalities required in a basic CRM.
These days the future of any enterprise vendor these are days is decided by their developer community, Salesforce has a strong developer community and they are rapidly growing and maturing as a cloud platform.
Forbes Listed Salesforce as second innovative company in the world,saying that The company has designed and developed its applications to be easy-to-use and intuitive solutions that can be deployed rapidly, customized easily and integrated with other software applications.
One of the most significant reasons for the success of Salesforce as a cloud CRM is its steady improvement in visual tools,Application development Environment and its integration with multiple frame works and languages.Not only on platform Salesforce also matured as mobile Development platform,making its users work faster,innovative and easily usable.
Enabling its developers growth along with enhancement of mobile development platform has turned the corner for Salesforce as an application company to platform provider ,and with the continuous progress sky is the limit.