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Salesforce

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Software · San Francisco, CA, USA · Est. 1999
CRMSaaSAICloudSales Automation↗ Website
$191.8B
Valuation
$38B
Revenue
83k+
Employees
1999
Founded

Salesforce is the world's leading CRM platform, providing cloud-based sales, service, marketing, commerce, and AI tools to over 150,000 companies globally. Founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff, it pioneered the SaaS model and has grown through acquisitions of Slack, MuleSoft, and Tableau into a comprehensive enterprise data and AI platform branded as Salesforce Einstein and Agentforce.

Recent Press
5 items
Product Launch·2026-02-10
Salesforce Expands Agentforce IT Automation Services for Enterprise Customers
Salesforce expanded Agentforce into IT automation services in early 2026, targeting enterprise IT operations with AI agents that handle service desk tickets, provisioning, and workflow automation at scale.
Press Release·2025-12-03
Salesforce Data 360 Ingests 32 Trillion Records in Q3, Up 119% Year-Over-Year
Salesforce's Data 360 platform ingested 32 trillion records in Q3 FY2026 — up 119% YoY — including 15 trillion via Zero Copy (+341%) and 390% YoY growth in unstructured data processed.
Press Release·2025-12-03
Salesforce Q3 FY2026 Revenue Hits $10.3 Billion, Up 9% with Agentforce Driving Growth
Salesforce reported Q3 FY2026 revenue of $10.3 billion (+9% YoY) with operating cash flow of $2.3 billion (+17%), raising full-year guidance to $41.45–$41.55 billion as Agentforce momentum accelerated.
Product Launch·2025-12-03
Agentforce Surpasses $500 Million ARR with Nearly 10,000 Paid Deals
Salesforce's Agentforce platform surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue with ~10,000 paid deals since September 2024 launch, growing 330% year-over-year and processing 3.2 trillion tokens through its LLM gateway.
Acquisition·2025-10-01
Salesforce Completes Informatica Acquisition to Bolster Data Platform
Salesforce completed the acquisition of Informatica, adding data catalog, integration, governance, data quality, metadata management, and Master Data Management capabilities to its unified Data 360 platform.
Company History
9 milestones
Marc Benioff and co-founders launched Salesforce in a San Francisco apartment, pioneering the SaaS model with the tagline "No Software" and demonstrating that CRM could be delivered via the internet without on-premises installation.

Salesforce Organization Structure & Team

Org Chart
83,334 employees · Click a leader to explore their team
71,000 across 12 departments
Chief Executive Officer
Marc Benioff
Brian Millham — Departments
· 71000 people across 12 depts

Salesforce Financials, Revenue & Market Share

Annual Revenue
$38B
+9% vs prior year
YoY Growth
+9%
From $21.3B to $38B
Revenue / Employee
$456K
Annual revenue per full-time employee
Revenue Growth
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
$21.3B
$26.5B
$31.4B
$34.9B
$38B
Market Share
Global CRM Software Market
22%
share
Salesforce
22%
SAP
6%
Oracle
5%
Microsoft Dynamics
4%
Others
63%
$680B
TAM
$290B
SAM
$38B
SOM
Revenue Streams
Subscription & Support93%
Professional Services7%
Business Units
Sales Cloud27%
Salesforce's flagship CRM product — the world's most widely deployed sales automation platform serving 150,000+ customers.
Service Cloud26%
Customer service and field service platform — largest revenue contributor alongside Sales Cloud, driven by enterprise contact center modernization.
Platform & Other18%
Salesforce Platform (Force.com, Heroku), MuleSoft, Data Cloud, and AppExchange ecosystem revenue.
Marketing & Commerce15%
Marketing Cloud personalization and email automation, Commerce Cloud storefront, and Advertising Studio revenue.
Slack8%
Enterprise messaging and collaboration platform revenue from paid Slack Pro, Business+, and Enterprise Grid subscriptions.
Tableau6%
Data visualization and analytics platform subscription revenue from Tableau Creator, Explorer, and Viewer license tiers.

Salesforce Internal Tools & Processes

Internal Tools
12 departments
Software Engineering18000 people · 3 roles
Standards & Certifications
10 standards
Compliance frameworks, security audits, and quality certifications this company maintains.
Privacy
CCPA
Compliant
Salesforce complies with the California Consumer Privacy Act across its Customer 360 platform, providing enterprise customers with the data privacy controls, consent management, and deletion capabilities needed to honor their own users' CCPA rights.
Security
FedRAMP High
Certified
Salesforce Government Cloud Plus holds FedRAMP High authorization, enabling U.S. federal agencies to run their CRM, service, and analytics workloads on Salesforce infrastructure that meets the highest level of federal cloud security requirements.
Security
ISO 27001
Certified
Salesforce maintains ISO 27001 certification across its core platform services including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and the Salesforce Platform, providing enterprise customers with independently audited information security controls for their CRM data.
Security
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
Salesforce undergoes annual SOC 2 Type II audits for all major cloud products, giving enterprise procurement teams the third-party security assurance required to store sensitive customer and sales data in Salesforce.
Regulatory
FedRAMP Moderate
Certified
Salesforce Government Cloud holds FedRAMP Moderate authorization, enabling US federal agencies to deploy Salesforce CRM for citizen services, grants management, and government contract tracking.
Privacy
GDPR
Compliant
Salesforce offers GDPR-compliant data processing agreements (DPAs) for all EU customers, with data residency options in Salesforce's EU regions and built-in tools in Salesforce Shield to manage data subject rights and consent.
Privacy
HIPAA
Compliant
Salesforce Health Cloud and Service Cloud support HIPAA-compliant healthcare deployments through Business Associate Agreements, enabling hospitals, health plans, and life sciences companies to manage PHI in Salesforce.
Security
PCI DSS Level 1
Certified
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is PCI DSS Level 1 certified, enabling retail and e-commerce customers to process cardholder payment data through Salesforce-managed storefronts and order management systems.
Privacy
ISO 27018
Certified
Salesforce is ISO 27018 certified for cloud privacy, demonstrating to enterprise customers that their personal data stored in Salesforce CRM is handled under internationally recognized cloud data protection standards.
Security
CSA STAR Level 2
Certified
Salesforce holds CSA STAR Level 2 certification across its major cloud platforms, providing cloud-specific third-party security assurance to enterprise customers evaluating Salesforce for regulated industry deployments.

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Interview Prep
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Salesforce Products & Competitors

Product Suite
7 products · select one to explore
Software
CRM
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Close more deals. Faster.

Sales Cloud is Salesforce's flagship CRM product, used by over 150,000 companies to manage leads, accounts, opportunities, forecasting, and sales automation. Powered by Einstein AI, it provides sellers with predictive deal scoring, next-best-action recommendations, and automated activity capture to close deals faster.

Use Cases
Automating lead scoring and routing using Einstein AI to prioritize the 20% of leads most likely to convertRunning pipeline forecasting with Sales Cloud Einstein to predict quarterly revenue with ±5% accuracyIntegrating Sales Cloud with Slack to surface deal alerts and account changes directly in sales team channels
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Key Customers
AMZN
Amazon
AMEX
American Express
TYT
Toyota
Competitive Intelligence
VSMicrosoft Dynamics 365
THEM

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a portfolio of cloud-based enterprise applications for CRM and ERP including sales automation, customer service, field service, finance, supply chain, and HR management, tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and Azure.

EDGE

Largest CRM install base with 150,000+ customers and the broadest enterprise sales automation ecosystem

VSHubSpot
THEM

HubSpot is an inbound marketing and sales platform offering a free CRM alongside paid hubs for marketing automation, email marketing, sales pipeline management, customer service, and content management, targeting small to mid-market businesses.

EDGE

Enterprise-grade deal management, forecasting, and territory management that HubSpot cannot match at scale

VSOracle Sales Cloud
THEM

Oracle Sales Cloud is CRM software from Oracle providing sales force automation, lead and opportunity management, forecasting, and AI-powered selling guidance for enterprise sales teams.

EDGE

AppExchange marketplace has 7,000+ pre-built integrations vs Oracle's more limited partner ecosystem

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