{"id":10385,"date":"2014-03-10T09:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T09:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2014\/mar\/10\/salesforcecoms-remarkable-growth-continues-but-2014-will-be-more-challenging\/"},"modified":"2014-03-10T09:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T09:19:39","slug":"salesforce-coms-remarkable-growth-continues-but-2014-will-be-more-challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/salesforce-coms-remarkable-growth-continues-but-2014-will-be-more-challenging\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce.com\u2019s remarkable growth continues, but 2014 will be more challenging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>Jeremy Cox, Principal Analyst, Customer Engagement<\/strong>, Madan Shaina, Lead Analyst, Information Management Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salesforce.com grew by 33% year-on-year in its fiscal year 2014, breaking the $4bn mark. It was involved in larger transactions, several of which broke the $10m ceiling. At the earnings call in February 2014, the company&rsquo;s chairman and CEO, Marc Benioff, was clearly feeling bullish about the immediate future; he delivered a forecast that the company would grow by approximately 30% to $5.3bn over the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>No other software company of this magnitude is growing as fast, but there are concerns around profitability and the increasingly competitive environment, as major vendors flesh out their cloud-based offerings.<\/p>\n<h3>Salesforce.com&rsquo;s evangelism about the &ldquo;Internet of Customers&rdquo; pays off<\/h3>\n<p>As Salesforce.com continues to fund its growth at the expense of short-term profits, Marc Benioff&rsquo;s evangelism about the &ldquo;customer company&rdquo; and Salesforce1 as the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Cox, Principal Analyst, Customer Engagement, Madan Shaina, Lead Analyst, Information Management Software<br \/>\nSalesforce.com grew by 33% year-on-year in its fiscal year 2014, breaking the $4bn mark. It was involved in larger transactions, several of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}