Salesforce.com 2.0 ready to take on Microsoft

Salesforce.com 2.0 ready to take on Microsoft

Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff has said in a statement that they are now ready to take on the biggest software maker in the world Microsoft.

The company pioneered the concept of SaaS (software as a service) and has managed to survive in this competitive world of software services.

He also went on to unveil their future strategies which they call “Salesforce.com 2.0″. The company aims to challenge Microsoft as a leading development platform provider in the market.

The company also showcased their new hosted application called Wealth Management Edition. This is targeted at the financial services industry.

Benioff said: “That’s very much what we’re doing today when we talk about Salesforce 2.0. Our vision started with our killer applications — a whole new way to deliver enterprise software. Next we had very successful customers … [then] it moved to the developer community to add on to that, and then it really got into a platform to give our customers and developers the ability to extend these products and create new products on the same infrastructure.”