Salesforce.com Announces Dreamforce 2004 -- Second Annual User and Developer Conference.SAN FRANCISCO -- Keynotes Include Cisco Systems, IBM, Nextel Communications, Research In Motion, Sun Microsystems and Ray Lane from Kleiner Perkins Salesforce.com (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CRM), the technology and market leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced Dreamforce 2004, the second annual Salesforce.com user and developer conference. Taking place at the Hilton San Francisco from Nov. 1-4, 2004, the conference features keynote remarks from numerous industry luminaries and more than 100 sessions, panels and demonstrations. Attendees also will receive an exclusive preview of the latest Salesforce.com release including Salesforce.com Winter '05, Supportforce.com Winter '05, and sforce 5.0. The general session on November 2, 2004 will kick off the conference and feature Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of salesforce.com. It is scheduled to take place from 8:30-11:00 a.m. and will be available via audio webcast at www.salesforce.com/investor. Keynote speakers over the three-day conference include: --Brad Boston, senior vice president and CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. , Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) --Adam Bosworth, vice president of engineering, Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) --Marie Wieck, general manager, IBM (NYSE:IBM) --Ray Lane, general partner, Kleiner Perkins --Danny Bowman, vice president, Wireless Data Services, Nextel Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:NXTL) --Jim Balsillie, chairman and Co-CEO, Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) See RDRAM. See also RIM. : TSX:RIM) --Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO, Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) --Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com --Joe Rymsza, president and CEO, Vettro --Subrah Iyar, chairman and CEO, WebEx (Nasdaq:WEBX). CUSTOMER BEST PRACTICES More than 100 customer speakers will share best practices with attendees via discussions and demonstrations of real-world implementations. Through these sessions, customers will demonstrate how they have customized and integrated Salesforce.com for on-demand CRM success. Customer keynotes and panelists include: --Automatic Data Processing (NYSE:ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. ) --Forex Capital Markets --Magma Design Automation (Nasdaq:LAVA) --Neoforma, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEOF) --Patient Care, Inc. --Phoenix Technologies (Nasdaq:PTEC). DREAMFORCE EXPO More than 50 sforce partners and exhibiters will demonstrate their solutions in the Dreamforce Expo, including 2Work!, 4d, AboveAll Software, agentLIFE, Arasys Technologies, BlackBerry(R) from Research In Motion, Bluewolf Group, CanyonBridge, Convoq, Contactual (formerly White Pajama), CRMfusion, Dreamfactory, ebridge, Echopass, Eloqua, ExactTarget, Extraprise, Firepond, Five9, Gelco Expense Management, Got Corporation, Grand Central Communications, Growth Circle, iCentera, Impact Engine, Infone, InsideScoop, Intacct Corp., Leverage Software, Linkpoint360, Macromedia, Miller Heiman, Mindjet, Nextel Communications, NoHold, Nsite, Pervasive Software (Nasdaq:PVSW), QuickArrow, RingLead, SalesCentrix.com, Selectica, Sendia, Spoke Software, Synergex, Theikos, Vertical Response, Vettro, Voice Automation, WebEx, WebSideStory, Workshare. For more information or to register for Dreamforce 2004, the second Salesforce.com user and developer conference, please call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE or visit www.salesforce.com/dreamforce. About salesforce.com Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). Through its award-winning salesforce.com family of products, the company provides a comprehensive suite of CRM services to help enterprises of all sizes, industries and geographies meet the complex challenge of managing customer information. Salesforce.com also offers sforce, the salesforce.com client/service platform, to allow customers and independent software vendors to customize and integrate salesforce.com, as well as build their own on-demand enterprise applications. As of September 30, 2004, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 12,000 customers and approximately 185,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. ), America Online (AOL), Automatic Data Processing Same as data processing. (ADP), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust Banks. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE. Salesforce.com and sforce are trademarks of salesforce.com, inc., San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] . The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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