Salesforce.com Delivers the Marketing Cloud, the World's Most Comprehensive Suite for Social Marketing

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Salesforce.com Delivers the Marketing Cloud, the World's Most Comprehensive Suite for Social Marketing

For the first time ever, brands can unify social listening, content, engagement, advertising, workflow, automation and measurement with the Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Combined with the Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, salesforce.com is the only company that delivers a comprehensive CRM solution for the social era

Today, 55 percent of the Fortune 100, including Ford, Hewlett Packard, and Unilever are managing their social marketing programs at scale and turning connections into customers for life with the Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DREAMFORCE 2012 - Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today unveiled the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, the most comprehensive suite for social marketing. Marketing Cloud is the first suite to unify social listening, content, engagement, advertising, workflow, automation and measurement. Together these technologies will transform marketing - from the CMO to the community manager - for the social revolution.

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    --  "Marketing is undergoing its biggest shift in decades, as brands move
        from traditional strategies to connecting with customers and fans
        globally through social media," said Michael Lazerow, CMO of Salesforce
        Marketing Cloud, salesforce.com. "Salesforce Marketing Cloud empowers
        brands to take advantage of this shift, turning insight into action and
        connections into customers for life."
    --  "Ford doesn't have a standalone social media strategy -- we have a
        business strategy supported by social media," said Scott Monty,
        communications manager, Global Digital & Multimedia, Ford Motor Company.
        "We need to scale social media across our employees, dealers and
        customers, and know exactly how it is driving our business. We also need
        a unified view of social to make analysis that comes out of it available
        to product development, advertising or product marketing. This is all
        possible with the Salesforce Marketing Cloud."
    --  "There are massive, global shifts taking place in marketing due to
        social media," said Babs Rangaiah, vice president, Global Media
        Innovation, Unilever. "Unilever has fully embraced this social
        transformation and a partner like Buddy Media, now Salesforce Marketing
        Cloud, empowers us to scale our social programs globally and across many
        brands. This is incredibly valuable."
    --  "Companies are struggling to scale to keep up with all the conversations
        on social networks," said Jeremiah Owyang, industry analyst, Altimeter
        Group. "Tools that analyze, plan, deliver and measure media such as ads,
        content and conversations help marketers to reach the intended audiences
        and result in higher resonation."
Salesforce Marketing Cloud: World's Most Comprehensive Suite for Social Marketing
The marketing industry is undergoing the biggest transformation it's seen in 60 years and it's being driven by the social revolution. Today's leading brands are looking to completely transform their traditional marketing strategies given the unprecedented growth of social networks. Industry analysts predict that CMOs will surpass CIOs in spend on technology within the next five years[1] and that social advertising will be the largest growth area of online advertising by 2013[2]. Just as salesforce.com transformed how companies sell to and service their customers, the company is now revolutionizing how businesses market in the social era.

Until the Marketing Cloud, companies had fragmented conversations and uncoordinated social marketing programs. By combining industry leaders Buddy Media and Radian6 to power the Marketing Cloud, brands now have the proven suite to manage all social marketing activity and access common assets in one place. With the Marketing Cloud, marketers can adapt to the new world of social marketing by deploying:

    --  Social Listening - Real-Time Listening at Scale From 400+ Million Social
        SourcesGain actionable insight and uncover marketing opportunities. By
        delivering the most comprehensive coverage of conversations across the
        web - including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, blogs, online
        communities and more - Marketing Cloud customers can turn insight into
        action. Marketing Cloud now supports a total of 17 languages for social
        listening and with the launch of a new Apple native iOS app, social
        listening is also available via mobile devices.

    --  Social Content - Create Compelling Social PresencesCreate and deploy
        social content to customers wherever they are on social networks,
        websites and mobile devices. Customers can now add social components to
        all content to maximize reach and leverage asset libraries to maintain
        brand consistency. With more than 50 social applications available,
        ranging from contests to video players to photo galleries, companies can
        engage fans with powerful content.

    --  Social Engagement - Connect With CustomersCompanies can now create scale
        with workflow through integration with Salesforce. They are able to
        respond and connect with customers on their channel of choice, build a
        community of advocates by connecting with customers when and where they
        are most engaged and spark conversations that extend beyond simple text
        by attaching videos, images and links. Users can access exactly what
        they need without sacrificing security through granular rights and
        permissions.

    --  Social Advertising - Amplify ContentManage and execute optimized social
        ad campaigns, including sponsored stories and mobile newsfeed ads.
        Companies now have the ability to turn engaging content into compelling
        social ads and optimize them with demographics and KPIs, by leveraging
        data to identify which ads and demographics deliver the best
        performance.

    --  Social Workflow and Automation - Organize Team ProcessesApply
        sophisticated analysis and rules to organize the thousands of
        conversations happening across the web by automatically routing relevant
        social content for quick engagement and response. The Marketing Cloud
        automatically populates social customer profiles, helping marketers
        create relevant programs based on consumer interests to align sales and
        improve customer service.

    --  Social Measurement - Track Campaign ROIBusinesses can now track campaign
        results in one dashboard and leverage real-time data to adapt campaigns
        to be more effective, as well as create new campaigns and show exactly
        how engagement is driving revenue or other conversions. Marketers can
        create multiple, custom dashboards via a library of drag-and-drop
        widgets to deliver relevant, actionable insight to everyone from the
        community manager to the CMO.
Customer Success with the Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Fifty-five percent of the Fortune 100 and brands including Ford, Unilever, Carnival Cruise Lines, the National Football League and HP are managing their social marketing programs at scale and turning connections into customers for life with the Marketing Cloud.

Pricing and Availability

    --  Salesforce Marketing Cloud is generally available today for customers,
        starting at $5,000 per month.
    --  Customers who purchase salesforce.com technologies should make their
        purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available.
Additional Resources

    --  Watch Dreamforce 2012 live on Salesforce Live at
        http://facebook.com/dreamforce
    --  Find more information on Salesforce Marketing Cloud at:
        http://www.salesforce.com/marketingcloud
    --  Like Salesforce Marketing Cloud on Facebook:
        http://www.facebook.com/marketingcloud
    --  Follow @Salesforce and @MarketingCloud on Twitter
About Dreamforce

Dreamforce 2012 is the world's largest vendor technology conference, welcoming more than 90,000 registered attendees to experience the power of the social revolution. With more than 750 sessions and 350 cloud companies in the expo, attendees can participate in interactive sessions, hands-on training with cutting-edge technology, thousands of live demos and unparalleled networking. In addition, Dreamforce welcomes special guests Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group, Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, Gen. Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, Tony Robbins, Entrepreneur, Author & Peak Performance Strategist, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Dreamforce 2012 offers attendees everything they need to connect with customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways.

About salesforce.com

Founded in 1999, salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing leader. Using salesforce.com's social and mobile cloud technologies, companies can connect with customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, the company's platform and apps give customers the tools to create a social front office and revolutionize the way they sell, service, market, collaborate, work and innovate.

    --  Grow your business with the world's #1 sales app, Salesforce Sales Cloud
    --  Deliver amazing customer service with the award-winning Salesforce
        Service Cloud
    --  Listen, engage, advertise, and measure social media marketing with the
        Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    --  Achieve breakthrough collaboration and productivity with Salesforce
        Chatter
    --  Align, motivate and drive performance with Salesforce Work.com
    --  Build social and mobile cloud apps on the Salesforce Platform and extend
        success with the world's leading enterprise app marketplace, the
        AppExchange
Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM." For more information please visit http://salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.

Copyright © 2012 salesforce.com, inc.  All rights reserved.  Salesforce, Chatter, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Work.com, AppExchange, Salesforce Platform, and others are trademarks of salesforce.com, inc.  Other names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

[1] Gartner
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[2] eMarketer Forecast Sept 2011 http://www.emarketer.com/PressRelease.aspx?R=1008629]

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