Salesforce Mobile App Development Platform Named a Leader by Independent Research Firm

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the world's #1 CRM company and Intelligent Customer Success Platform, today announced Salesforce App Cloud was named a leader by Forrester Research in its report The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Low-Code Development Platforms, Q1 2017. The report evaluated 11 vendors based on 24 criteria, including current offering, strategy and market presence.

Salesforce received the highest marks for the Market Presence category in the Mobile Low-Code Development Platforms report. In addition, the report recognized how, "Salesforce's mobile low-code platforms are part of a broader dev outreach. Salesforce's mobile low-code platform has a feature set that helps customers extend customer data managed by the vendor's software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps while blending and aggregating it with data from other systems of record … The Einstein platform adds cognitive features that mobile low-code developers can add to their apps."

"Businesses are reinventing themselves around the customer experience, and mobile apps are driving that transformation," said John Wookey, EVP of Platform at Salesforce. "The Salesforce Platform empowers both citizen and professional developers with powerful tools to build and seamlessly integrate mobile apps across every line of business, including sales, service and marketing."

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Leading Global Companies Build Apps Faster with the Salesforce Platform
With Salesforce App Cloud, companies can transform IT departments into centers of innovation and leapfrog the competition. With more than 5.5 million apps and over 3 million developers, App Cloud is the trusted and proven platform for innovative companies around the world.

Additional Information

• The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Low-Code Development Platforms, Q1 2017: https://www.salesforce.com/form/platform/forrester-wave-mobile-low-code.jsp
• Learn more about App Cloud at: http://www.salesforce.com/platform/overview/

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