Salesforce.com expands its Cloud Computing offering

The company has announced; Force.com Sites – allowing businesses to publish data and applications on Force.com to any website, Force.com for Facebook – for developers to create enterprise applications on Force.com bringing social networking to the enterprise.

Force.com for Amazon Web Services – bringing S2 and ECM applications to Force.com and Salesforce CRM .

The new sites mean customers can run their Web sites in salesforce.com’s cloud without buying any software.

“Force.com Sites will enable a dramatic expansion of Force.com’s role in cloud computing for the enterprise. We expect our community to unleash entirely new kinds of applications and innovations that will truly drive our vision of 'The End of Software’,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com.

Force.com for Facebook is designed to create a community for Facebook’s 120 million users and salesforce.com’s 100,000 developers.

“Facebook users are always eager to try new applications that can improve their ability to connect and share in a trusted environment.” said Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook.

With Force.com for Amazon Web Services (AWS), enterprises, ISVs and developers can build business applications and run them in the cloud.

Salesforce CRM Winter ‘09 enables companies to manage their customer interactions across sales, marketing, and customer service.

“As the leading best-of-breed CRM provider in the world, companies continue to look to salesforce.com to define CRM in the era of cloud computing," said George Hu, executive vice president marketing, applications and education at salesforce.com.

"We're responding with more investment than ever across our three part CRM strategy - complete CRM for every customer touch point, leading-edge collaboration within and beyond the company, and flexible customization and integration via the Force.com platform,” he added.