{"id":14528,"date":"2019-03-22T19:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T19:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/how-salesforce-paved-the-way-for-the-saas-platform-approach.html"},"modified":"2019-03-22T19:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T19:55:38","slug":"how-salesforce-paved-the-way-for-the-saas-platform-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/how-salesforce-paved-the-way-for-the-saas-platform-approach.html","title":{"rendered":"How Salesforce paved the way for the SaaS platform approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we think<\/span> of enterprise SaaS companies today, just about every startup in the space aspires to be a platform. That means they want people using their stack of services to build entirely new applications, either to enhance the base product, or even build entirely independent companies. But when Salesforce launched Force.com, the company\u2019s Platform as a Service<\/a>, in 2007, there wasn\u2019t any model.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Force.com was actually the culmination of a series of incremental steps after the launch of the first version of Salesforce <\/a> in February, 2000, all of which were designed to make the software more flexible for customers. Company co-founder and CTO Parker Harris says they didn\u2019t have this goal to be a platform early on. \u201cWe were a solution first, I would say. We didn\u2019t say \u2018let\u2019s build a platform and then build sales-force automation on top of it.\u2019 We wanted a solution that people could actually use,\u201d Harris told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

The march toward becoming a full-fledged platform started with simple customization. That first version of Salesforce was pretty basic, and the company learned over time that customers didn\u2019t always use the same language it did to describe customers and accounts \u2014 and that was something that would need to change.<\/p>\n

Customizing the product<\/h2>\n

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