Salesforce in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2016 Magic Quadrant for Mobile App Development Platforms

SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce CRM, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM company, today announced that for the second consecutive year, Salesforce has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant of the 2016 Mobile Application Development Platforms (MADP) report. With App Cloud, companies are building apps for any device and engaging with customers, employees and partners in a whole new way. 

Gartner's Magic Quadrants are based on rigorous analysis, backed up by highly structured methodologies. According to Gartner: "The mobile app development platform (MADP) market offers tools, technologies, components and services that together constitute the critical elements of an integrated platform. The MADP enables an organization to design, develop, test, deploy, distribute, manage and analyze a portfolio of cross-platform mobile apps running on a range of devices and addressing the requirements of diverse use cases, including external-facing and internal-facing scenarios."

"Businesses are racing to build mobile apps that connect them with customers in entirely new ways," said Adam Seligman, EVP of App Cloud. "Lightning is a game changer, empowering line of business users to create apps for any device fast. Together with the platform services developers love—Force, Heroku and more—Salesforce is home to the most comprehensive mobile app development platform in the world."

Leading Global Companies Build Apps Faster with Salesforce
With Salesforce, companies can transform IT departments into centers of innovation and leapfrog the competition. With more than 5.5 million apps and 2.8 million developers, Salesforce is the trusted and proven platform for innovative companies building mobile apps around the world. The more than 4,100 customers that participated in a recent study commissioned by Salesforce reported 52 percent faster application deployment, 50 percent faster new application design, 52 percent faster application configuration and 42 percent decrease in IT cost using Salesforce.

Additional Information

• The 2016 Magic Quadrant Mobile App Development Platforms report is available at: https://www.salesforce.com/form/app-cloud/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-mobile-2016.jsp?7010M000000iZe7 
• Learn more about App Cloud at: http://www.salesforce.com/platform/overview/

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