Fourteen years ago, salesforce.com set out on a mission to prove that a business app can be as easy to use as Amazon.com and that sales force automation could be accessible from anywhere over the internet. Salesforce.com wanted to show that companies didn’t need to manage servers or software of their own to successfully run their business. It was about disrupting the status quo.

I’m fairly certain we’ve made our case. But what’s even more rewarding is that we’ve built a platform that enables us to pass the baton to our partners, and ensure that disruption and innovation through the cloud will continue well into the future. This is why today we congratulate Veeva Systems for its IPO and its success to date.

From the onset, Veeva had a vision: move the life sciences industry to the cloud, eliminate the industry’s reliance on complex, legacy software deployments, and to relentlessly focus on customer success above all else. Sound familiar?

The success of Veeva and the rest of our partner ecosystem makes one thing very clear -- there isn’t a single industry or business practice that is immune to a cloud makeover. If we’re not building it, rest assured that our partners are (or will). And if our two-million-install milestone is any indication, our customers are eager to adopt it.

The Salesforce Platform continues to be the catalyst for this transformation. It allows our partners to be extremely efficient and focus on their domain expertise. There’s no need to invest in major data centers or platform infrastructure. The Salesforce Platform enables our partners also get to market faster and target enterprise customers – who already trust our platform – right away. And above all else, it is a customer platform – nothing to deploy, with automatic upgrades and proven scale. Ideas ripen and turn into business innovations faster than ever.

Disruption is inevitable, and partners like Veeva are seizing the opportunity to re-imagine how software should work. We applaud Veeva, as they take this next big step in their history, which serves as a great reminder of the innovations our partners have already delivered, and how much more opportunity we collectively have to re-define business through the cloud.

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