Salesforce.com and Esker, one of its partners, will be associated in several sessions of the CRM course. Students will have the opportunity to develop a hands-on experience based on a case situation and will also have the opportunity to attend a workshop organised by Salesforce.com for its local customers at the EDHEC facilities.

Salesforce.com is a San Francisco based company which was created in 1999; for the full fiscal year 2008, the company reported revenues of approximately $748.7 million, an increase of 51% from the prior year.

Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). The company's portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM (http://www.salesforce.com/products/), revolutionised the ways customers manage and share business information. With the company's Force.com PaaS, customers, developers, and partners build, deploy, and share powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily shared, exchanged, and installed with a few clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace (www.salesforce.com/appexchange).

As of January 31, 2008, salesforce.com manages business information for approximately 41,000 customers, including ABN AMRO, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, Sprint Nextel, and SunTrust Banks. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM."