The week in Salesforce

Salesforce.com closed out the week with a handful of announcements and moves.

Biggest kudos go to the on-demand software giant for being named to the 2007 SD Times 100 list of technology influencers. The list of Influencers consists of companies that the SD Times has identified as “having the greatest impact on the software development landscape.” Salesforce joined heavy-hitters like IBM, the Eclipse Foundation, Business Objects, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft (natch), and the ever hustlin’ Google on the list.

“In the last year we have witnessed some amazing milestones for the software development industry,” said Salesforce chairman/CEO Marc Benioff upon announcing the award. “Not only the delivery of Salesforce Platform, the industry’s first platform for building and running on-demand applications, but also the introduction of Apex, the industry’s first on-demand programming language.”

(Indeed, it can be said the Apex probably ensured Salesforce’s place on the list this year.)

Salesforce.com’s citation in the SD Times 100 dropped some surely loved metaphors over at the company, reading: “Disruptive technology as a mission statement. With Salesforce.com in the water, no fish is safe from having its lunch eaten out from under its nose.”

Salesforce puts the SD Times trophy on the mantelpiece with their other recent honors, including inclusion on the Forbes Top Ten Disrupters 2006 (that mission statement again!), the Forbes 25 Tech Newcomers, the Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award from the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), the Business 2.i Leadership Award, the VARBusiness 60 Top Channel Executives, two ISM Top 15 CRM Software Awards, Wired Magazine’s Wired 40, two CODiE Awards, the 2007 BPT Partners Steppin’ Out Award, Ethisphere Magazine’s list of top ethical companies, and the CRM Magazine Service Elite Awards.

Welcomed to the AppExchange this week was LogiXML (also an SD Times 100 member), which yesterday announced the availability of the Logi Connector Pack, a software package that integrates data generated from web-based applications and sources. The initial release of the Logi Connector Pack supports integration of data from Salesforce applications with the Logi 8 Business Intelligence platform.

Finally the Salesforcers announced that the company’s 2007 annual meeting of stockholders will be held on Thursday, July 12 at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The meeting is to be held at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco. The record date for the meeting was May 22, and only stockholders of record on that date are eligible to attend the meeting.

However, as is traditional at Benioff’s baby, an audio webcast will be available to the public on salesforce.com’s website after the show has run.