salesforce

Established in March 1999. It is said to be the first company to provide cloud computing services (a type of service known as SaaS). Its main focus is on business applications, and it entered the Japanese market in April 2000. It has been introduced to many companies in Japan.

The applications offered include SaaS "Sales Cloud", "Service Cloud", "Marketing Cloud", and "Community Cloud", and PaaS "Force.com" and "Heroku". PaaS is also the company that first pioneered the term PaaS.