Salesforce vs SolarWinds

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Salesforce
Based on 377 reviews.
SolarWinds
Based on 352 reviews.
Overview
Salesforce.com is a cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Though its revenue comes from a customer relationship management product, Salesforce also tries capitalizing on commercial applications of social networking through acquisition. As of 2015, it is one of the most highly valued American cloud computing companies with a market capitalization of $50 billion, It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the S&P 500 index.
SolarWinds Inc. develops enterprise information technology infrastructure management software for IT professionals. In 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners. SolarWinds completed its initial public offering of $112.5 million in 2009. In 2012, SolarWinds' total revenue reached $269 million. In June 2014, the company purchased the Swedish web-monitoring company Pingdom.
Sample Customers
Salesforce Service Cloud
Stanley Black & Decker, Coca-Cola, Activision, Wells Fargo, Spotify, Aldo, Philips, The Red Cross, Blue Shield of California, Sprouts Farmers Market, Direct Energy Solar, Inspirato, Kiva
Samanage
SXSW, PRA Group, Fandango, Inteva Products, Amherst College, Tensator
SolarWinds Web Help Desk
Instacart
SolarWinds IT Operations Manager
1. Aetna 2. Adobe 3. ADP 4. Airbus 5. Amazon 6. American Express 7. Aon 8. ATT 9. Autodesk 10. Bank of America 11. Barclays 12. BASF 13.Bayer 14. BlackRock 15. Boeing 16. Cisco 17. CocaCola 18. Comcast 19. Dell 20. Disney 21. Equinox 22. ExxonMobil 23. FedEx 24.Ford 25. GE 26. Google 27. HP 28. IBM 29. Intel 30. JPMorgan Chase 31. Kraft Heinz 32. Lockheed Martin 33. McDonald's 34. Merck 35. Microsoft 36. Morgan Stanley 37. Nike 38. Oracle 39. PepsiCo 40. Pfizer 41. Prudential Financial 42. Qualcomm 43. SAP 44. Siemens 45. SoFi 46. Starbucks 47. Tesla 48. Toyota 49. Visa 50. Walmart 51. Wells Fargo 52. World Bank
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Educational Organization
37%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Educational Organization
41%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
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