Salesforce.com And A Valuation In The Clouds

Say this much for Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) - they make life hard on the value crowd by posting excellent growth. With a great third quarter and organic growth that much larger companies like SAP (NYSE:SAP), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) could only hope to get, Salesforce.com keeps the argument alive that it can grow into a dominant software player and grow into its rich valuation. 

The Quarter That Was
By any reasonable standard, this was a hot quarter for Salesforce.com. Reported revenue rose 30% from last year's level. Likewise, deferred revenue and billings were strong. Deferred revenue rose 27% from last year, while billings climbed 35% annually.Although not necessarily revenue metrics, the company did experience good renewals and lower churn. Looking further, the company's Chatter feature is now with 70% of its customer base in less than six months, while the Service Cloud has about 20% adoption so far. 


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