Which company did Marc Benioff and Parker Harris co-found in 1999?

Marc Benioff and Parker Harris co-founded Salesforce in 1999.

The company was created in San Francisco as a provider of customer-relationship-management software delivered over the internet. This approach became known as software as a service, or SaaS, because customers could use applications online instead of installing them on their own servers.

Salesforce helped popularize the idea that business software could be hosted remotely and accessed through a web browser. The company’s early slogan, “The End of Software,” contrasted its cloud model with traditional packaged programs.

Salesforce is sometimes confused with ServiceNow or Workday, which are also major cloud-software companies but were founded separately and focus on different business needs. Salesforce’s central product area remains CRM, including tools for sales, customer service, marketing, and analytics.