
When we first launched that product, there wasn’t a great understanding about what it actually meant to backup and protect Office 365 data and the assumption was that it was automatically protected. On the first part, my position on this, is that if you look at the success of our Backup for Microsoft 365 product over the past three to four years it might not be apparent that part of that success (apart from the actual technology) is eduction of the market. This is as good a question as asking… why not earlier? Or… why not some other SaaS platform before it? To answer the last part of that question… I think the above facts are enough to justify Salesforce being next.
Their Dreamforce Conference in 2019 commands over 171,000 registered attendees and 16 million online viewersĪlso, this is an interesting timeline read – History of Salesforce Why Now?. In 2021, approximately 62% of Salesforce customers where located in the United States. More than its 4 leading competitors combined. Salesforce has a 19.8% share of the CRM market. Salesforce generated $21.25 billion in the 2021 fiscal year 24.27% over the previous fiscal year. More than 150,000 businesses use Salesforce. If that wasn’t enough, here are a few fact about Salesforce. Clearly Salesforce is a giant of the IT industry and between our Analysts, Veeam R&D Forums, Product Strategy and direct field requests there was enough to get it to bubble up to the surface. I think like anything in this world of software, if there is enough demand for supportability of a new platform, product or new feature, then it gets put into a bucket with other requests and from there gets vetted against a number of variables to work out if it has enough merit to be developed. So why are we going down the path of Salesforce? With Veeam, you can securely backup Salesforce data and metadata to anywhere – on‑premises, AWS, Azure + more and Quickly restore Salesforce data from loss or corruption, Protect against security threats or human error and Simplify Salesforce data compliance and minimize risk Veeam® Backup for Salesforce eliminates the risk of losing your Salesforce data and metadata so that your business is reliably protected with automated backups and stress‑free recovery. As Danny Allan talks about during the announcement at VeeamON Update, Salesforce backup has been a hotly asked for product for a number of years now and we are excited to be offering data protection for another huge SaaS based platform.
This is a huge announcement from us and one which is sure to produce a great amount of interest from existing and prospective customers.
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At VeeamOn Update overnight we announced that Veeam Backup for Salesforce would be our next SaaS backup product, with intentionality to release some time in 2022.