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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 10-K

 


 

(Mark One)

 

x Annual Report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2005

 

OR

 

¨ Transition report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Commission File Number: 001-32224

 


 

salesforce.com, inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Delaware   94-3320693

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

The Landmark @ One Market, Suite 300

San Francisco, California 94105

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

Telephone Number (415) 901-7000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 


 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class   Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share   New York Stock Exchange, Inc.

 

Securities registered pursuant to section 12(g) of the Act:

 

Not applicable

 


 

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days:    Yes  x    No  ¨

 

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (Section 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of Registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.    x

 

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934).    Yes  ¨    No  x

 

Based on the closing price of the Registrant’s common stock on the last business day of the Registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, which was July 31, 2004, the aggregate market value of its shares (based on a closing price of $13.01 per share) held by non-affiliates was approximately $918.8 million. Shares of the Registrant’s common stock held by each executive officer and director and by each entity or person that owned 5 percent or more of the Registrant’s outstanding common stock were excluded in that such persons may be deemed to be affiliates. This determination of affiliate status is not necessarily a conclusive determination for other purposes.

 

As of February 28, 2005, there were approximately 105.5 million shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock outstanding.

 

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

 

Portions of the Registrant’s definitive proxy statement for its fiscal 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Proxy Statement”), to be filed within 120 days of the Registrant’s fiscal year ended January 31, 2005, are incorporated by reference in Part III of this Report on Form 10-K. Except with respect to information specifically incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K, the Proxy Statement is not deemed to be filed as part of this Form 10-K.

 



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INDEX

 

          Page No.

PART I     

Item 1.

   Business    1

Item 2.

   Properties    14

Item 3.

   Legal Proceedings    14

Item 4.

   Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders    15

Item 4A.

   Executive Officers of the Registrant    15
PART II     

Item 5.

   Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities    17

Item 6.

   Selected Financial Data    18

Item 7.

   Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations    20

Item 7A.

   Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk    47

Item 8.

   Financial Statements and Supplementary Data    48

Item 9.

   Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure    76

Item 9A.

   Controls and Procedures    76

Item 9B.

   Other Information    76
PART III     

Item 10.

   Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant    77

Item 11.

   Executive Compensation    77

Item 12.

   Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management    77

Item 13.

   Certain Relationships and Related Transactions    77

Item 14.

   Principal Accounting Fees and Services    77
PART IV     

Item 15.

   Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules    78

Signatures

   79

Index to Exhibits

    

 

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FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

 

This Annual Report, including the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” (“MD&A”) contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements consist of, among other things, trend analyses, statements regarding future events, future financial performance, our plan to build our business, our plans to obtain additional business continuity services, additional data center capacity and a separate development and test data center and related expenses, our anticipated growth, trends in our business, the effect of foreign currency exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations on our financial results, the potential impact of current or any future litigation, the potential availability of tax assets in the future and related matters, the impact of the new accounting pronouncement to expense stock options and the sufficiency of our capital resources, all of which are based on current expectations, estimates, and forecasts, and the beliefs and assumptions of our management. Words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” variations of such words, and similar expressions are also intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual results may differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Readers are directed to risks and uncertainties identified below, under “Risk Factors Which May Impact Future Operating Results” and elsewhere in this report, for factors that may cause actual results to be different than those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.

 

PART I

 

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

 

Overview

 

We were incorporated in Delaware in February 1999. Our principal executive offices are located in San Francisco, California and our website address is www.salesforce.com. Our office address is The Landmark @ One Market, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105.

 

We are the leading provider, based on market share, of application services that allow organizations to easily share customer information on demand, according to a March 2004 report by Forrester Research, Inc. We provide a comprehensive customer relationship management, or CRM, service to businesses of all sizes and industries worldwide. By designing and developing our service to be a low-cost, easy-to-use application that is delivered through a standard Web browser, we substantially reduce many of the traditional expenses and complexities of enterprise software implementations. As a result, our customers incur less risk and lower upfront costs. Our service helps customers more effectively manage and share information about critical operations including: sales force automation; customer service and support; marketing automation; document management; analytics; and custom application development. We market our service to businesses on a subscription basis, primarily through our direct sales efforts and also indirectly through partners. As of January 31, 2005, our customer base had grown to approximately 13,900, and we had approximately 227,000 paying subscriptions in over 70 countries. We define paying subscriptions as unique user accounts, purchased by customers for use by their employees and other customer-authorized users, that have not been suspended for non-payment and for which we are recognizing subscription revenue.

 

Industry Background

 

The Enterprise Application Software Market

 

Advances in computing and communications technology have enabled businesses to automate and improve their basic business processes. Many businesses have purchased, built and deployed a wide range of enterprise

 

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software applications in such areas as enterprise resource planning, or ERP, and CRM. While technology improvements have brought increased processing power and functionality to enterprise software applications, businesses have been challenged to realize the benefits of these applications for a variety of reasons, including the following:

 

    Difficulty of deployment. The increasing number and complexity of applications, operating systems, networks and computer systems have made it difficult and time consuming for businesses to implement and use enterprise software applications.

 

    High cost of ownership. Enterprise software applications carry a high total cost of ownership. Customers must make significant investments, both initially and on an ongoing basis, in applications and IT infrastructure, including computer systems, networks, software licenses and maintenance. Additionally, customers typically must employ costly IT staff and consultants to deploy, integrate, customize, support, administer and upgrade these applications.

 

In an attempt to address these challenges, many enterprise software application vendors have adapted their products to be accessible over the Internet. However, as these products were not originally designed to be delivered over the Internet as a service, they have failed to address these challenges. In addition, because they are not easy to use, users have been hesitant to adopt these complex, non-intuitive installed applications.

 

Emergence of On-Demand Application Services

 

The pervasiveness of the Internet, along with the dramatic declines in the pricing of computing technology and network bandwidth, have enabled a new generation of enterprise computing in which substantial components of IT infrastructure can be provisioned and delivered dynamically on an outsourced basis. This new computing paradigm is sometimes referred to as utility computing, while the outsourced software applications are referred to as on-demand application services. On-demand application services enable businesses to subscribe to a wide variety of application services that are developed specifically for, and delivered over, the Internet on an as-needed basis with little or no implementation services required and without the need to install and manage third-party software in-house.

 

We feel that the key attributes of successful on-demand application services include:

 

    a fully outsourced service accessible over the Internet and through a variety of devices, including laptop computers, PDAs and wireless devices;

 

    rapid and simple deployment, configuration and training;

 

    a comprehensive set of application features;

 

    a scalable, secure and reliable application architecture that can economically support tens of thousands of customers simultaneously;

 

    the ability to integrate with businesses’ existing third-party and internally developed enterprise applications and databases; and

 

    the ability to tailor the appearance, policy settings, workflow and other characteristics of the service to meet the needs of a diverse customer base.

 

On-demand application services contrast with the traditional enterprise software model, which requires each customer to install, configure, manage and maintain the hardware, software and network services to implement the software application in-house. Enterprise software vendors must maintain support for numerous legacy versions of their software and compatibility with a wide array of hardware devices and operating environments. These services also contrast with solutions offered by first-generation application service providers, commonly referred to as ASPs, which host third-party enterprise applications on behalf of their customers. Since these ASPs are deploying traditional third-party software applications with each customer typically running on a separate

 

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instance, or copy, of the software, ASPs remain challenged by the time and expense problems associated with purchasing, implementing, integrating, maintaining and supporting these applications. Additionally, because ASP hosting typically involves the installation of one dedicated server or set of servers to support a small number of customers, ASPs are challenged to cost-effectively scale to support a larger customer base.

 

We believe the shift to on-demand application services provides significant benefits by reducing the risks and lowering the costs of purchasing and deploying information technology resources, managing software and hardware upgrades, and hiring expensive IT personnel to maintain applications. As a result, we believe the emergence of on-demand application services will bring about a fundamental transformation in the enterprise software industry as businesses will be able to replace their purchased software with subscriptions to a wide range of application services.

 

The Opportunity for On-Demand CRM Application Services

 

One category of enterprise software applications in which businesses have made significant investments is CRM. CRM software is intended to enable businesses to automate three key functional areas: sales, customer service and support, and marketing. The objective of CRM is to improve interactions with customers by providing a means for recording, managing, accessing and analyzing information regarding all aspects of a company’s interactions with its customers.

 

The difficulties that companies have faced in deploying and maintaining enterprise software applications in general are particularly relevant to CRM. Despite the significant potential benefits that can be attained from CRM, many enterprises have failed to successfully deploy the CRM software they have purchased.

 

According to a June 2003 report by AMR Research referencing a December 2002 study, 12 percent of CRM projects failed to ever be implemented, usually for technical reasons. An additional 47 percent of projects had significant end-user adoption problems even though the projects were successful from a technical implementation standpoint. Finally, another 25 percent of projects met technical and user standards but did not provide value because they were either only as good as the replaced systems or the benefits were difficult to define.

 

We believe that traditional CRM applications have generally suffered from the following challenges:

 

    Low deployment rates and low user adoption. Customers have been reluctant to deploy traditional CRM applications because of the complexity involved in implementing them and because end users have not been willing to invest the considerable time and effort required to learn to use traditional CRM applications.

 

    Lack of ubiquitous access. Given the mobility and geographic diversity of most enterprise sales organizations, ubiquitous access to customer information and application functionality is critical to the effectiveness of CRM applications. As enterprise CRM software application functionality has not been available or has been difficult to access over the Internet and through laptops, PDAs and wireless devices, full realization of the benefits of sharing access to information and resources has been hindered.

 

    Low return on investment. The cost, time and effort required to implement an enterprise CRM application, combined with low user adoption, have made it difficult for companies to quickly, or ever, realize the benefits of their investment.

 

    Inability to serve all businesses. Many small and medium-sized businesses seeking the benefits of CRM have been unable to afford the costs associated with traditional enterprise software applications.

 

We believe that the CRM market is one of the first markets to benefit from the new on-demand application services delivery model. As a result of the high total cost of ownership, low deployment and usage rates, and poor return on investment of traditional CRM software, we believe that businesses are especially open to a new

 

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delivery model for CRM. The emergence of on-demand application services, combined with the deficiencies associated with traditional CRM software applications, have created an opportunity for a vendor that can provide on-demand CRM application services that have been specifically designed and built to be delivered over the Internet.

 

Our Solution

 

We are the leading provider of on-demand CRM, helping companies better track, manage and share information regarding their sales, customer service and support, and marketing operations. We provide our service to businesses through our proprietary, scalable and secure multi-tenant application architecture, which allows us to serve large numbers of customers cost-effectively by leveraging a single instance of our application for multiple customers. By subscribing to our service, our customers do not have to make large and risky upfront investments in software, additional hardware, extensive implementation services, and additional IT staff. As a result, our service enables businesses to achieve higher productivity from, and a lower total cost of ownership for, their CRM solutions.

 

Key advantages of our solution include:

 

    Rapid deployment. Our service can be deployed rapidly and provisioned easily, since our customers do not have to spend time installing or maintaining the servers, networking equipment, security products or other infrastructure hardware and software necessary to ensure a scalable and reliable service. We believe the average time that a customer requires to deploy our service is significantly shorter than typical, traditional CRM software deployments. We also offer complementary consulting and training services to assist customers in rapidly deploying and optimizing their use of our service.

 

    Enable high levels of user adoption. We have designed our service to be easy-to-use and intuitive. Since our service contains many tools and features recognizable to users of popular websites such as those of Amazon.com, eBay and Yahoo!, it has a more familiar interface than typical CRM enterprise applications. As a result, our users do not require substantial training on how to use and benefit from our service. We conduct extensive surveys of our users to gauge their experiences with our service so that we may determine potential areas of improvement. In addition, because of the nature of our service, we receive automatic feedback as to which features customers use.

 

    Lower total cost of ownership. We enable customers to achieve significant savings relative to the traditional enterprise software model. Our service enables customers to automate sales, customer service and support and marketing processes without having to make large and risky upfront investments in software, hardware, implementation services and additional IT staff. In addition, because all upgrades are implemented by us on our servers they automatically become part of our service and therefore benefit all of our customers immediately.

 

    Extensive features, functionality and configurability. We offer a comprehensive array of CRM features that meet the needs of businesses of any size. Our service supports the three key functional areas within CRM—sales, customer service and support, and marketing automation. We also offer additional functionality such as file and document management capabilities, which enable businesses to centralize the storage and retrieval of customer-related documents. Furthermore, most features of our service can be accessed through a variety of devices, including laptop computers, PDAs and wireless devices. For example, we offer an offline version of our service that can be used on any PC or laptop and a wireless version for mobile access via wireless devices. Finally, through our introduction of Customforce, our service is highly configurable in a short amount of time, enabling our customers to tailor its appearance, policy settings, language, workflow, reports and other characteristics without the use of significant IT resources or consultants.

 

   

Secure, scalable and reliable delivery platform. The delivery platform for our service has been designed to provide our customers with high levels of reliability, performance and security. The IT systems within our data center have fail-over redundancy. We have built and continue to invest in a comprehensive security infrastructure, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption

 

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for transmissions over the Internet, which we monitor and test on a regular basis. We built and maintain a multi-tenant application architecture that has been designed to enable our service to scale securely, reliably and cost-effectively to tens of thousands of customers and millions of users. Our multi-tenant application architecture maintains the integrity and separation of customer data while still permitting all customers to use the same application functionality simultaneously. Our architecture also enables us to segment access privileges across our user base.

 

    Ease of integration. Our platform is designed to enable IT professionals to integrate our service with existing applications quickly and seamlessly. Our sforce platform provides a set of application programming interfaces, or APIs, that enable customers and independent developers to integrate our service with existing third-party, custom and legacy applications and write their own application services that integrate with our service. For example, many of our customers use the sforce APIs to move customer-related data from custom-developed and legacy applications into our service on a periodic basis to provide greater visibility into their activities.

 

Our Strategy

 

Our objective is to be the leading provider of on-demand application services for businesses worldwide. Key elements of our strategy include:

 

    Continue to lead the industry transformation to on-demand application services. We believe that the market transformation to on-demand application services enabled by utility computing is a growing trend in the technology industry. We believe we have established a leadership position in this new industry both as a successful vendor of on-demand application services and also as a key thought leader helping to define the architecture and vision of utility computing. We seek to extend our leadership position in this industry by continuing to innovate and bring new on-demand application services and value-added technologies to market.

 

    Strengthen and extend our service offering. We designed our service to easily accommodate new features and functions as well as the release of entirely new application services. We intend to continue to add CRM features and functionality to our service that we will make available to customers at no additional charge. We may also offer advanced modules for an additional subscription fee to customers that require enhanced CRM capabilities. In addition to accommodating new CRM features, we believe that our technology infrastructure is able to support entirely different, non-CRM application capabilities.

 

    Pursue new customers and new territories aggressively. We believe that our on-demand CRM application service provides significant value for businesses of any size, from small businesses to the largest Fortune 500 corporations. As a result, we will continue to aggressively target businesses of all sizes, primarily through our direct sales force. We have steadily increased and plan to continue to increase the number of direct sales professionals we employ, and we intend to develop additional distribution channels for our service. We have created several editions of our service to address the distinct requirements of businesses of different sizes. We also believe that there is a substantial market opportunity for our service outside of North America. We plan to continue to aggressively market to customers outside of North America by recruiting local sales and support professionals, building partnerships that help us add customers in these regions and increasing the number of languages we support. As of January 31, 2005, we offered our service in 11 languages and had paying subscriptions in over 70 countries.

 

    Deepen relationships with our existing customer base. We believe there is significant opportunity to leverage our relationships with existing customers. We seek to attract more users from existing customers by targeting additional functional areas and business units within the customer organization, pursuing enterprise-wide deployments and providing consulting offerings that are complementary to our service. In addition, by continuously enhancing the functionality of our service, we believe that customers will find more uses for our service and therefore purchase additional subscriptions, continue to renew their existing subscriptions and upgrade to more fully featured versions such as our Enterprise Edition.

 

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    Encourage the development of third-party applications on our sforce platform. Our sforce platform enables existing customers and third-party developers to develop and deliver applications complementary to our core service offering. Sforce enhances the attractiveness of our service, particularly to enterprise customers, by enabling them to accelerate the integration of our service with their existing applications. As we did with the recent introduction of Customforce, we plan to continue to augment the sforce tools and services we provide to developers and foster their development of new applications.

 

The salesforce.com Service

 

We provide a comprehensive array of on-demand CRM application services for businesses of all sizes and industries worldwide. These services enable companies and individuals to systematically record, store and act upon customer data, helping businesses manage their customer accounts, track sales leads, evaluate marketing campaigns and provide post-sales service. We also enable companies to generate reports and summaries of this data and share them with authorized employees across functional areas. CRM includes sales, customer service and support and marketing automation:

 

    Sales force automation enables salespeople to be more productive by automating manual and repetitive tasks and providing them with better, more organized data about their current and prospective customers. It permits companies to establish a system and a process for recording, tracking and sharing information about sales opportunities, sales leads, sales forecasts, the sales process and closed business.

 

    Customer service and support automation, which is marketed under our brand Supportforce, allows companies to interact better and more efficiently and professionally with their existing customers in a variety of areas, such as requests for repairs, advice about products and services, complaints about faulty goods and the need for additional goods and services.

 

    Marketing automation enables companies to manage marketing campaigns from initiation through the development of leads that are passed to the sales team and enables them to determine the effectiveness of each campaign by quantifying the revenue generated as a result of specific marketing activities.

 

We offer for a fee three principal editions of our service: Enterprise Edition, Professional Edition and Team Edition.

 

Enterprise Edition. Enterprise Edition is our most fully featured service offering and is targeted primarily at large companies that have several different divisions or departments. It includes many administrative features that are particularly useful to large companies, such as workflow, the ability to customize views for different departments and a set of controls that allows a system administrator to designate which users have access and modification rights to the different types of information within the system. It also includes a Web services-standard XML API that enables companies to readily integrate our CRM service with ERP applications, Web services and other data sources and a weekly export service that permits a customer to download all data input by users into the service in a machine-readable format. It also includes our offline and wireless features that permit users to access information through laptops, PDAs and wireless devices.

 

Professional Edition. Professional Edition is targeted primarily at medium-sized and large businesses that need a robust CRM solution but do not need some of the more advanced administrative features and integration capabilities of Enterprise Edition. The offline, wireless and selected other features of Enterprise Edition that are not included in Professional Edition are available to Professional Edition customers for an additional charge.

 

Team Edition. Team Edition is targeted primarily at small businesses that seek a robust sales force automation and case management solutions without the more sophisticated features that are required by larger companies, such as integration, analytics and workflow. Team Edition does not include full customer service and support or marketing automation features.

 

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Enterprise Edition, Professional Edition and Team Edition offer customizable fields and pick lists, customizable reports and customizable list views. Enterprise Edition and Professional Edition also offer multi-language support and multi-currency support. We derived approximately 90 percent or more of our revenues in fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003 from subscriptions to and support for our service.

 

The following table highlights the key functionality provided in each of our three principal editions.

 

Feature


   Enterprise
Edition


   Professional
Edition


   Team
Edition


Account Management

   ü      ü    ü  

Contact Management

   ü      ü    ü  

Opportunity Management

   ü      ü    ü  

Case Management

   ü      ü    ü  

Activity Management

   ü      ü    ü  

Custom Fields and Layouts

   ü      ü    ü  

Import/export Utilities

   ü      ü    ü  

Email Templates

   ü      ü    ü  

MS Office Integration

   ü      ü    ü  

MS Outlook Integration

   ü      ü    ü  

Palm Synchronization

   ü      ü    ü  

Reports, both standard and custom

   ü      ü    ü  

Self-service Customer Portal

   ü      ü       

Analytical Dashboards

   ü      ü       

Forecasting

   ü      ü       

Lead Management

   ü      ü       

Mass Email

   ü      ü       

Contract Management

   ü      ü       

Advanced Case Management

   ü      ü       

Solution Management

   ü      ü       

Record-based Security

   ü      ü       

Multi-currency Support

   ü      ü       

Documents and Attachments

   ü      ü       

Campaign Management

   ü      Available       

Offline

   ü      Available       

Wireless

   ü      Available       

Weekly Data Export

   ü      Available       

Product and Annuity Forecasting

   ü      Available       

Sforce (Web services API)

   ü              

Multiple Business Processes

   ü              

Custom Objects and Tabs

   ü              

Multi-department Customization

   ü              

 

“Available” means available for an additional charge.

 

Our offline functionality enables users to readily access and use key account, contact, opportunity and other information when traveling or otherwise when an Internet connection is not readily accessible. Users access the offline functionality using a browser and the same user interface as our online editions.

 

We also offer wireless functionality that enables access to a subset of a user’s data through a variety of devices, including the RIM BlackBerry, Pocket PC and Palm operating system-based wireless devices and WAP-enabled mobile phones. Our wireless functionality permits interaction with our service both through free-form text queries and through a graphical user interface.

 

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As part of our marketing programs, we offer a Personal Edition service which includes a contact management database and several other features that are useful to individual sales representatives and others who need a centralized way to organize contact data and access that data over the Internet. It is intended for use by a single user and is currently available at no charge. In addition, we offer a service called Developer Edition, currently at no charge, to developers and others interested in building applications on our sforce platform.

 

Our customers can customize and integrate our application with other software applications in a variety of ways.

 

In November 2004, we introduced Customforce that enables customers to tailor the features of our service to meet their business requirements or create new on-demand applications through a point-and-click interface without the use of significant IT resources or consultants. Examples of the use of Customforce include: a customer used Customforce to develop a nurse tracking system and another customer used Customforce to track contract expirations.

 

We also provide sforce, a Web services-based API platform that enables third parties, including customers and independent software vendors, or ISVs, to customize tables and page views within our service, more fully integrate a customer’s data with our service with other software applications, extend our service’s CRM functionality with customer-specific business functionality, and permit development of standalone applications that interoperate with our service. As part of our sforce offering, we have collaborated with IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Borland and BEA to make available to the sforce developer community a variety of development tools for building applications upon our platform.

 

We currently do not charge users of our Enterprise Edition a license fee or royalty for Customforce or sforce or applications developed with sforce.

 

Professional Services

 

We offer consulting and implementation services and training that complement our on-demand application service.

 

Consulting and Implementation Services

 

We offer consulting and implementation services to our customers to facilitate the adoption of our on-demand CRM application service. Consulting services consist of services such as business process mapping, project management services and guidance on best practices in using our service. Implementation services include systems integration, configuration and data conversion. The majority of our consulting and implementation engagements are billed on a time and materials basis.

 

Training

 

We offer a number of in-person and online educational classes that address topics such as implementing, using and administering our service. We also offer classes for administrators, users and partners who implement our service on behalf of our customers. Our typical in-person training courses are billed on a per person, per class basis.

 

Technology, Development and Operations

 

Technology

 

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written to different hardware, operating system and database platforms, or that depends upon a customer’s unique systems environment. Rather, we have optimized our service to run on a specific database and operating system using the tools and platforms best suited to serve our customers. Performance, functional depth and usability of our service drive our technology decisions and product direction.

 

We built our service as a highly scalable, multi-tenant application written in Java and Oracle PL/SQL. We use commercially available hardware and a combination of proprietary and commercially available software, including database software from Oracle Corporation, to provide our service. The application server is custom-built and runs on a lightweight Java Servlet and Java Server Pages engine. We have custom-built core services such as database connection pooling and user session management tuned to our specific architecture and environment, allowing us to continue to scale our service. We have combined a stateless environment, in which a user is not bound to a single server but can be routed in the most optimal way to any number of servers, with an advanced data caching layer. Our customers can access the service through any Web browser without installing any software or downloading Java applets or Microsoft ActiveX or .NET controls.

 

Our service treats all customers as logically separate tenants in central applications and databases. As a result, we are able to spread the cost of delivering our service across our user base. In addition, because we do not have to manage thousands of distinct applications with their own business logic and database schemas, we believe that we can scale our business faster than traditional software vendors, even those that have modified their products to be accessible over the Internet. Moreover, we can focus our resources on building new functionality to deliver to our customer base as a whole rather than on maintaining an infrastructure to support each of their distinct applications.

 

Our service is also flexible. Every page is dynamically rendered for each specific user, including a choice of 11 languages and a number of currencies with dynamic currency conversion support. In addition, our service can display different views of the data based upon a number of factors, including user, department and area of responsibility in the company. Our service also allows customers to create multiple subtypes or subclasses of our business objects and tie views to each record type. This customization extends to the data model of our service, as our service allows customers to extend existing tables in our database as well as create new tables without actually modifying the underlying physical database schema.

 

We have also developed extensive reporting and analytics functionality in our service that operates on the online transaction processing, or OLTP, database system to provide real-time analysis of the user’s data. While users can customize any report or dashboard in the service, we dynamically tune the database based upon specific attributes of the user, the data model, the data security layer and the specific customizations to each report or dashboard.

 

We have built a service-oriented architecture, or SOA, which allows our service to be addressable by other applications on the Internet and by applications behind customers’ firewalls. Through our sforce platform, we allow customers and partners to insert, update, delete and query any of their information in our service. Our full-text search engine, which allows users to perform natural language queries on all the data through a browser, is also exposed as a Web service. In addition, we have mechanisms to protect our service not only from malicious abuse, but also from poorly written applications that put undue strain on the service. Each user session is encrypted, and we actively monitor our system to detect intrusion by unauthorized users.

 

Development

 

Our research and development efforts are focused on improving and enhancing our existing service offerings as well as developing new proprietary services. In addition, from time to time we supplement our internal research and development activities with outside development resources. Because of our common, multi-tenant application architecture, we are able to provide all of our customers with a service based on a single version of our application. As a result, we do not have to maintain multiple versions of our application and are

 

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able to maintain relatively low research and development expenses. Our research and development expenses were $9.8 million in fiscal 2005, $7.0 million in fiscal 2004 and $4.6 million in fiscal 2003.

 

Operations

 

We serve all of our customers and users from a single, third-party Web hosting facility located in Sunnyvale, California, operated by Qwest Communications International Inc. The facility is designed to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 on the Richter scale, is secured by around-the-clock guards, biometric access screening and escort-controlled access, and is supported by on-site backup generators in the event of a power failure. Our agreement with Qwest provides for Qwest to supply space in its secure facility as well as high bandwidth Internet access, and runs through the end of February 2006. We regularly rotate tapes of customer data out of the facility and store them in a secure location in the event of data loss at the facility.

 

We continuously monitor the performance of our service. The monitoring features we have built or licensed include centralized performance consoles, automated load distribution tools and various self-diagnostic tools and programs. We have entered into service level agreements with a small number of our customers warranting certain levels of uptime reliability.

 

Currently, we have an agreement with SunGard Data Systems, a provider of availability services, to provide access to a geographically remote disaster recovery facility that would provide access to hardware, software and Internet connectivity in the event the Qwest facility becomes unavailable. Even with this disaster recovery arrangement, however, our service would be interrupted during the transition. The arrangement with SunGard serves as our primary backup facility and is designed to support our service for all customers. We are in the process of evaluating additional technology solutions and data center requirements for both improved business continuity and future expansion. These solutions would be designed to minimize the interruption during any transition to a remote disaster recovery facility.

 

Customers

 

As of January 31, 2005, our customer base had grown to approximately 13,900, and we had approximately 227,000 paying subscribers in over 70 countries. As of January 31, 2004, our customer base was approximately 8,700 and our paying subscribers were approximately 127,000.

 

Our revenues are divided among small businesses (companies with fewer than 200 employees), medium-size businesses (200 or more employees and up to $1 billion in annual revenues), and large businesses (over $1 billion in annual revenues). The number of paying subscribers at each of our customers ranges from one to more than 3,000.

 

None of our customers accounted for more than 5 percent of our revenues in fiscal 2005, 2004 or 2003.

 

Sales, Marketing and Customer Support

 

We organize our sales and marketing programs by geographic regions.

 

Direct Sales

 

We sell subscriptions to our service primarily through our direct sales force comprised of inside sales, telesales and field sales personnel. Our small business, general business and enterprise account executives focus their efforts on small, medium-size and large enterprises, respectively. Sales representatives in our small business group sell to smaller companies, primarily over the phone. We have field sales offices in more than 20 major cities worldwide.

 

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Referral and Indirect Sales

 

We have a network of partners who refer customer prospects to us and assist us in selling to them. These include consulting firms, other technology vendors and systems integrators. In return, we typically pay these partners a fee based on the first-year subscription revenue generated by the customers they refer. We have also started to develop third party distribution channels for our service.

 

Marketing

 

Our marketing strategy is to generate qualified sales leads, build our brand and raise awareness of salesforce.com as a leading provider of on-demand CRM application services. Our marketing programs include a variety of advertising, events, public relations activities and Web-based seminar campaigns targeted at key executives and decision makers within businesses.

 

Our principal marketing initiatives include:

 

    launch events to publicize our service to existing customers and prospects;

 

    direct mail and email campaigns;

 

    participation in, and sponsorship of, user conferences, trade shows and industry events;

 

    cooperative marketing efforts with partners, including Web link exchanges, joint press announcements, joint trade show activities, channel marketing campaigns and joint seminars;

 

    using our website to offer free trials of our service and to provide product and company information; and

 

    advertising in newspapers, CRM trade magazines, management journals and other business-related periodicals.

 

Customer Service and Support

 

We believe that superior customer support is critical to retaining and expanding our customer base. Our customer support group handles both general customer inquiries, such as questions about the ordering process or the status of an order or payment, technical questions or questions relating to how to use our service, and is available to customers by telephone or email or over the Web. We offer basic and more advanced classes on how to use, administer and customize our service over the Web free of charge to our customers on a weekly or monthly basis, depending on the class.

 

We have a comprehensive technical support program to assist our customers in the use of our service and to identify, analyze and solve any problems or issues with our service. The support program includes email support, an online repository of helpful information about our service, shared best practices for implementation and use, and telephone support. Telephone support is provided by technical support specialists on our staff, who are extensively trained in the use of our service and who are located at our three global support centers in San Francisco, Dublin and Tokyo. In addition, we have supplemented our support specialists with third party technical support specialists who work for us on a contract basis. Basic customer support during business hours is available at no charge to customers that purchase our Team Edition, Professional Edition or Enterprise Edition. Premium customer support that includes additional customer support services is available for an additional charge.

 

International Sales

 

In fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, we generated approximately 20 percent, 18 percent and 14 percent of our total revenues, respectively, from customers in Europe and Asia Pacific. We expect international markets to provide increased opportunities for our applications and services in the future. Our current international efforts are focused on strengthening our direct sales and marketing presence in Europe and Asia Pacific, and generating more revenues from these regions. We maintain sales offices in 11 countries outside of North America.

 

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Competition

 

The market for CRM applications and enterprise business applications generally is highly competitive, rapidly evolving and fragmented, and subject to changing technology, shifting customer needs and frequent introductions of new products and services. We compete primarily with vendors of packaged CRM software, whose software is installed by the customer directly or hosted by a first generation ASP on the customer’s behalf, and companies offering on-demand CRM applications. We also compete with internally developed applications and face, or expect to face, competition from enterprise software vendors and online service providers who may develop and/or bundle CRM products with their products in the future. Our current principal competitors include:

 

    enterprise software application vendors including Amdocs Limited, E.piphany, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, PeopleSoft, Inc., which has been acquired by Oracle, SAP AG and Siebel Systems, Inc.;

 

    packaged CRM software vendors, some of whom offer hosted services, such as BMC Software Corporation, FrontRange Solutions, Inc., Onyx Software Corp., Pivotal Corporation, which has been acquired by CDC Software Corporation, a subsidiary of chinadotcom corporation, and Sage Group plc;

 

    on-demand CRM application service providers such as Siebel Systems, NetSuite, Inc., RightNow Technologies, Inc. and Salesnet, Inc.; and

 

    enterprise application service providers including British Telecom, IBM and Corio, Inc., which has been acquired by IBM.

 

We believe the principal competitive factors in our market include the following:

 

    speed and ease of implementation;

 

    ease of use and rates of user adoption;

 

    low total cost of ownership and demonstrable cost-effective benefits for customers;

 

    product functionality;

 

    performance, security, scalability, flexibility and reliability of the service;

 

    ease of integration with existing applications;

 

    quality of customer support;

 

    availability and quality of implementation, consulting and training services;

 

    vendor reputation;

 

    sales and marketing capabilities of the vendor; and

 

    financial stability of the vendor.

 

While some of our competitors offer CRM applications with greater complexity than our service, we believe none of them addresses all of the limitations of traditional CRM applications adequately. In many cases, we believe CRM applications with greater complexity have a higher total cost of ownership, take significantly more time to implement and are harder to use than our service. However, many of our competitors and potential competitors have greater name recognition, longer operating histories and significantly greater resources. They may be able to devote greater resources to the development, promotion and sale of their products than we can to ours, which could allow them to respond more quickly than we can to new technologies and changes in customer needs. Additionally, our competitors may offer or develop products or services that are superior to ours or that achieve greater market acceptance.

 

Our professional services organization competes with a broad range of large systems integrators, including Accenture Ltd., BearingPoint, Inc. and IBM as well as smaller independent consulting firms specializing in CRM implementations. We have relationships with many of these consulting companies and frequently work cooperatively on projects with them, even as we compete for business in other customer engagements.

 

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Intellectual Property

 

We rely on a combination of trademark, copyright, trade secret and patent laws in the United States and other jurisdictions as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions to protect our proprietary technology and our brand. We have U.S. and international patent applications pending and no issued patents. We also enter into confidentiality and proprietary rights agreements with our employees, consultants and other third parties and control access to software, documentation and other proprietary information.

 

The following trademarks are registered in the United States and some are registered in foreign jurisdictions:

 

salesforce.com

“No Software” logo

The End of Software

SFDC Asia Pacific

Success. Not Software.

 

Our unregistered trademarks include:

 

Team Edition

Success. On Demand.

sforce

experience success.

Supportforce

Customforce

Multiforce

 

We have received in the past, and may receive in the future, communications from third parties claiming we have infringed on the intellectual property rights of others. These claims may require us to seek licenses to that technology. In addition, we license third-party technologies that are incorporated into some elements of our services. Licenses from third-party technologies may not continue to be available to us at a reasonable cost, or at all, and as a result our costs may increase. Additionally, the steps we have taken to protect our intellectual property rights may not be adequate. Third parties may infringe or misappropriate our proprietary rights. Competitors may also independently develop technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to the technologies we employ in our services. If we fail to protect our proprietary rights adequately, our competitors could offer similar services, potentially significantly harming our competitive position and decreasing our revenues.

 

Employees

 

As of January 31, 2005, we had 767 employees. None of our employees is represented by a labour union.

 

We believe our future success and growth will depend on our ability to attract and retain qualified employees in all areas of our business. We consider our relationship with our employees to be good. However, we face competition for qualified employees, and we expect to face continuing challenges in recruiting and retention.

 

Available Information

 

You can obtain copies of our Form 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K reports, and other filings with the SEC, and all amendments to these filings, free of charge from our website as soon as reasonably practicable following our filing of any of these reports with the SEC.

 

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

 

Our executive offices and principal office for domestic marketing, sales, professional services and development occupy in excess of 100,000 square feet in San Francisco, California under leases that expire at various times through 2013. We also lease space in various locations throughout the United States for local sales and professional services personnel. Our foreign subsidiaries lease office space for their operations including local sales and professional services personnel.

 

We believe that our existing facilities and offices are adequate to meet our requirements for the foreseeable future. See Note 8, “Commitments and Contingencies,” in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for more information about our lease commitments. If we require additional space, we believe that we will be able to obtain such space on acceptable, commercially reasonable terms.

 

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

 

On July 26, 2004, a purported class action complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, entitled Morrison v. salesforce.com, et al., against the Company, its Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer. The complaint alleges violations of Section 10(b) and Section 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), purportedly on behalf of all persons who purchased salesforce.com common stock between June 21, 2004 and July 21, 2004, inclusive. The claims are based on allegations that the Company failed to disclose an allegedly declining trend in its revenues and earnings. Subsequently, four other substantially similar class action complaints were filed in the same district based on the same facts and allegations, asserting claims under Section 10(b) and Section 20(a) of the 1934 Act and Section 11 and Section 15 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The actions have been consolidated under the caption In re salesforce.com, inc. Securities Litigation, Case No. C-04-3009 JSW (N.D. Cal.). On December 22, 2004, the Court appointed Chuo Zhu as lead plaintiff. On February 22, 2005, lead plaintiff filed a Consolidated and Amended Class Action Complaint (the “CAC”). The CAC alleges violations of Section 10(b) and Section 20(a) of the 1934 Act, purportedly on behalf of all persons who purchased salesforce.com common stock between June 23, 2004 and July 21, 2004, inclusive. As in the original complaints, the claims in the CAC are based on allegations that the Company failed to disclose an allegedly declining trend in its revenues and earnings. The deadline for defendants to respond to the CAC is April 25, 2005. The lawsuit is still in the preliminary stages, and it is not possible for the Company to quantify the extent of potential liability, if any. The Company does not believe that the lawsuit has any merit and intends to defend the action vigorously.

 

On August 6, 2004, a shareholder derivative action was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, San Francisco County, entitled Borrelli v. Benioff, et al., against the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, its Chief Financial Officer and members of its Board of Directors alleging breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, gross mismanagement, waste of corporate assets and unjust enrichment under state common law. Subsequently, a substantially similar complaint was filed in the same court based on the same facts and allegations, entitled Johnson v. Benioff, et al. The two actions have been consolidated under the caption Borrelli v. Benioff, Case No. CGC-04-433615 (Cal. Super. Ct., S.F. Cty.). On October 5, 2004, plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint, which is based upon the same facts and circumstances as alleged in the shareholder class action discussed above, and asserts that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by making or failing to prevent salesforce.com, inc. and its management from making statements or omissions that potentially subject the Company to liability and injury to its reputation. The action seeks damages on behalf of salesforce.com in an unspecified amount, among other forms of legal and equitable relief. Salesforce.com is named solely as a nominal defendant against which no recovery is sought. The plaintiff shareholders made no demand upon the Board of Directors prior to filing these actions. The deadline for defendants to respond to the consolidated complaint is June 16, 2005. The derivative action is still in the preliminary stages, and it is not possible for the Company to quantify the extent of potential liability to the individual defendants, if any. Management does not believe that the lawsuits have any merit and intends to defend the actions vigorously.

 

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Generally, we are involved in various legal proceedings arising from the normal course of business activities. In our opinion, resolution of these matters is not expected to have a material adverse impact on our consolidated results of operations, cash flows or our financial position. However, depending on the nature and timing of any such dispute, an unfavorable resolution of a matter could materially affect our future results of operations, cash flows or financial position in a particular period.

 

ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

 

No matters were submitted to a vote of security holders during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005.

 

ITEM 4A. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

 

The following sets forth certain information as of January 31, 2005 regarding our executive officers:

 

Name


   Age

  

Position


Marc Benioff

   40    Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer

Jim Steele

   49    President, Worldwide Sales and Services

Patricia Sueltz

   52    President, Global Operations

Steve Cakebread

   53    Chief Financial Officer

Parker Harris

   38    Executive Vice President, Technology

Kenneth Juster

   50    Executive Vice President, Legal Affairs and Corporate Development

Jim Cavalieri

   35    Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Service Delivery

David Moellenhoff

   35    Chief Technology Officer

David Schellhase

   41    Senior Vice President and General Counsel

 

Marc Benioff co-founded salesforce.com in February 1999 and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since inception. He has served as Chief Executive Officer since November 2001. From 1986 to 1999, Mr. Benioff was employed at Oracle Corporation where he held a number of positions in sales, marketing and product development, lastly as a Senior Vice President. Mr. Benioff is Co-Chairman of The President of the United States’ Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). Mr. Benioff also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the salesforce.com/foundation. Mr. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.) from the University of Southern California.

 

Jim Steele has served as our President, Worldwide Sales and Services since March 2005. Previously, he was our President of Worldwide Operations since joining salesforce.com in October 2002. From February 2001 to September 2002, Mr. Steele served as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Operations for Ariba, Inc., a software company. From February 1978 to January 2001, Mr. Steele served in a variety of globally focused executive roles at IBM Corporation. Mr. Steele received a B.S. from Bucknell University.

 

Patricia Sueltz has served as our President, Global Operations since December 2004. Prior to that, she was our President of Technology, Marketing and Systems from February 2004 to December 2004. She previously held a number of executive positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc., a provider of information technology products and services, including Executive Vice President, Sun Services, from July 2002 to February 2004, Executive Vice President, Software Systems Group from July 2000 to June 2002 and President, Software Products & Platforms from September 1999 to June 2000. Ms. Sueltz served in various management capacities at IBM Corporation, a diversified computer and information technology company, from 1979 to 1999. Ms. Sueltz received a B.A. from Occidental College.

 

Steve Cakebread has served as our Chief Financial Officer since April 2002. From April 1997 to April 2002, Mr. Cakebread served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Autodesk, Inc., a software company. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Cakebread served as Vice President of Finance for Silicon Graphics, Inc., a computer workstation company. Mr. Cakebread received a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Indiana University.

 

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Parker Harris co-founded salesforce.com in February 1999 and served in senior technical positions since inception, including our Senior Vice President, Research and Development. Since December 2004, Mr. Harris has served as our Executive Vice President, Technology. From October 1996 to February 1999, Mr. Harris was a Vice President at Left Coast Software, a Java consulting firm he co-founded. Mr. Harris received a B.A. from Middlebury College.

 

Kenneth Juster has served as our Executive Vice President of Legal Affairs and Corporate Development since January 2005. From May 2001 to January 2005, Mr. Juster served as Under Secretary for Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce. From May 1993 to March 2001, Mr. Juster was a partner at the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP. Mr. Juster received A.B., M.P.P. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University.

 

Jim Cavalieri has served as our Chief Information Officer since November 2001. Since December 2004, he has also served as our Senior Vice President of Service Delivery. From July 1999 to November 2001, Mr. Cavalieri served as our Vice President, Systems Engineering. From January 1995 to July 1999, Mr. Cavalieri was employed at Oracle Corporation where he held several technical and management positions, lastly as Senior Technical Program Manager. From June 1991 to December 1994, Mr. Cavalieri worked as a consultant and systems engineer for EDS. Mr. Cavalieri received a B.S. from Cornell University.

 

David Moellenhoff co-founded salesforce.com in February 1999 and served in senior technical positions since inception, most recently as our Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Moellenhoff also serves on the Board of Directors of the salesforce.com/foundation. From October 1996 to February 1999, Mr. Moellenhoff was President of Left Coast Software, a Java consulting firm he co-founded. Mr. Moellenhoff received two B.S. degrees and an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.

 

David Schellhase has served as our Vice President and General Counsel since July 2002. He was promoted to Senior Vice President and General Counsel in December 2004. From December 2000 to June 2002, Mr. Schellhase was an independent legal consultant and authored a treatise entitled Corporate Law Department Handbook. From February 2000 to November 2000, Mr. Schellhase was Vice President and General Counsel of Linuxcare, Inc., an IT services and consulting company. From August 1997 to January 2000, Mr. Schellhase was Vice President and General Counsel of The Vantive Corporation, a software company. Mr. Schellhase received a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Cornell University.

 

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PART II

 

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

 

Market Information for Common Stock

 

Our common stock has been quoted on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CRM” since June 23, 2004. Prior to that time, there was no public market for our common stock. The following table sets forth for the indicated periods the high and low sales prices of our common stock as reported by the New York Stock Exchange.

 

     High

   Low

Fiscal year ending January 31, 2005

             

Second quarter (beginning June 23, 2004)

   $ 17.69    $ 11.00

Third quarter

   $ 20.60    $ 9.00

Fourth quarter

   $ 22.70    $ 13.35

 

Dividend Policy

 

We have never paid any cash dividends on our common stock. Our board of directors currently intends to retain any future earnings to support operations and to finance the growth and development of our business and does not intend to pay cash dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future. Any future determination related to our dividend policy will be made at the discretion of our board.

 

Stockholders

 

As of January 31, 2005 there were 1,168 stockholders of record of our common stock, including the Depository Trust Company, which holds shares of salesforce.com common stock on behalf of an indeterminate number of beneficial owners.

 

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

 

a. Securities Sold

 

Since November 1, 2004, we have issued 79,419 shares of common stock upon the net exercise of 85,000 warrants by Heidrick & Struggles, Inc. at an exercise price per share of $1.10.

 

b. Underwriters and Other Purchasers

 

Not applicable.

 

c. Consideration

 

As a result of the net exercise of warrants, we received no cash proceeds.

 

d. Exemption from Registration Claimed

 

The shares issued pursuant to the above described exercises were exempt from Registration pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act.

 

e. Terms of Conversion or Exercise

 

Not applicable.

 

f. Use of Proceeds

 

The Securities and Exchange Commission declared our registration statement, filed on Form S-1 (File No. 333-111289) under the Securities Act of 1933 in connection with the initial public offering of our

 

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common stock, $0.001 par value, effective on June 22, 2004. The underwriters were Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., UBS Securities LLC, Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC and William Blair & Company, L.L.C.

 

Our initial public offering commenced on June 23, 2004. All 11,500,000 shares of common stock registered under the Registration Statement, which included 1,500,000 shares of common stock covered by an over-allotment option granted to the underwriters, were sold to the public at a price of $11.00 per share. All of the shares of common stock were sold by us and there were no selling shareholders in the offering. The offering did not terminate until after the sale of all of the securities registered by the Registration Statement.

 

The aggregate gross proceeds from the shares of common stock sold were $126.5 million. The aggregate net proceeds to us were $113.8 million after deducting $8.8 million in underwriting discounts and commissions and $3.9 million in other costs incurred in connection with the offering.

 

We have not spent any of the net proceeds from our public offering.

 

ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

 

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto and with Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, which are included elsewhere in this Form 10-K. The consolidated statement of operations data for the years ended January 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, and the selected consolidated balance sheet data as of January 31, 2005 and 2004 are derived from, and are qualified by reference to, the audited consolidated financial statements and are included in this Form 10-K. The consolidated statement of operations data for the years ended January 31, 2002 and 2001 and the consolidated balance sheet data as of January 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 are derived from audited consolidated financial statements which are not included in this Form 10-K.

 

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The customer and subscriber data are unaudited.

 

    Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

 
(in thousands, except per share and customer and subscriber data)   2005

    2004

    2003

    2002

    2001

 

Consolidated Statement of Operations:

                                       

Revenues:

                                       

Subscription and support

  $ 157,977     $ 85,796     $ 47,656     $ 21,513     $ 5,022  

Professional services and other

    18,398       10,227       3,335       896       413  
   


 


 


 


 


Total revenues

    176,375       96,023       50,991       22,409       5,435  

Cost of revenues (1):

                                       

Subscription and support

    12,727       7,782       7,199       3,718       1,730  

Professional services and other

    20,727       9,491       3,164       2,329       1,692  
   


 


 


 


 


Total cost of revenues

    33,454       17,273       10,363       6,047       3,422  

Gross profit

    142,921       78,750       40,628       16,362       2,013  

Operating expenses (1):

                                       

Research and development

    9,822       6,962       4,648       5,308       3,366  

Marketing and sales

    96,311       54,600       33,522       24,605       25,392  

General and administrative

    30,268       16,915       12,958       8,317       6,855  

Lease abandonment (recovery)

    —         (3,445 )     —         7,657       —    
   


 


 


 


 


Total operating expenses

    136,401       75,032       51,128       45,887       35,613  

Income (loss) from operations

    6,520       3,718       (10,500 )     (29,525 )     (33,600 )

Interest income

    2,658       379       471       755       1,715  

Interest expense

    (37 )     (22 )     (77 )     (272 )     (42 )

Other income

    12       164       98       8       63  
   


 


 


 


 


Income (loss) before provision for income taxes and minority interest

    9,153       4,239       (10,008 )     (29,034 )     (31,864 )

Provision for income taxes

    1,217       541       —         —         —    
   


 


 


 


 


Income (loss) before minority interest

    7,936       3,698       (10,008 )     (29,034 )     (31,864 )

Minority interest in consolidated joint venture

    (590 )     (184 )     292       425       193  
   


 


 


 


 


Net income (loss)

  $ 7,346     $ 3,514     $ (9,716 )   $ (28,609 )   $ (31,671 )
   


 


 


 


 


Net income (loss) per share:

                                       

Basic

  $ 0.10     $ 0.12     $ (0.37 )   $ (1.36 )   $ (2.38 )

Diluted

    0.07       0.04       (0.37 )     (1.36 )     (2.38 )

Weighted-average shares used in computing per share amounts:

                                       

Basic (2)

    75,503       29,605       26,375       21,039       13,314  

Diluted (2)

    110,874       95,409       26,375       21,039       13,314  
    As of January 31,

 
    2005

    2004

    2003

    2002

    2001

 

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

                                       

Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities (3)

  $ 205,938     $ 35,812     $ 16,009     $ 11,709     $ 22,200  

Working capital

    47,044       4,140       1,172       6,497       20,163  

Total assets

    280,499       87,511       39,673       29,713       37,047  

Long-term obligations

    2,317       1,830       5,206       7,291       1,425  

Convertible preferred stock

    —         61,137       61,137       61,137       59,852  

Accumulated deficit

    (64,588 )     (71,934 )     (75,448 )     (65,732 )     (37,123 )

Total stockholders’ (deficit) equity

    145,131       (46,237 )     (55,875 )     (51,348 )     (29,329 )

Customer and Subscriber Data (unaudited):

                                       

Approximate number of customers

    13,900       8,700       5,700       3,500       1,500  

Approximate number of paying subscriptions

    227,000       127,000       76,000       53,000       30,000  

 

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(1) Cost of revenues and operating expenses include stock-based expenses, consisting of:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

     2005

   2004

   2003

   2002

   2001

Cost of revenues

   $ 634    $ 655    $ 428    $ 369    $ 345

Research and development

     282      462      402      436      431

Marketing and sales

     1,296      2,029      1,696      1,422      1,350

General and administrative

     1,402      1,213      2,241      2,224      1,326
    

  

  

  

  

Total stock-based expenses

   $ 3,614    $ 4,359    $ 4,767    $ 4,451    $ 3,452
    

  

  

  

  

(2) For information regarding the computation of per share amounts, refer to note 1 of the notes to our consolidated financial statements.
(3) Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities includes net proceeds of $113.8 million from our sale of 11,500,000 shares of common stock in June 2004 from our initial public offering.

 

ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

The following discussion contains forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, our expectations regarding revenues, expenses and results of operations. Our actual results may differ significantly from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause future actual results to differ materially from our recent results or those projected in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors Which May Impact Future Operating Results.” We assume no obligation to update the forward-looking statements or our risk factors.

 

Overview

 

We are the leading provider, based on market share, of application services that allow organizations to easily share customer information on demand, according to a March 2004 report by Forrester Research, Inc. We provide a comprehensive CRM service to businesses of all sizes and industries worldwide.

 

We were founded in February 1999 and began offering our on-demand CRM application service in February 2000.

 

In order to increase our revenues and take advantage of our market opportunity, we will need to continue to add substantial numbers of paying subscriptions. We define paying subscriptions as unique user accounts, purchased by customers for use by their employees and other customer-authorized users that have not been suspended for non-payment and for which we are recognizing subscription revenue. The number of our paying subscribers increased from approximately 30,000 as of February 1, 2001 to approximately 227,000 as of January 31, 2005. We plan to re-invest our revenues for the foreseeable future by hiring additional personnel, particularly in marketing and sales; expanding our domestic and international selling and marketing activities; increasing our research and development activities to upgrade and extend our service offerings and to develop new services and technologies; obtaining additional business continuity services, additional data center capacity and a separate development and test data center; expanding the number of locations around the world where we conduct business; adding to our infrastructure to support our growth; and expanding our operational systems to manage a growing business.

 

We expect marketing and sales costs, which were 55 percent of our total revenues for fiscal 2005 and 57 percent of our total revenues for the same period a year ago, to continue to represent a substantial portion of total revenues in the future as we seek to add and manage more paying subscribers, build brand awareness and increase the number of marketing events that we sponsor.

 

Fiscal Year

 

Our fiscal year ends on January 31. References to fiscal 2005, for example, refer to the fiscal year ended January 31, 2005.

 

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Sources of Revenues

 

We derive our revenues from two sources: (1) subscription revenues, which are comprised of subscription fees from customers accessing our on-demand application service, and from customers purchasing additional support beyond the standard support that is included in the basic subscription fee; and (2) related professional services and other revenues. Other revenues consist primarily of training fees. Subscription and support revenues accounted for 90 percent of our total revenues during fiscal 2005 and 89 percent during fiscal 2004. Subscription revenues are driven primarily by the number of paying subscribers of our service and the subscription price of our service. None of our customers accounted for more than 5 percent of our revenues in fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003.

 

Subscription and support revenues are recognized ratably over the contract terms beginning on the commencement dates of each contract. The typical subscription and support term is 12 to 24 months, although terms range from one to 60 months. Our subscription and support contracts are noncancelable, though customers typically have the right to terminate their contracts for cause if we materially fail to perform. We generally invoice our customers in advance, in annual or quarterly installments, and typical payment terms provide that our customers pay us within 30 days of invoice. Amounts that have been invoiced are recorded in accounts receivable and in deferred revenue, or in revenue depending on whether the revenue recognition criteria have been met. In general, we collect our billings in advance of the subscription service period.

 

Professional services and other revenues consist of fees associated with consulting and implementation services and training. Our consulting and implementation engagements are typically billed on a time and materials basis. We also offer a number of classes on implementing, using and administering our service that are billed on a per person, per class basis. Our typical payment terms provide that our customers pay us within 30 days of invoice.

 

Cost of Revenues and Operating Expenses

 

Cost of Revenues. Cost of subscription and support revenues primarily consists of expenses related to hosting our service and providing support, depreciation or operating lease expense associated with computer equipment, costs associated with website development activities, allocated overhead and amortization expense associated with capitalized software. To date, the expense associated with capitalized software has not been material to our cost of revenues. We allocate overhead such as rent and occupancy charges, employee benefit costs and taxes to all departments based on headcount. As such, general overhead expenses are reflected in each cost of revenue and operating expense category. Cost of professional services and other revenues consists primarily of employee-related costs associated with these services, the cost of subcontractors and allocated overhead. The cost associated with providing professional services is significantly higher as a percentage of revenue than for our on-demand subscription service due to the labor costs associated with providing consulting services.

 

To the extent that our customer base grows, we intend to continue to invest additional resources in our on-demand application service and in our consulting services. The timing of these additional expenses will affect our cost of revenues, both in terms of absolute dollars and as a percentage of revenues, in a particular quarterly period. For example, we plan to increase the number of employees who are fully dedicated to consulting services. Additionally, we are currently in the process of obtaining additional business continuity services and additional data center capacity. We currently expect these resources to be in place at various dates during fiscal 2006. We currently expect the annual cost of these services to be approximately $7.0 million.

 

Research and Development. Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenses and allocated overhead. We have historically focused our research and development efforts on increasing the functionality and enhancing the ease of use of our on-demand application service. Our proprietary, scalable and secure multi-tenant architecture enables us to provide all of our customers with a service based on a single version of our application. As a result, we do not have to maintain multiple versions, which enables us to

 

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have relatively low research and development expenses as compared to traditional enterprise software companies. We expect that in the future, research and development expenses will increase in absolute dollars as we upgrade and extend our service offerings and develop new technologies.

 

We are also in the process of obtaining a development and test data center, which we currently expect will be in place by July 2005. We expect the annual cost of this data center to be approximately $4.0 million.

 

Marketing and Sales. Marketing and sales expenses are our largest cost and consist primarily of salaries and related expenses for our sales and marketing staff, including commissions, payments to partners, marketing programs and allocated overhead. Marketing programs consist of advertising, events, corporate communications and brand building and product marketing activities.

 

As our revenues increase, we plan to continue to invest heavily in marketing and sales by increasing the number of direct sales personnel in order to add new customers and increase penetration within our existing customer base, expanding our domestic and international selling and marketing activities, building brand awareness and sponsoring additional marketing events. We expect that in the future, marketing and sales expenses will increase in absolute dollars and continue to be our largest cost.

 

General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses consist of salaries and related expenses for executive, finance and accounting, human resources and management information systems personnel, legal costs, professional fees, other corporate expenses and allocated overhead. We expect that in the future, general and administrative expenses will increase in absolute dollars as we add personnel and incur additional professional fees and insurance costs related to the growth of our business, international expansion and operations as a public company.

 

Stock-Based Expenses. Our cost of revenues and operating expenses include stock-based expenses related to options and warrants issued to non-employees, option grants to employees in situations where the exercise price was less than the deemed fair value of our common stock at the date of grant and stock awards to board members for board services. These charges have been significant and are reflected in the historical financial results. Excluding the incremental costs and operating expenses associated with the new accounting pronouncement to expense stock options, we expect stock-based expenses to be between $3.0 to $4.0 million in fiscal 2006.

 

Joint Venture

 

In December 2000, we established a Japanese joint venture, Kabushiki Kaisha salesforce.com, with SunBridge, Inc., a Japanese corporation, to assist us with our sales efforts in Japan. As of January 31, 2005, we owned a 63 percent interest in the joint venture. Because of this majority interest, we consolidate the venture’s financial results, which are reflected in each revenue, cost of revenues and expense category in our consolidated statement of operations. We then record minority interest, which reflects the minority investors’ interest in the venture’s results. Through January 31, 2005, the operating performance and liquidity requirements of the Japanese joint venture had not been significant. While we plan to expand our selling and marketing activities in Japan in order to add new customers, we believe the future operating performance and liquidity requirements of the Japanese joint venture will not be significant.

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, costs and expenses, and related disclosures. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and assumptions. Our actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

 

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We believe that of our significant accounting policies, which are described in note 1 of the notes to our consolidated financial statements, the following accounting policies involve a greater degree of judgment and complexity. Accordingly, these are the policies we believe are the most critical to aid in fully understanding and evaluating our consolidated financial condition and results of operations.

 

Revenue Recognition. We recognize revenue in accordance with SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 104, “Revenue Recognition.” On August 1, 2003, we adopted Emerging Issues Task Force, or EITF, Issue No. 00-21, “Revenue Arrangements with Multiple Deliverables.”

 

We recognize revenue when all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement; (2) the service has been provided to the customer; (3) the collection of our fees is probable; and (4) the amount of fees to be paid by the customer is fixed or determinable. Our arrangements do not contain general rights of return.

 

We recognize subscription revenues ratably over the contract terms beginning on the commencement dates of each contract. Support revenues from customers who purchase our premium support offerings are recognized similarly over the term of the support contract. As part of their subscription agreements, customers benefit from new features and functionality with each release at no additional cost. In situations where we have contractually committed to an individual customer specific technology, we defer all of the revenue for that customer until the technology is delivered and accepted. Once delivery occurs, we then recognize the revenue over the remaining contract term.

 

Consulting services and training revenues are accounted for separately from subscription and support revenues when these services have value to the customer on a standalone basis and there is objective and reliable evidence of fair value of each deliverable. When accounted for separately, consulting revenues are recognized as the services are rendered for time and material contracts, and when the milestones are achieved and accepted by the customer for fixed price contracts. The majority of our consulting service contracts are on a time and material basis. Training revenues are recognized after the services are performed.

 

In determining whether the consulting services can be accounted for separately from subscription and support revenues, we consider the following factors for each consulting agreement: availability of the consulting services from other vendors, whether objective and reliable evidence for fair value exists of the undelivered elements, the nature of the consulting services, the timing of when the consulting contract was signed in comparison to the subscription service start date, and the contractual dependence of the subscription service on the customer’s satisfaction with the consulting work. If a consulting arrangement does not qualify for separate accounting, we recognize the consulting revenue ratably over the remaining term of the subscription contract. Additionally, in these situations we defer the direct and incremental costs of the consulting arrangement and amortize those costs over the same time period as the consulting revenue is recognized. The deferred cost on our consolidated balance sheet totaled $874,000 at January 31, 2005 and $32,000 at January 31, 2004.

 

Accounting for Deferred Commissions. We defer commission payments to our direct sales force. The commissions are deferred and amortized to sales expense over the noncancelable terms of the related subscription contracts with our customers, which are typically 12 to 24 months. The commission payments, which are paid in full the month after the customer’s service commences, are a direct and incremental cost of the revenue arrangements. The deferred commission amounts are recoverable through the future revenue streams under the noncancelable customer contracts. We believe this is the preferable method of accounting as the commission charges are so closely related to the revenue from the noncancelable customer contracts that they should be recorded as an asset and charged to expense over the same period that the subscription revenue is recognized.

 

During fiscal 2005, we deferred $14.0 million of commission expenditures and we amortized $15.6 million to sales expense. During fiscal 2004, we deferred $16.3 million of commission expenditures and we amortized $8.6 million to sales expense. Deferred commissions on our consolidated balance sheet totaled and $9.6 million at January 31, 2005 and $11.2 million at January 31, 2004.

 

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We assess the commission plans for our sales representatives annually. The impact of any changes to the commission plans will have an effect on the growth of the deferred commission asset balance. During fiscal 2005, we paid our sales representatives upfront commissions for the first two years of the noncancelable subscription contracts. In previous years, we paid upfront commissions on the entire value of the noncancelable subscription contracts, which had terms ranging up to 5 years.

 

Accounting for Stock-Based Awards. We recorded deferred stock-based compensation charges in the amount by which the exercise price of an option is less than the deemed fair value of our common stock at the date of grant. Prior to the establishment of a public market for our stock, our board of directors determined the fair value of our common stock based upon several factors, including, but not limited to, our operating and financial performance, private sales of our common and preferred stock between third parties, issuances of convertible preferred stock and appraisals performed by an appraisal firm. Following our initial public offering, the fair value of our common stock is determined by the trading price of such stock on the New York Stock Exchange.

 

We amortize the deferred compensation charges ratably over the four-year vesting period of the underlying option awards. As of January 31, 2005, we had an aggregate of $5.9 million of deferred stock-based compensation remaining to be amortized. We currently expect this deferred stock-based compensation balance to be amortized as follows: $3.0 million during fiscal 2006; $2.0 million during fiscal 2007; $0.8 million during fiscal 2008 and $100,000 during fiscal 2009. We have elected not to record stock-based compensation expense when employee stock options are awarded at exercise prices equal to the deemed fair value of our common stock at the date of grant.

 

Beginning on August 1, 2005, which is the start of our third quarter in fiscal 2006, we will begin to prospectively recognize in our consolidated statement of operations the cost of employee stock options in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment, or SFAS 123R (see Recent Accounting Pronouncement below for further discussion). We are currently assessing the impact this prospective change in accounting will have, but believe that it will have a material and adverse impact on our reported results of operations.

 

In the past, we have awarded a limited number of stock options and warrants to non-employees. For these options and warrants, we recognize stock-based compensation expense over the vesting periods of the underlying awards, based on an estimate of their fair value on the vesting dates using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. As of January 31, 2005, we had recognized compensation expense on all options and warrants issued to non-employees except for options for 50,000 shares of our common stock, which will fully vest by July 2007 and have an exercise price of $2.50 per share. At January 31, 2005, one of the assumptions in the Black-Scholes computation is an expected stock price volatility of 75 percent.

 

Accounting for Income Taxes. We account for income taxes using the liability method, which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets or liabilities for the tax-effected temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of our assets and liabilities and for net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Historically, we have recorded a full valuation allowance to fully reserve for the benefit of our deferred tax assets due to the uncertainty of being able to realize these benefits.

 

If our positive trend of earnings continues, it is likely that the valuation allowance will be reversed at some point in the future. However, we cannot predict which quarter this will occur.

 

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Results of Operations

 

The following tables set forth selected consolidated statements of operations data for each of the periods indicated.

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

 
     2005

    2004

    2003

 
     (in thousands except customer and
subscriber data)
 

Revenues:

                        

Subscription and support

   $ 157,977     $ 85,796     $ 47,656  

Professional services and other

     18,398       10,227       3,335  
    


 


 


Total revenues

     176,375       96,023       50,991  
    


 


 


Cost of revenues:

                        

Subscription and support

     12,727       7,782       7,199  

Professional services and other

     20,727       9,491       3,164  
    


 


 


Total cost of revenues

     33,454       17,273       10,363  
    


 


 


Gross profit

     142,921       78,750       40,628  

Operating expenses:

                        

Research and development

     9,822       6,962       4,648  

Marketing and sales

     96,311       54,600       33,522  

General and administrative

     30,268       16,915       12,958  

Lease abandonment (recovery)

     —         (3,445 )     —    
    


 


 


Total operating expenses

     136,401       75,032       51,128  

Income (loss) from operations

     6,520       3,718       (10,500 )

Interest income

     2,658       379       471  

Interest expense

     (37 )     (22 )     (77 )

Other income

     12       164       98  
    


 


 


Income (loss) before provision for income taxes and minority interest

     9,153       4,239       (10,008 )

Provision for income taxes

     1,217       541       —    
    


 


 


Income (loss) before minority interest

     7,936       3,698       (10,008 )

Minority interest in consolidated joint venture

     (590 )     (184 )     292  
    


 


 


Net income (loss)

   $ 7,346     $ 3,514     $ (9,716 )
    


 


 


In addition to the statement of operations data above:

                        

Cash flow provided by operating activities

   $ 55,872     $ 21,781     $ 5,213  

 

     As of January 31,

     2005

   2004

Balance sheet data:

             

Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities (1)

   $ 205,938    $ 35,812

Deferred revenue

     95,900      49,677

Customer and subscriber data (unaudited):

             

Approximate number of customers

     13,900      8,700

Approximate number of paying subscriptions (2)

     227,000      127,000

(1) Includes net proceeds of $113.8 million from the sale of common stock during our initial public offering in June 2004.
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     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

     2005

   2004

   2003

     (in thousands)

Revenues by geography:

                    

Americas

   $ 140,871    $ 78,958    $ 43,855

Europe

     25,201      11,754      5,345

Asia Pacific

     10,303      5,311      1,791
    

  

  

     $ 176,375    $ 96,023    $ 50,991
    

  

  

 

Cost of revenues and operating expenses include the following amounts related to stock-based awards.

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

     2005

   2004

   2003

     (in thousands)

Stock-based expenses:

                    

Cost of revenues

   $ 634    $ 655    $ 428

Research and development

     282      462      402

Marketing and sales

     1,296      2,029      1,696

General and administrative

     1,402      1,213      2,241
    

  

  

     $ 3,614    $ 4,359    $ 4,767
    

  

  

 

The following tables set forth selected consolidated statements of operations data for each of the periods indicated as a percentage of total revenues.

 

     Fiscal Year Ended
January 31,


 
     2005

    2004

    2003

 

Revenues:

                  

Subscription and support

   90 %   89 %   93 %

Professional services and other

   10     11     7  
    

 

 

Total revenues

   100     100     100  
    

 

 

Cost of revenues:

                  

Subscription and support

   7     8     14  

Professional services and other

   12     10     6  
    

 

 

Total cost of revenues

   19     18     20  
    

 

 

Gross profit

   81     82     80  

Operating expenses:

                  

Research and development

   5     7     9  

Marketing and sales

   55     57     66  

General and administrative

   17     18     26  

Lease abandonment (recovery)

   —       (4 )   —    
    

 

 

Total operating expenses

   77     78     101  

Income (loss) from operations

   4     4     (21 )

Interest income

   1     1     1  

Interest expense

   —       —       —    

Other income

   —       —       —    
    

 

 

Income (loss) before provision for income taxes and minority interest

   5     5     (20 )

Provision for income taxes

   (1 )   (1 )   —    
    

 

 

Income (loss) before minority interest

   4     4     (20 )

Minority interest in consolidated joint venture

   —       —       1  
    

 

 

Net income (loss)

   4 %   4 %   (19 )%
    

 

 

 

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     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

 
     2005

    2004

    2003

 

Revenues by geography:

                  

Americas

   80 %   82 %   86 %

Europe

   14     12     10  

Asia Pacific

   6     6     4  
    

 

 

     100 %   100 %   100 %
    

 

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

 
         2005    

        2004    

        2003    

 

Stock-based expenses:

                  

Cost of revenues

   —   %   1 %   1 %

Research and development

   —       1     1  

Marketing and sales

   1     2     3  

General and administrative

   1     1     4  
    

 

 

     2 %   5 %   9 %
    

 

 

 

Overview of Results of Operations for the Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2005

 

Revenues during fiscal 2005 were $176.4 million, an increase of 84 percent over fiscal 2004. The total number of paying subscribers increased to approximately 227,000 as of January 31, 2005 from approximately 127,000 as of January 31, 2004.

 

Our gross profit during fiscal 2005 was $142.9 million, or 81 percent of revenues, and operating income was $6.5 million. Operating income for the period included a non-cash stock-based expense of $3.6 million. During fiscal 2004, we generated a gross profit of $78.8 million, or 82 percent of revenues, and had operating income of $3.7 million, substantially all of which resulted from the reduction in accruals related to the release of future obligations associated with a portion of the office space that we abandoned in December 2001. Operating income during fiscal 2004 also included $4.4 million of non-cash stock-based expense.

 

During fiscal 2005, we continued to incur substantial costs and operating expenses related to the expansion of our business. We added sales personnel to focus on adding new customers and increasing penetration within our existing customer base, professional services personnel to support our consulting services, and developers to broaden and enhance our on-demand service.

 

In June 2004, we completed our initial public offering and sold 11,500,000 shares of common stock at a price of $11.00 per share through which we raised a total of $126.5 million in gross proceeds. After deducting the underwriting discount of $8.8 million and offering expenses of $3.9 million, net proceeds were $113.8 million.

 

During fiscal 2005, we generated $55.9 million of cash from operating activities, as compared to $21.8 million during fiscal 2004. At January 31, 2005, we had cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $205.9 million, as compared to $35.8 million at January 31, 2004, accounts receivable of $48.9 million, as compared to $26.5 million at January 31, 2004, and deferred revenue of $95.9 million, as compared to $49.7 million at January 31, 2004.

 

Fiscal Years Ended January 31, 2005 and 2004

 

Revenues. Total revenues were $176.4 million for fiscal 2005, compared to $96.0 million during fiscal 2004, an increase of $80.4 million, or 84 percent. Subscription and support revenues were $158.0 million, or 90 percent of total revenues, for fiscal 2005, compared to $85.8 million, or 89 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004. The increase in subscription and support revenues was due primarily to the increase in the number of paying

 

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subscribers to approximately 227,000 as of January 31, 2005 from approximately 127,000 as of January 31, 2004. Professional services and other revenues were $18.4 million, or 10 percent of total revenues, for fiscal 2005, compared to $10.2 million, or 11 percent of total revenues, for fiscal 2004. The increase in professional services and other revenues was due primarily to the higher demand for services from an increased number of paying subscribers and customers.

 

Revenues in Europe and Asia Pacific accounted for $35.5 million, or 20 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2005, compared to $17.1 million, or 18 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004, an increase of $18.4 million, or 108 percent. The increase in revenues outside of the Americas was the result of our efforts to expand the number of locations around the world where we conduct business and our international selling and marketing activities.

 

Cost of Revenues. Cost of revenues was $33.5 million, or 19 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2005, compared to $17.3 million, or 18 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004, an increase of $16.2 million. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily comprised of an increase of $12.1 million in employee-related costs, substantially all of which was due to the 80 percent increase in the headcount of our professional services organization since January 31, 2004, an increase of $1.9 million in service delivery costs and an increase of $1.7 million in allocated overhead. The cost of the additional professional services headcount resulted in the cost of professional services and other revenues to be in excess of the related revenue during fiscal 2005 by $2.3 million. We increased the professional services headcount in order to meet the anticipated demand for our consulting and training services as our customer base has expanded.

 

The increase in our gross profit was the result of our ability to leverage our existing infrastructure to serve the increased number of customers and paying subscribers.

 

As described above, we intend to continue to invest additional resources in our on-demand application service and in our capacity to deliver professional services. The timing of these additional expenses will affect our cost of revenues, both in terms of absolute dollars and as a percentage of revenues. In any particular quarterly period during fiscal 2006, our cost of revenues as a percentage of revenues may slightly exceed 20 percent.

 

Research and Development. Research and development expenses were $9.8 million, or 5 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2005, compared to $7.0 million, or 7 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004, an increase of $2.8 million. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily due to an increase in employee-related costs of $2.3 million and an increase of $0.4 million in allocated overhead. We increased our research and development headcount by 57 percent since January 31, 2004 in order to upgrade and extend our service offerings and develop new technologies.

 

Marketing and Sales. Marketing and sales expenses were $96.3 million, or 55 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2005, compared to $54.6 million, or 57 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004, an increase of $41.7 million. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily due to an increase of $34.3 million in employee-related costs, $3.5 million in marketing spending related to new service offerings and event costs and $3.4 million in allocated overhead. Of the $34.3 million increase in employee-related costs, $7.0 million was related to the increased amortization expense of deferred commissions. Our marketing and sales headcount increased by 76 percent since January 31, 2004 as we hired additional sales personnel to focus on adding new customers and increasing penetration within our existing customer base.

 

General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses were $30.3 million, or 17 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2005, compared to $16.9 million, or 18 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004, an increase of $13.4 million. The increase was due to an increase of $8.3 million in employee-related costs and $5.1 million in professional and outside service costs. Our general and administrative headcount increased by 64 percent since January 31, 2004 as we added personnel to support our growth. The increase in professional and outside service costs was due to the cost of being a public company and the added costs of managing a growing business and expanding outside the United States.

 

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Lease Recovery. The lease recovery of $3.4 million during fiscal 2004 was due to the reduction in accruals associated with the San Francisco, California office space that we abandoned in December 2001. In August 2003, we entered into an agreement, releasing us from future obligations for some of the space abandoned, in connection with the landlord’s lease of this space to another tenant. Accordingly, we recorded a $3.4 million credit to reflect the reversal of the accrual that was directly related with this space.

 

In March 2005, we entered into an agreement with our landlord that would release us from a portion of the future obligations associated with the remaining space abandoned in our headquarters building in exchange for an agreement to lease additional space elsewhere in the building. The agreement is contingent upon the occurrence of certain conditions that will affect the final determination of the lease abandonment accrual on our consolidated balance sheet. If these certain conditions occur, we believe there will be an immaterial reduction in the accrual, which will be reflected as lease recovery during the first quarter of fiscal 2006.

 

Because of the March 2005 agreement described above, we are currently evaluating the possibility of consolidating more of our operations in the headquarters building. If we did this, we would abandon approximately 20,000 square feet of office space located elsewhere in San Francisco, which is under a long-term operating lease commitment. Such an abandonment would result in a charge against our operating results in the quarter in which the event would occur.

 

Operating Income. Operating income during fiscal 2005 was $6.5 million. During fiscal 2004, it was $3.7 million, substantially all of which consisted of the lease recovery described above. The increase in operating income year over year was primarily due to the increase in revenues, most of which was re-invested in an effort to expand our business.

 

Income (losses) from operations outside of the Americas was $2.7 million during fiscal 2005 and $(1.1) million during fiscal 2004. The continued investment outside of the Americas was due to our efforts in expanding the number of locations where we conduct business and expanding our international selling and marketing activities.

 

Interest Income. Interest income substantially consists of investment income on cash and marketable securities balances and also includes interest income on outstanding loans made to individuals who early exercised their stock options. None of these individuals was an executive officer or director of the Company and all of them repaid their loan balances by February 28, 2005. Interest income was $2.7 million during fiscal 2005 and was $379,000 during fiscal 2004. The increase was primarily due to increased marketable securities balances resulting from the proceeds from the sale of our common stock in our initial public offering in June 2004.

 

Provision for Income Taxes. We recorded a provision for income tax expense of $1.2 million for fiscal 2005 as compared to a provision for income tax expense of $541,000 for fiscal 2004. The fiscal 2005 provision for income taxes consists of amounts accrued for our domestic federal alternative minimum tax and state income tax liability as well as our foreign income tax expense. The effective tax rate for fiscal 2005 and 2004 was 13 percent. The effective tax rate differs from the statutory rate primarily due to domestic loss carryovers net of foreign losses with no benefit.

 

As of January 31, 2005, our deferred tax asset balance was $28.2 million and was fully offset by a valuation allowance of the same amount. Realization of these deferred tax assets is dependent on future earnings, if any, the timing and amount of which are uncertain. To realize the deferred tax assets, pretax income must increase sufficiently to allow management to assume that such deferred tax assets will be utilized. Historic profits have proven insufficient to allow us to absorb deferred tax assets incurred to date. Further, ongoing stock option exercise activity may, as in fiscal 2005, increase the total deferred tax asset balance. Accordingly, management cannot determine that it is more likely than not that we will be able to utilize our deferred tax assets and therefore we have fully offset net deferred tax assets by a valuation allowance.

 

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determine that we would be able to realize our deferred tax assets in the future in excess of our net recorded amount, an adjustment to the deferred tax asset would increase our income or reduce our loss and increase stockholders’ equity in the quarter when such determination is made.

 

The change in the valuation allowance of $8.5 million is primarily due to the uncertainties of realizing certain domestic losses, net operating losses incurred by the Japanese joint venture and certain tax credit carryforwards. The balance in the valuation allowance at the end of fiscal 2005 includes approximately $8.1 million for stock plan deductions, which will be credited to additional capital and the provision for income taxes if realized.

 

We currently believe that our fiscal 2006 effective tax rate will be approximately 25 percent, exclusive of the impact of expensing stock options beginning in the third quarter of fiscal 2006. Our future effective tax rate is based on the projected mix of full-year income in each tax jurisdiction in which we operate and the related income tax expense in each jurisdiction. The estimated effective income tax rate is also adjusted for taxes related to significant unusual items. These actual results could vary from those projected.

 

Fiscal Years Ended January 31, 2004 and 2003

 

Revenues. Total revenues were $96.0 million for fiscal 2004, compared to $51.0 million during fiscal 2003, an increase of $45.0 million, or 88 percent. Subscription and support revenues were $85.8 million, or 89 percent of total revenues, for fiscal 2004, compared to $47.7 million, or 93 percent of total revenues, for fiscal 2003. The increase in subscription and support revenues was due primarily to the increase in the number of paying subscribers to approximately 127,000 as of January 31, 2004 from approximately 76,000 as of January 31, 2003. Professional services and other revenues were $10.2 million, or 11 percent of total revenues, for fiscal 2004, compared to $3.3 million, or 7 percent of total revenues, for fiscal 2003. The increase in professional service and other revenues was due primarily to the higher demand for services from an increasing number of paying subscribers and customers.

 

Revenues in Europe and Asia Pacific accounted for $17.1 million, or 18 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004, compared to $7.1 million, or 14 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2003, an increase of $10.0 million, or 141 percent. The increase in revenues outside of the Americas was the result of our efforts to expand the number of locations around the world where we conduct business and the expansion of our international selling and marketing activities.

 

Cost of Revenues. Cost of revenues was $17.3 million, or 18 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004, compared to $10.4 million, or 20 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2003, an increase of $6.9 million. The increase was primarily due to an increase of $5.4 million in employee-related costs, substantially all of which was due to the 53 percent increase in the headcount of our professional services organization, and an increase of $700,000 in service delivery costs. We increased the professional services headcount in order to meet the higher demand for our consulting and training services as our customer base has expanded.

 

The increase in our gross profit was the result of our ability to leverage our existing infrastructure to serve new customers and paying subscribers.

 

Research and Development. Research and development expenses were $7.0 million, or 7 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004, compared to $4.6 million, or 9 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2003, an increase of $2.4 million. The increase was primarily due to an increase of $1.8 million in employee-related costs. Our research and development headcount increased by 57 percent from fiscal 2003 as we added personnel to upgrade and extend our service offerings.

 

Marketing and Sales. Marketing and sales expenses were $54.6 million, or 57 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004, compared to $33.5 million, or 66 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2003, an increase of $21.1 million. The increase was primarily due to an increase of $18.0 million in employee-related costs, $1.0 million in increased marketing event costs, $800,000 in payments to partners, and $700,000 in allocated

 

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overhead. Of the $18.0 million in increased employee-related costs, $6.6 million was related to sales commissions. Our marketing and sales headcount increased by 42 percent from fiscal 2003 as we hired additional sales personnel to focus on adding new customers and increasing penetration within our existing customer base.

 

General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses were $16.9 million, or 18 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2004, compared to $13.0 million, or 26 percent of total revenues, during fiscal 2003, an increase of $3.9 million. The increase was primarily due to an increase of $3.0 million in employee-related costs and an increase of $900,000 in professional and outside service costs. Our general and administrative headcount increased by 29 percent from fiscal 2003 as we added personnel to support our growth.

 

Lease Recovery. In December 2001, we abandoned excess office space in San Francisco, California and recorded a $7.7 million charge in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2002 pertaining to the estimated future net obligations under the non-cancelable lease. Since the space was not leased to a subtenant, there were no immediate cash savings from the abandonment.

 

In August 2003, we entered into an agreement, releasing us from future obligations for some of the space abandoned, in connection with the landlord’s lease of this space to another tenant. Accordingly, we recorded a $4.3 million credit to reflect the reversal of the remaining accrued liability that was directly associated with this space. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, we recorded an additional accrual of $900,000 related to the remaining 5,000 square feet of abandoned office space in San Francisco. This additional accrual resulted from a revision of our estimates of the timing and amount of projected subtenant income based on difficulties in subleasing the remaining space.

 

Operating Income (Loss). Operating income during fiscal 2004 was $3.7 million and included the $3.4 million lease recovery described above. The operating loss during fiscal 2003 was $10.5 million. The increase in operating income was primarily due to a $45.0 million increase in revenues, most of which was re-invested in an effort to expand our business.

 

Loss from operations outside of the Americas was $1.1 million during fiscal 2004 and was $3.8 million during fiscal 2003. The continued losses outside of the Americas were due to our efforts in expanding the number of locations where we conduct business and expanding our international selling and marketing activities.

 

Interest Income. Interest income consists of investment income on cash and marketable securities balances and interest income on outstanding loans made to individuals who early exercised their stock options. Interest income was $379,000 during fiscal 2004, compared to $471,000 during fiscal 2003, a decrease of $92,000. The decrease was primarily due to declining interest rates and the mix of marketable securities investments, substantially offset by higher cash and marketable securities balances.

 

Provision for Income Taxes. The provision for income taxes of $541,000 during fiscal 2004 represented federal alternative minimum taxes of approximately $200,000, and various state income taxes and foreign withholding taxes of approximately $300,000. Our effective tax rate for fiscal 2004 was 13 percent as compared to zero for fiscal 2003. The effective tax rate differs from the statutory rate primarily due to domestic loss carryovers net of foreign losses with no benefit.

 

Our deferred tax asset balance at January 31, 2004 was $19.7 million and was fully offset by a valuation allowance of the same amount due to uncertainties regarding realization of the deferred tax asset balance.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

At January 31, 2005, our principal sources of liquidity were cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities totaling $205.9 million, accounts receivable of $48.9 million and cash flow provided by operating activities in fiscal 2005 of $55.9 million.

 

In June 2004, we completed the sale of 11,500,000 shares of common stock in an initial public offering, including the underwriters’ exercise of an over-allotment option, and realized net proceeds of $113.8 million. To date, we have not spent any of the proceeds from the initial public offering.

 

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Net cash provided by operating activities was $55.9 million during fiscal 2005, $21.8 million during fiscal 2004 and $5.2 million during fiscal 2003. The improvement in cash flow was due primarily to the increased number of paying subscribers to our service. Cash provided by or used in operating activities has historically been affected by sales of subscriptions and support and professional services, changes in working capital accounts, particularly increases in accounts receivable and deferred revenue and the timing of commission and bonus payments, and add-backs of non-cash expense items such as depreciation and amortization and the expense associated with stock-based awards.

 

Net cash used in investing activities was $149.2 million during fiscal 2005, $21.1 million during fiscal 2004 and $9.6 million during fiscal 2003. The increase in amounts used in fiscal 2005 primarily related to the investment of the proceeds from the sale of common stock in our initial public offering, the investment of excess cash, the reduction in restricted cash balances and capital expenditures associated with computer equipment and furniture and fixtures in support of expanding our infrastructure and work force.

 

Net cash provided by financing activities was $118.9 million during fiscal 2005, $1.1 million during fiscal 2004 and $1.0 million during fiscal 2003. The $118.5 million of net proceeds from both the sale of common stock during the initial public offering and the exercise of employee stock options and the collection of $1.0 million in notes receivable from stockholders were offset by principal payments on capital lease obligations and the repurchase of unvested shares of common stock from terminated employees. At January 31, 2005, our employees held 4.7 million vested stock options at a weighted average exercise price of $1.88 per share. If our employees exercise these awards, we will receive a significant amount of proceeds from the option exercises.

 

During fiscal 2001, we established a $3.5 million letter of credit in favor of our principal office landlord. This amount was reduced in June 2004 to $2.8 million. This letter of credit is collateralized by a certificate of deposit, which is maintained at the granting financial institution, for the same amount. This certificate of deposit is included as restricted cash on our consolidated balance sheet. As of January 31, 2005, the letter of credit was outstanding and, to date, no amounts have been drawn against it. The letter of credit renews annually through December 31, 2010.

 

In addition, we had two additional letters of credit outstanding as of January 31, 2005, which are related to office space leases. These letters of credit are collateralized by certificates of deposit totaling $0.4 million at the granting financial institution, for the same amount and are included as restricted cash on our consolidated balance sheet. These letters of credit are due at various dates through December 2008.

 

We do not have any special purpose entities, and other than operating leases for office space and computer equipment, we do not engage in off-balance sheet financing arrangements. Additionally, we currently do not have a bank line of credit.

 

Our principal commitments consist of obligations under leases for office space, computer equipment and furniture and fixtures. We also have long-term liabilities related primarily to lease abandonments. At January 31, 2005, the future minimum payments under these commitments as well as our long-term liability were as follows:

 

     Payments Due by Period

Contractual Obligations


   Total

   Less than
1 Year


   1-3
Years


   3-5
Years


   More than
5 Years


     (in thousands)

Capital lease obligations

   $ 1,317    $ 585    $ 732    $ —      $ —  

Operating lease obligations:

                                  

Office space

     38,691      8,367      13,232      10,731      6,361

Computer equipment and furniture and fixtures

     6,442      3,642      2,800      —        —  

Contractual commitments

     2,390      1,572      818      —        —  

Lease abandonment liabilities and other

     1,874      278      466      486      644

 

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Our office lease agreements provide us with the option to renew. Our future operating lease obligations would change if we exercised these options and if we entered into additional operating lease agreements as we expand our operations.

 

In February 2005, we obtained additional software licenses for use in our business operations at a cost of $8.8 million. Additionally, we are currently in the process of obtaining additional business continuity services, additional data center capacity and a development and test data center. We expect these resources to be in place at various dates during fiscal 2006. While the costs for these will be significant, we believe that most of the capital expenditures for the additional business continuity services, additional data center capacity and development and test data center will be leased so there will not be a significant impact on our liquidity during fiscal 2006.

 

Purchase orders are not included in the table above. Our purchase orders represent authorizations to purchase rather than binding agreements. The contractual commitment amounts in the table above are associated with agreements that are enforceable and legally binding and that specify all significant terms, including: fixed or minimum services to be used; fixed, minimum or variable price provisions; and the approximate timing of the transaction. Obligations under contracts that we can cancel without a significant penalty are not included in the table above.

 

We believe our existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term marketable securities and cash provided by operating activities will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditure needs over the next 12 months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including our rate of revenue growth, the expansion of our marketing and sales activities, the timing and extent of spending to support product development efforts and expansion into new territories, the timing of introductions of new services and enhancements to existing services, the timing of capital expenditures and expenses associated with Web hosting and the continuing market acceptance of our services. To the extent that available funds are insufficient to fund our future activities, we may need to raise additional funds through public or private equity or debt financing. Although we are currently not a party to any agreement or letter of intent with respect to potential investments in, or acquisitions of, complementary businesses, services or technologies, we may enter into these types of arrangements in the future, which could also require us to seek additional equity or debt financing. Additional funds may not be available on terms favorable to us or at all.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncement

 

In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment, or SFAS 123R, which requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options and purchases under employee stock purchase plans, to be recognized as expenses in the statement of operations based on their fair values and vesting periods. We plan to adopt the provisions of SFAS 123R on August 1, 2005, which is the start of our third fiscal quarter next year. We are currently assessing the impact this prospective change in accounting will have but believe that it will have a material and adverse impact on our reported results of operations.

 

Additionally, SFAS 123R requires the tax benefits from employee stock plans to be classified as a financing activity in the consolidated statement of cash flows. We currently classify these tax benefits, which totaled $798,000 in fiscal 2005, as a source of cash provided by operating activities.

 

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RISK FACTORS WHICH MAY IMPACT FUTURE OPERATING RESULTS

 

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry

 

We are an early-stage company in an emerging market with an unproven business model, a new and unproven enterprise technology model and a short operating history, which makes it difficult to evaluate our current business and future prospects.

 

We have only a limited operating history and our current business and future prospects are difficult to evaluate. We were founded in February 1999 and began offering our on-demand CRM application service in February 2000. The risks and difficulties we encounter as an early-stage company in the new and rapidly evolving market of on-demand CRM application services include the following:

 

    our new and unproven business and technology models;

 

    a limited number of service offerings and risks associated with developing new service offerings; and

 

    the difficulties we face in managing rapid growth in personnel and operations.

 

We may not be able to successfully address any of these risks or others, including the other risks related to our business and industry described below. Failure to adequately do so could seriously harm our business and cause our operating results to suffer.

 

Defects in our service could diminish demand for our service and subject us to substantial liability.

 

Because our service is complex and we have incorporated a variety of software both developed in-house and acquired from third party vendors, our service may have errors or defects that users identify after they begin using it that could result in unanticipated downtime for our subscribers and harm our reputation and our business. Internet-based services frequently contain undetected errors when first introduced or when new versions or enhancements are released. We have from time to time found defects in our service and new errors in our existing service may be detected in the future. Since our customers use our service for important aspects of their business, any errors, defects or other performance problems with our service could hurt our reputation and may damage our customers’ businesses. If that occurs, customers could elect not to renew, or delay or withhold payment to us, we could lose future sales or customers may make warranty claims against us, which could result in an increase in our provision for doubtful accounts, an increase in collection cycles for accounts receivable or the expense and risk of litigation.

 

Interruptions or delays in service from our third-party Web hosting facility could impair the delivery of our service and harm our business.

 

We provide our service through computer hardware that is currently located in a third-party Web hosting facility in Sunnyvale, California operated by Qwest Communications International Inc. We do not control the operation of this facility, and it is subject to damage or interruption from earthquakes, floods, fires, power loss, telecommunications failures and similar events. It is also subject to break-ins, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism and similar misconduct. Despite precautions taken at the facility, the occurrence of a natural disaster, a decision to close the facility without adequate notice or other unanticipated problems at the facility could result in lengthy interruptions in our service. In addition, the failure by the Qwest facility to provide our required data communications capacity could result in interruptions in our service. We have an agreement with SunGard Data Systems, a provider of availability services, to provide access to a geographically remote disaster recovery facility that would provide us access to hardware, software and Internet connectivity in the event the Qwest facility becomes unavailable. Even with this disaster recovery arrangement, however, our service would be interrupted during the transition. We are currently in the process of obtaining additional business continuity services and additional data center capacity, however, none of the services or capacity is currently operational. Any damage to, or failure of, our systems could result in interruptions in our service. Interruptions in our service

 

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may reduce our revenue, cause us to issue credits or pay penalties, cause customers to terminate their subscriptions and adversely affect our renewal rates. Our business will be harmed if our customers and potential customers believe our service is unreliable.

 

If we experience significant fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth and fail to balance our expenses with our revenue and earnings expectations, our results would be harmed and our stock price may fall rapidly and without advance notice.

 

Due to our limited operating history, our evolving business model and the unpredictability of our emerging industry, we may not be able to accurately forecast our rate of growth. For example, in the last ten fiscal quarters, we have recorded quarterly operating income of as much as $4.3 million and quarterly operating losses of as much as $4.9 million. We base our current and future expense levels and our investment plans on estimates of future revenue and future rate of growth. Our expenses and investments are, to a large extent, fixed and we expect that these expenses will increase in the future. We may not be able to adjust our spending quickly enough if our revenue falls short of our expectations.

 

As a result, we expect that our operating results may fluctuate significantly on a quarterly basis. Revenue growth may not be sustainable and may decrease in the future. We believe that period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be meaningful, and you should not rely upon them as an indication of future performance.

 

Our quarterly results can fluctuate and if we fail to meet the expectations of analysts or investors, our stock price and the value of your investment could decline substantially.

 

Our quarterly operating results are likely to fluctuate, and if we fail to meet or exceed the expectations of securities analysts or investors, the trading price of our common stock could decline. Some of the important factors that could cause our revenues and operating results to fluctuate from quarter to quarter include:

 

    our ability to retain and increase sales to existing customers, attract new customers and satisfy our customers’ requirements;

 

    the renewal rates for our service;

 

    changes in our pricing policies;

 

    the introduction of new features to our service;

 

    the rate of expansion and effectiveness of our sales force;

 

    the length of the sales cycle for our service;

 

    new product and service introductions by our competitors;

 

    our success in selling our service to large enterprises;

 

    variations in the revenue mix of editions of our service;

 

    technical difficulties or interruptions in our service;

 

    general economic conditions in our geographic markets;

 

    the timing of additional investments in our on-demand application service and in our consulting service;

 

    regulatory compliance costs;

 

    payment defaults by customers; and

 

    extraordinary expenses such as litigation or other dispute-related settlement payments.

 

Some of these factors are not within our control and the occurrence of one or more of them might cause our operating results to vary widely. As such, we believe that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our revenues and operating results may not be meaningful and should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance.

 

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We have incurred significant operating losses in the past and may incur significant operating losses in the future.

 

We incurred significant losses in each fiscal quarter from our inception in February 1999 through fiscal 2003 and we generated small profits in fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004. As we are a young company in an emerging market, we may not be able to maintain profitability and we may incur additional significant operating losses in the future. In addition, we expect our operating expenses to increase in the future as we expand our operations. If our revenue does not grow to offset these expected increased expenses, we will not continue to be profitable. You should not consider recent quarterly revenue growth as indicative of our future performance. In fact, in future quarters we may not have any revenue growth and our revenue could decline. Furthermore, if our operating expenses exceed our expectations, our financial performance will be adversely affected.

 

If our security measures are breached and unauthorized access is obtained to a customer’s data, our service may be perceived as not being secure, customers may curtail or stop using our service and we may incur significant liabilities.

 

Our service involves the storage and transmission of customers’ proprietary information, and security breaches could expose us to a risk of loss of this information, litigation and possible liability. If our security measures are breached as a result of third-party action, employee error, malfeasance or otherwise, and, as a result, someone obtains unauthorized access to one of our customers’ data, our reputation will be damaged, our business may suffer and we could incur significant liability. Because techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. If an actual or perceived breach of our security occurs, the market perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed and we could lose sales and customers.

 

Because we recognize revenue from subscriptions for our service over the term of the subscription, downturns or upturns in sales may not be immediately reflected in our operating results.

 

We generally recognize revenue from customers ratably over the terms of their subscription agreements, which are typically 12 to 24 months, although terms can range from one to 60 months. As a result, much of the revenue we report in each quarter is deferred revenue from subscription agreements entered into during previous quarters. Consequently, a decline in new or renewed subscriptions in any one quarter will not necessarily be fully reflected in the revenue in that quarter and will negatively affect our revenue in future quarters. In addition, we may be unable to adjust our cost structure to reflect these reduced revenues. Accordingly, the effect of significant downturns in sales and market acceptance of our service may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods. Our subscription model also makes it difficult for us to rapidly increase our revenue through additional sales in any period, as revenue from new customers must be recognized over the applicable subscription term.

 

If our on-demand application service is not widely accepted, our operating results will be harmed.

 

We derive substantially all of our revenue from subscriptions to our on-demand application service, and we expect this will continue for the foreseeable future. As a result, widespread acceptance of our service is critical to our future success. Factors that may affect market acceptance of our service include:

 

    reluctance by enterprises to migrate to an on-demand application service;

 

    the price and performance of our service;

 

    the level of customization we can offer;

 

    the availability, performance and price of competing products and services;

 

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    adverse publicity about us, our service or the viability or security of on-demand application services generally from third party reviews, industry analyst reports and adverse statements made by competitors.

 

Many of these factors are beyond our control. The inability of our on-demand application service to achieve widespread market acceptance would harm our business.

 

The market for our technology delivery model and on-demand application services is immature and volatile, and if it does not develop or develops more slowly than we expect, our business will be harmed.

 

The market for on-demand application services is new and unproven, and it is uncertain whether these services will achieve and sustain high levels of demand and market acceptance. Our success will depend to a substantial extent on the willingness of enterprises, large and small, to increase their use of on-demand application services in general, and for CRM in particular. Many enterprises have invested substantial personnel and financial resources to integrate traditional enterprise software into their businesses, and therefore may be reluctant or unwilling to migrate to on-demand application services. Furthermore, some enterprises may be reluctant or unwilling to use on-demand application services because they have concerns regarding the risks associated with security capabilities, among other things, of the technology delivery model associated with these services. If enterprises do not perceive the benefits of on-demand application services, then the market for these services may not develop at all, or it may develop more slowly than we expect, either of which would significantly adversely affect our operating results. In addition, as a new company in this unproven market, we have limited insight into trends that may develop and affect our business. We may make errors in predicting and reacting to relevant business trends, which could harm our business.

 

We do not have an adequate history with our subscription model to predict the rate of customer subscription renewals and the impact these renewal rates will have on our future revenue or operating results.

 

Our customers have no obligation to renew their subscriptions for our service after the expiration of their initial subscription period and in fact, some customers have elected not to do so. In addition, our customers may renew for a lower priced edition of our service or for fewer subscriptions. We have limited historical data with respect to rates of customer subscription renewals, so we cannot accurately predict customer renewal rates. Our customers’ renewal rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including their dissatisfaction with our service and their ability to continue their operations and spending levels. If our customers do not renew their subscriptions for our service, our revenue will decline and our business will suffer.

 

Our future success also depends in part on our ability to sell additional features or enhanced editions of our service to our current customers. This may require increasingly sophisticated and costly sales efforts that are targeted at senior management. If these efforts are not successful, our business may suffer.

 

Our growth could strain our personnel resources and infrastructure, and if we are unable to implement appropriate controls and procedures to manage our growth, we may not be able to successfully implement our business plan.

 

We are currently experiencing a period of rapid growth in our headcount and operations, which has placed, and will continue to place, to the extent that we are able to sustain such growth, a significant strain on our management, administrative, operational and financial infrastructure. We anticipate that further growth will be required to address increases in our customer base, as well as our expansion into new geographic areas.

 

Our success will depend in part upon the ability of our senior management to manage this growth effectively. To do so, we must continue to hire, train and manage new employees as needed. If our new hires perform poorly, or if we are unsuccessful in hiring, training, managing and integrating these new employees, or if we are not successful in retaining our existing employees, our business may be harmed. To manage the expected growth of our operations and personnel, we will need to continue to improve our operational, financial and

 

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management controls and our reporting systems and procedures. The additional headcount and capital investments we are adding will increase our cost base, which will make it more difficult for us to offset any future revenue shortfalls by offsetting expense reductions in the short term. If we fail to successfully manage our growth, we will be unable to execute our business plan.

 

We derive a significant portion of our revenue from small businesses, which have a greater rate of attrition and non-renewal than medium-sized and large enterprise customers.

 

Our small business customers, which we consider to be companies with fewer than 200 employees, typically have shorter initial subscription periods and, based on our limited experience to date, have had a higher rate of attrition and non-renewal as compared to our medium-sized and large enterprise customers. If we cannot replace our small business customers that do not renew their subscriptions for our service with new customers quickly enough, our revenue could decline.

 

Our limited operating history may impede acceptance of our service by medium-sized and large customers.

 

Our ability to increase revenue and maintain profitability depends, in large part, on widespread acceptance of our service by medium-sized and large businesses. Our efforts to sell to these customers may not continue to be successful. In particular, because we are a relatively new company with a limited operating history, these target customers may have concerns regarding our viability and may prefer to purchase critical CRM applications from one of our larger, more established competitors. Even if we are able to sell our service to these types of customers, they may insist on additional assurances from us that we will be able to provide adequate levels of service, which could harm our business.

 

As more of our sales efforts are targeted at larger enterprise customers, our sales cycle may become more time-consuming and expensive, we may encounter pricing pressure and we may have to delay revenue recognition on these customers, all of which could harm our business.

 

As we target more of our sales efforts at larger enterprise customers, we will face greater costs, longer sales cycles and less predictability in completing some of our sales. In this market segment, the customer’s decision to use our service may be an enterprise-wide decision and, if so, these types of sales would require us to provide greater levels of education to prospective customers regarding the use and benefits of our service. In addition, larger customers may demand more customization, integration services and features. As a result of these factors, these sales opportunities may require us to devote greater sales support and professional services resources to individual customers, driving up costs and time required to complete sales and diverting sales and professional services resources to a smaller number of larger transactions, while at the same time requiring us to delay revenue recognition on some of these transactions until the technical requirements have been met. In addition, larger enterprise customers may seek volume discounts and price concessions that could make these transactions less profitable.

 

The market in which we participate is intensely competitive, and if we do not compete effectively, our operating results could be harmed.

 

The market for CRM applications is intensely competitive and rapidly changing, barriers to entry are relatively low, many of our competitors are larger and have more resources than we do, and with the introduction of new technologies and market entrants, we expect competition to intensify in the future. If we fail to compete effectively, our operating results will be harmed. Some of our principal competitors offer their products at a lower price, which has resulted in pricing pressures. If we are unable to maintain our current pricing, our operating results could be negatively impacted. In addition, pricing pressures and increased competition generally could result in reduced sales, reduced margins or the failure of our service to achieve or maintain more widespread market acceptance, any of which could harm our business.

 

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Our current principal competitors include:

 

    enterprise software application vendors including Amdocs Limited, E.piphany, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, PeopleSoft, Inc., which has been acquired by Oracle, SAP AG and Siebel Systems, Inc.;

 

    packaged CRM software vendors, some of whom offer hosted services, such as BMC Software Corporation, FrontRange Solutions, Inc., Onyx Software Corp., Pivotal Corporation, which has been acquired by CDC Software Corporation, a subsidiary of chinadotcom corporation, and Sage Group plc;

 

    on-demand CRM application service providers such as Siebel Systems, NetSuite, Inc., RightNow Technologies, Inc., and Salesnet, Inc.; and

 

    enterprise application service providers including British Telecom, IBM and Corio, Inc., which has been acquired by IBM.

 

In addition, we face competition from businesses that develop their own CRM applications internally, as well as from enterprise software vendors and online service providers who may develop and/or bundle CRM products with their products in the future. We also face competition from some of our larger and more established competitors who historically have been packaged CRM software vendors, but who are developing directly competitive on-demand CRM application services offerings, such as Siebel Systems through Siebel CRM OnDemand. Our professional services organization competes with a broad range of large systems integrators, including Accenture Ltd., BearingPoint, Inc. and IBM, as well as smaller independent consulting firms specializing in CRM implementations. We have relationships with many of these consulting companies and frequently work cooperatively on projects with them, even as we compete for business in other customer engagements.

 

Many of our potential competitors enjoy substantial competitive advantages, such as greater name recognition, longer operating histories and larger marketing budgets, as well as substantially greater financial, technical and other resources. In addition, many of our potential competitors have established marketing relationships and access to larger customer bases, and have major distribution agreements with consultants, system integrators and resellers.

 

As a result, our competitors may be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can to new or changing opportunities, technologies, standards or customer requirements. Furthermore, because of these advantages, even if our service is more effective than the products that our competitors offer, potential customers might accept competitive products and services in lieu of purchasing our service. For all of these reasons, we may not be able to compete successfully against our current and future competitors.

 

If we are not able to develop enhancements and new features to our existing service or acceptable new services that keep pace with technological developments, our business will be harmed.

 

If we are unable to develop enhancements to and new features for our existing service or acceptable new services that keep pace with rapid technological developments, our business will be harmed. The success of enhancements, new features and services such as Supportforce and Customforce depends on several factors, including the timely completion, introduction and market acceptance of the feature or edition. Failure in this regard may significantly impair our revenue growth. In addition, because our service is designed to operate on a variety of network hardware and software platforms using a standard browser, we will need to continuously modify and enhance our service to keep pace with changes in Internet-related hardware, software, communication, browser and database technologies. We may not be successful in either developing these modifications and enhancements or in timely bringing them to market. Furthermore, uncertainties about the timing and nature of new network platforms or technologies, or modifications to existing platforms or technologies, could increase our research and development expenses. Any failure of our service to operate effectively with future network platforms and technologies could reduce the demand for our service, result in customer dissatisfaction and harm our business.

 

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Any efforts we may make in the future to expand our service beyond the CRM market may not succeed.

 

To date, we have focused our business on providing on-demand application services for the CRM market, but we may in the future seek to expand into other markets. However, any efforts to expand beyond the CRM market may never result in significant revenue growth for us. In addition, efforts to expand our on-demand application service beyond the CRM market may divert management resources from existing operations and require us to commit significant financial resources to an unproven business, which may harm our business.

 

If we fail to develop our brand cost-effectively, our business may suffer.

 

We believe that developing and maintaining awareness of the salesforce.com brand in a cost-effective manner is critical to achieving widespread acceptance of our existing and future services and is an important element in attracting new customers. Furthermore, we believe that the importance of brand recognition will increase as competition in our market develops. Successful promotion of our brand will depend largely on the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and on our ability to provide reliable and useful services at competitive prices. In the past, our efforts to build our brand have involved significant expense. Brand promotion activities may not yield increased revenue, and even if they do, any increased revenue may not offset the expenses we incurred in building our brand. If we fail to successfully promote and maintain our brand, or incur substantial expenses in an unsuccessful attempt to promote and maintain our brand, we may fail to attract enough new customers or retain our existing customers to the extent necessary to realize a sufficient return on our brand-building efforts, and our business could suffer.

 

Any failure to adequately expand our direct sales force will impede our growth.

 

We continue to be substantially dependent on our direct sales force to obtain new customers, particularly large enterprise customers, and to manage our customer base. We believe that there is significant competition for direct sales personnel with the advanced sales skills and technical knowledge we need. Our ability to achieve significant growth in revenue in the future will depend, in large part, on our success in recruiting, training and retaining sufficient numbers of direct sales personnel. New hires require significant training and may, in some cases, take more than a year before they achieve full productivity. Our recent hires and planned hires may not become as productive as we would like, and we may be unable to hire sufficient numbers of qualified individuals in the future in the markets where we do business. If we are unable to hire and develop sufficient numbers of productive direct sales personnel, sales of our service will suffer and our growth will be impeded.

 

Sales to customers outside the United States expose us to risks inherent in international sales.

 

Because we sell our service throughout the world, we are subject to risks and challenges that we would otherwise not face if we conducted our business only in the United States. For example, sales in Europe and Asia Pacific together represented approximately 20 percent of our total revenues during fiscal 2005, 18 percent of our total revenues during fiscal 2004 and 14 percent of total revenues during fiscal 2003, and we intend to continue to expand our international sales efforts. The risks and challenges associated with sales to customers outside the United States include:

 

    localization of our service, including translation into foreign languages and associated expenses;

 

    laws and business practices favoring local competitors;

 

    compliance with multiple, conflicting and changing governmental laws and regulations, including employment, tax, privacy and data protection laws and regulations;

 

    foreign currency fluctuations;

 

    different pricing environments;

 

    difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations;

 

    different or lesser protection of our intellectual property;

 

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    longer accounts receivable payment cycles and other collection difficulties; and

 

    regional economic and political conditions.

 

Some of our international subscription fees are currently denominated in U.S. dollars and paid in local currency. As a result, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies may make the service more expensive for international customers, which could harm our business. We do not currently engage in currency hedging activities to limit the risk of exchange rate fluctuation.

 

Any failure to protect our intellectual property rights could impair our ability to protect our proprietary technology and our brand.

 

If we fail to protect our intellectual property rights adequately, our competitors might gain access to our technology, and our business might be harmed. In addition, defending our intellectual property rights might entail significant expense. Any of our trademarks or other intellectual property rights may be challenged by others or invalidated through administrative process or litigation. We currently have no issued patents and may be unable to obtain patent protection in the future. In addition, if any patents are issued in the future, they may not provide us with any competitive advantages, or may be successfully challenged by third parties. Furthermore, legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability and scope of protection of intellectual property rights are uncertain. Effective patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret protection may not be available to us in every country in which our service is available. The laws of some foreign countries may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the United States, and mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be inadequate. Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may be unable to prevent third parties from infringing upon or misappropriating our intellectual property.

 

We might be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights. We may initiate claims or litigation against third parties for infringement of our proprietary rights or to establish the validity of our proprietary rights. Any litigation, whether or not it is resolved in our favor, could result in significant expense to us and divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel.

 

We may be sued by third parties for alleged infringement of their proprietary rights.

 

The software and Internet industries are characterized by the existence of a large number of patents, trademarks and copyrights and by frequent litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. We have received in the past, and may receive in the future, communications from third parties claiming that we have infringed on the intellectual property rights of others. Our technologies may not be able to withstand any third-party claims or rights against their use. Any intellectual property claims, with or without merit, could be time-consuming and expensive to resolve, could divert management attention from executing our business plan and could require us to pay monetary damages or enter into royalty or licensing agreements. In addition, many of our subscription agreements require us to indemnify our customers for third-party intellectual property infringement claims, which would increase the cost to us of an adverse ruling on such a claim. An adverse determination could also prevent us from offering our service to others.

 

We rely on third-party hardware and software that may be difficult to replace or which could cause errors or failures of our service.

 

We rely on hardware purchased or leased and software licensed from third parties in order to offer our service, including database software from Oracle Corporation. This hardware and software may not continue to be available on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. Any loss of the right to use any of this hardware or software could result in delays in the provisioning of our service until equivalent technology is either developed by us, or, if available, is identified, obtained and integrated, which could harm our business. Any errors or defects in third-party hardware or software could result in errors or a failure of our service which could harm our business.

 

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We may be required to purchase the interest in our Japanese joint venture held by our joint venture partner, under certain circumstances, on terms that may not be favorable to us.

 

In some circumstances, we may be required to purchase the interest of our Japanese joint venture partner. If we default under the terms of our joint venture agreement with our joint venture partner, or if we and our partner disagree over a course of action proposed for the joint venture entity and the disagreement continues, then our partner may require that we purchase its interest in the joint venture. In the event we are required to purchase our partner’s interest in the joint venture, we could be forced to make an unanticipated outlay of a significant amount of capital, which could harm our financial condition. Although the timing and circumstances of any such purchase, were it to be required, are not predictable, if the joint venture were valued based on its most recent financing, which occurred in September 2003, the buyout price could be as much as approximately $13.0 million.

 

If we acquire any companies or technologies in the future, they could prove difficult to integrate, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value and adversely affect our operating results.

 

We may acquire or make investments in complementary companies, services and technologies in the future. We have not made any acquisitions or investments to date, and therefore our ability as an organization to make acquisitions or investments is unproven. Acquisitions and investments involve numerous risks, including:

 

    difficulties in integrating operations, technologies, services and personnel;

 

    diversion of financial and managerial resources from existing operations;

 

    risk of entering new markets;

 

    potential write-offs of acquired assets or investments;

 

    potential loss of key employees;

 

    inability to generate sufficient revenue to offset acquisition or investment costs; and

 

    delays in customer purchases due to uncertainty.

 

In addition, if we finance acquisitions by issuing convertible debt or equity securities, our existing stockholders may be diluted which could affect the market price of our stock. As a result, if we fail to properly evaluate and execute acquisitions or investments, our business and prospects may be seriously harmed.

 

Evolving regulation of the Internet may affect us adversely.

 

As Internet commerce continues to evolve, increasing regulation by federal, state or foreign agencies becomes more likely. For example, we believe increased regulation is likely in the area of data privacy, and laws and regulations applying to the solicitation, collection, processing or use of personal or consumer information could affect our customers’ ability to use and share data, potentially reducing demand for CRM solutions and restricting our ability to store, process and share data with our customers. In addition, taxation of services provided over the Internet or other charges imposed by government agencies or by private organizations for accessing the Internet may also be imposed. Any regulation imposing greater fees for Internet use or restricting information exchange over the Internet could result in a decline in the use of the Internet and the viability of Internet-based services, which could harm our business.

 

Privacy concerns and laws or other domestic or foreign regulations may reduce the effectiveness of our solution and adversely affect our business.

 

Our customers can use our service to store contact and other personal or identifying information regarding their customers and contacts. Federal, state and foreign government bodies and agencies, however, have adopted or are considering adopting laws and regulations regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information obtained from consumers and individuals. The costs of compliance with, and other burdens imposed

 

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by, such laws and regulations that are applicable to the businesses of our customers may limit the use and adoption of our service and reduce overall demand for it. Furthermore, privacy concerns may cause our customers’ customers to resist providing the personal data necessary to allow our customers to use our service effectively. Even the perception of privacy concerns, whether or not valid, may inhibit market adoption of our service in certain industries. For example, regulations such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which protects and restricts the use of consumer credit and financial information, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, which regulates the use and disclosure of personal health information, impose significant requirements and obligations on businesses that may affect the use and adoption of our service.

 

The European Union has also adopted a data privacy directive that requires member states to impose restrictions on the collection and use of personal data that, in some respects, are far more stringent, and impose more significant burdens on subject businesses, than current privacy standards in the United States. All of these domestic and international legislative and regulatory initiatives may adversely affect our customers’ ability to collect and/or use demographic and personal information from their customers, which could reduce demand for our service.

 

In addition to government activity, privacy advocacy groups and the technology and other industries are considering various new, additional or different self-regulatory standards that may place additional burdens on us. If the gathering of personal information were to be curtailed in this manner, CRM solutions would be less effective, which may reduce demand for our service and harm our business.

 

The success of our business depends on the continued growth and acceptance of the Internet as a business tool.

 

Expansion in the sales of our service depends on the continued acceptance of the Internet as a communications and commerce platform for enterprises. The Internet could lose its viability as a business tool due to delays in the development or adoption of new standards and protocols to handle increased demands of Internet activity, security, reliability, cost, ease-of-use, accessibility and quality-of-service. The performance of the Internet and its acceptance as a business tool has been harmed by “viruses,” “worms” and similar malicious programs, and the Internet has experienced a variety of outages and other delays as a result of damage to portions of its infrastructure. If for any reason the Internet does not remain a widespread communications medium and commercial platform, the demand for our service would be significantly reduced, which would harm our business.

 

Our business is subject to changing regulations regarding corporate governance and public disclosure that have increased both our costs and the risk of noncompliance.

 

We are subject to rules and regulations by various governing bodies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, New York Stock Exchange and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, that are charged with the protection of investors and the oversight of companies whose securities are publicly traded. Our efforts to comply with these new regulations, most notably the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or SOX, have resulted in, and are likely to continue to result in, increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management time and attention to compliance activities.

 

By the end of fiscal 2006, we are required to comply with the SOX requirements involving the assessment of our internal controls over financial reporting and our external auditors’ audit of that assessment. Although we believe our on-going review and testing of our internal controls will enable us to be compliant with the SOX requirements, we may identify deficiencies that we may not be able to remediate by the end of fiscal 2006. If we cannot assess our internal controls over financial reporting as effective, or our external auditors are unable to provide an unqualified attestation report on such assessment, our stock price could decline.

 

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continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and additional costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to our disclosure and governance practices. If we fail to address and comply with these regulations and any subsequent changes, our business may be harmed.

 

We are dependent on our management team and development and operations personnel, and the loss of one or more key employees or groups could harm our business and prevent us from implementing our business plan in a timely manner.

 

Our success depends largely upon the continued services of our executive officers and other key personnel, particularly Marc Benioff, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Steve Cakebread, our Chief Financial Officer, Jim Steele, our President of Worldwide Sales and Services, Pat Sueltz, our President of Global Operations, and Parker Harris, our Executive Vice President of Technology. We are also substantially dependent on the continued service of our existing development and operations personnel because of the complexity of our service and technologies. We do not have employment agreements with any of our executive officers, key management, development or operations personnel and, therefore, they could terminate their employment with us at any time. We do not maintain key person life insurance policies on any of our employees. The loss of one or more of our key employees or groups could seriously harm our business.

 

Because competition for our target employees is intense, we may not be able to attract and retain the highly skilled employees we need to support our planned growth.

 

To continue to execute on our growth plan, we must attract and retain highly qualified personnel. Competition for these personnel is intense, especially for engineers with high levels of experience in designing and developing software and Internet-related services and senior sales executives. We may not be successful in attracting and retaining qualified personnel. We have from time to time in the past experienced, and we expect to continue to experience in the future, difficulty in hiring and retaining highly skilled employees with appropriate qualifications. Many of the companies with which we compete for experienced personnel have greater resources than we have. In addition, in making employment decisions, particularly in the Internet and high-technology industries, job candidates often consider the value of the stock options they are to receive in connection with their employment. Volatility in the price of our stock may, therefore, adversely affect our ability to attract or retain key employees. Furthermore, the new requirement to expense stock options may discourage us from granting the size or type of stock options awards that job candidates require to join our company. If we fail to attract new personnel or fail to retain and motivate our current personnel, our business and future growth prospects could be severely harmed.

 

We might require additional capital to support business growth, and this capital might not be available.

 

We intend to continue to make investments to support our business growth and may require additional funds to respond to business challenges or opportunities, including the need to develop new services or enhance our existing service, enhance our operating infrastructure or acquire complementary businesses and technologies. Accordingly, we may need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. If we raise additional funds through further issuances of equity or convertible debt securities, our existing stockholders could suffer significant dilution, and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences and privileges superior to those of holders of our common stock. Any debt financing secured by us in the future could involve restrictive covenants relating to our capital raising activities and other financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities, including potential acquisitions. In addition, we may not be able to obtain additional financing on terms favorable to us, if at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us, when we require it, our ability to continue to support our business growth and to respond to business challenges could be significantly limited.

 

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We believe our reported financial results will be adversely affected by changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

 

Generally accepted accounting principles in the United States are subject to interpretation by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and various bodies formed to promulgate and interpret appropriate accounting principles. A change in these principles or interpretations could have a significant effect on our reported financial results, and could affect the reporting of transactions completed before the announcement of a change.

 

For example, in December 2004, the FASB announced its decision to require companies to expense employee stock options. We plan to adopt this new accounting pronouncement, Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment, beginning in the third quarter of fiscal 2006. We believe this change in accounting will materially and adversely affect our reported results of operations.

 

Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock

 

If our involvement in a lengthy May 9, 2004 New York Times article about salesforce.com or any other publicity regarding salesforce.com or the initial public offering during the waiting period were held to be “gun jumping” in violation of the Securities Act of 1933, we could be required to repurchase securities sold in our initial public offering.

 

In a New York Times article dated May 9, 2004 and entitled “It’s Not Google. It’s That Other Big I.P.O.,” information regarding our initial public offering and salesforce.com, our development and our business strategy was published. In preparation of the article, the reporter spent most of a full day with Marc Benioff, our Chairman and CEO. As a result, it could have been expected that a lengthy article would be published. Portions of this New York Times article were subsequently reprinted by a number of news outlets. While some of the factual statements about salesforce.com in the article were disclosed in the Registration Statement for our initial public offering, the article presented statements about our company in isolation and did not disclose many of the related risks and uncertainties described in the Registration Statement.

 

In addition to the New York Times article, there was substantial additional press coverage regarding us and the initial public offering during the offering process. These articles also presented statements about our company in isolation and did not disclose many of the related risks and uncertainties described in the Registration Statement.

 

In order to reduce the risk of investors’ possible reliance on the New York Times article and other news reports and articles, we stopped our offering on May 13, 2004. We then allowed a “cooling off” period to pass so that the effect of this article and other reports, articles and information would be dissipated.

 

It is uncertain whether the May 9th New York Times article or any of our publicity related activities could be held to be a violation of Section 5 of the Securities Act. If any article or activity was held by a court to be in violation of the Securities Act, we could be required to repurchase the shares sold to purchasers in our public offering at the original $11.00 purchase price, plus interest, for a period of one year following the date of the violation. We would contest vigorously any claim that a violation of the Securities Act occurred.

 

The trading price of our common stock is likely to be volatile and could subject us to litigation.

 

The trading prices of the securities of technology companies have been highly volatile. Accordingly, the trading price of our common stock has been and is likely to continue to be subject to wide fluctuations. Further, our common stock has a limited trading history. Factors affecting the trading price of our common stock include:

 

    variations in our operating results;

 

    announcements of technological innovations, new services or service enhancements, strategic alliances or significant agreements by us or by our competitors;

 

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    recruitment or departure of key personnel;

 

    changes in the estimates of our operating results or changes in recommendations by any securities analysts that elect to follow our common stock; and

 

    market conditions in our industry, the industries of our customers and the economy as a whole.

 

In addition, if the market for technology stocks or the stock market in general experiences uneven investor confidence, the trading price of our common stock could decline for reasons unrelated to our business, operating results or financial condition. The trading price of our common stock might also decline in reaction to events that affect other companies within, or outside, our industry even if these events do not directly affect us. Any volatility in our stock price may result in litigation, such as the lawsuits following the approximate 25% decline in our stock price on July 21, 2004, which may harm our business and results of operations.

 

If securities analysts stop publishing research or reports about us or our business or if they downgrade our stock, the price of our stock could decline.

 

The trading market for our common stock relies in part on the research and reports that industry or financial analysts publish about us or our business. We do not control these analysts. If one or more of the analysts who do cover us downgrade our stock, our stock price would likely decline rapidly. Furthermore, if one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company, we could lose visibility in the market, which in turn could cause our stock price to decline.

 

The concentration of our capital stock ownership with insiders will likely limit your ability to influence corporate matters.

 

Our executive officers, directors, current 5 percent or greater stockholders and affiliated entities together beneficially own a significant percentage of our outstanding common stock. As a result, these stockholders, acting together, will have control over most matters that require approval by our stockholders, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions, even if other stockholders oppose them. This concentration of ownership might also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of our company that other stockholders may view as beneficial.

 

Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws and Delaware law might discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company or changes in our management and, therefore, depress the trading price of our common stock.

 

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions that could depress the trading price of our common stock by acting to discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company or changes in our management that the stockholders of our company may deem advantageous. These provisions among other things:

 

    establish a classified board of directors so that not all members of our board are elected at one time;

 

    establish the size of the board of directors at seven (7) members;

 

    provide that directors may only be removed “for cause” and only with the approval of 66 2/3 percent of our stockholders;

 

    require super-majority voting to amend some provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws;

 

    authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that our board could issue to increase the number of outstanding shares and to discourage a takeover attempt;

 

    eliminate the ability of our stockholders to call special meetings of stockholders;

 

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    prohibit stockholder action by written consent, which requires all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders;

 

    provide that the board of directors is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal our bylaws; and

 

    establish advance notice requirements for nominations for election to our board or for proposing matters that can be acted upon by stockholders at stockholder meetings.

 

In addition, Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company.

 

ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

 

Foreign currency exchange risk

 

Our results of operations and cash flows are subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates, particularly changes in the Euro, British pound, Canadian dollar and Japanese yen. We have a risk management policy that allows us to utilize foreign currency forward and option contracts to manage currency exposures that exist as part of our ongoing business operations. To date, we have not entered into any hedging contracts since exchange rate fluctuations have had little impact on our operating results and cash flows.

 

If we were to enter into hedging contracts, the contracts by policy would have maturities of less than three months and settle before the end of each quarterly period. Additionally, by policy we would not enter into any hedging contracts for trading or speculative purposes.

 

Interest rate sensitivity

 

We had unrestricted cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities totaling $205.9 million at January 31, 2005. These amounts were invested primarily in money market funds and instruments, corporate notes and bonds, government securities and other debt securities with strong credit ratings. The unrestricted cash, cash equivalents and short-term marketable securities are held for working capital purposes. We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes.

 

Our fixed-income portfolio is subject to interest rate risk. An immediate increase in interest rates of 100-basis points could result in higher interest income of $0.8 million offset by a principal reduction of $1.6 million for a net reduction of $0.8 million over a 12-month period. Similarly, a 100-basis point decrease could result in a decrease in interest income of $0.8 million and a principal increase of $1.6 million for a net increase of $0.8 million. Fluctuations in the value of our investment securities caused by a change in interest rates (gains or losses on the carrying value) are recorded in other comprehensive income, and are realized only if we sell the underlying securities.

 

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

 

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

The following financial statements are filed as part of this Report:

 

     Page No.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

   49

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of January 31, 2005 and 2004

   50

Consolidated Statements of Operations for each of the three years in the period ended January 31, 2005

   51

Consolidated Statements of Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) for each of the three years in the period ended January 31, 2005

   52

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 31, 2005

   54

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

The Board of Directors and Stockholders of

salesforce.com, inc.

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of salesforce.com, inc. as of January 31, 2005 and 2004, and the related consolidated statements of operations, convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 31, 2005. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule for the year ended January 31, 2005 listed in the index at Item 15 (a). These financial statements and schedule are the responsibility of salesforce.com, inc.’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and schedule based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of salesforce.com, inc. at January 31, 2005 and 2004, and the consolidated results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 31, 2005, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, present fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.

 

/s/    ERNST & YOUNG LLP

 

Walnut Creek, California

February 15, 2005

 

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salesforce.com, inc.

 

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

     January 31,
2005


    January 31,
2004


 

Assets

                

Current assets:

                

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 35,731     $ 10,463  

Short-term marketable securities

     83,087       25,349  

Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $750 and $349 at January 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively

     48,874       26,536  

Deferred commissions

     7,556       8,266  

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     3,467       3,532  
    


 


Total current assets

     178,715       74,146  

Marketable securities, noncurrent

     87,120       —    

Restricted cash

     3,191       3,912  

Fixed assets, net

     7,637       5,069  

Deferred commissions, noncurrent

     2,057       2,890  

Other assets

     1,779       1,494  
    


 


Total assets

   $ 280,499     $ 87,511  
    


 


Liabilities, preferred stock and stockholders’ equity (deficit)

                

Current liabilities:

                

Accounts payable

   $ 2,525     $ 2,035  

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     32,467       17,682  

Income taxes payable

     216       534  

Deferred revenue

     95,900       49,677  

Current portion of capital lease obligation

     563       78  
    


 


Total current liabilities

     131,671       70,006  

Capital lease obligations, net of current portion

     721       —    

Long-term lease abandonment liability and other

     1,596       1,830  

Minority interest

     1,380       775  
    


 


Total liabilities

     135,368       72,611  

Commitments and contingencies (Note 8)

                

Convertible preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 63,738,843 shares authorized, 58,024,345 shares issued and outstanding at January 31, 2004. All preferred shares were converted, on a one-for-one basis, into shares of common stock (see Note 4)

     —         61,137  

Stockholders’ equity (deficit):

                

Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized and none outstanding at January 31, 2005

     —         —    

Common stock, $0.001 par value; 400,000,000 shares authorized, 104,990,816 and 31,530,626 issued and outstanding at January 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively

     105       32  

Additional paid-in capital

     217,248       35,580  

Deferred stock-based compensation

     (5,908 )     (8,251 )

Notes receivables from stockholders

     (727 )     (1,674 )

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

     (999 )     10  

Accumulated deficit

     (64,588 )     (71,934 )
    


 


Total stockholders’ equity (deficit)

     145,131       (46,237 )
    


 


Total liabilities, preferred stock and stockholders’ equity (deficit)

   $ 280,499     $ 87,511  
    


 


 

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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Consolidated Statements of Operations

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

 
     2005

    2004

    2003

 

Revenues:

                        

Subscription and support

   $ 157,977     $ 85,796     $ 47,656  

Professional services and other

     18,398       10,227       3,335  
    


 


 


Total revenues

     176,375       96,023       50,991  
    


 


 


Cost of revenues (1):

                        

Subscription and support

     12,727       7,782       7,199  

Professional services and other

     20,727       9,491       3,164  
    


 


 


Total cost of revenues

     33,454       17,273       10,363  
    


 


 


Gross profit

     142,921       78,750       40,628  

Operating expenses (1):

                        

Research and development

     9,822       6,962       4,648  

Marketing and sales

     96,311       54,600       33,522  

General and administrative

     30,268       16,915       12,958  

Lease abandonment (recovery)

     —         (3,445 )     —    
    


 


 


Total operating expenses

     136,401       75,032       51,128  

Income (loss) from operations

     6,520       3,718       (10,500 )

Interest income

     2,658       379       471  

Interest expense

     (37 )     (22 )     (77 )

Other income

     12       164       98  
    


 


 


Income (loss) before provision for income taxes and minority interest

     9,153       4,239       (10,008 )

Provision for income taxes

     1,217       541       —    
    


 


 


Income (loss) before minority interest

     7,936       3,698       (10,008 )

Minority interest in consolidated joint venture

     (590 )     (184 )     292  
    


 


 


Net income (loss)

   $ 7,346     $ 3,514     $ (9,716 )
    


 


 


Basic net income (loss) per share

   $ 0.10     $ 0.12     $ (0.37 )

Diluted net income (loss) per share

     0.07       0.04       (0.37 )

Weighted-average number of shares used in per share amounts:

                        

Basic

     75,503       29,605       26,375  

Diluted

     110,874       95,409       26,375  

(1) Amounts include stock-based expenses, as follows:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

         2005    

       2004    

       2003    

Cost of revenues

   $ 634    $ 655    $ 428

Research and development

     282      462      402

Marketing and sales

     1,296      2,029      1,696

General and administrative

     1,402      1,213      2,241
    

  

  

     $ 3,614    $ 4,359    $ 4,767
    

  

  

 

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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Consolidated Statements of Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

   

Convertible

Preferred Stock


  Common Stock

    Additional
Paid-in
Capital


    Deferred
Stock-Based
Compensation


    Notes
Receivables
from
Stockholders


    Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Loss


    Accumulated
Deficit


    Total
Comprehensive
Loss


    Total
Stockholders’
Equity
(Deficit)


 
    Shares

  Amount

  Shares

    Amount

               

Balances at January 31, 2002

  58,024,345   61,137   29,254,822     29     21,087     (4,930 )   (1,594 )   (208 )   (65,732 )   (65,940 )   (51,348 )

Deferred compensation related to the issuance of Company and subsidiary stock options

  —     —     —       —       7,589     (7,793 )   —       —       —       —       (204 )

Amortization of Company and subsidiary deferred stock-based compensation

  —     —     —       —       —       3,135     —       —       —       —       3,135  

Exercise of stock options

  —     —     547,560     1     416     —       —       —       —       —       417  

Stock options early exercised subject to repurchase

  —     —     1,132,562     —       —       —       —       —       —       —       —    

Repurchase of unvested shares

  —     —     (646,982 )   (1 )   (341 )   —       —       —       —       —       (342 )

Fair value of stock options issued to nonemployees for services

  —     —     —       —       310     —       —       —       —       —       310  

Accelerated vesting of employee stock options

  —     —     —       —       178     —       —       —       —       —       178  

Cancellation of stockholder notes receivable for unvested common stock options

  —     —     (87,500 )   —       —       —       109     —       —       —       109  

Accrued interest on stockholder notes receivable

  —     —     —       —       —       —       (89 )   —       —       —       (89 )

Issuance of common stock and warrants to purchase common stock for services

  —     —     280,500     —       1,106     —       —       —       —       —       1,106  

Sale of subsidiary common stock

  —     —     —       —       355     —       —       —       —       —       355  

Translation adjustment

  —     —     —       —       —       —       —       214     —       214     214  

Net loss

  —     —     —       —       —       —       —       —       (9,716 )   (9,716 )   (9,716 )
                                                     

     

Comprehensive loss, year ended January 31, 2003

  —     —     —       —       —       —       —       —       —       (9,502 )   —    
   
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balances at January 31, 2003

  58,024,345   61,137   30,480,962     29     30,700     (9,588 )   (1,574 )   6     (75,448 )   (75,442 )   (55,875 )

Deferred compensation related to the issuance of Company and subsidiary stock options

  —     —     —       —       2,339     (2,428 )   —       —       —       —       (89 )

Amortization of Company and subsidiary deferred stock-based compensation

  —     —     —       —       —       3,765     —       —       —       —       3,765  

Exercise of stock options

  —     —     1,041,131     3     1,891     —       —       —       —       —       1,894  

Repurchase of unvested shares

  —     —     (23,967 )   —       (17 )   —       —       —       —       —       (17 )

Fair value of stock awards issued to nonemployees for services

  —     —     32,500     —       422     —       —       —       —       —       422  

Accelerated vesting of employee stock options

  —     —     —       —       146     —       —       —       —       —       146  

Accrued interest on stockholder notes receivable

  —     —     —       —       —       —       (100 )   —       —       —       (100 )

Sale of subsidiary common stock

  —     —     —       —       99     —       —       —       —       —       99  

Translation adjustment

  —     —     —       —       —       —       —       4     —       4     4  

Net income

  —     —     —       —       —       —       —       —       3,514     3,514     3,514  
                                                     

     

Comprehensive income, year ended January 31, 2004

  —     —     —       —       —       —       —       —       —       3,518     —    
   
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balances at January 31, 2004

  58,024,345   61,137   31,530,626     32     35,580     (8,251 )   (1,674 )   10     (71,934 )   (71,924 )   (46,237 )

 

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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Consolidated Statements of Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) – (Continued)

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

 

   

Convertible

Preferred Stock


    Common Stock

  Additional
Paid-in
Capital


    Deferred
Stock-Based
Compensation


    Notes
Receivables
from
Stockholders


    Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)


    Accumulated
Deficit


    Total
Comprehensive
Loss


    Total
Stockholders’
Equity
(Deficit)


 
    Shares

    Amount

    Shares

    Amount

             

Balances at January 31, 2004

  58,024,345     $ 61,137     31,530,626     $ 32   $ 35,580     $ (8,251 )   $ (1,674 )   $ 10     $ (71,934 )   $ (71,924 )   $ (46,237 )

Issuance of common stock in connection with initial public offering, net of issuance costs incurred

  —         —       11,500,000       12     113,756       —         —         —         —         —         113,768  

Conversion of preferred stock into common

  (58,024,345 )     (61,137 )   58,024,345       58     61,079       —         —         —         —         —         61,137  

Deferred compensation related to the issuance of Company and subsidiary stock options

  —         —       —         —       624       (955 )     —         —         —         —         (331 )

Amortization of Company and subsidiary deferred stock-based compensation

  —         —       —         —       —         3,298       —         —         —         —         3,298  

Exercise of stock options and warrants and stock grants to board members for board services

  —         —       4,126,845       3     5,473       —         —         —         —         —         5,476  

Tax benefits from employee stock plans

  —         —       —         —       798       —         —         —         —         —         798  

Repurchase of unvested shares

  —         —       (191,000 )     —       (254 )     —         —         —         —         —         (254 )

Fair value of stock awards issued to nonemployees for services

  —         —       —         —       167       —         —         —         —         —         167  

Accrued interest on stockholder notes receivable

  —         —       —         —       —         —         (96 )     —         —         —         (96 )

Collection of outstanding note receivable balances

  —         —       —         —       —         —         1,043       —         —         —         1,043  

Sale of subsidiary common stock

  —         —       —         —       25       —         —         —         —         —         25  

Translation adjustment

  —         —       —         —       —         —         —         (260 )     —         (260 )     (260 )

Unrealized loss on marketable securities

  —         —       —         —       —         —         —         (749 )     —         (749 )     (749 )

Net income

  —         —       —         —       —         —         —         —         7,346       7,346       7,346  

Comprehensive income, year ended January 31, 2005

  —         —       —         —       —         —         —         —         —         6,337       —    
   

 


 

 

 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Balances at January 31, 2005

  —       $ —       104,990,816     $ 105   $ 217,248     $ (5,908 )   $ (727 )   $ (999 )   $ (64,588 )   $ (65,587 )   $ 145,131  
   

 


 

 

 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

 
     2005

    2004

    2003

 

Operating activities

                        

Net income (loss)

   $ 7,346     $ 3,514     $ (9,716 )

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:

                        

Minority interest in consolidated joint venture

     590       184       (292 )

Depreciation and amortization

     3,147       2,591       2,664  

Loss on retirement of fixed assets

     223       68       589  

Amortization of deferred commissions

     15,598       8,599       2,885  

Lease abandonment (recovery)

     —         (3,445 )     —    

Accrued interest on stockholder notes receivable

     (96 )     (100 )     (89 )

Expense related to stock-based awards

     3,614       4,359       4,767  

Tax benefits from employee stock plans

     798       —         —    

Changes in assets and liabilities:

                        

Accounts receivable

     (22,338 )     (16,955 )     (3,872 )

Deferred commissions

     (14,055 )     (16,320 )     (5,691 )

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     65       (2,216 )     (579 )

Other assets

     (216 )     (723 )     16  

Accounts payable

     490       1,429       (199 )

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     14,801       10,339       3,864  

Income taxes

     (318 )     534       —    

Deferred revenue

     46,223       30,506       12,043  

Lease abandonment and other liability

     —         (583 )     (1,177 )
    


 


 


Net cash provided by operating activities

     55,872       21,781       5,213  
    


 


 


Investing activities

                        

Restricted cash

     721       (179 )     (233 )

Purchases of marketable securities

     (282,220 )     (39,900 )     (27,977 )

Sales and maturities of marketable securities

     136,608       21,851       20,677  

Capital expenditures

     (4,308 )     (2,916 )     (2,022 )
    


 


 


Net cash used in investing activities

     (149,199 )     (21,144 )     (9,555 )
    


 


 


Financing activities

                        

Proceeds from the issuance of common stock, net of issuance costs incurred

     113,768       —         —    

Proceeds from the exercise of stock options

     4,746       1,480       1,580  

Collection of notes receivables from stockholders

     1,043       —         —    

Principal payments on capital lease obligations

     (493 )     (531 )     (757 )

Repurchase of unvested shares

     (254 )     (17 )     (342 )

Proceeds from subsidiary stock offerings

     40       167       551  
    


 


 


Net cash provided by financing activities

     118,850       1,099       1,032  
    


 


 


Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

     (255 )     18       310  
    


 


 


Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

     25,268       1,754       (3,000 )

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year

     10,463       8,709       11,709  
    


 


 


Cash and cash equivalents at end of year

   $ 35,731     $ 10,463     $ 8,709  
    


 


 


Supplemental cash flow disclosure:

                        

Cash paid during the period for:

                        

Interest

   $ 37     $ 22     $ 77  

Income taxes

   $ 730     $ 7     $ —    

Noncash financing and investing activities

                        

Fixed assets acquired under capital lease

   $ 1,699     $ —       $ —    

Conversion of preferred stock into common

   $ 61,137     $ —       $ —    

Net exercise of warrants

   $ 15     $ —       $ —    

Transfer of capital lease to operating

   $ —       $ —       $ 569  

Cancellation of stockholder notes receivable for unvested common stock options

   $ —       $ —       $ 109  

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

 

1. Summary of Business and Significant Accounting Policies

 

Description of Business

 

Salesforce.com, inc. (the “Company”) is the leading provider, based on market share, of application services that allow organizations to easily share customer information on demand. It provides a comprehensive customer relationship management (“CRM”) service to businesses of all sizes and industries worldwide. The Company began to offer its on-demand application service on a subscription basis in February 2000. The Company conducts its business worldwide.

 

Fiscal Year

 

The Company’s fiscal year ends on January 31. References to fiscal 2005, for example, refer to the fiscal year ending January 31, 2005.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions in the Company’s consolidated financial statements and notes thereto.

 

Significant estimates and assumptions made by management include the determination of the provision for income taxes, the fair value of stock awards issued and the adequacy of the lease abandonment accrual. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

Principles of Consolidation

 

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

 

Additionally, the Company holds a majority interest in Kabushiki Kaisha salesforce.com (“Salesforce Japan”), a Japanese joint venture. As of January 31, 2005, the Company owned a 63 percent interest in the joint venture. Given the Company’s majority ownership interest in the joint venture, the accounts of the joint venture have been consolidated with the accounts of the Company, and a minority interest has been recorded for the minority investors’ interests in the net assets and operations of the joint venture to the extent of the minority investors’ individual investments. Additionally, the Company records gains and losses resulting from the change of interest in Salesforce Japan directly to stockholders’ equity as additional paid-in capital.

 

Segments

 

The Company operates in one segment.

 

Foreign Currency Translation

 

The functional currency of the Company’s major foreign subsidiaries is generally the local currency. Adjustments resulting from translating foreign functional currency financial statements into U.S. dollars are recorded as a separate component of stockholders’ equity. Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are included in net income (loss) for the period and have not been material during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003. All assets and liabilities denominated in a foreign currency are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate on the balance sheet date as quoted on the Pacific Stock Exchange. Revenues and expenses are translated at the average exchange rate during the period. Equity transactions are translated using historical exchange rates.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements—(Continued)

 

Concentrations of Credit Risk and Significant Customers and Suppliers

 

The Company’s financial instruments that are exposed to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, restricted cash, and trade accounts receivable. Although the Company deposits its cash with multiple financial institutions, its deposits, at times, may exceed federally insured limits. Collateral is not required for accounts receivable.

 

The Company’s accounts receivable and net revenues are derived from a large number of direct customers. No customer accounted for more than 5 percent of accounts receivable at January 31, 2005 and 2004, other than a single customer who accounted for 7 percent of the accounts receivable balance at January 31, 2004. No single customer accounted for 5 percent or more of total revenue during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003.

 

As of January 31, 2005 and 2004, assets located outside the Americas were 8 percent and 12 percent of total assets, respectively. Revenues by geographical region are as follows (in thousands):

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

     2005

   2004

   2003

Revenues by geography:

                    

Americas

   $ 140,871    $ 78,958    $ 43,855

Europe

     25,201      11,754      5,345

Asia Pacific

     10,303      5,311      1,791
    

  

  

     $ 176,375    $ 96,023    $ 50,991
    

  

  

 

The income (loss) from operations outside the Americas totaled $2,681,000, $(1,098,000) and $(3,791,000) during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

The Company serves all of its customers and users from a single, third-party Web hosting facility located in Sunnyvale, California. The Company does not control the operation of this facility, and it is vulnerable to damage or interruption. The Company has an agreement with SunGard Data Systems, a provider of availability services, to provide access to a geographically remote disaster recovery facility that would provide the Company with access to hardware, software and Internet connectivity in the event the Web hosting facility in Sunnyvale becomes unavailable. Even with this disaster recovery arrangement, the Company’s service would be interrupted during the transition.

 

Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents, which primarily consist of cash on deposit with banks and money market funds, are stated at cost, which approximates fair value.

 

Restricted Cash

 

The Company’s restricted cash balance of $3,191,000 at January 31, 2005 consisted primarily of a certificate of deposit in the amount of $2,800,000, plus interest, that serves as collateral to a letter of credit that was issued to the Company’s principal landlord as a security deposit. The certificate of deposit bears annual interest at 1 percent and the letter of credit renews annually through December 31, 2010. The remaining restricted cash balance at January 31, 2005 of $391,000 consisted of collateral for two additional letters of credit related to office leases and mature at various dates through December 2008.

 

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Marketable Securities

 

Management determines the appropriate classification of investments in marketable securities at the time of purchase in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 115, Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities and reevaluates such determination at each balance sheet date. Securities, which are classified as available for sale at January 31, 2005, are carried at fair value, with the unrealized gains and losses, net of tax, reported as a separate component of stockholders’ equity. Fair value is determined based on quoted market rates. Realized gains and losses and declines in value judged to be other-than-temporary on securities available for sale are included as a component of interest income. The cost of securities sold is based on the specific-identification method. Interest on securities classified as available for sale is also included as a component of interest income.

 

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

 

The carrying amounts of the Company’s financial instruments, which include cash and cash equivalents, short term marketable securities, restricted cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and other accrued expenses, approximate their fair values due to their short maturities. Based on borrowing rates currently available to the Company for loans with similar terms, the carrying value of capital lease obligations approximates fair value.

 

Fixed Assets

 

Fixed assets are stated at cost. Depreciation is calculated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of those assets as follows:

 

Computers, equipment, and software

  3 to 5 years

Furniture and fixtures

  5 to 7 years

Leasehold improvements

  Shorter of the estimated useful life of 5 years or the lease term

 

When assets are retired, the cost and accumulated depreciation and amortization are removed from their respective accounts and any loss on such retirement is reflected in operating expenses. When assets are otherwise disposed of, the cost and related accumulated depreciation and amortization are removed from their respective accounts and any gain or loss on such sale or disposal is reflected in other income.

 

During fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, the Company retired certain fixed assets, which had a total net book value of $223,000, $68,000 and $589,000, respectively. These amounts were expensed and are reflected in operating expenses in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations.

 

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

 

The Company evaluates the recoverability of its long-lived assets in accordance with SFAS No. 144, Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets (“SFAS 144”). Long-lived assets are reviewed for possible impairment whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. If such review indicates that the carrying amount of long-lived assets is not recoverable, the carrying amount of such assets is reduced to fair value.

 

In addition to the recoverability assessment, the Company routinely reviews the remaining estimated lives of its long-lived assets. Any reduction in the useful life assumption will result in increased depreciation and amortization expense in the period when such determinations are made, as well as in subsequent periods.

 

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Software and Website Development Costs

 

The Company follows the guidance of Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) Issue No. 00-2, Accounting for Web Site Development Costs (“EITF 00-2”), and EITF Issue No. 00-3, Application of AICPA Statement of Position 97-2 to Arrangements That Include the Right to Use Software Stored on Another Entity’s Hardware (“EITF 00-3”). EITF 00-2 sets forth the accounting for website development costs based on the website development activity. EITF 00-3 sets forth the accounting for software in a hosting arrangement. As such, the Company follows the guidance set forth in Statement of Position 98-1, Accounting for the Cost of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use (“SOP 98-1”), in accounting for the development of its on-demand application service. SOP 98-1 requires companies to capitalize qualifying computer software costs, which are incurred during the application development stage and amortize them over the software’s estimated useful life of three years.

 

The Company capitalized $465,000, $453,000 and $364,000 during fiscal 2005, 2004, and 2003, respectively. Amortization expense totaled $396,000, $277,000 and $186,000 during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

Comprehensive Income (Loss)

 

Comprehensive income (loss) consists of net income and other comprehensive income. Other comprehensive income includes certain changes in equity that are excluded from net income (loss). Specifically, cumulative foreign currency translation and unrealized gains and losses on marketable securities adjustments, net of tax, are included in accumulated other comprehensive income. Comprehensive income (loss) has been reflected in the consolidated statements of convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity.

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) totaled $(1,009,000), $4,000 and $214,000 during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation

 

The Company accounts for compensation expense for its stock-based employee compensation plans using the intrinsic value method prescribed in Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees (“APB 25”), and complies with the disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (“SFAS 123”), and SFAS No. 148, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation—Transition and Disclosure. Under APB 25, compensation expense of fixed stock options is based on the difference, if any, on the date of the grant between the deemed fair value of the Company’s stock and the exercise price of the option. Compensation expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the option-vesting period of four years. The Company accounts for stock issued to nonemployees in accordance with the provisions of SFAS 123 and EITF Issue No. 96-18, Accounting for Equity Instruments That Are Issued to Other Than Employees for Acquiring, or in Conjunction with Selling, Goods or Services.

 

Pro forma information regarding the results of operations is determined as if the Company had accounted for its employee stock options using the fair-value method. The fair value of each option grant is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes method with the following assumptions:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

     2005

  2004

  2003

Volatility

   75—100%   100%   100%

Weighted-average estimated life

   4 years   4 years   4 years

Weighted-average risk-free interest rate

   2.86—3.70%   2.92%   1.67%

Dividend yield

   —     —     —  

 

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Had compensation cost for the Company’s stock-based compensation plans been determined using the fair-value method at the grant date for awards under those plans calculated using the Black-Scholes pricing model and recognized on a straight-line basis over the option vesting periods, the Company’s net income would have been decreased to the pro forma amounts indicated below (in thousands, except per share data):

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

 
     2005

    2004

    2003

 

Net income (loss), as reported

   $ 7,346     $ 3,514     $ (9,716 )

Add: Total stock-based compensation expense included in the determination of net income (loss)

     3,298       3,765       3,135  

Deduct: Total stock-based compensation expense determined under the fair-value-based method for all awards. Such expense amounts are not net of tax benefits.

     (13,901 )     (7,884 )     (4,805 )
    


 


 


Net income (loss), pro forma

   $ (3,257 )   $ (605 )   $ (11,386 )
    


 


 


Net income (loss), per share:

                        

Basic

                        

As reported

   $ 0.10     $ 0.12     $ (0.37 )

Pro forma

     (0.04 )     (0.02 )     (0.43 )

Diluted:

                        

As reported

   $ 0.07     $ 0.04     $ (0.37 )

Pro forma

     (0.04 )     (0.02 )     (0.43 )

 

For the pro forma calculation, the per share weighted-average fair value of options granted are as follows:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

         2005    

       2004    

       2003    

Weighted-average fair value:

                    

Options granted below fair value

   $ 6.51    $ 2.69    $ 1.65

Options equal to fair value

     7.59      3.65      —  

Weighted-average exercise price:

                    

Options granted at or below fair value

   $ 11.61    $ 3.74    $ 1.10

 

Net Income (Loss) Per Share

 

Basic net income (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the fiscal period. Diluted net income (loss) per share is computed giving effect to all potential dilutive common stock, including options, warrants and convertible preferred stock prior to the completion of the Company’s initial public offering in June 2004.

 

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A reconciliation of the denominator used in the calculation of basic and diluted net income per share is as follows (in thousands):

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

 
     2005

   2004

   2003

 

Numerator:

                      

Net income (loss)

   $ 7,346    $ 3,514    $ (9,716 )

Denominator:

                      

Weighted-average shares outstanding for basic earnings per share, net of weighted-average shares of common stock subject to repurchase

     75,503      29,605      26,375  

Effect of dilutive securities:

                      

Employee stock options and warrants

     13,054      7,780      —    

Convertible preferred stock which was converted into shares of common stock upon the closing of the Company’s initial public offering

     22,317      58,024      —    
    

  

  


Adjusted weighted-average shares outstanding and assumed conversions for diluted earnings per share

     110,874      95,409      26,375  
    

  

  


 

Outstanding unvested common stock purchased by employees is subject to repurchase by the Company and therefore is not included in the calculation of the weighted-average shares outstanding for basic earnings per share.

 

The following were excluded from the computation of diluted shares outstanding as they would have had an anti-dilutive impact as their exercise prices were greater than the average fair values of our common stock (in thousands):

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

         2005    

       2004    

       2003    

Options

   674    901    10,526

Warrants

   —      —      1,299

Convertible preferred stock

   —      —      58,024

 

Income Taxes

 

The Company uses the liability method of accounting for income taxes. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on temporary differences between the financial statement and tax basis of assets and liabilities and net operating loss and credit carryforwards using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts expected to be realized.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

The Company derives its revenues from two sources: (1) subscription revenues, which are comprised of subscription fees from customers accessing its on-demand application service, and from customers purchasing additional support beyond the standard support that is included in the basic subscription fee; and (2) related professional services and other revenue. Other revenues consist primarily of training fees. Because the Company

 

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provides its application as a service, the Company follows the provisions of Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 104, Revenue Recognition. On August 1, 2003, the Company adopted Emerging Issues Task Force Issue No. 00-21, Revenue Arrangements with Multiple Deliverables. The Company recognizes revenue when all of the following conditions are met:

 

    There is persuasive evidence of an arrangement;

 

    The service has been provided to the customer;

 

    The collection of the fees is probable; and

 

    The amount of fees to be paid by the customer is fixed or determinable.

 

The Company’s arrangements do not contain general rights of return.

 

Subscription and support revenues are recognized ratably over the contract terms beginning on the commencement date of each contract. Amounts that have been invoiced are recorded in accounts receivable and in deferred revenue or revenue, depending on whether the revenue recognition criteria have been met.

 

Professional services and other revenues, when sold with subscription and support offerings, are accounted for separately when these services have value to the customer on a standalone basis and there is objective and reliable evidence of fair value of each deliverable. When accounted for separately, consulting revenues are recognized as the services are rendered for time and material contracts, and when the milestones are achieved and accepted by the customer for fixed price contracts. The majority of the Company’s consulting contracts are on a time and material basis. Training revenues are recognized after the services are performed.

 

In determining whether the consulting services can be accounted for separately from subscription and support revenues, the Company considers the following factors for each consulting agreement: availability of the consulting services from other vendors, whether objective and reliable evidence for fair value exists of the undelivered elements, the nature of the consulting services, the timing of when the consulting contract was signed in comparison to the subscription service start date, and the contractual dependence of the subscription service on the customer’s satisfaction with the consulting work. If a consulting arrangement does not qualify for separate accounting, the Company recognizes the consulting revenue ratably over the remaining term of the subscription contract. Additionally, in these situations the Company defers only the direct and incremental costs of the consulting arrangement and amortizes those costs over the same time period as the consulting revenue is recognized. As of January 31, 2005 and 2004, the deferred cost on the accompanying consolidated balance sheet totaled $874,000 and $32,000, respectively.

 

On occasion, the Company has purchased from its suppliers goods or services for the Company’s use in its operations at or around the same time these same businesses entered into subscription and/or consulting agreements. The Company generally defines “at or around the same time” as within six months. Revenues recognized from customers who were also suppliers were not significant during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003. Both the procurement and revenue agreements are separately negotiated, settled ultimately in cash, and recorded at what the Company considers to be fair value. When any of these factors is not present, the Company does not recognize the revenue from the underlying sale agreements; rather, the revenue is netted with expenses.

 

Deferred Revenue

 

Deferred revenue primarily consists of billings or payments received in advance of revenue recognition from the Company’s subscription service described above and is recognized as revenue recognition criteria are

 

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met. The Company generally invoices its customers in annual or quarterly installments. Accordingly, the deferred revenue balance does not represent the total contract value of annual or multi-year, noncancelable subscription agreements.

 

Deferred Commissions

 

Deferred commissions are the incremental costs that are directly associated with noncancelable subscription contracts with customers and consist of sales commissions paid to the Company’s direct sales force. The commissions are deferred and amortized over the noncancelable terms of the related customer contracts, which are typically 12 to 24 months. The commission payments are paid in full the month after the customer’s service commences. The deferred commission amounts are recoverable through the future revenue streams under the noncancelable customer contracts. The Company believes this is the preferable method of accounting as the commission charges are so closely related to the revenue from the noncancelable customer contracts that they should be recorded as an asset and charged to expense over the same period that the subscription revenue is recognized. Amortization of deferred commissions is included in marketing and sales expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

 

Warranties and Indemnification

 

The Company’s on-demand application service is typically warranted to perform in a manner consistent with general industry standards that are reasonably applicable and materially in accordance with the Company’s online help documentation under normal use and circumstances.

 

The Company’s arrangements generally include certain provisions for indemnifying customers against liabilities if its products or services infringe a third-party’s intellectual property rights. To date, the Company has not incurred any material costs as a result of such indemnifications and has not accrued any liabilities related to such obligations in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

 

The Company has entered into service level agreements with a small number of its customers warranting certain levels of uptime reliability and performance and permitting those customers to receive credits or terminate their agreements in the event that the Company fails to meet those levels. During fiscal 2005, the Company recorded a provision of approximately $800,000 for potential credits, and paid out $500,000.

 

The Company has also agreed to indemnify its directors and executive officers for costs associated with any fees, expenses, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by any of these persons in any action or proceeding to which any of those persons is, or is threatened to be, made a party by reason of the person’s service as a director or officer, including any action by the Company, arising out of that person’s services as the Company’s director or officer or that person’s services provided to any other company or enterprise at the Company’s request. The Company maintains director and officer insurance coverage that would generally enable the Company to recover a portion of any future amounts paid.

 

Advertising Expenses

 

Advertising is expensed as incurred. Advertising expense was $6,908,000, $5,048,000 and $3,997,000 for fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncement

 

In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment, or SFAS 123R, which requires all share-based

 

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payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options and purchases under employee stock purchase plans, to be recognized as expenses in the statement of operations based on their fair values and vesting periods. The Company plans to adopt the provisions of SFAS 123R on August 1, 2005, which is the start of its third fiscal quarter next year. The Company is currently assessing the impact of this prospective change in accounting and believe that it will have a material and adverse impact on the Company’s reported results of operations.

 

Additionally, SFAS 123R requires the tax benefits from employee stock plans to be classified as a financing activity in the consolidated statement of cash flows. The Company currently classifies these tax benefits, which totaled $798,000 in fiscal 2005, as a source of cash provided by operating activities.

 

2. Joint Venture

 

On December 7, 2000, the Company entered into a joint venture agreement with SunBridge, Inc., a Japanese corporation, to establish Salesforce Japan. In accordance with the agreement, the Company contributed $1,339,000 for 300,000 shares of common stock, which resulted in a 75 percent interest in the joint venture. Provided that the Company owns at least 30 percent of the outstanding voting shares of the joint venture, the Company has the right to appoint three of the six board members of the joint venture, and together with SunBridge, may appoint a fourth director.

 

During fiscal 2002, the joint venture sold 48,400 shares of common stock. As a result of these transactions, the Company’s ownership declined from 75 percent to 66.9 percent.

 

On September 29, 2002 and October 28, 2002, the joint venture sold an additional 9,000 and 8,000 shares of common stock, respectively, at a per share price of $32.41 for total proceeds of $551,000. As a result, the Company’s ownership percentage declined from 66.9 percent to 64.5 percent. The Company’s change in interest in the joint venture resulted in a gain of $355,000, which has been recorded directly to additional paid-in capital. This gain was calculated based on the Company’s proportionate share of the proceeds from the sale.

 

On September 11, 2003, the joint venture sold an additional 4,750 shares of common stock at a per share price of $35.16 for total proceeds of $167,000. As a result, the Company’s ownership percentage declined from 64.5 percent to 63.8 percent. The Company’s change in interest in the joint venture resulted in a gain of $99,000, which has been recorded directly to additional paid-in capital. This gain was calculated based on the Company’s proportionate share of the proceeds from the sale.

 

In July 2004, the joint venture sold an additional 9,000 shares of common stock for total proceeds of $40,000. As a result, the Company’s ownership percentage declined from 63.8 percent to 62.6 percent. The Company’s change in interest in the joint venture resulted in a gain of $25,000, which has been recorded directly to additional paid-in capital. This gain was calculated based on the Company’s proportionate share of the proceeds from the sale.

 

The Japanese Stock Option Plan includes antidilution provisions such that the option holders are allowed additional options if the joint venture issues additional stock and the exercise price of their options is reduced if the additional stock is issued for an amount less than such exercise price. These provisions result in variable accounting for the plan, as the number of options awarded is not fixed and no measurement date currently exists.

 

The Board of Directors of the joint venture authorized options to purchase 40,000 shares to be issued under a new stock option plan.

 

In fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, the joint venture granted options to purchase 10,000, 3,000, and 2,600 shares, respectively, to its employees to purchase shares of common stock in the joint venture. The stock options were

 

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issued with an exercise price of ¥4,000 per share (approximately $37 per share), ¥3,500 per share (approximately $31 per share) and ¥3,500 per share (approximately $30 per share) and vest over a two-year period. As a result of these stock option grants, the joint venture recorded $88,000, $13,000 and $162,000 of deferred stock-based compensation during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The joint venture amortized $23,000, $274,000 and $544,000 of deferred stock-based compensation expense during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The joint venture reversed $2,000, zero and $34,000 of deferred stock-based compensation related to terminated employees during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Additionally, as a result of an employee termination, during fiscal 2005 the joint venture reversed compensation expense of $475,000, which had been previously recognized.

 

Given the Company’s majority ownership interest in the joint venture, the accounts of the joint venture have been consolidated with the accounts of the Company, and a minority interest has been recorded for the third party’s interest in the net assets and operations of the joint venture to the extent of the minority partners’ individual investments. All intercompany transactions have been eliminated, with the exception of minority interest.

 

Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, the joint venture will terminate if the joint venture becomes a public company or is sold to a third party, or upon the mutual agreement of the parties. In addition, if the Company commits a breach of, or if the Company fails to perform, its material obligations under the joint venture agreement, which are not cured in a timely manner, SunBridge can require the Company to purchase all of its shares in the joint venture. The purchase price for SunBridge’s shares would be the then fair market value plus a specified premium. In the event that SunBridge commits a breach of, or if it fails to perform, its material obligations under the joint venture agreement, which it does not cure in a timely manner, or if SunBridge enters into bankruptcy proceedings, the Company can require SunBridge to sell to it all of their shares in the joint venture. The purchase price for SunBridge’s shares would be the then fair market value less a specified discount. Additionally, if the Company and SunBridge are unable to agree on certain operational matters, either party can require the other to purchase all of its shares of the joint venture at a price equal to the then fair value market value. Fair market value is to be determined by mutual agreement of the parties, or if the parties are unable to agree, by an independent appraiser.

 

3. Balance Sheet Accounts

 

Marketable Securities

 

At January 31, 2005, marketable securities consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

     Amortized
Cost


   Unrealized
Gains


   Unrealized
Losses


    Fair Value

Corporate notes and obligations

   $ 78,773    $ 13    $ (418 )   $ 78,368

Municipal bonds

     26,085      —        (35 )     26,050

US government and agency obligations

     66,098      —        (309 )     65,789
    

  

  


 

     $ 170,956    $ 13    $ (762 )   $ 170,207
    

  

  


 

 

     January 31,
2005


Recorded as follows:

      

Short-term (due in one year or less)

   $ 83,087

Long-term (due between one and three years)

     87,120
    

     $ 170,207
    

 

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The unrealized losses are attributable to changes in interest rates. None of the investments have been in an unrealized loss position for 12 months or longer. Management has the ability to hold these investments to maturity and does not believe any of the unrealized losses represent an other-than-temporary impairment based on its evaluation of available evidence as of January 31, 2005.

 

At January 31, 2004, the Company had $25,349,000 of short-term marketable securities, consisting of municipal bonds. The cost of these securities approximated fair value.

 

Fixed Assets

 

Fixed assets consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

     January 31,
2005


    January 31,
2004


 

Computers, equipment and software

   $ 12,703     $ 8,693  

Furniture and fixtures

     1,755       1,784  

Leasehold improvements

     2,708       1,610  
    


 


       17,166       12,087  

Less accumulated depreciation and amortization

     (9,529 )     (7,018 )
    


 


     $ 7,637     $ 5,069  
    


 


 

Depreciation and amortization expense totaled $2,751,000, $2,314,000 and $2,478,000 for fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

Fixed assets at January 31, 2005 and 2004 included a total of $3,487,000 and $1,788,000, respectively, acquired under capital lease agreements. Accumulated amortization relating to equipment and software under capital leases totaled $2,142,000 and $1,717,000, respectively, at January 31, 2005 and 2004. Amortization of assets under capital leases is included in depreciation and amortization expense.

 

Other Assets

 

Other assets consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

     January 31,
2005


   January 31,
2004


Capitalized internal-use software development costs, net of accumulated amortization of $957 and $561, respectively

   $ 641    $ 572

Long-term deposits

     1,138      922
    

  

     $ 1,779    $ 1,494
    

  

 

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Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities

 

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

     January 31,
2005


   January 31,
2004


Accrued compensation

   $ 16,836    $ 8,980

Accrued other liabilities

     6,560      3,812

Current portion of lease abandonment liability

     278      477

Liability for early exercise of unvested employee stock options

     591      749

Accrued taxes payable

     5,146      2,304

Accrued professional costs

     2,241      695

Accrued rent

     815      665
    

  

     $ 32,467    $ 17,682
    

  

 

4. Initial Public Offering

 

In June 2004, the Company completed the sale of 11,500,000 shares of common stock, which included the underwriters’ exercise of an over-allotment option, at a price of $11.00 per share. A total of $126,500,000 in gross proceeds was raised in this initial public offering. After deducting the underwriting discount of $8,855,000 and offering expenses of $3,877,000, net proceeds were $113,768,000.

 

Upon the closing of the Company’s initial public offering, the 58,024,345 shares of the Company’s outstanding convertible preferred stock converted, on a one-for-one basis, into shares of common stock.

 

5. Income Taxes

 

The domestic and foreign components of income (loss) before provisions for income taxes and minority interest were as follows (in thousands):

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

 
     2005

    2004

    2003

 

Domestic

   $ 12,509     $ 9,550     $ (4,247 )

Foreign

     (3,356 )     (5,311 )     (5,761 )
    


 


 


     $ 9,153     $ 4,239     $ (10,008 )
    


 


 


 

The provision for income taxes were as follows (in thousands):

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

         2005    

       2004    

       2003    

Current:

                    

Federal

   $ 354    $ 186    $ —  

State

     189      263      —  

Foreign

     674      92      —  
    

  

  

     $ 1,217    $ 541    $ —  
    

  

  

 

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A reconciliation of income taxes at the statutory federal income tax rate to net income taxes included in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations is as follows (in thousands):

 

     Fiscal Year Ended January 31,

 
     2005

    2004

    2003

 

U.S. federal taxes (benefit) at statutory rate

   $ 3,207     $ 1,484     $ (3,503 )

State

     189       263       —    

Deferred compensation

     347       802       697  

Foreign losses providing no benefit

     1,466       1,859       2,016  

Unutilized (utilized) net operating losses

     (4,453 )     (4,068 )     563  

Foreign tax expense

     290       92       —    

Other

     171       109       227  
    


 


 


     $ 1,217     $ 541     $ —    
    


 


 


 

Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effect of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. Significant components of the Company’s deferred tax assets were as follows (in thousands):

 

     January 31,

 
     2005

    2004

 

Deferred tax assets:

                

Net operating loss carryforwards

   $ 22,968     $ 14,729  

Lease abandonment

     1,074       1,040  

Deferred compensation

     2,425       1,973  

Tax credits

     1,678       1,017  

Other

     51       920  
    


 


Total deferred tax assets

     28,196       19,679  

Less valuation allowance

     (28,196 )     (19,679 )
    


 


Net deferred tax assets

   $ —       $ —    
    


 


 

Realization of deferred tax assets is dependent on future earnings, if any, the timing and amount of which are uncertain. Accordingly, the net deferred tax assets have been fully offset by a valuation allowance, which increased by approximately $8,500,000 in fiscal 2005. The increase in the valuation allowance is primarily due to uncertainties of realizing domestic losses, net operating losses incurred by the Japanese joint venture, and certain tax credit carryforwards. The balance in the valuation allowance of January 31, 2005 includes approximately $8,100,000 for stock plan deductions which will be credited to additional capital and the provision for income taxes if realized.

 

At January 31, 2005, the Company had net operating loss carryforwards for federal income tax purposes of approximately $43,300,000, which expire in 2020 through 2023, federal research and development tax credits of approximately $800,000, which expire in 2020 through 2023, and minimum tax credits, which have no expiration date. The Company also has state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $48,500,000 which expire beginning in 2007 and state research and development tax credits of approximately $800,000 which have no expiration date. In addition, the Company has net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $3,400,000 from the Japanese joint venture which expire in 2006 though 2009.

 

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Utilization of the Company’s net operating loss carryforwards may be subject to substantial annual limitation due to the ownership change limitations provided by the Internal Revenue Code and similar state provisions. Such an annual limitation could result in the expiration of the net operating loss carryforwards before utilization.

 

6. Preferred Stock

 

After the consummation of the initial public offering in June 2004 and the filing of the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation, the Company’s board of directors has the authority, without further action by stockholders, to issue up to 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series. The Company’s board of directors may designate the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions of the preferred stock, including dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption, liquidation preference, sinking fund terms, and number of shares constituting any series or the designation of any series. The issuance of preferred stock could have the effect of restricting dividends on the Company’s common stock, diluting the voting power of its common stock, impairing the liquidation rights of its common stock, or delaying or preventing a change in control. The ability to issue preferred stock could delay or impede a change in control. At January 31, 2005, no shares of preferred stock were outstanding and the Company has no plans to issue any shares of preferred stock.

 

7. Stockholders’ Equity

 

Stock Options Issued to Employees

 

In April 1999, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted and stockholders approved the 1999 Stock Option Plan (the “1999 Plan”) which provides for the issuance of incentive and nonstatutory options to employees and nonemployees of the Company. Through June 22, 2004, the Company had reserved 38,000,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the 1999 Plan. As of January 31, 2005, there were 1,139,445 shares of common stock available for grant under the 1999 Plan.

 

Additionally, in December 2003 in connection with the Company’s initial public offering, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the 2004 Equity Incentive Plan, the 2004 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and the 2004 Outside Directors Stock Plan. These plans were approved by the Company’s stockholders in February 2004. The following number of shares were reserved under these plans:

 

     Shares

2004 Equity Incentive Plan

   4,000,000

2004 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

   1,000,000

2004 Outside Directors Stock Plan

   1,000,000

 

These plans, other than the 2004 Outside Directors Plan, provide for annual automatic increases on February 1 to the shares reserved for issuance based on the lesser of (i) a specific percentage of the total number of shares outstanding at year end; (ii) a fixed number of shares; or (iii) a lesser number of shares set by the Company’s Board of Directors, all as specified in the respective plans. On February 1, 2005, the automatic increase to the shares reserved for the 2004 Equity Incentive Plan was 5,000,000 shares. The 2004 Employee Stock Purchase Plan will not be implemented unless and until the Company’s Board of Directors authorizes the commencement of one or more offerings under the plan. No offering periods have been authorized to date.

 

Options issued under the Company’s stock option plans are generally for periods not to exceed 10 years, vest over 4 years and are generally issued at fair value of the shares of common stock on the date of grant as determined by the Board of Directors. Following the initial public offering, the fair value of the Company’s

 

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common stock is determined by the trading price of such stock on the New York Stock Exchange. The 1999 Plan provides for grants of immediately exercisable options; however, the Company has the right to repurchase any unvested common stock upon the termination of employment at the original exercise price. The Company’s right to repurchase unvested shares lapses at the rate of the vesting schedules. Grants made pursuant to the 2004 Equity Incentive Plan generally do not provide for the immediate exercise of options.

 

Stock option activity is as follows:

 

     Options Outstanding

     Shares
Available for
Grant


    Outstanding
Stock
Options


    Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price


Balance as of January 31, 2002

   3,706,018     4,074,560     $ 0.81

Increase in options authorized

   5,000,000     —         —  

Granted

   (8,878,000 )   8,878,000       1.10

Exercised

   —       (1,680,122 )     0.94

Cancelled

   746,559     (746,559 )     1.18

Repurchased

   734,482     —         —  
    

 

 

Balance as of January 31, 2003

   1,309,059     10,525,879       1.01

Increase in options authorized

   8,000,000     —         —  

Granted

   (7,637,500 )   7,637,500       3.74

Exercised

   —       (1,041,131 )     1.40

Cancelled

   1,193,853     (1,193,853 )     1.28

Repurchased

   23,967     —         —  
    

 

 

Balance as of January 31, 2004

   2,889,379     15,928,395       2.29

Increase in options authorized:

                  

2004 Equity Incentive Plan

   4,000,000     —         —  

2004 Outside Directors Stock Plan

   1,000,000     —         —  

Granted under all option plans

   (6,492,767 )   6,492,767       11.61

Granted to board members for board services

   (40,000 )   —         —  

Exercised

   —       (3,843,880 )     1.24

Cancelled

   1,211,693     (1,211,693 )     5.80

Repurchased

   191,000     —         —  
    

 

 

Balance as of January 31, 2005

   2,759,305     17,365,589     $ 5.74
    

 

 

 

At January 31, 2005, options to purchase 4,716,234 shares were vested at a weighted average exercise price of $1.88 per share.

 

As of January 31, 2005, 457,095 shares issued pursuant to exercises of options issued under the 1999 Plan remained subject to repurchase.

 

During fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, the Company recorded $1,773,000, $3,627,000 and $8,913,000, respectively, of deferred stock-based compensation expense related to stock option grants under the 1999 Plan for the excess of the deemed fair market value over the exercise price at the date of grant related to stock options granted to employees. The Company reversed deferred stock-based compensation related to cancellation of options for terminated employees in the amount of $798,000, $1,212,000 and $1,248,000 during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The Company amortized $3,275,000, $3,491,000 and $2,591,000 of the deferred

 

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stock-based compensation during fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The compensation expense is being recognized on a straight-line basis over the option-vesting period of four years.

 

During fiscal 2004 and 2003, the Company accelerated the vesting of certain stock options relating to terminated employees. As a result, the Company recorded compensation expense totaling $146,000 and $178,000, respectively. The Company did not accelerate the vesting of any stock options during fiscal 2005.

 

The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding as of January 31, 2005:

 

     Options Outstanding

Range of

Exercise Prices


   Number
Outstanding


   Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life (Years)


   Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price


$0.03 to $0.95

   919,043    5.66    $ 0.04

$1.10

   3,927,492    7.56      1.10

$1.25 to $2.00

   234,672    5.84      1.85

$2.50

   4,210,857    8.40      2.50

$4.00 to $6.00

   1,141,275    8.74      4.86

$8.00

   3,592,110    9.14      8.00

$12.77 to $18.45

   3,340,140    9.79      14.93
    
           
     17,365,589         $ 5.74
    
           

 

Notes Receivable from Stockholders

 

During fiscal 2001, certain employees exercised their stock options with notes. None of these employees is an executive officer or director. The notes are full recourse and collateralized by the stock of the individuals. The notes bear an interest rate of 6 percent. The notes receivable have been classified as a reduction of stockholders’ equity and are due at various dates through September 2005. During fiscal 2003, the Company terminated one of these employees and repurchased the unvested shares through cancellation of $109,000 of the related note receivable. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005, the Company collected $1,043,000 from two individuals in full satisfaction of the outstanding principal and interest balances. The remaining principal and interest of $727,000 at January 31, 2005 was collected in full from the remaining individuals in February 2005.

 

Stock Awards to Non-Employees

 

During fiscal 2004, the Company granted stock awards of 100,000 shares to non-employees with 4 year vesting terms. Compensation expense is re-measured as the shares vest and was recorded over the vesting periods. Together with past stock awards to non-employees, such expenses amounted to $167,000, $162,000 and $310,000 for fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Such expense was estimated using the Black-Scholes pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions:

 

Risk-free interest rate

   6.00%

Contractual lives

   18—48 months

Expected dividend yield

   0%

Expected volatility

   75—100%

 

Warrants for Common Stock

 

In August 2002, the Board of Directors authorized the issuance of four warrants, each to purchase 125,000 shares of common stock at $1.10 per share to the salesforce.com/foundation (the “Foundation”), which is a

 

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nonprofit related party. The Company’s chairman is the chairman of the Foundation. He, one of the Company’s executive officers and one of the Company’s board members hold three of the Foundation’s eight board seats. The warrants are exercisable for one-year terms beginning on the earlier of the initial public offering of the Company or August 1 2003, August 1, 2004, August 1, 2005, and August 1, 2006, respectively. The warrants were issued as a charitable contribution to the Foundation. The warrants were fully vested on the date of grant without any performance obligations by the Foundation.

 

The fair value of the warrants totaled $656,000 and was recorded as general and administrative expense in fiscal 2003. As of January 31, 2005, the warrants to purchase an aggregate of 375,000 shares of common stock remain outstanding.

 

In fiscal year 2003, the Company issued two warrants to purchase 50,000 and 35,000 shares, respectively, of common stock at an exercise price of $1.10 to an executive recruiting firm. The warrants were fully vested on the date of grant and were exercised in January 2005. The warrants were valued using the Black-Scholes pricing model with the following assumptions: fair value of the underlying stock of $1.96 and $2.50 per share, respectively; risk-free interest rate of 5 percent; contractual life of five years; no dividends during the term; and volatility of 100 percent. The fair value of the warrants totaled $153,000 and was recorded as general and administrative expense.

 

Common Stock

 

The following shares of common stock are available for future issuance at January 31, 2005:

 

Options outstanding

   17,365,589

Warrants outstanding

   1,040,639

Stock available for future grant:

    

1999 Stock Option Plan

   1,139,445

2004 Equity Incentive Plan

   632,360

2004 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

   1,000,000

2004 Outside Directors Stock Plan

   987,500
    
     22,165,533
    

 

In January 2004, the Board of Directors authorized the issuance of 10,000 shares of common stock to a board member and 22,500 shares to a former board member for past board services. The expense associated with these share issuances was $260,000 and was recognized immediately.

 

During fiscal 2005, the Board of Directors authorized the issuance of 40,000 shares of common stock to two board members for board services. Of the 40,000 shares, 12,500 shares were distributed pursuant to the terms described in the 2004 Outside Directors Plan. The expense associated with these share issuances was $646,000 and was expensed immediately at the time of the issuances.

 

8. Commitments and Contingencies

 

Letters of Credit

 

In fiscal year 2001, the Company established a $3,500,000 letter of credit in favor of its principal landlord. This letter of credit is collateralized by a certificate of deposit maintained at the granting financial institution, both of which were reduced to $2,800,000 in June 2004. As of January 31, 2005, the letter of credit was outstanding; however, no amounts had been drawn against it. The letter of credit renews annually through December 31, 2010.

 

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In addition, the Company had two additional letters of credit outstanding related to office leases as of January 31, 2005, which were collateralized by certificates of deposit in the aggregate of $391,000 and are maintained at the granting financial institution.

 

Leases

 

As of January 31, 2005, the Company leases office space and equipment under noncancelable operating and capital leases with various expiration dates through 2011.

 

In June 2004, the Company entered into a capital lease arrangement to obtain software licenses for use in its internal business operations. This agreement is for 3 years, with an interest rate of 3.5 percent per year.

 

Future minimum lease payments under noncancelable operating and capital leases areas are as follows:

 

     Capital
Leases


    Operating
Leases


Fiscal Year Ended January 31:

              

2006

   $ 585,000     $ 12,009,000

2007

     585,000       9,011,000

2008

     147,000       7,021,000

2009

     —         6,083,000

2010

     —         4,648,000

Thereafter

     —         6,361,000
    


 

Total minimum lease payments

     1,317,000     $ 45,133,000
            

Less: amount representing interest

     (33,000 )      
    


     

Present value of capital lease obligations

   $ 1,284,000        
    


     

 

The terms of the lease agreements provide for rental payments on a graduated basis. The Company recognizes rent expense on the straight-line basis over the lease period and has accrued for rent expense incurred but not paid.

 

Rent expense for fiscal 2005, 2004 and 2003 was $6,490,000, $4,686,000 and $3,708,000, respectively.

 

In December 2001, the Company abandoned 19,500 square feet of excess office space in San Francisco and recorded a lease abandonment charge of $7,657,000. This amount consisted of the future rent obligations under the operating leases of $11,368,000, offset by projected subtenant income of $3,711,000. The operating leases with the landlords expire on different dates through April 2011.

 

Of the total space abandoned, the Company subleased 7,500 square feet through the remaining term of its operating lease at the original sublease assumptions. Additionally, in August 2003, the Company executed a Third Amendment to Office Lease with its landlord. This agreement modified the original lease such that the total leased space under the amended agreement excluded 7,200 square feet of the space that was abandoned. As a result of this amendment, the Company recorded a reduction in its lease liability of $4,342,000 during the third quarter of fiscal 2004.

 

At January 31, 2004, approximately 5,000 square feet of the 19,500 square feet of office space abandoned in December 2001 remained available for sublease. The operating lease for this remaining space expires in April 2011. Due to the difficulty in securing subtenants to occupy the remaining 5,000 square feet of available office

 

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space, the Company lowered its subtenant income assumptions and recorded an additional $897,000 lease abandonment charge in its fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 operating results.

 

During fiscal 2005, the Company subleased 700 square feet of available space. At January 31, 2005, the remaining liability associated with approximately 4,000 remaining square feet of office space abandoned in December 2001 was $1,531,000 and consisted of the future rental obligation offset by an estimate of projected subtenant income of $919,000. The actual vacancy periods may differ from these estimates, and sublease income, if any, may not materialize. Accordingly, these estimates may be adjusted in future periods.

 

The following table sets forth the lease abandonment activity:

 

Liability balance at January 31, 2002

   $ 7,512,000  

Charges utilized, net of subtenant income of $219,000

     (1,177,000 )
    


Liability balance at January 31, 2003

     6,335,000  

Additions

     897,000  

Charges utilized, net of subtenant income of $219,000

     (919,000 )

Reversals

     (4,342,000 )
    


Liability balance at January 31, 2004

   $ 1,971,000  

Charges utilized, net of subtenant income of $124,000

     (440,000 )
    


Liability balance at January 31, 2005

   $ 1,531,000  
    


 

Legal Proceedings

 

On July 26, 2004, a purported class action complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, entitled Morrison v. salesforce.com, et al., against the Company, its Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer. The complaint alleges violations of Section 10(b) and Section 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), purportedly on behalf of all persons who purchased salesforce.com common stock between June 21, 2004 and July 21, 2004, inclusive. The claims are based on allegations that the Company failed to disclose an allegedly declining trend in its revenues and earnings. Subsequently, four other substantially similar class action complaints were filed in the same district based on the same facts and allegations, asserting claims under Section 10(b) and Section 20(a) of the 1934 Act and Section 11 and Section 15 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The actions have been consolidated under the caption In re salesforce.com, inc. Securities Litigation, Case No. C-04-3009 JSW (N.D. Cal.). On December 22, 2004, the Court appointed Chuo Zhu as lead plaintiff. On February 22, 2005, lead plaintiff filed a Consolidated and Amended Class Action Complaint (the “CAC”). The CAC alleges violations of Section 10(b) and Section 20(a) of the 1934 Act, purportedly on behalf of all persons who purchased salesforce.com common stock between June 23, 2004 and July 21, 2004, inclusive. As in the original complaints, the claims in the CAC are based on allegations that the Company failed to disclose an allegedly declining trend in its revenues and earnings. The deadline for defendants to respond to the CAC is April 25, 2005. The lawsuit is still in the preliminary stages, and it is not possible for the Company to quantify the extent of potential liability, if any. The Company does not believe that the lawsuit has any merit and intends to defend the action vigorously.

 

On August 6, 2004, a shareholder derivative action was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, San Francisco County, entitled Borrelli v. Benioff, et al., against the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, its Chief Financial Officer and members of its Board of Directors alleging breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, gross mismanagement, waste of corporate assets and unjust enrichment under state common law. Subsequently, a substantially similar complaint was filed in the same court based on the same facts and

 

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allegations, entitled Johnson v. Benioff, et al. The two actions have been consolidated under the caption Borrelli v. Benioff, Case No. CGC-04-433615 (Cal. Super. Ct., S.F. Cty.). On October 5, 2004, plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint, which is based upon the same facts and circumstances as alleged in the shareholder class action discussed above, and asserts that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by making or failing to prevent salesforce.com, inc. and its management from making statements or omissions that potentially subject the Company to liability and injury to its reputation. The action seeks damages on behalf of salesforce.com in an unspecified amount, among other forms of legal and equitable relief. Salesforce.com is named solely as a nominal defendant against which no recovery is sought. The plaintiff shareholders made no demand upon the Board of Directors prior to filing these actions. The deadline for defendants to respond to the consolidated complaint is June 16, 2005. The derivative action is still in the preliminary stages, and it is not possible for the Company to quantify the extent of potential liability to the individual defendants, if any. Management does not believe that the lawsuits have any merit and intends to defend the actions vigorously.

 

Additionally, the Company is and may become involved in various legal proceedings arising from the normal course of its business activities. In management’s opinion, resolution of these matters is not expected to have a material adverse impact on the Company’s consolidated results of operations, cash flows or its financial position. However, depending on the nature and timing of any such dispute, an unfavorable resolution of a matter could materially affect the Company’s future results of operations, cash flows or financial position in a particular period.

 

9. Employee Benefit Plan

 

The Company has a 401(k) plan covering all eligible employees. The Company is not required to contribute to the plan and has made no contributions through January 31, 2005.

 

10. Related-Party Transactions

 

In January 1999, the salesforce.com/foundation, commonly referred to as the Foundation, a non-profit public charity, was chartered to build philanthropic programs that are particularly focused on youth and technology. The Company’s chairman is the chairman of the Foundation. He, one of the Company’s executive officers and one of the Company’s board members hold three of the Foundation’s eight board seats. The Company is not the primary beneficiary of the Foundation’s activities, and accordingly, the Company does not consolidate the Foundation’s statement of activities with its financial results.

 

Since the Foundation’s inception, the Company has provided at no charge certain resources to Foundation employees such as office space. The value of these items totals approximately $30,000 per quarter.

 

In addition to the resource sharing with the Foundation, the Company issued the Foundation warrants in August 2002 to purchase 500,000 shares of common stock and has donated subscriptions to the Company’s service to qualified non-profit organizations. The fair value of these donated subscriptions is currently approximately $300,000 per month. The Company plans to continue providing free subscriptions to qualified nonprofit organizations.

 

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11. Selected Quarterly Financial Data (Unaudited)

 

Selected summarized quarterly financial information and customer and subscriber metrics for fiscal 2005 and 2004 is as follows:

 

     1st
Quarter


   2nd
Quarter


   3rd
Quarter


    4th
Quarter


    Fiscal
Year


 
    

(in thousands, except per share data and customer and

subscriber metrics)

 

Fiscal 2005

                                      

Revenues

   $ 34,839    $ 40,581    $ 46,361     $ 54,594     $ 176,375  

Gross profit

     28,476      32,399      37,456       44,590       142,921  

Lease abandonment (recovery)

     —        —        —         —         —    

Income from operations

     361      1,165      1,773       3,221       6,520  

Net income

     437      1,170      2,153       3,586       7,346  

Basic net income per share

     0.01      0.02      0.02       0.03       0.10  

Diluted net income per share

     —        0.01      0.02       0.03       0.07  

As of each quarter-end date:

                                      

Approximate number of customers

     9,800      11,100      12,500       13,900          

Approximate number of paying subscribers

     147,000      168,000      195,000       227,000          

Fiscal 2004

                                      

Revenues

   $ 18,913    $ 21,623    $ 25,434     $ 30,053     $ 96,023  

Gross profit

     15,558      17,795      20,766       24,631       78,750  

Lease abandonment (recovery) (1)

     —        —        (4,342 )     897       (3,445 )

Income (loss) from operations (1)

     17      134      4,311       (744 )     3,718  

Net income (loss)

     368      122      3,789       (765 )     3,514  

Basic net income (loss) per share

     0.01      —        0.13       (0.02 )     0.12  

Diluted net income (loss) per share

     —        —        0.04       (0.02 )     0.04  

As of each quarter-end date:

                                      

Approximate number of customers

     6,300      7,000      7,700       8,700          

Approximate number of paying subscribers

     85,000      96,000      107,000       127,000          

(1) Income (loss) from operations for fiscal 2004 included non-cash income of $3.4 million related to the net reduction in accruals associated with office space that we abandoned in fiscal 2002.

 

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

 

None.

 

ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

 

(a) Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures.

 

Our management evaluated, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) or 15d-15(e) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “Evaluation Date”). Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded as of the Evaluation Date that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed by us in periodic SEC reports is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms. It should be noted that the design of any system of controls is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and can therefore only provide reasonable, not absolute assurance that the design will succeed in achieving its stated goals.

 

Since we are not yet an accelerated filer, we are not currently required to comply with Section 404 (Management Assessment of Internal Controls) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. We are in the process of implementing what we believe will be sufficient internal control structures and procedures for our financial reporting such that our management can provide the required certifications as to these structures and procedures in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ending January 31, 2006.

 

(b) Changes in internal control over financial reporting.

 

There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION

 

Not applicable.

 

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PART III

 

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

 

The information concerning our directors, compliance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and our code of ethics that applies to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer required by this Item are incorporated herein by reference to information contained in the sections of the Proxy Statement entitled “Election of Directors” and “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance.”

 

The information concerning our executive officers required by this Item is incorporated by reference herein to the section of this Report in Part I, entitled “Executive Officers of the Registrant.”

 

We have adopted a Code of Conduct that applies to all employees, including our principal executive officer, Marc Benioff, principal financial and accounting officer, Steve Cakebread, and all other executive officers. The Code of Conduct is available on our Web site at http://www/salesforce.com/company/corporate-governance.jsp. A copy may also be obtained without charge by contacting Investor Relations, salesforce.com, inc., The Landmark @ One Market, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105 or by calling (415) 536-6250.

 

We plan to post on our Web site at the address described above any future amendments or waivers of our Code of Conduct.

 

ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 

The information required by this Item is incorporated herein by reference to information contained in the sections of the Proxy Statement entitled “Executive Compensation and Other Matters” and “Election of Directors.”

 

ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

 

The information required by this Item is incorporated herein by reference to information contained in the sections of the Proxy Statement entitled “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” and “Equity Compensation Plan Information.”

 

ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

 

The information required by this Item is incorporated herein by reference to information contained in the section of the Proxy Statement entitled “Employment Contracts and Certain Transactions.”

 

ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES

 

The information required by this Item is incorporated herein by reference to information contained in the section of the Proxy Statement entitled “Ratification of Appointment of Independent Auditors.”

 

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

 

(a) The following documents are filed as a part of this Report:

 

1. Financial Statements: The information concerning our financial statements and Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm required by this Item is incorporated by reference herein to the section of this Report in Item 8, entitled “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”

 

2. Financial Statement Schedules: Schedule II Valuation and Qualifying Accounts is filed as part of this Report and should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto.

 

The Financial Statement Schedules not listed have been omitted because they are not applicable or are not required or the information required to be set forth herein is included in the Consolidated Financial Statements or Notes thereto.

 

3. Exhibits: See Item 15(b) below.

 

(b) Exhibits. The exhibits listed below in the accompanying “Index to Exhibits” are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 

(c) Financial Statement Schedules.

 

salesforce.com, inc.

 

Schedule II Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

 

Description


  

Balance at
Beginning

of Year


   Additions

  

Deductions

Write-offs


  

Balance at

End of
Year


Fiscal year ended January 31, 2005

                           

Allowance for doubtful accounts

   $ 349,000    $ 1,249,000    $ 848,000    $ 750,000

Fiscal year ended January 31, 2004

                           

Allowance for doubtful accounts

   $ 180,000    $ 735,000    $ 566,000    $ 349,000

Fiscal year ended January 31, 2003

                           

Allowance for doubtful accounts

   $ 83,000    $ 538,000    $ 441,000    $ 180,000

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Dated: March 25, 2005

 

salesforce.com, inc.

/s/    MARC BENIOFF        


Marc Benioff

Chairman of the Board of Directors

And Chief Executive Officer

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENT, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Marc Benioff, Steve Cakebread and David Schellhase, his attorneys-in-fact, each with the power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this annual report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature


  

Title


 

Date


/s/    MARC BENIOFF        


Marc Benioff

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

  March 25, 2005

/s/    STEVE CAKEBREAD        


Steve Cakebread

  

Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial & Accounting Officer)

  March 25, 2005

/s/    ALAN HASSENFELD        


Alan Hassenfeld

  

Director

  March 25, 2005

/s/    CRAIG RAMSEY        


Craig Ramsey

  

Director

  March 25, 2005

/s/    SANFORD R. ROBERTSON        


Sanford R. Robertson

  

Director

  March 25, 2005

/s/    STRATTON SCLAVOS        


Stratton Sclavos

  

Director

  March 25, 2005

/s/    LARRY TOMLINSON        


Larry Tomlinson

  

Director

  March 25, 2005

 

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Index to Exhibits

 

Exhibit 3.1 (1)    Restated Certificate of Incorporation of salesforce.com, inc.
Exhibit 3.2 (1)    Amended and Restated Bylaws of salesforce.com, inc.
Exhibit 4.1 (1)    Specimen Common Stock Certificate
Exhibit 10.1* (1)    Form of Indemnification Agreement between salesforce.com, inc and its officers and directors
Exhibit 10.2*    1999 Stock Option Plan, as amended
Exhibit 10.3* (1)    2004 Equity Incentive Plan
Exhibit 10.4* (1)    2004 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Exhibit 10.5* (1)    2004 Outside Directors Stock Plan
Exhibit 10.6 (2)    Office Lease dated as of June 23, 2000 between salesforce.com, inc. and TMG/One Market, L.P., and amendments thereto
Exhibit 10.7 (2)    Sublease Agreement dated as of August 5, 2003 between salesforce.com, inc. and Vignette Corporation
Exhibit 10.8** (3)    Web Hosting and Internet Access Service Agreement dated January 8, 2003 between salesforce.com, inc. and Qwest Communications Corporation, and amendments thereto
Exhibit 10.9 (2)    Warrant to purchase shares of Series C Preferred Stock
Exhibit 10.10 (2)    Warrant to purchase shares of Series D Preferred Stock
Exhibit 10.11 (2)    Resource Sharing Agreement dated as of March 3, 2003 between salesforce.com, inc. and salesforce.com/foundation
Exhibit 10.12 (2)    Joint Venture Agreement dated as of December 7, 2000 among salesforce.com, inc., SunBridge, Inc. and Kabushiki Kaisha salesforce.com
Exhibit 10.13 (2)    License Agreement dated as of January 19, 2001 by and between salesforce.com, inc. and Kabushiki Kaisha salesforce.com
Exhibit 10.14 (2)    Consulting Services Agreement dated as of January 19, 2001 by and between salesforce.com, inc. and Kabushiki Kaisha salesforce.com
Exhibit 10.15*    Form of Offer Letter and schedule of omitted details thereto
Exhibit 10.16 (4)    Office Lease dated as of November 9, 2004 between salesforce.com, inc. and CA-One Market Limited Partnership, and amendments thereto
Exhibit 21.1    List of Subsidiaries
Exhibit 23.1    Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Exhibit 24.1    Power of Attorney (See page 79)
Exhibit 31.1    Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) or 15(d)-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Exhibit 31.2    Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) or 15(d)-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Exhibit 32.1    Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

* Denotes a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
** Confidential treatment has been granted for a portion of this exhibit.


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(1) Incorporated by reference from the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-111289), Amendment No. 3, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 20, 2004.
(2) Incorporated by reference from the Company’s initial registration statement filing on Form S-1 (No. 333-111289) as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2003.
(3) Incorporated by reference from the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-111289), Amendment No. 4, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2004.
(4) Incorporated by reference from the Company’s Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended October 31, 2004 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 22, 2004.