Salesforce.com and Veeva Systems Announce Expanded Alliance to Serve the Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry

Veeva Systems and salesforce.com the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced an expanded alliance to accelerate the delivery of the market-leading Veeva CRM applications to the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Utilizing Force.com, salesforce.com's enterprise cloud computing platform, Veeva has quickly become a market leader for Pharma CRM. Industry leaders, including three of the world's largest five pharmaceutical companies, have selected Veeva CRM running on Force.com to power their commercial operations.

Jazz Tobaccowalla, SVP of Worldwide Biopharmaceutical Businesses, Business Technology, Pfizer stated, "I am excited to see the expanded partnership between Veeva and salesforce.com. Together they are bringing enterprise cloud computing to our industry."

"Building on top of Force.com provides Veeva a leg up on our competition in the Pharma CRM market," explained Peter Gassner, CEO of Veeva Systems. "Veeva is now salesforce.com's premier Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner for sales force automation in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology segment. This expanded partnership will further fuel our success."

"Veeva's success is a clear demonstration of ISV success with the Force.com cloud platform," said George Hu, executive vice president, platform and marketing, salesforce.com. "Force.com is a proven enterprise platform that powers the most sophisticated apps in highly specialized industries, such as pharma. The expansion of our work with Veeva will accelerate pharma customer success with cloud computing."