The Salesforce.com “Best of” customer choice awards recognize AppExchange partners who have had excellent user reviews in a specific calendar year. These partners are awarded based on user-contributed reviews and do not reflect the opinions of salesforce.com, its employees or partners. The award has 11 separate categories where the winners receive recognition for their ability to take customer success to new levels in satisfaction and application excellence.
Awards are category-based and given to the apps that receive the highest combination of:
1. # of User Reviews Posted in 2010
2. Average Star Rating for User Reviews Posted in 2010
Here is the list of winners for 2010:
Best ChatterExchange App:
FedEx Shipping with Chatter
Best Contract Management App:
EchoSign E-Signature
Best Dashboard or Report:
FunnelSource
Best Data Cleansing Tool:
CountryComplete
Best Data Integration App:
Salesforce Integration- Informatica Cloud
Best Human Resources & Recruiting App:
Jobscience Recruiting
Best Marketing Automation App:
Marketo Marketing Automation
Best Mass Email App:
iContact for Salesforce
Best Productivity Tool:
Email Integration for Salesforce from iHance
Best Quoting App:
BigMachines Configurator, Quotes, Pricing & Proposals
Best Survey App:
Clicktools Surveys & Scripts
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About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange
Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM (http://www.salesforce.com/) applications, more than 1,000 ISV partner applications like those from CA Technologies, FinancialForce.com and Fujitsu, and 185,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com’s 87,200 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel. Force.com also enables developers to make any enterprise app social by leveraging the social collaboration components including profiles, status updates, and real-time feeds available with Chatter. Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the salesforce.com AppExchange 2 marketplace http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/, now featuring the ChatterExchange.