World's Most Innovative Companies



Bangalore: Some companies keep adding new inventions and innovations on their product list. There are company who has slow pace of innovations whereas there are others who are desperately trying to make a change or make a difference. So on the basis of the average sales growth percentage in 5 years, net income growth percentage, enterprise value and innovation premium, Forbes has come up with the list of 10 most innovative companies in the world.

Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com best known for its customer relationship management product has expanded into the ‘social enterprise arena’. It is a global enterprise software company which is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. The company ranked 27th in the Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for in 2012. It was founded in 1999 and it specialised in software as a service. But it went public in 2004 on the New York stock Exchange and raised $110 million. Its services are translated into 16 different languages and has over 2,100,000 subscribers. The Customer relationship Management solution is divided into sales cloud, service cloud, data cloud, collaboration cloud and custom cloud. The average sales growth of the company in the last 5 years is 39.5 percent, the net income is 78.7 percent, the enterprise value is $20.7 billion and innovation premium is 75.1 percent.