• Enterprise technology marketplaces are rapidly transforming from simple catalogs into operational centers for AI and automation. • Yet many organizations are struggling with fragmented marketplace discovery, complex integrations, and inadequate governance with security risks. • These challenges are creating a costly loss in productivity and stalling critical deployments that businesses need to stay competitive. • Salesforce has been recognized as a Leader in theIDC MarketScape for Worldwide Application and Platform Marketplaces 2025 Vendor Assessment. • This recognition, we believe, reflects Salesforce’s ability to help customers meet these increasing demands by embedding discovery directly into core systems and accelerating the move from experimentation to scaled deployments with AppExchange. • As businesses expand AI and applications across the enterprise, Salesforce provides the mature models and trusted infrastructure required to govern, operationalize, and scale innovation across every industry and product suite, as solutions move from build, to marketplace, to production.
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- Salesforce has been named a Leader in IDC’s 2025 MarketScape assessment of worldwide application and platform marketplaces. The ranking highlights the company’s ability to embed marketplace discovery into core systems, streamline AI and automation deployments, and accelerate scaling through its AppExchange ecosystem. AppExchange now offers over 9,000 partner apps, 9,600 ISV/SI listings, and AI‑enabled integrations via Slack Marketplace, while the new AgentExchange marketplace provides pre‑built agentic assets for secure, governance‑compliant automation. IDC notes that Salesforce’s focus on contextual, intelligent workflows differentiates it from competitors, positioning the platform as a central hub for enterprise innovation.
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