The companies core CRM product is now the best-selling enterprise app in world.

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Opportunities, another one of the core CRM data objects, for example, can be repurposed to represent many other types of activity.

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It will help Salesforce.com gain additional revenues from the Force.com platform as well as from its core CRM product due to cross-selling by Infor.

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