But nine years later it acquired database management software from Lockheed Martin and started selling the technology under license to small banks, to help them manage their customer accounts.

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SaaS software applications such as customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning are deployed alongside database and middleware software.

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Marc Benioff knew that Seibel had already started a river flowing of demand for a customer relationship management (CRM) database package for businesses, but they were a traditional software model.

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