Marc Benioff is the ultimate disruptor himself, having co-founded Salesforce and taken on not only the giants of enterprisesoftware, but the very business model the industry thrives on.
The programs, an addition to the company's "Lotus" group of applications, also represent one of IBM's most ambitious forays yet into enterprise software-as-a-service, the browser-based model of applications pioneered by companies like Salesforce.com.