Manhattan Associates vs Salesforce

Manhattan Associates is a supplier of supply chain management software. Manhattan Associates was founded by Alan Dabbiere, Prahlad Suresh, Deepak Raghavan, Deepak M.J. Rao and Ponnambalam Muthiah in 1990 in Manhattan Beach, CA for the purpose of applying information technology solutions to distribution centers. The company's first product, called PkMS, managed receiving stock, locating stock, picking stock, verifying stock, packaging, and shipping stock in and out of a warehouse. In 1994, it signed its 50th customer and generated $6.5 million in revenues.

Salesforce.com is a cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Though its revenue comes from a customer relationship management product, Salesforce also tries capitalizing on commercial applications of social networking through acquisition. As of 2015, it is one of the most highly valued American cloud computing companies with a market capitalization of $50 billion, It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the S&P 500 index.