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SFDC, IBM, ADP, KKR MYOB are all similarly unpronouncable as singular words.
I've heard of one of these, and IBM has history, brand recognition and rolls off the tongue better.
sfdc (Salesforce dot com) is one of the biggest CRMs in the world and pretty much runs every sales department out there, adp (automatic data processing) is one of the biggest payroll systems in the world.
it's highly likely you've interacted with either or both but maybe in a white-labelled way (e.g. all of Carmax's computer systems run entirely off Salesforce)
I've heard of and professionally used salesforce, and never heard of it referred as SFDC
oh interesting - I've worked at 4 companies in 10 years, they all called it that.
same here, but we called it salesforce.
and absolutely everything related to it was called that: salesforce support team == salesforce
salesforce cloud == salesforce
salesforce time share seminar == salesforce
guy who used to work at saleseforce == salesforce.
Wait Salesforce has an acroynm?
Everyone I know who's ever used it just says/writes 'Salesforce.'
I am now discovering through these replies that seems to be the case. Maybe it's a regional thing? im in SE USA
NW USA, Seattle area is where most of my dialect/experience is from.
i always wondered what adp meant; i just assumed it was initials of the rich guys who create it. lol