Salesforce can now provide SaaS and PaaS cloud services to the government

In a move that could have big implications for the budding civic innovation space, Salesforce has become the first outfit to be granted authorization to provide both software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service cloud services to U.S. Federal Government agencies. Back in 2010, the Obama administration announced a “cloud first” policy for improving and cutting the costs of the government’s IT management. Because it’s the government, this meant a healthy serving of alphabet soup as numerous new designations, programs, and committees were created to manage the technical transition.