The salesforce automation giant wants to broaden its appeal with plans to launch several industry-specific vertical “clouds” to further entrench itself in customer accounts. For a company that made its bones selling customer relationship management (or salesforce automation) software, Salesforce.com CRM -2.92% , which just claimed its “best quarter ever” with non-GAAP revenue of $1.63 billion for the period ending July 31, has done pretty well for itself. But the company is working like mad to broaden its appeal with plans to launch several industry-specific vertical “clouds” for healthcare, retail, and other industries in the next month to further entrench itself in customer accounts. CRM or SFA software is typically used by sales people to enter leads and track... More