Saaspoint, the Irish firm founded by former senior European executives of Salesforce.com, is set to double its workforce to 90 this year and expects revenues to hit $12 million (€8.2 million).

The company this week appointed Cary Fulbright, a software industry heavyweight who has held positions with SAP, Saba, Salesforce.com and Autodesk, to head up its push into the US market.

"We are growing at 300 per cent per year. To sustain that, we need to at least double our staff," says chairman John Appleby.

Saaspoint provides consultancy and other services to companies looking to use software as a service. It specialises in services around Salesforce.com, the provider of customer relationship management tools, which has more than a million users.

Mr Appleby, a former board member of Oracle in Europe, said that, in the US, it works on more complex projects around customer service and support, while in Europe the focus is on more basic functionality such as salesforce automation.

Until recently, less than 2 per cent of Saaspoint's revenues came from the Irish market, although a couple of large wins with local financial services companies has driven that up.

"Our projects are measured in weeks rather than months," said Mr Appleby. A typical project for a company with 500 users takes 12-24 weeks, he adds. Saaspoint works with smaller firms but the typical project is a company such as Dell which has 40,000 users of Salesforce.com.

Saaspoint has also developed a number of applications which are available through Salesforce.com's AppExchange. PropertyPoint, a real estate management application, is being used in Dubai on what is claimed to be the world's largest development at the moment, according to Mr Appleby.