KEY POINTS
  • The digital customer transformation "is as big as Y2K was for the tech industry," Salesforce's Marc Benioff says.
  • Benioff tells CNBC's Jim Cramer "every company and every industry and every government [agency] is recreating themselves with their customer, so this is what's driving our growth."

Cloud software giant Salesforce is taking advantage of the "massive" digital transformation across Corporate America and in the government, CEO Marc Benioff told CNBC on Tuesday.

The shift online is "as big as Y2K was for the tech industry," Benioff told "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer. "We're No. 1 in [customer relationship management], which is the fastest-growing part of enterprise software, because every company and every industry and every government [agency] is recreating themselves with their customer, so this is what's driving our growth."