In $2007,$

Salesforce.com recognized an emerging market for platform $45$ a service $($PaaS$)$ offerings and developed a new competency in delivering software development and deployment tools. This allowed its customers to either extend their existing customer relationship management $($CRM$)$ offering or build completely new types of software. This is an example of

A$)$ leveraging existing core competencies to improve current market position.

B$)$ building new core competencies to achieve vertical integration.

C$)$ redeploying and recombining existing core competencies to compete in markets of the future.

D$)$ building new core competencies to create and compete in markets of the future.