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		<title>AlfaPeople Named Best Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AlfaPeople, a Microsoft Dynamics CRM specialist, received three awards at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans recently. AlfaPeople was awarded “Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for Western Europe”. AlfaPeople’s innovations in the hosting space and the positive feedback Microsoft received from partners and customers were highlighted as reasons for qualification.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AlfaPeople, a Microsoft Dynamics CRM specialist, received three awards at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans recently. AlfaPeople was awarded “Microsoft Dynamics Reseller of the Year for Western Europe”. AlfaPeople’s innovations in the hosting space and the positive feedback Microsoft received from partners and customers were highlighted as reasons for qualification.<span id="more-74"></span></p>
<p>In addition of receiving the award, AlfaPeople was also granted membership of the Microsoft Inner Circle and Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club. Only a limited number of Dynamics partners who are in the highest sales ranks within the global partner network are admitted to the Inner Circle. </p>
<p>These top partners are recognised for their exceptional overall company performance in delivering solutions to Microsoft Dynamics customers. The Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club honours reselling partners in the top 5 percent within their region, whose commitment to customers is reflected in their business performance and high sales achievements.</p>
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		<title>StayinFront Joins HP Developer and Solution Partner Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[StayinFront, Inc., a global provider of enterprise-wide customer relationship management (CRM) applications, decision support tools, data services, sample inventory management solutions and eBusiness systems, has been accepted into the HP Developer &#038; Solution Partner Program (DSPP).  The DSPP is designed to enable independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators, developers and consultants to work collaboratively [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>StayinFront, Inc., a global provider of enterprise-wide customer relationship management (CRM) applications, decision support tools, data services, sample inventory management solutions and eBusiness systems, has been accepted into the HP Developer &#038; Solution Partner Program (DSPP).  The DSPP is designed to enable independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators, developers and consultants to work collaboratively to more effectively address customer needs. <span id="more-73"></span></p>
<p>As part of the DSPP, StayinFront gains the ability to showcase its products and services via an online catalog that reaches customers, interest groups and networks.  The company can leverage HP&#8217;s configuration assistance, technical seminars and remote and onsite access to customised systems, including help with porting, migration, testing and optimisation.  The HP DSPP is aligned with StayinFront&#8217;s global presence, through offices in the Asia Pacific region, Europe and North America.</p>
<p>Tony Bullen, executive vice president and chief technology officer, StayinFront, commented, &#8220;Being accepted into this program strengthens our knowledge of HP&#8217;s information technology solutions, which, in turn, can benefit our mutual customers.  The StayinFront team is excited to  be part of the HP DSPP and we&#8217;re looking forward to a long-term working relationship.&#8221;</p>
<p>StayinFront plans on testing their software applications on various HP products including servers, notebook and tablet PCs, and mobile  devices. &#8220;StayinFront&#8217;s product architecture is very flexible and adapts well to a variety of deployment options.  We&#8217;re also looking forward to working with HP to promote our unique technology and document valuable results in ongoing benchmark studies,&#8221; said Bullen.</p>
<p>About StayinFront CRM<br />
Designed to provide a single technology platform that manages and integrates all aspects of customer interaction, including sales, marketing, and customer support, StayinFront CRM is an enterprise-wide &#8220;exact fit&#8221; solution. Rapidly configured to meet the specific needs of each client, StayinFront CRM&#8217;s unique product architecture can integrate into existing business processes without costly and time-consuming programming and development. </p>
<p>StayinFront CRM can be delivered as a hosted application or installed on a corporate network. StayinFront CRM also supports a wide variety of mobile devices, such as tablet PCs, laptops and Pocket PCs, to ensure seamless productivity support for field forces. </p>
<p>About StayinFront, Inc.<br />
StayinFront, Inc. is a leading global provider of enterprise-wide customer relationship management (CRM) applications, decision support tools, data services and eBusiness systems. StayinFront offers rapidly configured and implemented solutions and services to manage and integrate all points of customer interaction including sales, marketing and customer support.</p>
<p>StayinFront has been chosen globally as a strategic CRM partner by many of the world&#8217;s top life sciences, consumer goods, financial services  and business-to-business companies, and StayinFront solutions have been implemented in over 20 countries in 12 languages.</p>
<p>StayinFront&#8217;s flexible product architecture, object-oriented data modeling and range of deployment options provide an &#8220;exact fit&#8221; solution to help drive business processes, better manage the administrative functions of the system and lower ongoing costs of ownership.</p>
<p>StayinFront also offers a range of support services, including StayinFront Data Quality Services, to improve, standardise, augment and further leverage the informational assets contained in proprietary databases.</p>
<p>Headquartered in Fairfield, New Jersey, StayinFront has offices in Illinois, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland, India, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand. The company can be contacted via the web at http://www.stayinfront.com. </p>
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		<title>Salesforce.com Wins Stevie Award for Salesforce for Google AdWords</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) , the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, has received the Stevie Award for Best New Product or Service &#8211; Computer Hardware or Service in The 2007 American Business Awards with Salesforce for Google AdWords. Salesforce for Google AdWords was launched in August of 2006 and is one of the cornerstones [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) , the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, has received the Stevie Award for Best New Product or Service &#8211; Computer Hardware or Service in The 2007 American Business Awards with Salesforce for Google AdWords. Salesforce for Google AdWords was launched in August of 2006 and is one of the cornerstones of Salesforce Marketing, enabling customers to effectively measure and evaluate their sales and marketing activities. <span id="more-72"></span></p>
<p>In winning the Stevie, salesforce.com beat out other leading companies like Hewlett Packard. Stevie Awards were presented in over 40 categories including Best Overall Company, Best Executive, and Best Corporate Social Responsibility Program. More than 2,000 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in the 4th annual ABAs.</p>
<p>&#8220;Salesforce for Google AdWords combines the power of Salesforce CRM applications with Google AdWords so that salesforce.com customers can effectively run their sales and marketing operations. For the Stevie Awards to recognize Salesforce for Google AdWords as the Best New Product is further testament to the power of this product and salesforce.com,&#8221; said George Hu, CMO at salesforce.com.</p>
<p>Hailed as &#8220;the business world&#8217;s own Oscars&#8221; (New York Post , April 27, 2005), The American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing awards program honoring great performances in business. Members of the Awards&#8217; Board of Distinguished Judges &#038; Advisors and their staffs selected Stevie winners from among the Finalists. Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May.</p>
<p>Recently, salesforce.com and Google announced a strategic global alliance to help millions of businesses leverage the Internet to achieve success and released Salesforce Group Edition featuring Google AdWords. Combining the power of Salesforce on-demand CRM applications with the Google AdWords(TM) platform, Salesforce Group Edition featuring Google AdWords helps customers achieve integrated sales and marketing success. For more information, please visit http://www.salesforce.com/google.</p>
<p>About salesforce.com<br />
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company&#8217;s Salesforce suite of on-demand CRM applications allows customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. The Salesforce Platform, the world&#8217;s first on- demand platform, enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications that extend beyond CRM to deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy and The Business Web across the enterprise. The Salesforce Platform allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com&#8217;s AppExchange directory, available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com&#8217;s world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.</p>
<p>As of April 30, 2007, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 32,300 customers including ABN AMRO, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, Sprint Nextel, Staples and SunTrust Banks. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol &#8220;CRM&#8221;. For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com/, or call 1-800-NO- SOFTWARE.</p>
<p>Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of salesforce.com, and AppExchange, The Business Web, IdeaExchange and Successforce are trademarks of salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners. </p>
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		<title>Salesforce.com Foundation Announces 2007 Global Grant Recipients Across Its 1/1/1 Integrated Philanthropy Model</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, has recently announced its 2007 global grant recipients. These grants totaling over $250,000 represent the impact of salesforce.com&#8217;s innovative 1/1/1 integrated corporate philanthropy model where 1% of employee time, 1% of the company&#8217;s equity, and 1% of the company&#8217;s product are delivered to nonprofits. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, has recently announced its 2007 global grant recipients. These grants totaling over $250,000 represent the impact of salesforce.com&#8217;s innovative 1/1/1 integrated corporate philanthropy model where 1% of employee time, 1% of the company&#8217;s equity, and 1% of the company&#8217;s product are delivered to nonprofits. <span id="more-71"></span></p>
<p>Representing the 1% equity and 1% product components of the 1/1/1 model, 23 exceptional nonprofit organizations across 10 countries will receive Technology Support Grants for a variety of initiatives aimed at using technology to fuel the success of nonprofits and improve the lives of underserved youth. Recipients were chosen from a pool of over 200 applicants and scored by an advisory group of 60 Salesforce.com employees across eight geographies.</p>
<p>Representing its support for 1% of the employees&#8217; working time being given back to the community, the Salesforce.com Foundation has also awarded both Community Action Team and Dollars for Doers Grants to employees to support their contributions at 46 nonprofit organizations around the world that they are passionate about. These grants recognize the more than 50,000 hours of time that 85% of salesforce.com employees have given to improving their communities.</p>
<p>The 2007 Technology for Youth Development Grant Recipients<br />
These grants are for visionary youth development-focused nonprofit organizations for technology projects or solutions that advance their organizations&#8217; core mission.</p>
<p>United States:</p>
<p>   &#8212; Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area &#8220;S-D Integration Project&#8221; &#8211;<br />
      To create an online web portal using Salesforce technology as a means<br />
      to recruit a larger population of volunteers and obtain benchmarked<br />
      assessments of a child&#8217;s development..</p>
<p>   &#8212; The Bronx Lab School&#8217;s &#8220;Classroom 2.0&#8243; &#8212; To enable the creation of a<br />
      21st century classroom, &#8220;Classroom 2.0&#8243;, that will radically change<br />
      students&#8217; educational experience by providing a flexible and dynamic<br />
      workspace for students to use technology throughout all parts of their<br />
      day.</p>
<p>   &#8212; George Mark Children&#8217;s House&#8217;s &#8220;My Comix&#8221; &#8212; To help this pediatric<br />
      respite, transitional, and end of life care facility develop an<br />
      interactive comic book game for children who are terminally ill as an<br />
      innovative way for them to connect with others, feel less isolated,<br />
      and share their stories.</p>
<p>   &#8212; San Francisco School Volunteers&#8217; &#8220;SFSV Tech Grant&#8221; &#8212; To help fund an<br />
      overhaul of SFSV&#8217;s technology systems and create an online community<br />
      to facilitate the organization&#8217;s goal of engaging a community of<br />
      volunteers to support San Francisco&#8217;s public schools.</p>
<p>  Europe, Middle East and Africa</p>
<p>   &#8212; CityWise&#8217;s &#8220;City Tek&#8221; &#8212; To upgrade technology facilities at a youth<br />
      center in Ireland to facilitate the organization&#8217;s mission to provide<br />
      education and social support services to youth in a disadvantaged<br />
      community.</p>
<p>   &#8212; MaAfrika Tikkun&#8217;s &#8220;Expansion of Youth Development IT Centre&#8221; &#8212; To<br />
      expand the current IT center for students and youth in Alexandra<br />
      Township, South Africa, with additional computers and resources as<br />
      part of the organization&#8217;s mission to uplift, build, and ultimately<br />
      transform disadvantaged communities.</p>
<p>   &#8212; Meningitis Trust&#8217;s &#8220;Learning Pod&#8221; &#8212; To re-design and update an online<br />
      Learning Pod for young people in the UK to learn about meningitis at<br />
      home and school and reduce the potential threat of the disease.<br />
      The Mouth That Roars&#8217; &#8220;Our Everyday Lives Egypt&#8221; &#8211; To help this<br />
      international charitable organization dedicated to training<br />
      underserved young people in video production expand the success of its<br />
      media programs in Bahariya, Egypt.</p>
<p>   &#8212; The Parents Circle&#8217;s &#8220;Internet Youth Seminar&#8221; in Israel/Palestine &#8211;<br />
      To help the organization leverage Internet technology such as blogs as<br />
      a tool to facilitate dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian students<br />
      to achieve a better understanding of the conflict and a closer<br />
      association between participants.</p>
<p>   &#8212; PhotoVoice&#8217;s &#8220;PhotoVoice Network&#8221; &#8212; To expand an online forum to<br />
      allow interactive blogging, exchange, and translation services for<br />
      participants in this UK organization&#8217;s worldwide program dedicated to<br />
      driving positive social change for marginalized youth through<br />
      photographic training.</p>
<p>  Asia Pacific region:</p>
<p>   &#8212; Room To Read&#8217;s &#8220;Cambodian Computer Room&#8221; &#8212; To fully fund a computer<br />
      room to give approximately 500 students access to computers, helping<br />
      them to improve their computer literacy and motivating them to stay in<br />
      school as part of the organization&#8217;s mission to partner with local<br />
      communities throughout the developing world to establish schools,<br />
      libraries, and other educational infrastructure to ultimately improve<br />
      socioeconomic conditions.</p>
<p>   &#8212; The Education for Development Foundation&#8217;s &#8220;Salesforce for Young<br />
      Doctors&#8221; project &#8212; To help fund a Salesforce technology-based health<br />
      promotion program where students in Japan and Thailand will act as a<br />
      medium for health education in their own school communities.</p>
<p>The 2007 &#8220;Turn It Up&#8221; Grant Recipients</p>
<p>These grants are for visionary nonprofit organizations who are customizing their use of salesforce.com technology to support their ability to implement their social change mission.</p>
<p>United States and Mexico:</p>
<p>   &#8212; The Aidmatrix Foundation &#8212; To expand the organization&#8217;s use of<br />
      Salesforce technology being used as a National Donations Management<br />
      platform connecting FEMA, state offices, companies and relief<br />
      organizations in times of disaster.</p>
<p>   &#8212; The Bay Area Chapter of the American Red Cross &#8212; To provide<br />
      additional resources to help the organization expand its use of its<br />
      Salesforce system so it can more effectively manage external<br />
      partnerships and help the Chapter realize its goal of preparing one<br />
      million San Francisco Bay Area residents for disaster.</p>
<p>   &#8212; The Center for What Works &#8212; To implement Salesforce technology at<br />
      this organization dedicated to improving performance in the social<br />
      sector in order to develop outcome tracking and measurement technology<br />
      to benefit other nonprofits.</p>
<p>   &#8212; Family Services Agency of San Francisco &#8212; To help this organization<br />
      dedicated to supporting the city&#8217;s neediest residents develop a method<br />
      for tracking outcome measures into its existing Salesforce case<br />
      management system as dictated by the State of CA.</p>
<p>   &#8212; The Friends of Calakmul &#8212; To integrate the organization&#8217;s Salesforce<br />
      system with PayPal to automate communications and transactions with<br />
      landowners in Mexico, who have agreed to give up logging rights in<br />
      Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Mexico in exchange for economic<br />
      assistance.</p>
<p>   &#8212; Hamilton Family Center &#8212; To implement a database being built by<br />
      salesforce.com volunteers to measure the effectiveness of programs<br />
      providing support for homeless and low-income families.</p>
<p>   &#8212; Kiva.org &#8212; To help Kiva.org, the first non-profit focused on fighting<br />
      global poverty by enabling socially-conscious internet users to<br />
      connect and make personal loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the<br />
      developing world, standardize data collection strategies from micro-<br />
      finance partners utilizing Salesforce technology.</p>
<p>  Australia</p>
<p>   &#8212; Good Deeds International&#8217;s Partnership with Queensland University of<br />
      Technology &#8212; To help fund a joint service learning (sL) project<br />
      between the two organizations to unite University staff and students<br />
      with local and international non-profit organizations, as well as<br />
      local businesses, government and donors in voluntary, reflection-based<br />
      sL partnerships directly linked to university curriculum, philanthropy<br />
      and University activities.  Good Deeds International will gain<br />
      University resources and funds raised by student volunteers to benefit<br />
      child laborers, their families and their communities.</p>
<p>  Europe</p>
<p>   &#8212; YouthNet &#8212; To implement Salesforce technology at YouthNet to run an<br />
      online knowledgebase and better serve partner organizations at the<br />
      UK&#8217;s first &#8220;virtual&#8221; charity to support 16-24 year olds in every<br />
      aspect of their lives.</p>
<p>   &#8212; Ashoka &#8212; To expand its Salesforce implementation in Europe in order<br />
      to better measure the social impact and transparency of its projects<br />
      aimed at deploying system changing solutions for the world&#8217;s most<br />
      urgent social problems.</p>
<p>   &#8212; Jack and Jill&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Foundation &#8212; To match a Salesforce.com<br />
      employee&#8217;s donation in Ireland to implement Salesforce technology to<br />
      improve relationships between fundraisers and donors and supporters<br />
      for this charity focused on helping to alleviate the pressures on the<br />
      families of babies who are born with or develop severe developmental<br />
      delay and life limiting conditions.</p>
<p>  Salesforce.com 1% Time Volunteer Grant Recipients</p>
<p>   &#8212; These grants were given to 46 organizations around the world to<br />
      support salesforce.com employee volunteering both individually and in<br />
      teams throughout the company.  These organizations include Habitat for<br />
      Humanity, the Irish Cancer Society, National Kidney Foundation, the<br />
      New York City Rescue Mission, Ronald McDonald House Charities, San<br />
      Francisco Food Bank, and United Way Sydney.</p>
<p>About Salesforce.com Foundation<br />
The Salesforce.com Foundation mission is to remain the leaders in pioneering, evangelizing and implementing the 1% Model, and using this model as a means to improve the lives of people around the world. The Salesforce.com Foundation harnesses the power of product and people to improve the lives of those in need. Using the unique 1/1/1 Model &#8212; 1% Time, 1% Equity, 1% Product, and &#8220;one&#8221; with the earth &#8212; the Foundation reaches out to the community and increases the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations so they can better achieve their goals, which the Salesforce.com Foundation calls the Power of Us. The Salesforce.com Foundation concentrates on the use of technology, specifically as it relates to organizations with youth development programs. The Salesforce.com Foundation has supported technology projects around the world that help kids in technology &#8212; bereft urban and rural areas create a better future for themselves. Since July of 2000, salesforce.com employees have given over 50,000 hours of their time and expertise, feeding the homeless, tutoring kids, improving nonprofit spaces, and offering hundreds of helping hands when the world is faced with devastating natural disasters.</p>
<p>Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of salesforce.com, and AppExchange, The Business Web, IdeaExchange and Successforce are trademarks of salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners </p>
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		<title>KONE Selects Salesforce.com for Staff in 43 Countries Worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), a leader in on-demand business services, recently said that KONE, one of the world&#8217;s leading elevator and escalator companies, is expanding their deployment of Salesforce&#8217;s multi-tenant, on-demand CRM to 2,560 staff in 43 countries to maximize sales effectiveness and efficiency and help the company to deepen its customer focus.   
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), a leader in on-demand business services, recently said that KONE, one of the world&#8217;s leading elevator and escalator companies, is expanding their deployment of Salesforce&#8217;s multi-tenant, on-demand CRM to 2,560 staff in 43 countries to maximize sales effectiveness and efficiency and help the company to deepen its customer focus.   <span id="more-70"></span></p>
<p>Utilizing the Salesforce Platform, KONE is customizing the application and developing a seamless integration with the company&#8217;s SAP back-office environment, which will further accelerate the value of the implementation.</p>
<p>As previously announced, salesforce.com revenues in Europe for the quarter ended April 30, 2007 were up 71% from the same quarter a year ago. All of these customers, including KONE, are part of the 32,300 companies of all sizes, industries and geographies that comprised the salesforce.com customer base as of April 30, 2007. Revenue and subscribers will be recognized as the service is delivered.</p>
<p>With the elevator and escalator market moving towards a commodity model, KONE needed to distinguish itself by deepening relationships with its customers. After a five-year total cost of ownership study, usability reviews and time to value evaluation was completed, KONE was convinced that salesforce.com was the right choice.</p>
<p>Following pilot deployments in the U.S., the Netherlands, and Ireland, KONE will implement Salesforce in a further 40 countries and in 12 languages. Leveraging Salesforce Connect, all customer, escalator and elevator equipment &#8212; and contract information &#8212; is currently being integrated with Salesforce, and the prospect tendering system, orders and customer billing data will be integrated shortly. </p>
<p>By year-end, the Web-based automated lead management system will also be integrated, offering true end-to-end, web-to-leads functionality. In addition, the Salesforce Platform has enabled the business team to create its own customized tabs, fields, layouts and workflow themselves, with minimal support either from the salesforce.com Professional Services team involved on the overall program, or from KONE&#8217;s own internal IT department.</p>
<p>About KONE<br />
KONE is one of the world&#8217;s leading elevator and escalator companies. It provides customers with industry-leading elevators and escalators and innovative solutions for their maintenance and modernization. KONE also provides maintenance of automatic building doors. In 2005, KONE had annual net sales of euro 3.2 billion and approximately 27,000 employees.</p>
<p>Salesforce Platform and the AppExchange<br />
Salesforce Platform is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Salesforce Platform reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond client/server computing. The Salesforce Platform allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com&#8217;s AppExchange directory, enabling all the innovation that the Salesforce Platform unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community.</p>
<p>More than 600 applications are now available on salesforce.com&#8217;s AppExchange, the world&#8217;s first on-demand application directory, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.</p>
<p>Apex Code is available today for developer preview, and is currently scheduled to be available in beta to salesforce.com customers later in 2007.</p>
<p>About salesforce.com<br />
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company&#8217;s Salesforce suite of on-demand CRM applications allows customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. The Salesforce Platform, the world&#8217;s first on- demand platform, enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications that extend beyond CRM to deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy and The Business Web across the enterprise. The Salesforce Platform allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com&#8217;s AppExchange directory, available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com&#8217;s world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.</p>
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		<title>Oracle&#8217;s Siebel CRM On Demand Named a Leader in Latest Record-Centric Customer Service Management Software Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forrester Research, an independent research firm, has named Oracle&#8217;s Siebel CRM On Demand as a &#8220;Leader&#8221; in record-centric customer service management software in the latest Forrester Wave Evaluation: Customer Service Management Software, Q2 May 2007.   
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forrester Research, an independent research firm, has named Oracle&#8217;s Siebel CRM On Demand as a &#8220;Leader&#8221; in record-centric customer service management software in the latest Forrester Wave Evaluation: Customer Service Management Software, Q2 May 2007.   <span id="more-69"></span></p>
<p>This latest Wave Report states that Oracle&#8217;s Siebel CRM On Demand is &#8220;best suited for SaaS-focused customers.&#8221; To view the full report, go to &#8212; http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_jun/forrester-cs-07.html.</p>
<p>Forrester evaluated leading customer service management software vendors across 180 criteria to assess strengths and weaknesses in three areas: current offering, strategy and market presence.</p>
<p>Oracle&#8217;s Siebel CRM On Demand provides customer record-centric functionality in an easy-to-use, low-risk and quick deployment SaaS model. Forrester has also recognized Siebel CRM On Demand for its strengths in its ability to equip customer service agents with the appropriate information to handle all aspects of the customer relationship with new capabilities from its Telephony@Work acquisition. </p>
<p>Oracle offers Siebel CRM On Demand industry-specific solutions for automotive, insurance, life sciences, high-tech and wealth management, &#8220;which is five more than many of its SaaS CRM competitors,&#8221; according to the Forrester report.</p>
<p>About Oracle CRM On Demand<br />
The company&#8217;s comprehensive, on demand CRM solution, Oracle CRM On Demand delivers low-risk, hosted customer relationship management that can help customers accelerate sales, improve marketing and deliver consistent customer service. With customers that include leading SMB and Enterprise organizations globally, Oracle CRM On Demand is the most complete hosted CRM solution for accelerating business results.</p>
<p>About Oracle<br />
Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is the world&#8217;s largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/.</p>
<p>Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. </p>
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		<title>OutStart SellingEdge.com Improves Sales Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OutStart, a provider of eKnowledge software solutions, has recently announced OutStart SellingEdge.com, an on-demand sales and marketing knowledge management solution that helps revenue producing teams sell more by providing them with the just-in-time knowledge required to facilitate and accelerate buying cycles. This is the first of its kind on-demand solution provides the expert knowledge sales [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OutStart, a provider of eKnowledge software solutions, has recently announced OutStart SellingEdge.com, an on-demand sales and marketing knowledge management solution that helps revenue producing teams sell more by providing them with the just-in-time knowledge required to facilitate and accelerate buying cycles. This is the first of its kind on-demand solution provides the expert knowledge sales teams need to sell more. <span id="more-68"></span></p>
<p>The lack of accurate, timely knowledge and the time spent looking for this knowledge is a major reason for low sales productivity. According to a Cahner&#8217;s survey, 58% of buyers report that sales reps are unable to answer their questions effectively. Additionally, 40% of sale professional&#8217;s time is spent finding the information and knowledge required to do their jobs.</p>
<p>&#8220;OutStart SellingEdge.com helps sales teams sell more by rapidly providing them the knowledge they need to drive buying cycles forward, differentiate themselves from competition through the timeliness and relevance of the knowledge, and by freeing up more time to sell as they are not wasting time looking for knowledge,&#8221; said Dave Stein, founder, CEO, ES Research Group, Inc.</p>
<p>OutStart SellingEdge.com delivers a complete sales and marketing knowledge management solution that:</p>
<p>  &#8212; Creates a collaborative environment connecting revenue teams with their peers to facilitate sharing of best practices.<br />
  &#8212; Enables sales professionals to readily identify and obtain knowledge from experts, reducing both the time and effort to get expert knowledge.  Workflow insures that accurate answers are provided in a timely basis.<br />
  &#8212; Captures knowledge organically as it is shared by peers and experts without changing the way people work, thus eliminating the need for experts to repeatedly answer the same question and insures that knowledge shared once is available to the entire sales team.<br />
  &#8212; Uses everyday tools, such as Outlook, so that questions can be asked and answered within a commonly used program making it easy and natural for users.<br />
  &#8212; Provides instant 24&#215;7 self-service access to already captured or contributed knowledge.<br />
  &#8212; Integrates with existing knowledge sources, such as file systems, CRM and transactional databases, corporate learning systems, and even intranets and public web sites, providing one virtual source for all crucial sales knowledge.<br />
  &#8212; Delivers on-demand sales readiness through the delivery of training at any time that reduces time to proficiency while maximizing learning effectiveness.</p>
<p>&#8220;We plan to replace the many disparate sales tools that we use today with OutStart SellingEdge.com,&#8221; said Julie Thomas, president and CEO of ValueVision.</p>
<p>&#8220;We find the community aspects of the application particularly helpful for identifying experts and encouraging collaboration and are very excited to roll out the solution to all of our sales professionals.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Top sales producers always seem to either have the answer to critical questions or know exactly where to go for the answer,&#8221; said Massood Zarrabian, president and CEO of OutStart. </p>
<p>Pricing and Availability<br />
OutStart SellingEdge.com is available immediately as an on-demand, SaaS offering with individual deployments ready to go in just a few days.. Pricing is on a per-user/per-month basis.</p>
<p>About OutStart<br />
OutStart software powers formal and on-demand knowledge sharing and learning solutions that enable knowledge workers &#8211; such as sales and marketing professionals, partners and customers &#8211; to perform their roles far more efficiently and effectively. Autodesk, British Telecom, Caremark, Kronos, Motorola, NextGen, Steelcase, TravelClick, the U.S. Navy, Verizon Wireless and others rely on OutStart to increase individual and organizational performance, improve knowledge transfer and lower operating costs. Located in Boston, Mass., OutStart has offices throughout the US and Europe and can be found on the web at www.outstart.com. </p>
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		<title>Epicor Empowers Info Workers with Portal Content, Collaborative Capabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ:EPIC) , a leading provider of enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and divisions of Global 1000 companies, has recently announced its continued support of the information worker through the delivery of feature-rich content packs for Epicor Portal.  <span id="more-67"></span></p>
<p>A server framework for self- guided, role-based access to Epicor applications, Epicor Portal enables buy- side, sell-side and cross-enterprise collaboration, intuitive decision support and an enhanced end-user experience. Pre-defined content packs for managing common customer and supplier relations, as well specifically targeted industry content for professional services organizations, are now available.</p>
<p>Epicor Portal extends the reach and power of Epicor solutions by providing the latest technology for unprecedented collaborative access to data within Epicor and other line of business systems from easy-to-access Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R) pages. The newly released content packs provide pre-built comprehensive views that offer immediate value to users helping to ensure a solid foundation for greater business intelligence and the development of additional personalized content by the knowledge worker.</p>
<p>Epicor Portal extends collaboration outside the enterprise to customers, suppliers and the broader value chain, providing increased communication and delivering far-reaching visibility into shared processes while supporting greater business transparency.</p>
<p><strong>Enabling Transparency in the Supply Chain</strong><br />
The Supplier Content Pack supports transparency in the vendor-supplier relationship by placing at the fingertips of business users on each side, comprehensive information about suppliers, orders, returns, debit memos, vouchers and payments. Epicor Portal empowers the supplier to find answers through views to all open purchase orders (PO), including items and quantity details. Furthermore, because information is populated from data within the core Epicor system and always available in a secure environment to trusted users, Epicor Portal reduces follow-ups and administrative activity while promoting efficiency.</p>
<p><strong>Complete Visibility for Project-Based Service Firms</strong><br />
The Professional Services Content Pack is a collection of over 110 new Epicor Portal views that provides an intuitive environment for browsing key metrics, drilling-down to supporting detail and combining metrics for an overall real-time indication of specific project, portfolio or entire practice health. </p>
<p>The content includes a number of role-based and personal views that filter transactional information based on the user ID. For example, views on underlying project data show the resource availability for the scheduler, project hours actual-to-task detail, and pending action items such as approval requests for insufficient resource hours reported. Client relationship views provide opportunity details by sales area and complete client account notes including project and accounts receivable information.</p>
<p><strong>Helping the Customer to Self-Service</strong><br />
The Customer Content Pack provides an intuitive combination of pertinent information for easy access and action by customers. From details on order history, order status, invoices and payment, to logging and reviewing progress on open service calls, Epicor Portal supports the need for multi-channel, anytime, anywhere service while enhancing the customer experience.</p>
<p><strong>Empowering the Enterprise Information Worker</strong><br />
In addition to collaborative benefits for external communities like suppliers, partners and customers, Epicor Portal provides significant value to an enterprise&#8217;s own business users. For example, the Customer Content Pack provides trusted employees, who may not necessarily have access to the company&#8217;s core Epicor business system, with the ability to browse more comprehensive internal customer information and quickly drill down to supporting details as required. </p>
<p>All views within Epicor Portal are designed to present personalized information based on the individual. For example, salespersons can access views that display details about prospects, customers and opportunities, while consultants will have views that display information about individual time and expense entries, projects and utilization. Managers can access views for key metrics for all their employees, providing a complete picture of activity and resources.</p>
<p>Epicor Portal and portal content packs are quickly deployable as an extension of Epicor solutions and provide users with an intuitive environment for data exploration and decision support. Furthermore, the content packs, which deliver pre-defined views as SharePoint Web parts, are easily added to multiple SharePoint pages and provide for two-click navigation between linked Web parts to easily find the data that is most important to the user.</p>
<p>&#8220;Epicor Portal satisfies the increased need for collaboration among all information workers &#8212; from customers, suppliers and partners to employees &#8212; by delivering better and more transparent management of distributed information from a central, secure point of access,&#8221; said James Norwood, vice president of product marketing for Epicor. </p>
<p>About Epicor Software Corporation<br />
Epicor, named one of FORTUNE magazine&#8217;s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in 2006, is a global leader dedicated to providing enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and professional services automation (PSA) software solutions to midmarket companies and divisions of the Global 1000. Founded in 1984, Epicor serves over 20,000 customers in more than 140 countries, providing solutions in over 30 languages. </p>
<p>Employing innovative service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services technology, Epicor delivers end-to-end, industry-specific solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and services that enable companies to drive increased efficiency, improve performance and build competitive advantage. Epicor solutions provide the scalability and flexibility to meet today&#8217;s business challenges, while empowering enterprises for even greater success tomorrow. Epicor offers a comprehensive range of services with its solutions, providing a single point of accountability to promote rapid return on investment and low total cost of ownership. Epicor&#8217;s worldwide headquarters are located in Irvine, California with offices and affiliates around the world. For more information, visit http://www.epicor.com/.</p>
<p>Epicor is a registered trademark of Epicor Software Corporation. Other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners. The product and service offerings depicted in this document are produced by Epicor Software Corporation. </p>
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		<title>RightNow Technologies Named Leader in Interaction-Centric CSM Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RightNow(R) Technologies (NASDAQ:RNOW) has been named a leader in Interaction-Centric CSM Software in the Q2 2007 Forrester Wave(TM) report, Customer Service Management Software (May 2007). According to the Forrester report, RightNow offers &#8220;a robust offering for customer service, especially for consumer-facing organizations.&#8221; The report also states that RightNow &#8220;provides strong customer service analytics, comprehensive self-service [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RightNow(R) Technologies (NASDAQ:RNOW) has been named a leader in Interaction-Centric CSM Software in the Q2 2007 Forrester Wave(TM) report, Customer Service Management Software (May 2007). According to the Forrester report, RightNow offers &#8220;a robust offering for customer service, especially for consumer-facing organizations.&#8221; The report also states that RightNow &#8220;provides strong customer service analytics, comprehensive self-service tools, and a strong knowledgebase &#8212; at some of the lowest prices in the market.&#8221; <span id="more-66"></span></p>
<p>In evaluating RightNow&#8217;s customer service offering, available through the software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment model, Forrester noted:</p>
<p>  *  RightNow provides a strong suite of tightly integrated tools spanning contact channels.  Phone, email, chat and forum activity are all integrated into the customer records, and information presented during any interaction is available when transitioning to another medium.</p>
<p>  *  RightNow&#8217;s strength lies in the delivery of information to customers &#8212; through customized FAQs, directed marketing campaigns, speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities, and a unified knowledge platform that spans contact channels.</p>
<p>&#8220;While traditional CRM solutions are focused on internal process and procedures, RightNow&#8217;s solutions are built from a consumer&#8217;s perspective, to facilitate convenient and consistent interactions for consumers,&#8221; said Jason Mittelstaedt, vice president of marketing for RightNow. &#8220;It is significant to see that Forrester, a leading, independent research firm, has taken notice of RightNow&#8217;s consumer-centric solutions focus and approach.&#8221;</p>
<p>RightNow Service is designed to help companies deliver a superior customer experience through multiple channels, including phone, email, chat, web and voice, while significantly reducing contact center workloads and costs. With RightNow Service, organizations can also leverage one common self-learning knowledge repository and maximize the value of each interaction, gaining valuable customer information and taking advantage of cross- and up-sell opportunities.</p>
<p>About RightNow Technologies<br />
RightNow (NASDAQ:RNOW) delivers the high-impact technology solutions and services organizations need to cost-efficiently deliver a consistently superior customer experience across their frontline service, sales and marketing touch-points. Approximately 1,800 corporations and government agencies worldwide depend on RightNow to achieve their strategic objectives and better meet the needs of those they serve. RightNow is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. For more information, please visit www.rightnow.com.</p>
<p>RightNow is a registered trademark of RightNow Technologies, Inc. NASDAQ is a registered trademark of the NASDAQ Stock Market. </p>
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		<title>Dominion Enterprises Acquires Autobase</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dominion Enterprises, a leading media and information services company, has acquired Autobase, the leading supplier of auto dealership marketing and sales solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. This is Dominion Enterprises&#8217; first CRM acquisition in the automotive industry. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dominion Enterprises, a leading media and information services company, has acquired Autobase, the leading supplier of auto dealership marketing and sales solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. This is Dominion Enterprises&#8217; first CRM acquisition in the automotive industry. <span id="more-65"></span></p>
<p>Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Autobase is the pioneer of customer relationship management (CRM) tools for the automotive retail industry. The company provides marketing and sales solutions through world- class software products and services to more than 25,000 users in over 1,800 automotive dealerships nationwide. The company employs 140 people in Indianapolis, Cleveland and Chicago.</p>
<p>&#8220;Traditional sales processes in the auto dealer market have been slow to evolve, but the benefits of using CRM tools are quickly becoming essential. As the 22,000 franchise auto dealers in the U.S. move to adopt a results-based sales process, Autobase is a trusted brand that can fill this need,&#8221; said Mitch Brooks, executive vice president of Dominion Enterprises.</p>
<p>Dominion Enterprises&#8217; portfolio of businesses for the automotive industry currently includes: Dealer Specialties, the nation&#8217;s leader in delivering photo and video collection services, used vehicle window stickers, inventory management and Internet data distribution services; @utoRevenue, an industry leader in delivering comprehensive multi-channel customer contact solutions; Dealerskins, a Web design and solutions provider for automotive dealers; InterActive Financial Marketing Group, a special finance lead generation and marketing company serving franchise auto dealers nationwide; Cross-Sell, the largest national provider of accurate and quick-to-market sales data for new and used cars; Just Automotive, a direct marketing company offering dealerships nationwide targeted solutions to reach car buyers more cost effectively; Mailmark, an industry-leading direct marketer; SelectQu, a premier provider of data integration software solutions to automotive-related businesses; XIGroup, a Web design and Internet marketing company for franchise and independent auto dealers nationwide.</p>
<p>The Autobase purchase is Dominion Enterprises&#8217; second acquisition in the automotive segment in the last two weeks. On June 5, as previously announced, the company purchased InterActive Financial Marketing Group, a special finance lead generation and marketing company, based in Richmond, Va.</p>
<p>About Autobase<br />
Autobase, Inc., a division of Dominion Enterprises, has specialized in providing the automotive retail market with premier marketing and sales solutions since 1988. The rich history of this Indianapolis-based company, combined with its strong CRM reputation, comprehensive industry knowledge, and pioneering work in feature-rich technology has long impacted the bottom line for aggressive dealers nationwide. For more information, visit http://www.autobase.net/.</p>
<p>About Dominion Enterprises<br />
Dominion Enterprises, headquartered in Norfolk, Va., is a leading media and information services company serving employment, real estate, automotive, recreation and industrial markets in the United States. The company operates a variety of technology businesses that offer Internet marketing, Web site design and hosting, lead generation, CRM, and data capture and distribution services including Advanced Access, PowerSports Network, and Dealer Specialties. </p>
<p>The company has more than 500 paid and free magazine titles such as The Employment Guide, For Rent, Harmon Homes, Boat Trader, Cycle Trader and RV Trader with a combined weekly circulation of over 5 million, and more than 40 market-leading Web sites such as EmploymentGuide.com, ForRent.com, Homes.com, and TraderOnline.com, reaching more than 8 million unique monthly visitors. The company has nearly 7,000 employees nationwide and 2006 annual revenue of more than $850 million. For more information, visit http://www.dominionenterprises.com/. </p>
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