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Salesforce.com
Release date: September 21, 2006
InfoNow Channel Insight 7 Solution Now Available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange
Salesforce.com Customers Can Now Process Point-of-Sale Data Directly with InfoNow
DENVER and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21 / -- InfoNow Corporation, a leading provider of channel visibility and location service solutions, and salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced that InfoNow's suite of on-demand channel visibility solutions are now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange and can be integrated directly by customers into their Salesforce implementations.
Since its introduction in 2002, InfoNow's flagship Channel Insight solution has been providing accurate and timely point-of-sale (POS) and channel inventory data to companies that distribute their products through indirect business-to-business or business-to-consumer distribution channels. Channel Insight 7 integrates cleansed and enriched partner and customer data directly into Salesforce account records to seamlessly connect direct sales and channel sales data and ensure that data is integrated, not duplicated.
"Companies that struggle with inaccurate or incomplete channel sales data are severely limited in their ability to forecast sales and manage their business. Channel Insight solves this problem by delivering actionable data on end customers, partners and product sales," said Mark Geene, CEO of InfoNow. "Salesforce.com's AppExchange provides an ideal platform for Salesforce users to leverage the benefits of Channel Insight directly into their CRM system."
"We're pleased to welcome InfoNow to the AppExchange as a powerful complement to our salesforce.com PRM solution, Partnerforce, Salesforce Partner Edition," said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners, salesforce.com. "InfoNow's Web-based Channel Insight solution provides robust solutions for businesses large or small who need to accurately process, track and analyze their point-of-sale and channel inventory data and integrate that information directly into Salesforce."
InfoNow's Channel Insight 7 for AppExchange is one of more than 300 applications created by salesforce.com, its customers and partners that are now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange, the world's first on-demand application platform. AppExchange provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration for Salesforce deployments, as well as enabling a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM. AppExchange enables all of these on-demand applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with one click into a salesforce.com customer's account. AppExchange can be found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange
For additional information about InfoNow's Channel Insight or Location Insight solutions, contact InfoNow at 1-866-868-4669, or visit the Company's Website at www.infonow.com.
About InfoNow Corporation
InfoNow provides channel visibility and location services to companies that sell through complex channel partner networks. InfoNow Channel Insight(TM) gives companies rich, timely and actionable data on channel sales, including enhanced market intelligence on partners and end customers. It also includes tools to help clients use this data to profitably grow their business, through detailed customer segmentation and profiling, targeted opportunity generation, robust partner tracking and analysis, closed-loop opportunity tracking, sales credit assignment, inventory tracking and more. InfoNow Location Insight(TM) directs consumers to the optimal business location such as a branch office, ATM or the appropriate business partner through Internet, voice-response or mobile devices. InfoNow Location Insight services also provide tools for location data management, business partner profiling, and highly tailored lead routing and management. Since 1996, InfoNow has helped leading companies such as Bank of America, Enterasys Networks, Hewlett-Packard, SMC, Visa and Wachovia better serve their end customers through complex channel networks. InfoNow is based in Denver, Colorado. For more information, please visit the Company's Web site at www.infonow.com.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. AppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers and partners to build powerful new applications quickly and easily, customize and integrate the Salesforce suite to meet their unique business needs, and distribute and sell on-demand applications at www.appexchange.com. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
As of July 31, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 24,800 customers and approximately 501,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom 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 "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com/ , or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
Source: salesforce.com, Inc.
CONTACT: Dana Dye, +1-415-928-1310, or dana@dialoguepr.com, for salesforce.com; or Gordon Evans of salesforce.com, +1-415-536-7608, or gevans@salesforce.com
Company Information: Name: Salesforce.com Address: One Market St., Suite 300 City: San Francisco State: CA ZIP: 94105 Country: USA Phone: 800-667-6389 FAX: 415-901-7040 http://www.salesforce.com
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