Convenos Meeting Center Now Available and Certified on Salesforce.com's AppExchange
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Convenos Meeting Center Now Available and Certified on Salesforce.com's AppExchange
Salesforce.com Customers Can Now Deploy Convenos Meeting Center within Their Salesforce Implementations
SAN FRANCISCO - salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference - Oct. 9 -- Convenos and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced the availability of Convenos Meeting Center for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Convenos Meeting Center is an on-demand Web conferencing service which delivers a comprehensive set of interactivity tools within a simple and intuitive interface, under a pricing model that is free of per-minute usage and telephony charges. Convenos Meeting Center is immediately available for test drive and deployment at salesforce.com/appexchange. The announcement was made today at Dreamforce '06, salesforce.com's User and Developer Conference.
Convenos Meeting Center was designed to surface an essential set of Web conferencing features within an easy-to-use online meeting environment. It was also designed to make Web conferencing costs controlled and predictable. Flat- fee subscriptions deliver unlimited use and integrated VoIP options deliver free audio. Convenos Meeting Center for AppExchange was developed with sales representatives and management in mind and was designed to make Web conferencing easily actionable within Salesforce. In the Salesforce console, users initiate and manage their Convenos online meetings from within Leads, Contacts, Accounts and Opportunities. Editable meeting notes are automatically captured and written back to the Salesforce record of origin.
"We view sales teams as power users of Web conferencing technology," said Thomas Torf, Convenos CEO. "We chose to make Convenos Meeting Center available via the AppExchange because our service delivers an essential set of interactivity tools in an easy-to-use Web conferencing interface, and it does so in a manner that allows organizations to dramatically control cost."
"Spoke chose Convenos Meeting Center for two reasons," said Jeff Leroux, vice president of sales for Spoke Software, the largest online business-to- business prospect database of its kind. "It is easy for our reps to use and it is extremely cost-effective. Convenos has done a good job of delivering a service that brings a lot of value to our sales organization at controlled and predictable cost."
"Our June 2006 Customer Relationship Survey listed Web conferencing among the topmost sought-after services. We are pleased to see Convenos make a commitment to the AppExchange because it is a relevant response to customer requests," said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners, salesforce.com.
Convenos Meeting Center for AppExchange is one of more than 375 applications now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange, the world's first on-demand directory and sharing service, found at salesforce.com/appexchange.
Apex is salesforce.com's breakthrough new on-demand platform and programming language that is redefining what a multi-tenant on-demand application can be. Apex enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications that go far beyond CRM, and for the first time, to write and run their own code hosted with the security, reliability, upgradeability and ease-of-use of salesforce.com's industry-leading multi- tenant service. Customers can use Apex to modify the core features and functionality of their Salesforce deployments for their unique business needs and quickly and easily integrate new applications and components from partners and developers. Without any infrastructure investment, developers can now build and run a virtually unlimited array of applications with unprecedented power to innovate with the same creative freedom as salesforce.com's own developers.
About Convenos
Convenos is dedicated to delivering online collaboration tools that are simple, convenient, and continue to advance the web-based conferencing, collaboration, and workspace arenas. Convenos Meeting Center is an on-demand, subscription-based solution with an intuitive user interface, easy meeting setup, and no additional minutes-based usage or telephony charges. It was designed to expose a set of high-utility web conferencing features in a user- friendly interface and be "minutes-free." Other key differentiators include the ability to run ongoing meetings as virtual workspaces and a choice of integrated audio options including VoIP and mixed types. It is Skype(TM)- certified and integrates with Microsoft Outlook®.
www.convenos.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. Apex, salesforce.com's on-demand platform and programming language, enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications, and for the first time, to write and run their own code hosted with the security, reliability, upgradeability and ease- of-use of salesforce.com's industry-leading multi-tenant service. 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 www.salesforce.com/, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
Source: Convenos
CONTACT:
Cathie Royer
Convenos
+1-831-325-3122
croyer@convenos.com
Gordon Evans
Salesforce.com
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gevans@salesforce.com
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