Manticore Technology's Virtual Touchstone Now Available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange


Salesforce.com Customers Can Now Deploy Lead Nurturing Solution Directly Within Their Salesforce Implementations

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10 / -- Manticore Technology and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, announced the availability of Virtual Touchstone for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Virtual Touchstone is a powerful lead nurturing solution that allows marketers to generate more sales leads and to automatically move prospects deeper into pipeline, providing sales a constant stream of qualified leads. Built on the AppExchange on-demand platform, Virtual Touchstone is immediately available for deployment at salesforce.com/appexchange .

Virtual Touchstone for AppExchange is the foremost lead nurturing platform made for business-to-business marketers using Salesforce. Virtual Touchstone integrates the applications that online direct marketers use most, including email, Web analytics, and pay-per-click ad tracking into one powerful, on-demand solution. Manticore Technology's solution identifies new leads, automates the progression of leads through the pipeline, reduces sales cycles, and improves sales efficiency thereby dramatically improving a company's bottom-line.

"AppExchange provides salesforce.com customers with access to a dynamic marketplace of applications to optimize their Salesforce deployment," said Nicholas Walker, CEO and founder of Manticore Technology. "Virtual Touchstone is an exciting addition to AppExchange for business-to-business marketers that are looking to streamline their lead generation programs and improve outbound sales and marketing programs. By implementing Virtual Touchstone and Salesforce, marketing organizations are able to ensure their sales teams have plenty of qualified leads, and that they are talking to the right leads -- at the right time."

"For salesforce.com customers looking to boost their demand generation, Virtual Touchstone for AppExchange is an excellent choice," said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners, salesforce.com. "Today, many sales and marketing organizations operate within independent silos. The combination of Virtual Touchstone for AppExchange and Salesforce effectively eliminates those silos, bridging the communication gap between sales and marketing organizations, enabling a continuous flow of qualified leads, and arming sales with invaluable insight into website and email behavior for individual prospects. Virtual Touchstone for AppExchange and Salesforce form a powerful solution to the age-old sales and marketing divide."

Virtual Touchstone for AppExchange is one of more than 280 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 salesforce.com/appexchange .

About Manticore Technology

Manticore Technology is the provider of the market leading on-demand lead nurturing solution. The company's Virtual Touchstone solution enables marketers to effortlessly move sales prospects through the pipeline and feed their sales team invaluable insight in the interests of each lead, thereby reducing sales cycles, increasing productivity and driving revenue for an organization. Manticore Technology has more than 30 enterprise customers, including The Kellogg Company, International Truck, Riverbed Technology, and Net Forensics. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Manticore Technology is a privately funded company. For more information please visit the company's web site at www.manticoretechnology.com or call 512-241-3780.

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 apps at appexchange.com/ . Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.

As of April 30, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 22,700 customers and approximately 444,000 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. 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: salesforce.com, Inc.

CONTACT: Christopher Doran of Manticore Technology, +1-512-241-3780, ext. 13, or Christopher@manticoretechnology.com; or Gordon Evans of Salesforce.com, +1-415-536-7608, or gevans@salesforce.com

Web site: www.salesforce.com/

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