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CommentsSan Francisco, Calif. – Sept. 12, 2005 – ShareMethods and salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the global leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced the availability of ShareNow for AppExchange. Built on salesforce.com's Appforce on-demand platform, ShareNow for AppExchange is available immediately for preview in the AppExchange, and will be generally available at the same time as the Salesforce Winter ’06 release. ShareNow for AppExchange is a unique Appforce application that allows Salesforce users to access a shared and scalable library of their sales and marketing documents, such as marketing collateral, presentations, and sales proposals. ShareNow for AppExchange is one of 70 launch applications that are available through AppExchange, salesforce.com’s new on-demand application sharing service.
ShareNow for AppExchange was announced today in San Francisco at Dreamforce ‘05, salesforce.com’s third annual user and developer conference.
With AppExchange, salesforce.com customers now have access to new applications that bring the benefits of salesforce.com to their entire business, letting them manage and share all of their company information on-demand. Using AppExchange, companies can easily add new apps to their existing Salesforce deployments, extending their success and making the full power and creativity of the salesforce.com customer and partner community available with just a click.
ShareNow builds on the ShareMethods collaborative document management application. ShareMethods is a complementary application to Salesforce and provides sales people and marketers a central location to share information easily and collaborate with their extended selling networks at a fraction of the price of enterprise software. AppExchange allows the ShareMethods functionality to be rapidly installed within the Salesforce environment.
“With AppExchange, the rich feature set of the ShareNow on-demand application is available to hundreds of thousands of salesforce.com subscribers at the click of a mouse.” said Eric Hoffert, CEO of ShareMethods. “More than ten thousand salesforce.com customers and prospective clients can easily add advanced document management and collaboration capabilities using ShareNow for AppExchange. In addition, the Appforce platform allowed us to rapidly develop and deploy our solution in a just a few weeks. As a result, potential users around the world can now easily find us, try us, and install our free trial. We are thrilled to be part of AppExchange, a transformational development for the on-demand industry”.
AppExchange is the world’s first on-demand application sharing service. Launched at Dreamforce ‘05, AppExchange features dozens of pre-built applications created by salesforce.com customers and partners. AppExchange enables all of these on-demand applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with one click into any salesforce.com account. AppExchange can be found at www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
Appforce is a complete on-demand platform that includes Appforce Builder, Appforce DB, Appforce API and the Appforce OS for development & deployment of multiple on-demand applications. Appforce 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.
About ShareMethods
With ShareMethods, sales and marketing teams can store, manage, and share documents easily, collaborating with extended selling networks to close more business, providing a cost-effective alternative to developing and supporting a sales and marketing intranet. The service combines document management, collaboration, and CRM integration into a single on-demand solution. ShareMethods received an “Excellent” rating for usability from eWeek and scored 9 out of 10 for “Ease of Use, Implementation, and Value” by InfoWorld. For more information, visit http://www.sharemethods.com or call 1-877-SHARENOW.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). The company’s Salesforce family of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on demand. Appforce, salesforce.com’s on-demand platform, allows customers to customize and integrate the Salesforce family to meet their unique business needs, and build whole new powerful applications quickly and easily. Appforce applications are available via AppExchange, salesforce.com’s on-demand application sharing service. Customers can also take advantage of salesforce.com’s world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
As of July 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 16,900 customers and approximately 308,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), 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 services 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.
Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and Appforce and AppExchange are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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