San Francisco, Calif. – Sept. 12, 2005 – Firepond (Company
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Studies), Inc. and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the global leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced the availability of Firepond CPQ™ OnDemand for AppExchange. Built on salesforce.com's Appforce on-demand platform, the Firepond OnDemand for AppExchange solution is available immediately for preview in the AppExchange, and will be generally available at the same time as the Salesforce Winter '06 release. The announcement was made in San Francisco at Dreamforce '05, salesforce.com’s third annual user and developer conference. Firepond OnDemand for AppExchange is one of the 70 launch applications that are available through AppExchange, salesforce.com’s new on-demand application sharing service.
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.
Firepond OnDemand for AppExchange adds the ability to configure products and services of any complexity, accurately price those products, apply discounts, charges, and fees to prepare a quotation, and then create a quality proposal in PDF, RTF or HTML format. Firepond OnDemand provides a single point of information gathered from many parts of an organization – product specifications from engineering, production constraints from manufacturing, discount authorization from finance, terms and conditions from legal, and product collateral from marketing. Salespeople eliminate wasted time waiting for answers to questions – resulting in shorter sales cycles.
“AppExchange allows users to deploy all their on-demand applications in a single, integrated environment. By adding Firepond OnDemand to their existing Salesforce deployment, users now have the power to build a complete, streamlined, lead-to-order system,” Firepond’s CEO Bill Santo said. “Firepond OnDemand’s quote data export feature provides users with accurate data, thus producing accurate analysis, forecasting and, most importantly, orders.”
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 Firepond
Firepond provides interactive selling software solutions that help companies profitably acquire and retain customers. The complementary configuration, pricing and guided selling solutions are based on patented technology. Firepond’s solutions help drive new revenue streams, increase profitability, and manage customer interactions across all channels throughout the sales cycle. Firepond’s newest product, CPQ™ OnDemand, provides product configuration technology to companies of almost any size. Firepond is headquartered in Minnesota. Product development in the USA. For additional information about Firepond visit www.firepond.com or call 1-866-UCONFIG (826-6344).
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.
Firepond is a trademark of Firepond, Inc. CPQ is a trademark of Firepond, Inc.
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