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ORACLESALESONLINE.COM CONTINUES RAPID PACE OF CUSTOMER ADOPTION6,000 Companies in More Than 100 Countries Currently Live on Oracle's Free Online Enterprise Sales Automation ServiceREDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 25, 2000 - ( http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?383437 ) Oracle Corp., the largestprovider of software for e-business, today announced that more than 6,000 enterprises are now actively managing their sales activities with OracleSalesOnline.com. Launched in August, OracleSalesOnline.com is a free online service that provides businesses with immediate access to Oracle's enterprise-strength sales automation product via the web. Companies currently using OracleSalesOnline.com include: Acrossworld Communications, Deloitte Consulting, Autodesk, Hospitality Enterprises Inc., Infosys Corporation, KnightRidder.com, MartinAir, Omnifax, Oregon Steel Mills, Rational Software, Tata Technologies (India), US Can, ViaSource, VTEL Communications and World Energy Exchange. Oracle today also announced that it plans to integrate company information and search tools from Hoover's, Inc. within OracleSalesOnline.com. The new capabilities provided by Hoover's will allow sales professionals to quickly locate continuously updated information critical to their job, including company descriptions, financials, key officers, top competitors and news for thousands of public and private enterprises worldwide. Global Sales Management Global companies from all industries are realizing the benefits of leveraging an enterprise sales service that provides global sales functionality, such as customer and pipeline management, calendaring and activity management, free of charge. As the only sales automation service that truly provides global, enterprise sales functionality, enterprises from over 100 countries have selected OracleSalesOnline.com as their sales automation service. New functionality, such as partner management and integration to Microsoft Outlook and Palm devices will be available in coming weeks. "OracleSalesOnLine.com enables GlobalCenter’s sales force to instantly and accurately manage and track potential sales leads - serving prospective customer needs without delay," said Paul Pluschkell, Executive Vice President, Sales and Product Development, GlobalCenter Inc. "OracleSalesonline.com is the perfect solution for a fast growing company like AcrossWorld Communications, Inc," said Anil Srivastava, CEO, AcrossWorld Communications. "We have an international sales team, and it hardly took us any time to get everyone up and running, using the same data. We are amazed at the depth of functionality this solution provides us." "In our evaluation process of several competing sales automation services, we were impressed with the level of service, value, and support offered by OracleSalesOnline.com," said Jack Pouchet, marketing director, Racal Instruments. "We are very pleased with the capabilities of the product, and with the responsiveness of Oracle to our needs. OracleSalesOnline.com is everything Oracle promised and much, much more." "OracleSalesOnline.com represents a new phenomenon in the Internet age," said Mark Barrenechea, senior vice president, Oracle CRM products division. "Launched only 2 months ago, OracleSalesOnline.com has already been adopted by over 6,000 companies in over 100 countries, proving that global enterprises are validating the software as service model, and that companies can no longer wait months and spend millions of dollars to automate core functionality such as sales automation." About Oracle Oracle provides the software that powers the Internet. For more information about Oracle, please call 650/506-7000. Trademark Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Editorial Contact: Karen Houston Oracle karen.houston@oracle.com top of page |
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