iAnywhere Introduces Sales Anywhere for Salesforce.com's AppExchange8 March 2006
with or without a wireless
connection. More than 150 on-demand business application listings now available for test drive and deployment via the Salesforce.com AppExchange.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17 -- iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), and salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced iAnywhere Sales Anywhere for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Supporting the AppExchange on-demand platform, Sales Anywhere for salesforce.com's AppExchange is immediately available for test drive and deployment at http://www.appexchange.com, in conjunction with the Salesforce Winter '06 release. Sales Anywhere improves field sales productivity and effectiveness by giving sales professionals quick, convenient access to customer and opportunity management information while away from the office.
With AppExchange, salesforce.com customers now have access to new applications that bring the benefits of salesforce.com to an entire business, letting them manage and share all of their company information on-demand. Using AppExchange, companies can easily add any number of new on-demand applications to their existing Salesforce deployments, extending their success and making the full power and creativity of the salesforce.com customer, partner and developer community available with just a click.
"The AppExchange on-demand platform provides us with the capability to tightly integrate Sales Anywhere with Salesforce, giving salesforce.com customers the ability to quickly and easily install and deploy Sales Anywhere with very little administrative set up," said Brian Vink, vice president of marketing at iAnywhere. "This enables customers to increase field effectiveness and productivity while lowering adoption barriers."
"By leveraging AppExchange, the Sales Anywhere service brings affordable mobility to organizations of all sizes," said Adam Gross, director, product management, salesforce.com. "Now both Fortune 100 companies and small businesses can, in just a few minutes time, give their users access to Salesforce on handheld devices."
Sales Anywhere provides anywhere, anytime access to Salesforce on Windows Mobile, Palm OS and BlackBerry devices -- with or without a wireless connection. Whether at a customer site or in an airplane, industry-leading ease-of-use and robust synchronization ensure that sales professionals always have quick and reliable access to Salesforce to maximize field productivity and effectiveness. Sales Anywhere provides full read-and-write access to Salesforce accounts, contacts, opportunities (including product line items and schedules), tasks, and events. Sales Anywhere is a hosted service that is exceptionally easy to deploy and maintain, and requires no administrative setup.
Sales Anywhere for AppExchange is one of more than 150 application listings 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. Launched today, 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 http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
About iAnywhere
iAnywhere enables success at the front lines of business. The company holds worldwide market leadership positions in mobile and embedded databases, mobile management and security, mobile middleware and synchronization, and Bluetooth(R) and infrared protocol technologies. Tens of millions of mobile devices, millions of subscribers, and 20,000 customers and partners rely on the company's "Always Available" technologies, including SQL Anywhere, Afaria, OneBridge, and the AvantGo(R) mobile Internet service. iAnywhere is a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY). Visit http://www.ianywhere.com for more information.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). 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 http://www.appexchange.com. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
As of October 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 18,700 customers and approximately 351,000 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 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 http://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
Sybase, iAnywhere, iAnywhere Solutions, SQL Anywhere, Afaria, OneBridge and AvantGo are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. (R) indicates registration in the United States of America. The Bluetooth trademark and logos are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by iAnywhere is under license. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
Special Note: As used in this release, iAnywhere means iAnywhere Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. Statements concerning iAnywhere's new products are by nature forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks and cannot be guaranteed. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include shifts in customer demand, rapid technological changes, availability and quality of third party products, competitive factors and unanticipated delays in scheduled product availability. Some of the risks are detailed from time to time in the Sybase Inc. consolidated base's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of which can be viewed on the Company's web site).
Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and AppExchange and Successforce are trademarks of salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contact:
Crystal King
iAnywhere
crystal.king@ianywhere.com
(978) 287-1524
Jane Hynes
Salesforce.com Public Relations
jhynes@salesforce.com
415-901-5079
Source: prnewswire
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