ShareMethods Introduces ShareFree for Salesforce.com's AppExchange9 March 2006
ShareMethods and salesforce.com, the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced the ShareFree service for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Built on the AppExchange on-demand platform, ShareFree for AppExchange is immediately available for test drive and deployment at www.appexchange.com, in conjunction with the Salesforce Winter '06 release. ShareFree provides advanced document management and collaboration capabilities for sales and marketing teams of small businesses and workgroups – for free – delivering major new capabilities in the most accessible way possible.
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.
«We are excited by the launch of ShareFree for AppExchange, which delivers the power of advanced document management and collaboration solutions to a broad new audience,» said Adam Gross, director, product marketing, salesforce.com. «ShareFree empowers even the smallest of organizations with capabilities that were previously available only at the highest end of the enterprise.»
"We decided to make ShareFree broadly available on AppExchange because of the new wave of interest in our on-demand offerings,´ said Eric Hoffert, CEO of ShareMethods. «The traditional method of purchasing software for the desktop or the enterprise is coming to an end – and it is being replaced with software-as-a-service – delivered for free, ad-supported, or by subscription. This revolution is bringing dramatic benefits to end-users with ease of deployment, ease of use, high performance, no cost or low cost, and continuous new feature rollout. Also, with the richness of applications available in the AppExchange combined with ShareFree, customers can create mash-ups and remixes to support solutions for advertising, public relations, partner communications, and much more.»
ShareFree for AppExchange is available immediately for free for up to five users and 50 Mbytes of document storage. Any subscribers with a need to expand beyond ShareFree can upgrade to the subscription based offering ShareNow for AppExchange, with an ability to add as many users as needed or as much storage as is required in order to support sales, marketing, support, and external partners.
ShareFree for AppExchange is one of more than 150 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. 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 www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
About ShareMethods
With ShareMethods, sales and marketing teams can store, manage, and share documents easily and securely, collaborating with extended selling networks to close more business, providing a cost-effective alternative to developing and supporting a sales and marketing intranet or extranet. ShareMethods combines advanced document management, collaboration, and CRM integration into powerful on-demand solutions, which can cost less than one tenth of the price of traditional enterprise software. ShareMethods received an «Excellent» rating for usability from eWeek and scored 9 out of 10 for «Ease of Use, Implementation, and Value» from InfoWorld. The company was also recognized together with salesforce.com in the InfoWorld Top 100 for one of the best IT Projects of 2004. ShareMethods delivers its on-demand services on a global basis to users in the US, Canada, Mexico, France, England, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Russia, and Japan. ShareMethods on-demand services include ShareNow for AppExchange, ShareFree for AppExchange, and ShareMethods. Visit http://www.sharemethods.com or call 1-877-SHARENOW 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 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.
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