Above All and Salesforce.com Customers Increasingly Deploy Composite Applications to Improve Customer Satisfaction.Above All Aligns with the salesforce.com vision of The Business Web SAN FRANCISCO -- Above All Software, a provider of award-winning business integration software, today announced growing momentum with salesforce.com (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) customers. Numerous salesforce.com customers are now using the Above All Composite Application Platform to quickly develop and deploy flexible integration solutions across multiple industries, including cable equipment, insurance, travel and leisure, financial services, medical devices, and software. Joint Above All and salesforce.com customers include, ARRIS ar·ris n. pl. arris or ar·ris·es The sharp edge or ridge formed by two surfaces meeting at an angle, as in a molding. [Alteration of Old French areste, fishbone, spine , Bell Canada, Business Objects, Continental Fire, CoWare, CSA (1) (Canadian Standards Association, Toronto, Ontario, www.csa.ca) A standards-defining organization founded in 1919. It is involved in many industries, including electronics, communications and information technology. , Hilton Grand Vacations Company Hilton Grand Vacations Company, a subsidiary of Hilton Hotels, based in Orlando, Florida is a leading operator of timeshare resorts with about 30 properties in Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, and New York. , Intrep, Mitchell International, Patient Care Inc., PGP Corporation, QTC, and United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. Representatives of several of these companies will be attending Dreamforce '06 including, Bell Canada, CSA, Intrep, Mitchell International, and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) A data encryption program from PGP Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (www.pgp.com). Published as freeware in 1991 and widely used around the world for encrypting e-mail messages and securing files, PGP is available for commercial use and as freeware for . These companies have used Above All to integrate Salesforce with a variety of third party applications and services -- including SAP, Oracle, mainframe and home-grown systems -- to enhance business agility, achieve greater insight into their customers, and increase overall customer satisfaction. Salesforce.com customers have selected Above All in part because the new integrated, composite solution can be easily embedded within the popular Salesforce interface, eliminating the need to retrain re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train users. Above All's innovative approach to service-oriented integration enables enterprises to deploy new composite applications, or enterprise mashups, at a fraction of the time and cost typically associated with EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. , ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. or hand-coded solutions. "Salesforce.com customers inherently prefer fast, efficient solutions that do not tie them down to massive software investments. Above All shares this philosophy, which is a key reason these same customers are turning to Above All's composite application approach," said Jon Temple, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Above All Software. "We have helped numerous salesforce.com customers extend the value of their Salesforce applications across the enterprise. We anticipate our joint work with salesforce.com will only grow stronger with each additional customer success." "Our customers want to leverage the success they are realizing with Salesforce, so extending and integrating Salesforce more fully into the enterprise has become a top area of focus for us and our customers," said Cindy Warner, Senior Vice President, Global Integration Services for salesforce.com. "Above All shares our 'clicks not code' philosophy, and its solution enables our customers to easily deliver new composite applications within the Salesforce interface, making Above All an ideal integration solution." In addition to customer momentum, Above All has established a deep roster of salesforce.com solution partners that provide coverage across North America. These partners, experts in implementing and customizing Salesforce as well as using Above All, include, among others, BenNevis, Growth Circle, Model Metrics, Online Business Systems, and Red Sky Solutions. Above All is exhibiting at the Dreamforce Conference in booth #411 where it will be showcasing compelling composite application scenarios integrating Dun and Bradstreet capabilities with exciting new features in the Salesforce Winter '07 release. In addition, the Above All Composite Application Platform version 4.2, now available, includes updates to the Knowledge Pack for Salesforce that expedites the rapid assembly of composite applications. Above All is one of more than 375 applications now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange, the world's first on-demand directory and sharing service, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. In addition, Above All and salesforce.com are co-sponsoring a "Mashup" party at the DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. Lounge at 375 11th St, San Francisco on Tuesday, October 10 at 8 pm for all Dreamforce attendees, especially members of the AppExchange Developer Network. All members of the press and analyst community are cordially invited to attend. About Above All Software Above All Software provides award-winning software for rapid composite application assembly and delivery, enabling companies to leverage a service-oriented architecture to meet changing business needs. This new, flexible service-level approach simplifies and reduces the cost of business integration. Above All's customers include Bell Canada, CSA, Hilton, Medtronic, and NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on . Above All has alliances with some of the leading names in software, including Good Technology, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Siebel Systems/Oracle, and Systinet/Mercury. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA, Above All is privately held. For more information about Above All, visit our Web site at www.aboveallsoftware.com or call 800-819-5530. NOTE: Above All is a registered trademark of Above All Software in the United States and/or other countries. Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and The Business Web, AppExchange and Successforce are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] . Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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