AvantGo and salesforce.com Team to Mobilize salesforce.com.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers HAYWARD, Calif. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2003 Salesforce.com Customers Can Now Use Subscription My AvantGo(R) Service to Access Tasks, Accounts, Contacts and Opportunities on their Handheld Devices AvantGo, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO), a leading provider of mobile enterprise software, and salesforce.com, the market leader in online customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ), today announced AvantGo Mobile Sales(TM) for salesforce.com, a My AvantGo(R) channel that enables salesforce.com customers to view, update and manage salesforce.com information any time, from any location on their handheld devices--with or without wireless connections. By mobilizing salesforce.com information, the new product enables sales professionals to make the most of every customer interaction, while maximizing sales efficiency and productivity. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent AvantGo Sales Management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a and Field Sales Representative Study, the top three major obstacles cited by sales representatives for not using their CRM/SFA system more often were that the systems were too time-consuming, difficult to access and provided limited value to them in the field. In the survey, sales management and field-based representatives indicated that providing handheld access to CRM/SFA and other sales force systems would drive adoption and increase productivity of the sales force. In fact, 83% of sales representatives believed that a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). sales solution would make them more productive in the field and 90% said they would use their CRM/SFA system more if they had handheld mobile access. With the easy-to-use mobile application, salesforce.com customers can now access their important sales data when and where they need it most--on the road, at a customer site or anywhere else they take their handheld devices. Specifically, with AvantGo Mobile Sales for salesforce.com, users can access salesforce.com Tasks, Accounts, Contacts and Opportunities on their handheld devices, enabling them to view, update and manage new records right from the device, as well as search and find existing records quickly and easily. All customer information is synchronized locally to the handheld device, which ensures optimum performance and reliability. Wireless connectivity is not required. "As the online CRM market leader, we are committed to providing our customers with solutions to meet every need and situation--whether they want to use their laptop or a handheld device, whether they are offline or have a wireless connection," said Marc Benioff Marc Benioff (b. 1964) is Chairman & CEO of Salesforce.com, a leading CRM company he founded in March 1999. Born Marc Russell Benioff on September 25, 1964 in San Francisco, California USA. , chairman 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 salesforce.com. "Many of our customers are mobile professionals, which is why we are partnering with AvantGo to deliver reliable, convenient, and intuitive access to salesforce.com information any time, from anywhere. This solution rounds out our mobile strategy by supporting a robust handheld extension to salesforce.com for the highest reliability and performance." David Pratt David Pratt is the name of several people:
Availability Today, salesforce.com users with Pocket PC devices It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. This is a list of Pocket PC and Windows CE devices, and companies that make, or have made, them. can subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; a free 30-day trial of AvantGo Mobile Sales for salesforce.com online at www.avantgo.com/salesforce. A subscription to the channel is available for $299 per year from AvantGo. For a limited time, customers can receive the new service for an introductory subscription price of $249 per year. Support for Palm OS handheld devices will be available by the end of the month. About salesforce.com Salesforce.com builds and delivers customer relationship management (CRM) applications as scalable online services. The salesforce.com product suite - Team Edition, Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition, Wireless Edition and Offline Edition - gives companies of all sizes a complete 360-degree view of the customer. The company's award-winning CRM solutions provide integrated online sales force automation, customer service and support management, and marketing automation applications to help companies meet the complex challenges of global customer communication. Salesforce.com has received considerable recognition in the industry, including Editors' Choice and two Five-Star ratings from PC Magazine, two Deploy Awards from InfoWorld, Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: 100, Upside Hot 100, Investor's Choice Award from Enterprise Outlook, Editor's Choice from TMCLabs, Top 10 CRM Implementation from Aberdeen Group, and InfoWorld's 2001 CRM Technology of the Year. Founded in 1999, salesforce.com is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia. Salesforce.com customers include Autodesk, Arvato Services, Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , Fujitsu Technology Solutions, Kikkoman Corporation, Le Meridien, Paymentech, PMI See Private Mortgage Insurance. Mortgage Insurance, Putnam Lovell NBF NBF National Bank Financial NBF National Business Furniture NBF Norsk Bibliotekforening NBF Norges Blindeforbund NBF National Biosafety Framework NBF National Book Festival NBF Neutral Buffered Formalin NBF New Best Friend , Siemens PT&D, Suntory Foods, Textron Fastening Systems, USA Today and Wachovia. About AvantGo AvantGo, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a leading provider of mobile enterprise software. AvantGo delivers mobile customer relationship management (CRM) solutions that unlock the return on investment of popular CRM/SFA systems by driving adoption, and mobile data collection solutions that improve field productivity and data accuracy. AvantGo's mobile solutions, which are built on the company's award-winning enterprise mobile software platform, can be deployed within an enterprise or delivered through the hosted My AvantGo service, which has more than seven million registered users. Currently, AvantGo's customers comprise 38 of the Fortune 100, and include McKesson Corporation, Ford Motor Company, Cisco, FedEx and CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. . Cautionary Statement Except for historical information, all of the expectations and assumptions contained in the foregoing are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the extent to which mobile solutions offer increased access to corporate systems to improve customer relationship management, increase sales productivity and improve adoption of CRM solutions. For additional information regarding these and other risks associated with the companies' business, refer to the companies' latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . AvantGo, AvantGo Mobile Sales, My AvantGo and the AvantGo logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of AvantGo in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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