Beagle Research Group, LLC Recognizes Emerging Software Vendors; Announces Annual WizKids(TM) Award for Advances in CRM.

STOUGHTON, Mass. -- Beagle Research Group, LLC, today announced the winners of its annual CRM WizKids award for innovation in front office software. The WizKids award is given to emerging software companies that demonstrate new and innovative solutions to business problems encountered in the rapidly changing front office. Denis Pombriant, managing principal of the company and the report's author said, "This year's winners are a diverse bunch. Each has identified an area in front office business processes that can be improved and they have built novel solutions to the challenges they have identified."

Beagle Research also released a report containing case studies of each vendor and a typical customer. "It's easy to have a good idea," said Pombriant. "It was important to us that each WizKids award winner be able to show success in the field and each one has," he said.

The WizKids program was initiated in 2004 to highlight the good ideas that emerging companies frequently contribute to the market. Paul Greenberg, author of CRM at the Speed of Light, said, "Several of the companies named here will undoubtedly be some of the stars of tomorrow and some may already be well known but they have made significant new contributions."

The 2006 CRM WizKids award winners are: Communispace Corporation Watertown, MA, BlueRoads Corporation, San Mateo, CA, Rearden Commerce, Inc., San Mateo, CA, Knowlagent, Alpharetta, GA, Five9, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, ShareMethods, LLC, South Orange, NJ, RightNow Technologies, Inc., Bozeman, MT, Eloqua Corporation, Toronto, ON, and Salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

"These WizKids are helping companies run smoother, faster, and meet customers' needs better," say Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D., founding partners of Peppers & Rogers Group. "These are the companies and the solutions to watch when you think about growing enterprise value."

Several market watchers, including Greenberg, have recently suggested a change in direction of the CRM market which is implied by the WizKids report. Greenberg added, "This is a very important report for the front office software community. Beagle Research Group took a fresh approach to market analysis and came up with a real winner."

Individual case studies are available at participating vendor Web sites and the complete report is available at www.beagleresearch.com.

About Beagle Research Group

Beagle Research Group is a consulting and market research organization focused on emerging companies and technologies that will have an important impact on the way business is conducted in the years ahead. WizKids is a trademark of Beagle Research Group, LLC.