Central Desktop Now Available via Salesforce.com's AppExchange.Salesforce.com customers can now deploy rich extranets to collaborate with customers and partners PASADENA, Calif. -- Central Desktop, the award winning collaboration platform An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. company, today announced their integration with Salesforce is now available on the AppExchange. With Central Desktop for AppExchange, Salesforce users can create personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. customer extranets and partner portals. Built using the Apex on-demand platform, Central Desktop is immediately available for test drive, trial and deployment on the AppExchange directory at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Central Desktop brings wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. technology to salesforce.com customers in a structured, permission-based environment that is easily adaptable to a company's specific business needs. Central Desktop for AppExchange provides a professional user-experience when collaborating with customers and partners by allowing Salesforce users to invite their customers into a private, invitation-only extranet that can be entirely customized to the company's corporate themes and colors. Voted "Best of the Web" for collaboration tools by BusinessWeek magazine, Central Desktop for AppExchange is ideal for managing projects, deploying professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , organizing complex sales Complex sales, also known as Enterprise sales, can refer to a method of trading sometimes used by organizations when procuring large contracts for goods and/or services where the customer takes control of the selling process by issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) and and business development deals or simply collaborating with customers outside the firewall. Rather than juggling multiple tools to collaborate with customers, Central Desktop for AppExchange provides a seamless and customizable experience for Salesforce users to track projects and communicate with both customers and partners. "With the new Central Desktop integration, salesforce.com customers now have a powerful tool to easily collaborate with customers and partners in a private and secure environment," said Isaac Garcia, 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 Central Desktop. "Rather than emailing files, documents and to-do lists back and forth between employees and customers, Central Desktop allows companies to track projects, files and discussions in a secure extranet environment that is both easy to use and professional in appearance." "Industry-leading partners such as Central Desktop are delivering solutions on the AppExchange that bring the benefits of on demand to all parts of the enterprise," said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners, salesforce.com. "Customers no longer have to choose between on demand and on-premise applications for their enterprise - they can now use the AppExchange to choose from hundreds of on-demand applications to address their specific business requirements." Key Features of Central Desktop for AppExchange * Professional-looking customer facing extranets * Delivered 100 percent on demand * Wiki-based environment * Completely customizable * Group calendars for projects and coordination * Version track files and documents * Searchable discussion threads * Secure environment: 256 bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. encryption * Enterprise-grade full-text search A search that compares every word in a document, as opposed to searching an abstract or a set of keywords associated with the document. Word processors and text editors contain full-text search functions that let you find a word or phrase anywhere in the document. within documents and files Apex and the AppExchange Apex, the world's first on-demand platform, provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration enabling a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. . All Apex components and applications can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange directory, enabling all the innovation that Apex unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community. Central Desktop for AppExchange is one of more than 400 applications that are now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange, the world's first on-demand application directory, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. The Apex platform, formerly known as the AppExchange platform, is available today. As previously announced, the next release of the Apex platform is currently scheduled to be available in conjunction with the release of Winter 07, and the Apex programming language is currently scheduled to be available during the first half of 2007. About Central Desktop Central Desktop, a pioneer in the on-demand software See SaaS. collaboration market, provides affordable and easy to use collaboration tools to business teams in small and medium sized businesses. Used by more than 20,000 teams and individuals around the world, Central Desktop is an alternative to complex, traditional groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. products such as Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. . Central Desktop clients include groups within Fortune 500 companies, academia, government agencies, manufacturing firms, and software development firms around the globe. Founded in early 2005, Central Desktop is headquartered in Pasadena, California Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 133,936 and the 160th largest city in the United States. The California Finance Department estimates the Pasadena population to be 146,166 in 2005. . For more information, visit www.centraldesktop.com. [c] Central Desktop. All rights reserved. Central Desktop and the Central Desktop logo are all registered trademarks of Central Desktop. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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