ClearMeeting Delivers No Frills Web Conferencing for Salesforce.com's AppExchange.Salesforce.com Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is an on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution vendor. History Origins Salesforce.com was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff. customers and partners can now deploy ClearMeeting[TM] SA directly within Salesforce SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference - ClearMeeting[TM], the no frills This article is about the marketing concept. For other uses, see No-frills (disambiguation). No-frills or no frills is the term used to describe any service or product for which the non-essential features (called frills) have been removed. Web conferencing A videoconferencing session via the Internet. In order to interact with other participants, attendees use either a Web application or an application downloaded into their client machines. company, today announced the availability of ClearMeeting SA (the Sales Accelerator accelerator: see particle accelerator. (1) A key combination such as Alt-G or Ctrl-Shift H that is used to activate a task. (2) An incubator that expects to develop the company considerably faster than normal. See incubator. edition of ClearMeeting) for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Salesforce.com customers can now deploy ClearMeeting SA within their Salesforce implementation to dramatically improve results when prospecting and giving pitches by telephone. Built on the Force.com platform, ClearMeeting SA for AppExchange is immediately available for test drive and deployment at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. The announcement was made today at Dreamforce '07, salesforce.com's User and Developer Conference. A powerful selling tool, ClearMeeting SA adds visuals and interactive elements to phone calls, giving sales professionals the ability to show a story, not just tell a story. ClearMeeting SA follows a low-tech, basic approach to reach prospects and customers regardless of their computer type or technical ability. ClearMeeting SA helps sales professionals exceed their quota quota In international trade, a government-imposed limit on the quantity of goods and services that may be exported or imported over a specified period of time. Quotas are more effective than tariffs in restricting trade, since they limit the availability of goods rather by giving them the ability to: * Engage more prospects * Better qualify prospects in the sale cycle * Spend more time selling * Accelerate the sales cycle * Increase communications (and sales) with existing customers 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 designed ClearMeeting SA specifically for real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. sales prospecting and presentations," said Marjie Zander zan·der n. pl. zander or zan·ders A common European pikeperch (Stizostedion lucioperca) valued as a food fish. [German, from Low German Sander , President of ClearMeeting. "In the critical early stages of the sales cycle, you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what type of computer expertise or resources your prospect may have. Our low tech approach gets technology out of the way, so both the sales rep and the prospect can focus on the message, and not the medium. We invite salesforce.com customers to take advantage of our free One-to-One license, or purchase a higher capacity or team license." "The AppExchange has gained tremendous momentum, with thousands of applications available to extend the power of Salesforce," said George Hu, Chief Marketing Officer at salesforce.com. "ClearMeeting's AppExchange application enables salesforce.com customers to prospect and give sales presentations over the Web, without ever leaving Salesforce. ClearMeeting is a solution focused on the needs of sales professionals who want to do simple and powerful web presentations as a seamless part of every workday." Force.com Platform and the AppExchange Force.com is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Force.com reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables the creation of a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond client/server computing computing - computer . Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community. The AppExchange economy continues to expand as thousands of salesforce.com customers have installed thousands of on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. About ClearMeeting[TM] ClearMeeting[TM] is a tool for adding visual and interactive elements to traditional telephone conference calls. ClearMeeting[TM] is sold as an on-demand service, also called SaaS (Software as a Service). ClearMeeting[TM] requires no capital investment, no hardware, no complex setup See BIOS setup and install program. , no lengthy contract and no formal training. Its basic approach gets technology out of the way. The ClearMeeting[TM] SA edition is tailored specifically to meet the needs of sales and marketing professionals and is sold on a per-presenter basis via online signup at www.clearmeeting.com. ClearMeeting[TM] is a division of privately held AudioCast Inc. (www.audiocast.net), a pioneer of innovations in database driven streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. products and corporate online communication systems since 1997. For additional information, please visit www.clearmeeting.com. |
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