Digital Forest Becomes First Strategic Reseller of Airframe Business Software.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. & BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2004 Airframe Business Software, Inc., the premier provider of immediate-use "software-as-a-service" business applications, today announced a strategic reseller agreement and partnership with Digital Forest, of Bothell, WA. Through this partnership, Digital Forest becomes a strategic Airframe reseller and partner, offering hosted business applications to Digital Forest clients. Working together, Airframe and Digital Forest now offer more than 20 department-specific, net-native business applications as well as world-class hosting service. The Airframe net-native software will be hosted on Digital Forest's premier hosted-applications service. Airframe software offers scaleable, easy-to-use business software to improve productivity in a wide range of departments, including customer service, sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. , marketing, help desk, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , project management and more. The new Airframe Business Software and Digital Forest partnership capitalizes on the rapid growth in outsourced business applications for smaller-than-enterprise-sized business markets of 1,000 or less employees. 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. technology analysts at Gartner, while only eight percent of mid-sized businesses and smaller enterprises chose an application service provider for general business processes such as 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. ) in 2002, they predict that businesses choosing to use outsourced systems will grow to 25 percent of the market by 2006. Driven by price sensitivity and the need to be more competitive in a tough economy, businesses that choose Airframe are looking to maximize limited IT resources and reduce the total cost of software system ownership via a simple per-person, per-month price, with virtually no upfront deployment, hardware or software cost. Airframe automates and manages essential business functions for a fraction of the cost of non-hosted software solutions. To ease the headache of managing complex software, Airframe offers business software targeted squarely at the needs of medium-sized IT managers who are increasingly receptive to the Airframe's hosted "software-as-a-service" model. "With Digital Forest, Airframe addresses a wide variety of urgent needs for the less-than-enterprise-scale customer, offering reliable and robust infrastructure solutions that help business departments organize and increase efficiencies," said Robert Gryphon, 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 Airframe. "Airframe has done an exhaustive search of application-hosting companies, and Digital Forest's longstanding leadership and premier position in the industry gives us the utmost confidence our customers will receive top-notch service." "In our constant search to find a unique set of product offerings for our clients, Airframe hits the mark," said David Anderson David Anderson may refer to:
About Airframe Business Software, Inc. Airframe's hosted business applications help small and mid-sized businesses, and departments within larger organizations, become more organized, more productive and more efficient by bringing structure to their day-to-day activities -- and keeping customers, employees and partners working together. Airframe customers choose from a "department store" of world-class, customizable applications for administrative, customer-facing and operational functions, including: Human Resources, Help Desk, Customer Service, Sales, Marketing, Project Management, Facilities & Asset Management, Feature & Defect Tracking In engineering, defect tracking is the process of finding defects in a product, (by inspection, testing, or recording feedback from customers), and making new versions of the product that fix the defects. , Training, and Shipping & Receiving. Priced as a subscription per user, Airframe supports flexible job descriptions and secure integration between applications, with no additional charge per application. Launched by Octane oc·tane n. 1. Any of various isomeric paraffin hydrocarbons with the formula C8H18, found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent. 2. An octane number. Software founder Robert Gryphon in August 2003, Airframe provides a cost-effective alternative to complex, expensive enterprise software. Airframe is 100 percent web-hosted, with nothing to install, just a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. for the PC or Mac. Customers benefit from a 30-day "no-nonsense" money-back guarantee and a 500 percent ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). guarantee. Airframe helps companies focus on profits instead of technology. Learn more at www.myairframe.com. About digital.forest Founded in 1994 and celebrating their 10th year in business, digital.forest is the premier database- and application-hosting company serving small and medium-sized businesses and corporate workgroups around the globe. digital.forest offers shared- and dedicated-server solutions for Web-enabled databases and applications on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Mac and Windows systems as well as full development services for new and existing websites and applications along with many other complementary products and services related to web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. . www.digitalforest.com |
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