GOT Corporation & salesforce.com/foundation Announce Charitable Partnership: GOT donates 100% of September Product Proceeds & Ongoing Revenue Share to Support salesforce.com/foundation.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 -- GOT Corporation, the leader in customer relationship and online marketing solutions, and salesforce.com/foundation, the leader in integrating philanthropy philanthropy, the spirit of active goodwill toward others as demonstrated in efforts to promote their welfare. The term is often used interchangeably with charity. and business, today announced a partnership designed to augment the foundation's ability to serve the community. GOT has committed to an ongoing donation of up to 5% of its Cforce (Campaigner for Salesforce) product proceeds; as well as technology and professional service contributions to the foundation and affiliated non-profits. GOT and salesforce.com/foundation announced the partnership at Dreamforce '05, salesforce.com's developer and user conference. To jump start the donations, GOT is also announcing a philanthropic phil·an·throp·ic also phil·an·throp·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or marked by philanthropy; humanitarian. 2. Organized to provide humanitarian or charitable assistance: promotion at Dreamforce. GOT has committed to donate 100% of its first month Cforce revenues generated from all users who sign up for the product at GOT's Dreamforce booth. "As a leading technology company GOT has a passion to excel in business but this is surpassed by our desire to do good. In the end, our company is really about people and we believe that technology innovations that are revolutionizing businesses can provide important breakthroughs for individuals and communities," said Eric Melka, 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 GOT. "For this reason we have partnered with salesforce.com/foundation to support youth programs and to help non-profit organizations A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. deliver better services, maximize their effectiveness and implement exciting new, charitable programs." "We're thrilled to see that our longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective partner GOT, shares our vision of compassionate com·pas·sion·ate adj. 1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane. 2. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: capitalism, and we think this unique partnership with the salesforce.com/foundation will have real benefits for our non-profits using the application," 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. , CEO of salesforce.com. "GOT's generosity and compassion set a standard for future salesforce.com/foundation partnerships. We sincerely applaud their leadership." Charitable organizations This article is about charitable organizations. For other uses of the word charity, see Charity. A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is an organization with charitable purposes only. may benefit from free usage of Cforce (up to 20,000 emails per month across 10 users), as a complement to their Salesforce account, allowing them to develop sophisticated, large scale email initiatives from within one familiar interface. These organizations will also be provided with email marketing professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and a free customized template that will help them jump start their email communication efforts, build awareness and drive donations. Non-profits using Salesforce may request their free licenses from salesforce.com/foundation, and can preview Cforce now on AppExchange. Cforce for AppExchange is available immediately for preview in the AppExchange, and will be generally available at the same time as the Salesforce Winter '06 release. Cforce is 100% deployed within the Salesforce interface, and extends Salesforce with rich functionality for delivering and measuring large scale email communications with both Salesforce Leads and Contacts. Cforce for AppExchange is one of the GOT partner applications, and one of 70 launch applications that will be available through AppExchange, salesforce.com's new on-demand application marketplace. Cforce was announced in June and GOT is showing its Appforce-enabled version today in San Francisco at Dreamforce '05, salesforce.com's third annual user and developer conference. With AppExchange, salesforce.com customers now have access to new applications that bring the benefits of salesforce.com to their entire business, letting them manage and share all of their company information on-demand. Using the AppExchange, companies can easily add new applications to their existing Salesforce deployments, extending their success and making the full power and creativity of the salesforce.com customer and partner community available with just a click. The AppExchange is available for preview now and will be generally available with the salesforce.com Winter '06 release, expected in the fiscal fourth quarter. Appforce is a complete on-demand platform that includes Appforce Builder, Appforce DB, Appforce API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. and the Appforce OS for development & deployment of multiple on-demand applications. Appforce provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration for Salesforce deployments, as well as 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. . About GOT Corporation GOT Corporation(TM) delivers leading customer relationship and online marketing solutions through a growing family of products including Campaigner, CampaignerPro, and Cforce. Founded in 1999, GOT provides technology to Microsoft, Yahoo! and salesforce.com; solutions to large corporate clients such as AT&T, GlaxoSmithKline, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Speedo An earlier scalable font technology from Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA (www.bitstream.com). Speedo fonts used the .SPD extension. See FaceLift. ; and services thousands of small and medium-sized businesses. GOT is based in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , with offices in Boca Raton Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Montreal, and Ottawa. For more information please visit http://www.gotcorp.com, or call 888-845-4544. About salesforce.com/Foundation Salesforce.com/Foundation is the leader in integrating philanthropy and business. Through its model of donating 1% of profits to the community annually, 1% of salesforce.com equity to its programs and 1% of employee working hours to community service, the Foundation is building a new model for corporations to better serve the communities in which they operate. The Foundation also strives to better the lives of youth by providing relevant access to technology for youth in underserved communities both domestically and abroad. The Foundation works with other corporations, youth development agencies, and NGOs to create a society in which children, regardless of socio-economic background, ethnicity or learning level, have access to technology and understand how to use it to enhance their lives. Since July 2000, the Foundation has opened 43 Community Technology Centers across the globe serving nearly 50,000 youth and other community members; has provided close to 8,000 hours of service to the community through salesforce.com's 400 employee volunteers; and offers the salesforce.com award winning online customer relationship management application to more than 100 qualified nonprofits globally saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. More information is available at http://www.salesforce.com/foundation. 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