GreenPages Selects Salesnet's 25th Anniversary Edition over Salesforce.com Winter '06; On-Demand CRM Leader Welcomes GreenPages As New Customers Flock To Salesnet.BOSTON -- Salesnet, the leading provider of on-demand CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. software focused on driving sales effectiveness, proudly announced today that GreenPages, a leading IT solutions provider, has chosen to implement Salesnet after a comprehensive search for a CRM solution. GreenPages, the first of many recent customer wins gained in head-to-head competition with Salesforce.com, selected Salesnet due in part to the anticipated functionality in the Salesnet 25th Anniversary Edition, also announced today. The new edition will provide 250 new features and will showcase the broadening of Salesnet's CRM footprint into Marketing Automation (See also 'Salesnet Celebrates 25th Anniversary Product Edition,' - Feb. 13, 2006.) "After we realized that further development of our own homegrown CRM application would be cost prohibitive, we embarked on a thorough search for the right vendor," said Ron Dupler, president and chief executive officer of GreenPages. "We considered several solutions, and determined that Salesnet was the best fit for our needs; no other vendor offered the workflow and detailed sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. functionality that a company like ours requires. Already, everything we have seen from the product and the implementation has validated our decision." GreenPages' choice was solidified when Salesnet was able to provide a seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. with their own legacy applications, through Salesnet partner, AppsOnTap. GreenPages, in the middle of an applications upgrade, was concerned that the CRM implementation would have to wait until the upgrade was complete. However, unlike the other vendors they were considering, Salesnet was able to offer a plan, through a value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. , that allowed GreenPages to implement the CRM system in parallel with their upgrade, resulting in a tighter integration of the systems. 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. Dupler, "AppsOnTap was instrumental in ensuring that the Salesnet system was tightly integrated with our own. Because of their work, it is difficult for even savvy users to notice it is separate from our own system." "GreenPages is a foreword thinking company that appreciates the value of the sales process and understands the advantages that Salesnet brings to its sales team; we are thrilled with the opportunity to provide our services to their company," said Jonathan Tang, president and co-founder of Salesnet. "Announcing GreenPages, along with the additional customer wins that will follow in the coming weeks, is a testament to our focus on the needs of our customers and because of this, Salesnet is quickly growing its reputation as the Salesforce.com alternative." About GreenPages Inc. GreenPages is a national technology solutions provider helping companies solve real-world business problems by offering a comprehensive suite of technology solutions including: Compliance, Computing Technologies, Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure, Procurement Services, Security, Storage, and Technology Lifecycle Most new technologies follow a similar technology lifecycle describing the technological maturity of a product. This is not similar to a product life cycle, but applies to an entire technology, or a generation of a technology. Management. Founded in 1992, GreenPages is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation located on Badgers Island in Kittery, Maine Kittery is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 9,543 at the 2000 census. The town declares itself to be the "Gateway to Maine." Home to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Seavey's Island, Kittery includes the seaside district of Kittery Point and part of . For more information on GreenPages technology solutions, please visit the GreenPages website at: http://www.greenpages.com/solutions/. About AppsOnTap AppsOnTap, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control is a New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. based, next generation value added reseller See VAR. (company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software). (VAR) that focuses solely on Web-native business applications commonly called On-Demand and Software-as-a-Service. AppsOnTap specializes in helping organizations isolate business processes that can be made more profitable by leveraging SaaS. Once a business process has been identified as a potential area of improvement, AppsOnTap then assists in the evaluation, procurement, implementation, training, and on going support of the SaaS application. Today AppsOnTap, LLC is a certified reseller and implementation partner of Salesnet, a leading CRM/SFA solution, Quote ASP, a leading Quotation and Proposal Management solution, and Ketera, a leading Spend Management solution. For more information, please visit http://applicationsontap.com/. About Salesnet Salesnet, the leading provider of on-demand CRM software focused on driving sales effectiveness, delivers solutions that empower companies to sell more. Since 2000, Salesnet's hosted CRM solutions have served as proven alternatives to expensive, complex, packaged or premise-based CRM software. Organizations such as American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. Incentive Services, Birch Telecom, Sovereign Bank, and Tellabs use Salesnet to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability of global sales organizations. Salesnet's Guided Performance Selling (GPS) strategy leverages software-as-a-service, configuration-as-a-service(TM), integration-as-a-service(TM), and administration-as-a-service(TM) to offer products and services designed to drive the fastest 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). in the CRM industry. In addition, Salesnet's exclusive Customer Success Roadmap strategy is aimed at driving ongoing business value with on-demand CRM. Salesnet, headquartered in Boston, provides additional information on its products and services at: www.salesnet.com. |
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