Salesforce.com Tops 100,000 Subscribers as Verity Signs Three-Year Agreement To Implement CRM Service For Over 200 Employees Worldwide.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2003 Sforce, with Verity K2 Enterprise, provides quick and easy access to mission-critical customer data Salesforce.com, the world leader in delivering software-as-service, today announced that Verity, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise software that helps organizations maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment, has signed a three-year contract to implement salesforce.com S3 for over 200 sales, marketing and support professionals worldwide. Using the sforce client/service application platform, Verity plans to integrate salesforce.com with its own K2 Enterprise software to provide its employees with easy access to customer information from multiple sources. "High quality customer relationship management is our philosophy," said Anthony J. Bettencourt, president and chief executive officer at Verity. "Salesforce.com's innovative sforce architecture, together with the advanced search and categorization capabilities of Verity's K2 Enterprise software, will enable us to manage, track, access and retrieve customers' information in real time, enhancing our ability to serve our customers with the right information at our fingertips at any time." With salesforce.com S3, Verity will have a single global system that enables the secure management of 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. , customer service and support, as well as documents and files, in the appropriate language and currency. Verity will be able to rapidly provide users with single-point access to comprehensive customer information, enhancing productivity and user adoption. Over 100,000 subscribers worldwide are turning to salesforce.com for powerful on-demand CRM performance," said Marc Benioff, 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 salesforce.com. "We are very pleased to have a leader like Verity that has helped us top 100,000 subscribers. The success of our customers is the driving force behind our profitability and our own successes and we will continue to provide benefits such as low risk and cost, high flexibility and rapid deployment to sustain that achievement. With more than 7,400 customers and 100,000 subscribers in 110 countries, salesforce.com is the world's most successful application utility and the first profitable software-as-service provider. Salesforce.com S3 allows the scalable, secure management of sales force automation, campaign management, customer service and support, as well as documents and files. Salesforce.com S3 is built on sforce, the salesforce.com client/service application system, allowing it to be easily customized by tools from BEA (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. 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The new salesforce.com Integration Server powered by TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company (NASDAQ:TIBX TIBX Tibco Software Incorporated (NASDAQ symbol) ), available to salesforce.com S3 customers, offers integration with almost every corporate system including SAP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SAP), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), PeopleSoft (NASDAQ:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ), and Siebel (NASDAQ:SEBL SEBL Siebel Systems, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) applications. About Verity Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Verity provides software solutions that help organizations maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment by utilizing Verity's industry-leading enterprise search, classification and personalization technologies. Verity software is used for sharing information within and between enterprises; for facilitating e-commerce sales; and for B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business activities on Web-based market exchanges. In addition, Verity technology serves as a core component of many leading e-business applications. Verity products are used by more than 3,500 organizations in the private and public sectors. Customers include Adobe Systems, AT&T, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Cisco, Documentum, Dow Jones, EDGAR Edgar or Eadgar (both: ĕd`gər), 943?–975, king of the English (959–75), son of Edmund, king of Wessex. In 957 the Mercians and Northumbrians rebelled against Edgar's brother Edwy and chose Edgar as their king. Online, Financial Times, H-P, Home Depot, Lotus, META Group, SAP, Siemens, Stellent, Sybase, Time New Media and Timex. About salesforce.com Salesforce.com is the world's leader in delivering software-as-service. It offers the award-winning salesforce.com family of on-demand solutions for integrated sales force automation, campaign management, customer service and support, and document and file management to help companies meet the complex challenges of global customer communication. It has also introduced sforce, a new service that will change how applications are built as significantly as salesforce.com changed how applications are delivered. Sforce allows business application developers to use the tools that developers already love, combined with Web services provided by sforce, to rapidly build and deploy applications at a substantially lower cost than ever before. Salesforce.com has received considerable recognition in the industry, including Editors' Choice and two Five-Star ratings from PC Magazine, two Deploy Awards from InfoWorld, Investor's Choice Award from Enterprise Outlook, Editors' Choice from TMCLabs, Top 10 CRM Implementation from Aberdeen Group and InfoWorld's 2001 CRM Technology of the Year. The company has more than 7,400 customers in 110 countries running its services in 10 languages. Founded in 1999, salesforce.com is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia. Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] . |
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