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Spoke Software Introduces Spoke for AppExchange at Dreamforce '05
sSpoke's application—now available via AppExchange, salesforce.com's new on-demand application sharing service—provides unparalleled ability to populate sales pipelines with highly targeted leads and to access decision makers at target accounts;
San Francisco, CA - September 12, 2005—Spoke Software and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the global leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced the availability of Spoke for AppExchange. Built on salesforce.com's Appforce on-demand platform, Spoke 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. Users can search for prospects by title, company, industry, geography, revenue or other target criteria—across nearly 30 million contacts in over 500,000 companies. Once a prospect has been identified, the user can instantly add the target as a Lead or Contact directly into Salesforce. Spoke for AppExchange is one of 70 launch applications that are available through AppExchange, salesforce.com's new on-demand application sharing service.
Spoke for AppExchange was announced today in San Francisco at DreamForce '05, salesforce.com's third annual user and developer conference. Spoke Software is a gold level sponsor of DreamForce '05.
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 AppExchange, companies can easily add new apps 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.
"Spoke and salesforce.com are both integral to our sales process, and with Spoke for AppExchange we can continue to leverage both products in a single solution with a more integrated user experience," said Amy Guarino, Vice President of Sales at Right90, Inc. "Spoke for AppExchange extends the value of our Salesforce implementation by allowing us to identify new prospects, expand account coverage, and bring all those new contacts directly into Salesforce."
Spoke is a web-based subscription service that allows organizations to build highly targeted sales prospect lists. Spoke has names, titles and company information on more people at more companies than any other data source - from the CEO down to the individual directors and managers who can buy what sales people are selling. The Appforce based application, available via the AppExchange, adds new capability to any Salesforce instance, providing seamless access to Spoke's sales prospecting capabilities and allowing a user to add a person as a Contact or Lead via the integrated solution.
"We decided to partner with salesforce.com and join in the rollout of AppExchange because salesforce.com and Spoke are incredibly complementary products," said Frank Vaculin, President and CEO for Spoke Software. "Spoke helps sales and marketing professionals identify prospects and populate their target lists, and salesforce.com provides the necessary tracking, workflow and reporting capabilities to turn those leads into deals. With our new AppExchange solution, this combination is even more compelling."
AppExchange is the world's first on-demand application sharing service. Launched at Dreamforce '05, AppExchange features dozens of pre-built applications created by salesforce.com customers and partners. AppExchange enables all of these on-demand applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with one click into any salesforce.com account. AppExchange can be found at www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
Appforce is a complete on-demand platform that includes Appforce Builder, Appforce DB, Appforce API 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.
About Spoke Software
Spoke is an innovative web-based service for sales professionals to identify prospects and gain access to buyers. The first sales lead network, Spoke enables sales professionals to penetrate target accounts like never before, armed with the information and access they need to win. Spoke Software is a privately-held company with investment from US Venture Partners, Sierra Ventures, Partech International and DCM-Doll Capital Management. For more information visit http://www.spoke.com.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). The company's Salesforce family of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on demand. Appforce, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers to customize and integrate the Salesforce family to meet their unique business needs, and build whole new powerful applications quickly and easily. Appforce applications are available via AppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand application sharing service. Customers can also take advantage of salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
As of July 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 16,900 customers and approximately 308,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com services should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and Appforce and AppExchange are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.
