InfoNow Channel Insight 7 Solution Now Available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange
September 21 2006 - 9:55AM
PR Newswire (US)
Salesforce.com Customers Can Now Process Point-of-Sale Data
Directly with InfoNow DENVER and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InfoNow Corporation, a leading provider
of channel visibility and location service solutions, and
salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in
on-demand business services, today announced that InfoNow's suite
of on-demand channel visibility solutions are now available on
salesforce.com's AppExchange and can be integrated directly by
customers into their Salesforce implementations. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO ) Since its
introduction in 2002, InfoNow's flagship Channel Insight solution
has been providing accurate and timely point-of-sale (POS) and
channel inventory data to companies that distribute their products
through indirect business-to-business or business-to-consumer
distribution channels. Channel Insight 7 integrates cleansed and
enriched partner and customer data directly into Salesforce account
records to seamlessly connect direct sales and channel sales data
and ensure that data is integrated, not duplicated. "Companies that
struggle with inaccurate or incomplete channel sales data are
severely limited in their ability to forecast sales and manage
their business. Channel Insight solves this problem by delivering
actionable data on end customers, partners and product sales," said
Mark Geene, CEO of InfoNow. "Salesforce.com's AppExchange provides
an ideal platform for Salesforce users to leverage the benefits of
Channel Insight directly into their CRM system." "We're pleased to
welcome InfoNow to the AppExchange as a powerful complement to our
salesforce.com PRM solution, Partnerforce, Salesforce Partner
Edition," said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners,
salesforce.com. "InfoNow's Web-based Channel Insight solution
provides robust solutions for businesses large or small who need to
accurately process, track and analyze their point-of-sale and
channel inventory data and integrate that information directly into
Salesforce." InfoNow's Channel Insight 7 for AppExchange is one of
more than 300 applications created by salesforce.com, its customers
and partners that are now available on the salesforce.com
AppExchange, the world's first on-demand application platform.
AppExchange 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.
AppExchange enables all of these on-demand applications to be
easily shared, exchanged and installed with one click into a
salesforce.com customer's account. AppExchange can be found at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange For additional information
about InfoNow's Channel Insight or Location Insight solutions,
contact InfoNow at 1-866-868-4669, or visit the Company's Website
at http://www.infonow.com/. About InfoNow Corporation InfoNow
provides channel visibility and location services to companies that
sell through complex channel partner networks. InfoNow Channel
Insight(TM) gives companies rich, timely and actionable data on
channel sales, including enhanced market intelligence on partners
and end customers. It also includes tools to help clients use this
data to profitably grow their business, through detailed customer
segmentation and profiling, targeted opportunity generation, robust
partner tracking and analysis, closed-loop opportunity tracking,
sales credit assignment, inventory tracking and more. InfoNow
Location Insight(TM) directs consumers to the optimal business
location such as a branch office, ATM or the appropriate business
partner through Internet, voice-response or mobile devices. InfoNow
Location Insight services also provide tools for location data
management, business partner profiling, and highly tailored lead
routing and management. Since 1996, InfoNow has helped leading
companies such as Bank of America, Enterasys Networks,
Hewlett-Packard, SMC, Visa and Wachovia better serve their end
customers through complex channel networks. InfoNow is based in
Denver, Colorado. For more information, please visit the Company's
Web site at http://www.infonow.com/. About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand
business services. The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand
applications enables customers to manage and share all of their
sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand.
AppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers
and partners to build powerful new applications quickly and easily,
customize and integrate the Salesforce suite to meet their unique
business needs, and distribute and sell on-demand applications at
http://www.appexchange.com/. Customers can also take advantage of
Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support,
consulting and best practices offerings. As of July 31, 2006,
salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately
24,800 customers and approximately 501,000 paying subscribers
including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL),
Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones
Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust Banks. 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
applications 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. NOTE: Salesforce.com is a registered
trademark of, and The Business Web, AppExchange and Successforce
are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California.
Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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