Theikos Announces New Division, AppFactor On-Demand Solutions, and Its First Two Products for Salesforce.com's AppExchange
October 09 2006 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Initial AppExchange products address sales quoting and PayPal
donation integration needs for salesforce.com customers
SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ --
salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference -- Theikos, Inc., an IT
consultancy and leading salesforce.com services partner, today
announced the creation of a new product division: AppFactor
On-Demand Solutions (http://www.appfactor.com/). This division is
focused on creating applications for distribution on
salesforce.com's AppExchange directory that enable companies to
manage more and more of their processes on demand with the
Salesforce service. The AppFactor products are sold as on-demand
subscriptions, providing easy online access to necessary
functionality without IT infrastructure headaches. In coordination
with the introduction of the new division, AppFactor On-Demand
Solutions is launching a public beta program for its first two
products -- AppFactor Quoting and AppFactor Payments for the
AppExchange at the salesforce.com Dreamforce 2006 user and
developer conference. "The creation of our products division was a
natural outgrowth of our consulting business," says Jason
Masciarelli, President of Theikos. "After working with hundreds of
clients and completing Salesforce implementation engagements of all
kinds, we have identified both specific and common needs in the
marketplace. Some of these needs can be addressed by repeatable,
productized solutions." "Our clients include small to mid-sized
companies, divisions of large companies, and non-profit
organizations," says Andy Zimmerman, senior vice president of sales
and marketing, Theikos. "The AppFactor products are geared toward
this market and include repeatable, on-demand solutions that are
functionally rich, easy to deploy, and cost-effective to procure."
The AppFactor On-Demand Solutions division includes a team of
engineering and customer service resources devoted to developing
and supporting products that address the frequent needs of
companies using Salesforce. AppFactor Quoting AppFactor Quoting for
AppExchange is a wizard-like tool that allows Salesforce users to
create professional looking quotes with consistency and accuracy.
It is easy to use, has built-in product selection and discounting
capabilities, and enables seamless creation of PDF quotes. The
3-step wizard is launched via a Web-link within a Salesforce
Opportunity record. The AppFactor Quoting product is the result of
Theikos' years of experience building and implementing custom
quoting solutions. For more information visit
http://www.appfactor.com/quoting . AppFactor Payments PayPal
Donation Integration To meet the needs of a growing subset of
non-profit clients, the AppFactor Payments solution changes a once
labor-intensive manual data entry task into an automated, real-time
process. With this subscription, non-profits will be able to have
electronic donation notifications from PayPal translated and mapped
directly into their instance of Salesforce. This eliminates the
possibility of keying errors, and allows them to have accurate,
up-to-date donation information in Salesforce that can be reported
on at any time. Corporate clients will soon be able to use a
version of AppFactor Payments for processing online
business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions. For
more information visit http://www.appfactor.com/payments .
"Theikos' work is an example of excellence in development for
AppExchange," said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange
partners, salesforce.com. "Salesforce.com is pleased to have our
long-time partner expand its business with the addition of an
on-demand products division focused on the AppExchange." More than
375 applications are now available on the salesforce.com
AppExchange, the world's first on-demand directory and sharing
service, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Apex is
salesforce.com's breakthrough new on-demand platform and
programming language that is redefining what a multi-tenant
on-demand application can be. Apex enables customers, developers
and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications that go
far beyond CRM, and for the first time, to write and run their own
code hosted with the security, reliability, upgradeability and
ease-of-use of salesforce.com's industry-leading multi-tenant
service. Customers can use Apex to modify the core features and
functionality of their Salesforce deployments for their unique
business needs and quickly and easily integrate new applications
and components from partners and developers. Without any
infrastructure investment, developers can now build and run a
virtually unlimited array of applications with unprecedented power
to innovate with the same creative freedom as salesforce.com's own
developers. About AppFactor On-Demand Solutions AppFactor On-Demand
Solutions specializes in the research, development, delivery and
support of high quality, on-demand solutions that utilize or extend
the salesforce.com AppExchange platform. Learn more at
http://www.appfactor.com/. About Theikos, Inc. Theikos is a
Gold-level partner of salesforce.com and leading provider of
services for the on-demand world. We enable companies to maximize
their investment in on-demand solutions by providing best-in-class
implementation, development and outsourcing services and
value-added solutions. Founded in 2000, Theikos is headquartered
outside Boston, MA, and has offices in the United States, India and
Singapore. Learn more at http://www.theikos.com/ or contact us at
(508) 485-3330. 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. Apex, salesforce.com's on-demand platform
and programming language, enables customers, developers and
partners to build powerful new on-demand applications, and for the
first time, to write and run their own code hosted with the
security, reliability, upgradeability and ease- of-use of
salesforce.com's industry-leading multi-tenant service. 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.
Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and Apex, AppExchange
and Successforce are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San
Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their
respective owners. DATASOURCE: Theikos, Inc. CONTACT: Betzi-Lynn
Hanc, Marketing Director, of Theikos, Inc., P: +1-508-485-3330, F:
+1-508-485-3377, ; or Gordon Evans of Salesforce.com,
+1-415-536-7608, Web site: http://www.theikos.com/
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