Salesforce.com Announces New Premier Training Program to Help Customers Harness the Power of Cloud Computing
March 19 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
First subscription-based training program enables customers to
maximize their Salesforce CRM and Force.com ROI with unlimited,
anytime training SAN FRANCISCO, March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company,
today introduced Premier Training, a new subscription-based
training model that makes it easy for customers to train employees
on Salesforce CRM and Force.com to maximize user adoption,
productivity and ROI. Premier Training includes classes held at
training centers around the world, virtual classes delivered by an
instructor over the Web, interactive self-paced online courses,
certification exams, and additional services. (Logo:
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"Salesforce.com's new Premier Training program is designed for our
customers' success and in response to their request for easily
accessible and unlimited training options," said Eric Kelleher,
Vice President of Worldwide Training and Certification,
salesforce.com. "Companies can ensure that every employee gets the
most from Salesforce CRM and Force.com to drive bottom line
business results and truly harness the power of cloud computing."
Training by salesforce.com can help customers gain even more value
out of their Salesforce CRM investments. Customers trained by
salesforce.com improve user productivity by 37 percent, increase
sales pipeline by 132 percent, and report a 39 percent improvement
in customer retention (source: MarketTools Inc., salesforce.com
analysis). "Salesforce.com's Premier Training is a great solution
for giving each of our users the skills they need to get the most
out of Salesforce CRM," said Kyle Lawton, CEO, peerVue, Inc. "By
making training easy and convenient, we can implement best
practices from the start, learn how to build applications on
Force.com and use all of Salesforce CRM's capabilities, ensuring
our entire team experiences the full value of the solution." As use
of Salesforce CRM and Force.com proliferates across organizations
from sales, marketing and service and support professionals to
developers and IT departments, salesforce.com's Premier Training is
designed to train every user throughout the lifecycle of a project.
The new subscription-based training model gives employees anytime,
unlimited access to training in online and instructor led training
and certification courses in a flexible, convenient and economical
solution from the experts at salesforce.com. Pricing and
Availability Salesforce.com's Premier Training includes unlimited
online and instructor-led virtual and regional classes; one-day
instructor-led classes at salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce user
conference; private administrator or developers classes; Annual
Training Plan consultations and custom courses; and Certification
exams. Pricing for this subscription-based program is based on the
number of Salesforce CRM licenses and is available now in North,
Central and South America, and will be available worldwide later
this year. For more information, please visit:
http://www.salesforce.com/premier. About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The
company's portfolio of SaaS applications, including its
award-winning CRM, available at
http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways
that customers manage and share business information over the
Internet. The company's Force.com PaaS enables customers,
developers and partners to build powerful on-demand applications
that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise.
Applications built on the Force.com platform, available at
http://www.force.com/, can be easily shared, exchanged and
installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's Force.com
AppExchange marketplace available at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/. As of January 31, 2009,
salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately
55,400 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones
Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, 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
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