ThomasNet Runs Entire Recruiting Website on Force.com Sites
July 13 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
ThomasNet uses cloud computing from salesforce.com to minimize
development time, facilitate ease of use, and to leverage existing
investment in Salesforce CRM SAN FRANCISCO, July 13
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the
enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that ThomasNet
is using Force.com Sites to run its online recruiting efforts.
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"Force.com Sites enabled us to create a rich, fully customized
recruiting application that integrates with our Salesforce CRM
deployment, all in a matter of weeks," said Brian Makas, manager of
business intelligence at ThomasNet. Force.com Sites is a new
capability of the Force.com platform that allows companies to build
and run public-facing Web sites and applications. Force.com Sites
provides companies the fastest way to build and run Web sites and
applications in real-time without requiring any software or
hardware infrastructure. "Force.com Sites provides ThomasNet with
an ideal way to publish and promote job opportunities, collect
resumes, and track candidates. As the recruiting manager enters new
jobs into Salesforce CRM they are automatically displayed on our
Web site at http://careers.thomasnet.com/. And, when someone
applies for a job on our Web site, that information is
automatically collected in Salesforce CRM. It's the ability to
connect content available in Salesforce CRM to the Web and vice
versa that made using Force.com Sites an obvious decision," added
Makas. Since deploying the site, ThomasNet has already seen an
increase of over 500 percent in the number of qualified resumes
received. "Since 2006, when we first deployed Salesforce CRM, we
have continually looked for ways to further leverage the technology
because of the productivity it enables without the need for
significant development time or resources. These factors are the
catalyst in our investment preferences for cloud computing," said
Janet Tarzia, executive director of marketing at ThomasNet. A video
of ThomasNet discussing their recruiting application and Force.com
Sites is available here. More information, including a video on
Force.com Sites, is available here. ThomasNet is one of the 59,300
companies of all sizes, industries and geographies that comprised
the salesforce.com customer base as of April 30, 2009. Revenue and
subscribers will be recognized as the service is delivered. About
ThomasNet ThomasNet (http://www.thomasnet.com/) is the leading
online destination connecting industrial sellers and buyers
worldwide. Buyers from Fortune 500 companies, the government, the
military and more depend on ThomasNet to search for and purchase
the products and services they need. ThomasNet provides access to
over 607,000 industrial companies, indexed by 70,000 product and
service categories. Industrial manufacturers and service companies
are successfully using ThomasNet to grow their businesses online,
discover new markets, and develop new customers. Drawing from the
company's experience in the industrial market and ongoing research
on buyers' and sellers' needs, ThomasNet has helped thousands of
clients create websites that incorporate online catalogs, CAD
drawings, and e-commerce capabilities. About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The
company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at
http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways
that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers
across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com
platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) enables customers,
partners and developers to quickly build powerful business
applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud.
Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multi-tenant architecture,
Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer
success with cloud computing. As of April 30, 2009, salesforce.com
manages customer information for approximately 59,300 customers
including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan
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