Astadia Opens Salesforce.com Authorized Training Centers in Atlanta and Throughout Texas

Astadia Delivers Training and Education on Force.com Platform and Salesforce CRM Applications for Administrators, Developers and Partners

DALLAS, TEXAS, December 3rd, 2007 – Astadia Consulting, LLC, the leader in ondemand consulting and one of salesforce.com’s largest deployment partners, today announced the opening of salesforce.com Authorized Training Centers in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Austin. Astadia will offer select education and training workshops for administrators, developers and partners using the Force.com Platform-as-a-Service and Salesforce CRM applications. Courses will be taught by Astadia’s salesforce.com authorized instructors in state-of-the-art facilities utilizing salesforce.com-developed
curriculum.

“Astadia and salesforce.com share a common vision of delivering customer success on demand,” said Eric Kelleher, vice president of Worldwide Education Services at salesforce.com. “Over the past year, Astadia has been an important partner to salesforce.com, delivering the highest quality training to our valued customers. As we grow our education business to meet market demand, Astadia is the right choice to run salesforce.com Authorized Training Centers in these markets.”

As a Premier Consulting Partner, Astadia has been involved in thousands of successful salesforce.com customer initiatives, including training and educating administrators, developers, end-users and management on Force.com and Salesforce CRM applications. As the exclusive provider of salesforce.com Authorized Training Centers in Texas and Atlanta, Astadia empowers users with the knowledge they need to get the most from Salesforce CRM, Force.com Platform-as-a-Service and the AppExchange.

“We are pleased to be chosen by salesforce.com to operate Authorized Training Centers,” said J. Ernest Riddle, CEO of Astadia. “Our local customers and our customers from around the country can now enjoy the benefits of these regularly scheduled classes taught by our seasoned professionals.” Students will benefit by learning directly from one of salesforce.com’s long-time implementation partners who can add real world experience to supplement classroom
materials. A complete class schedule and registration information is available at http://www.astadia.com/technology-education.aspx.

About Astadia
Astadia is a management consulting and on-demand technology solutions company that helps businesses become more productive in sales, marketing, customer service and employee performance. With offices across the U.S. and in Europe, Astadia serves businesses, large and small, with subject matter expertise in a wide array of industries. Enabling Customer Relationship Management, Human Capital Management, Marketing Automation, Partner Relationship Management, and Sales Force Automation, Astadia is the largest deployment partner for salesforce.com, Eloqua, Xactly and other leading SaaS
solutions. Astadia is ranked 83rd on the Inc. 500 list. For more information, visit www.astadia.com or call (877) 7ASTADIA (877-727-8234).

About salesforce.com Successforce Education
Salesforce.com’s Successforce Education™ is the premier provider of industry leading Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service training offerings to more than 1 million administrators, developers, end users, and consultants worldwide. Successforce Education delivers comprehensive learning solutions in convenient formats including instructor led classrooms, private events, and on-demand. For more information, please visit http://salesforce.com/education.