Astadia Quoting and Astadia Report Collaboration Deliver Productivity Gains to Salesforce.com-Google Integration Users via the AppExchange
Astadia Gains Momentum in 2008 and Continues Providing SaaS Solutions to Assist Collaboration Across Teams and Organisations
LONDON, UK – Salesforce.com Europe Dreamforce Conference – May 7th, 2008 – Astadia Consulting UK Limited, the European subsidiary of Astadia, Inc., a global business consulting and SaaS solutions company, delivers productivity gains with Astadia Quoting and Astadia Report Collaboration as part of the salesforce.com-Google category of salesforce.com’s AppExchange. With Astadia’s two new applications customers can use Salesforce for Google Apps™ to collaborate on sales quotes and reporting, further enabling their businesses to run in the cloud. Built on salesforce.com’s Force.com platform and Google's open APIs, Astadia Quoting and Astadia Report Collaboration are available for test drive and deployment at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. The announcement was made today at Dreamforce Europe, salesforce.com’s User and Developer Conference.”
With Astadia Quoting, Salesforce users can team up within a company around sales quotes and effectively manage negotiation between a prospect and sales team. The wizard-driven process takes advantage of the Salesforce application’s native workflow and approval processes. Astadia Report Collaboration gives Salesforce users the ability to conveniently export any Salesforce report to their Google Apps business account, and then to grant secure, selective access to the data using Google Apps’ built-in sharing and discussing functionality.
“We are excited to give Salesforce users a new and better way to collaborate instantly and seamlessly within their organisations and with their prospects and clients,” says Jerry Huskins, Astadia Executive Vice President, Corporate Development. “With our two new AppExchange products, Salesforce users can connect these expertly-paired SaaS solutions and improve efficiency by creating a common view for dispersed work teams. Astadia continues to assist clients to maximise their on-demand technology investments around the corner and around the globe.”
“Astadia is honored to be selected as one of two salesforce.com partners to participate in the salesforce.com-Google AppExchange category launch, and the new Salesforce for Google Apps offerings illustrate Astadia’s commitment to creating straightforward collaboration solutions,” says Jason Masciarelli, Astadia General Manager, APAC. “We are positioned to expand our product and service offerings throughout Europe and Asia-Pacific this year.”
“With Astadia Report Collaboration and Astadia Quoting, Astadia is establishing itself as a leader in collaborative SaaS offerings for Salesforce users,” said Clarence So, Chief Marketing Officer, salesforce.com. “Astadia’s integration offerings have delivered significant value to salesforce.com customers and we expect similar customer success with their new AppExchange offerings at our first Dreamforce Europe user and developer conference.”
Force.com Platform and the AppExchange
Force.com (http://www.force.com/) reinvents the traditional development, deployment and distribution of any business application with platform-as-a-service. Developers, customers and partners can use Force.com to easily create a new generation of on-demand applications and deploy them worldwide as a service. Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to be easily distributed to the entire on-demand community.
The AppExchange economy continues to expand, with thousands of customers installing applications via the AppExchange. Customers of all sizes can quickly and easily extend Salesforce with additional on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.
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.co.uk or call +44 (0) 845 055 9758.
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