InfoNow Press Release
INFONOW'S CHANNEL INSIGHT 7 SOLUTION NOW AVAILABLE ON SALESFORCE.COM'S APPEXCHANGE
Salesforce.com Customers Can Now Process Point of Sale Data Directly with InfoNow
DENVER and SAN FRANCISCO,
September 21, 2006,
InfoNow Corporation, a leading
provider of channel visibility and location service solutions, and salesforce.com
[NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in on-demand business services,
today announced that InfoNow's suite of on-demand channel visibility solutions
are now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange and can be integrated directly
by customers into their Salesforce implementations.
Since its introduction in 2002, InfoNow's flagship Channel Insight 7 solution hasproviding a
been providing accurate and timely point-of-sale (POS) and channel inventory data
to companies that distribute their products through indirect business-to-business
or business-to-consumer distribution channels. Channel Insight 7 integrates cleansed
and enriched partner and customer data directly into Salesforce account records
to seamlessly connect direct sales and channel sales data and ensure that data
is integrated, not duplicated.
“Companies that struggle with inaccurate or incomplete channel sales data
are severely limited in their ability to forecast sales and manage their business.
Channel Insight solves this problem by delivering actionable data on end customers,
partners and product sales,” said Mark Geene, CEO of InfoNow. “Salesforce.com's
AppExchange provides an ideal platform for Salesforce users to leverage the benefits
of Channel Insight directly into their CRM system.”
“We're pleased to welcome InfoNow to the AppExchange as a powerful complement to
our salesforce.com PRM solution, Partnerforce, Salesforce Partner Edition,”
said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners, salesforce.com.
“InfoNow's Web-based Channel Insight solution provides robust solutions for
businesses large or small who need to accurately process, track and analyze
their point-of-sale and channel inventory data and integrate that information
directly into Salesforce.”
InfoNow's Channel Insight 7 for AppExchange is one of more than 300 applicationsed by salesf
created by salesforce.com, its customers and partners that are now available on
the salesforce.com AppExchange, the world's first on-demand application platform.
AppExchange provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration for
Salesforce deployments, as well as enabling a whole new generation of on-demand
applications that go beyond CRM. AppExchange enables all of these on-demand
applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with one click into
a salesforce.com customer's account. AppExchange can be found
at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
For additional information about InfoNow's Channel Insight, Channel Insight
or Location Insight™ solutions, contact InfoNow at 1-866-868-4669, or visit
the Company's Website at www.infonow.com.
About InfoNow Corporation
InfoNow provides channel visibility and location services to companies that sell
through complex channel partner networks. InfoNow Channel Insight™ gives companies
rich, timely and actionable data on channel sales, including enhanced market
intelligence on partners and end customers. It also includes tools to help clients
use this data to profitably grow their business, through detailed customer
segmentation and profiling, targeted opportunity generation, robust partner tracking
and analysis, closed-loop opportunity tracking, sales credit assignment,
inventory tracking and more. InfoNow Location Insight™ directs consumers to
the optimal business location such as a branch office, ATM or the appropriate
business partner through Internet, voice-response or mobile devices. InfoNow
Location Insight services also provide tools for location data management,
business partner profiling, and highly tailored lead routing and management.
Since 1996, InfoNow has helped leading companies such as Bank of America,
Enterasys Networks, Hewlett-Packard, SMC, Visa and Wachovia better serve
their end customers through complex channel networks. InfoNow is based
in Denver, Colorado. For more information, please visit the Company's
Web site at www.infonow.com.
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.
AppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers and partners to build
powerful new applications quickly and easily, customize and integrate the Salesforce
suite to meet their unique business needs, and distribute and sell on-demand applications
at www.appexchange.com. 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
www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.