crmOrbit and Salesforce.com Joint Press Release
crmOrbit, Inc, Launches
energyOrbit for Salesforce.com's AppExchange. Built using Apex, energyOrbit
enables energy conservationists to manage energy analysis directly within their
Salesforce implementations
Apex enables energyOrbit to become the salesforce.com of energy conservation.
SAN FRANCISCO — January 16, 2007 — crmOrbit and salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM],
the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced
the availability of energyOrbit on salesforce.com's AppExchange. Businesses are
offered incentives from utility companies such as PG&E, San Diego Gas & Electric
and Southern California Edison to retrofit their facilities with energy
efficient fixtures and devices; energyOrbit provides energy conservation
professionals the full spectrum of analysis required to determine savings and
incentives adherent to industry and state incentive programs standards. Built
using the Apex on-demand platform, energyOrbit is immediately available for test
drive and deployment on the AppExchange directory at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
energyOrbit empowers energy conservation professionals to inventory energy
consuming equipment such as lighting, heating, ventilation, air conditioning
(HVAC), and refrigeration in commercial buildings. Once the inventory, account
information, rate schedule and other essential data is gathered, the auditors
utilize energyOrbit to analyze the data and make retrofit or replacement
recommendations for energy savings and green house gas (GHG) emissions
reduction. Based on these analyses, energyOrbit computes incentives / rebates
provided by utility companies that would be applied to the project cost.
"Collaboration with our customers has been a key factor in the development and
propagation of energyOrbit," said Udi Merhav, Founder of crmOrbit, Inc. "We were
commissioned by several private and government-sponsored energy agencies to
build an on-demand application and building it on salesforce.com's Apex platform
was a natural fit. State governments continuously introduce incentive and rebate
programs to promote conservation in areas such as water, natural gas,
electricity, and solar energy. Built on the Apex on-demand platform, energyOrbit
is easily flexible and extensible to allow for quick deployments of additional
energy savings measurements."
The Small Business Energy Alliance (SBEA) based in Sonoma, Calif., has been
using energyOrbit to run its business auditing operations. "Prior to deploying
energyOrbit we were locked into the quagmire of a legacy database. At a cost of
$20,000 to develop this database and endless maintenance costs, our production
volume was severely compromised," said Ken Moore, program manager for SBEA. "We
wanted something that our field staff could use from any location and we did not
want to be at the mercy of IT requirements. We needed a reliable tool that we
can easily change as business requirements change and as new standards for
incentives and rebates are published from PG&E."
"energyOrbit demonstrates the power of the Apex on-demand platform and the
AppExchange in quickly building, customizing and delivering an application that
addressees the specific needs of the energy conservation industry," said Matt
Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners, salesforce.com. "Thousands of
salesforce.com customers can use the AppExchange to take advantage of the
innovation of the on-demand industry to help them run their businesses."
Apex and the AppExchange Apex is the on-demand platform for the next generation
of business applications. Apex reinvents traditional customization and
integration and enables a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go
beyond CRM. All Apex components and applications can be easily shared, exchanged
and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange
directory, enabling all the innovation that Apex unleashes to benefit the entire
on-demand community.
energyOrbit for AppExchange is one of more than 500 applications that are now
available on salesforce.com's AppExchange, the world's first on-demand
application directory, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
The Apex on-demand platform is generally available today. The Apex programming
language is available today for developer preview, and is currently scheduled to
be available in beta to salesforce.com customers later in 2007.
About crmOrbit
crmOrbit, is an international CRM consulting services and on-demand product
development company focusing on Salesforce.com CRM and the Apex platform. The
company is a Salesforce.com partner with offices in San Rafael, just north of
San Francisco, and Chennai, India. crmOrbit provides services and on-demand
product development to customers world-wide and to Partners within the
Salesforce.com Partner Ecosystem. crmOrbit customer portfolio is made of medium
size businesses, non profit organization and international companies such as
Coveo Solutions and conglomerates such as VNU Global Media. For more
information, please visit www.crmOrbit.com or call 1-866-628-8744 (Toll Free).
About Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business
services. The company’s Salesforce suite of on-demand CRM applications allows
customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner
information on-demand. Apex, the world’s first on-demand platform, enables
customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications
that extend beyond CRM to deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy and The Business
Web across the enterprise. All Apex components and applications can be easily
shared, exchanged and installed via salesforce.com's AppExchange directory,
available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Customers can also take
advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com’s world-class training, support,
consulting and best practices offerings. As of January 31, 2007, salesforce.com
manages customer information for approximately 29,800 customers and
approximately 646,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD),
America Online (AOL), Avis Budget Group, Inc, Dow Jones Newswires, 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 http://www.salesforce.com, or
call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.