crmOrbit Showcases the Ease of Development and Global Reach of the AppExchange.
SAN FRANCISCO — February 14, 2006 — crmOrbit, a consulting and IT
development group based in Chennai, India, and salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the
technology and market leader in on-demand customer relationship management
(CRM), today announced the availability of crmOrbit's 24-Hour Healthcare Clinic
application on the AppExchange. Built on AppExchange, the world's first
on-demand application platform, 24-Hour Healthcare Clinic application for
AppExchange is immediately available for evaluation and deployment from
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
Demonstrating the ease of developing for the AppExchange, and its global reach,
crmOrbit identified a need for the ubiquitous 24-hour health clinics in India to
better manage their operations, and proceeded to develop and publish their
clinic application on the AppExchange. The development process, from concept
design to production application took only five weeks.
The 24-Hour Healthcare Clinic application facilitates efficient management and
operations of a medical clinic. The application tracks patient history, various
testing procedures including several levels for HIV tests, physicians' workload,
billing and scheduling.
With AppExchange, salesforce.com customers now have access to new applications
that bring the benefits of salesforce.com to an entire business, letting them
manage and share all of their company information on-demand. Using AppExchange,
companies can easily add any number of new on-demand applications to their
existing Salesforce deployments, extending their success and making the full
power and creativity of the salesforce.com customer, partner and developer
community available with just a click.
"With AppExchange, crmOrbit will meet growing customer demand, provide ease of
integration and offer rapid deployment for specific applications running on
salesforce.com for businesses of all sizes regardless of location," said Udi
Merhav, co-founder of crmOrbit. "AppExchange gives us an opportunity to offer
solutions to the Indian market as well as other markets worldwide that are still
developing. As an AppExchange partner of salesforce.com, crmOrbit plans to use
the AppExchange as a channel, helping penetrate the Indian market with our local
partners. Our goal is to provide professional services, on-site training and
implementations for salesforce.com customers globally."
crmOrbit's 24-Hour Healthcare Clinic application for AppExchange is one of more
than 160 application listings 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 any salesforce.com account. AppExchange can be
found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer
relationship management (CRM). 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 apps 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, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for
approximately 20,500 customers and approximately 399,000 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. 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.
About crmOrbit
Jointly located in Chennai, India, and San Rafael, California, crmOrbit
(http://www.crmOrbit.com) possesses deep Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
expertise, a high level of confidence and vast industry knowledge. With these
credentials, crmOrbit has proven to get organizations up and running with
salesforce.com and AppExchange -- quickly, easily, efficiently and
cost-effectively. crmOrbit is the first-ever company to introduce a
salesforce.com practice in India as a certified, independent consulting firm,
with a 100% dedicated team for salesforce.com and AppExchange projects. Small
companies, mid-sized enterprises and non-profit organizations of all sizes are
recognizing this focused approach to building a platform-specific professional
services firm and are contributing to crmOrbit's rapid growth.
As a salesforce.com implementation and AppExchange partner, crmOrbit currently
has 20 full-time employees available for implementation of salesforce.com or
AppExchange deployments in both the US and India. The crmOrbit team specializes
in the salesforce.com platform; focuses its energies entirely to helping
organizations who are considering or who have decided to deploy salesforce.com;
provides quality, salesforce.com-specific consulting services; and offers its
services at competitive rates. For more information, please visit
www.crmOrbit.com or call 1-866-628-8744 (Toll Free)











