For Immediate Release:
OpenAir introduces OpenAir PSA for Salesforce.com's AppExchange
OpenAir seamlessly integrates Professional Services Automation with
Salesforce
More than 150 on-demand business application listings now available
via the Salesforce.com AppExchange
San Francisco, Calif.January 17, 2006OpenAir, Inc. and
salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in
on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced
OpenAir PSA for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Built on the
AppExchange on-demand platform, OpenAir PSA for AppExchange is
immediately available for test drive and deployment at
www.appexchange.com, in conjunction with the Salesforce Winter '06
release. OpenAir PSA helps project-based organizations increase
profits through improving resource utilization and enabling more
efficient project management.
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.
"OpenAir's PSA for AppExchange is a great example of how AppExchange
is able to bring together powerful on-demand applications for core
verticals in our joint customer base - namely professional services
and software developers - and deliver them in a seamless fashion to
the customer," said Adam Gross, Director of Product Marketing,
salesforce.com. "The powerful integration ensures that OpenAir and
salesforce.com customers optimize their business process and gain
the greatest benefit from both solutions."
"AppExchange gave OpenAir the perfect platform to extend and enhance
our PSA functionality," Morris Panner, CEO of OpenAir, said. "We use
the AppExchange platform to integrate our two products and deliver a
compelling value proposition for our joint customers. This is an
ideal partnership for any business-process software provider."
OpenAir provides comprehensive business solutions for consulting and
other services teams around the world. More than 200 companies and
18,000 subscribers use OpenAir to manage all aspects of their global
services business, including resource staffing, project management
and billing.
OpenAir PSA for AppExchange is one of more than 150 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. Launched today, 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 www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
About OpenAir, Inc.
OpenAir is the Web-native professional services automation solution
that helps independent software vendors, marketing services
companies, consulting firms, and internal corporate service
organizations increase top-line growth, improve operations and
enhance financial controls. OpenAir customers increase profits by
capturing additional billable hours, increasing employee
utilization, streamlining project management, accelerating revenue,
enhancing collaboration, improving revenue recognition and project
accounting, and sharing knowledge and best practices throughout the
organization. OpenAir has helped leading services organizations
across six continents increase profits through the
subscription-based OpenAir® Complete solution. For additional
information, visit www.openair.com.
OpenAir ranked Number 161 on the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500,
a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North
America. In addition to ranking on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500,
OpenAir ranked 15th on the New England Technology Fast 50, which is
a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology firms in New
England.
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 www.appexchange.com. Customers can also take advantage of
Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support,
consulting and best practices offerings.
As of October 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information
for approximately 18,700 customers and approximately 351,000 paying
subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online
(AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), 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.
Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and AppExchange and
Successforce are trademarks of salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco,
California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Media Contacts
Brian Martin : OpenAir, Inc. : 617-351-0236 : bmartin@openair.com
Victor Cruz : MediaPR.net : 508-785-1590 : PR@openair.com
Jane Hynes : Salesforce.com Public Relations : 415-901-5079 : jhynes@salesforce.com
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