Press Release Press Releases 2006 | Press Releases 2007 | Press Releases 2008 Infopia Marketplace Manager Now Available on Salesforce.com's AppExchangeInfopia Unveils eBay Listing Management Solution Integrated With Salesforce.com CRM at Salesforce.com Appforce Conference SAN FRANCISCO - May 24 – Infopia and salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM - News), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced the availability of a beta release of Infopia's Marketplace Manager V 6.2, for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Infopia's Marketplace Manager is a complete e-commerce sales management solution that offers online sellers the tools they need to effectively manage their eBay sales. The beta release announced today integrates with salesforce.com's industry-leading CRM, which will allow eBay sellers to expand their customer relationship management operations and offers salesforce.com customers the ability to tap into the eBay marketplace from within their Salesforce implementation. Infopia and salesforce.com will be part of a live keynote demonstration of new AppExchange partner applications hosted by Tony Perkins, founder and editor of Always On. The announcement was made today at Appforce, salesforce.com's first annual AppExchange partner, user and developer conference. Through the beta release of Infopia's Marketplace Manager, salesforce.com customers can now extend their reach beyond the traditional direct sales, call center, and website channel into eBay's Community of 193 million users. Salesforce.com customers can use Infopia's Marketplace Manager to differentiate from their competition by providing a new shopping experience to existing and new customers within eBay's vast online marketplace. A seamless integration among eBay, Infopia, and salesforce.com maintains a consolidated single view of the customer within Salesforce to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction. eBay sellers have the ability to increase customer satisfaction and sales effectiveness by streamlining and expanding their customer relationship management with Infopia's solution integrated with Salesforce. Infopia is an eBay Developers Program member and an eBay Certified Solutions Provider. Infopia developed the new version of its Marketplace Manager by making use of salesforce.com's and eBay's open APIs. "This solution is a testament to the flexible and open technology platforms of salesforce.com, eBay, and Infopia," according to Eric Maas, CTO of Infopia, "It demonstrates how Web services enable customers to benefit from an integrated solution to realize tangible business benefits, without the reliance on their IT resources." 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. By making Infopia's Marketplace Manager available on the AppExchange, salesforce.com customers can now benefit from extending their reach into the eBay marketplace, while maintaining a single-view of the customer directly within their Salesforce implementation. "The new Infopia solution linking eBay and salesforce.com through their respective APIs is an important industry milestone," according to Bjorn Espenes, CEO of Infopia. "Integrating the sophisticated CRM solution of salesforce.com with the eBay marketplace emphasizes the growing trend of businesses in utilizing eBay as a channel to grow their business-to-business revenue." "Infopia's e-commerce management solution integrated with on-demand CRM from salesforce.com is an original and exciting use of Web Services that will give eBay sellers a powerful new way to grow their businesses," said Greg Isaacs, director of the eBay Developers Program. "Infopia is a great example of an innovative developer taking advantage of eBay's open APIs and mashing them up with other open APIs to create a brand new experience for businesses on the Web." "Innovative solutions like Infopia's extend the power of on-demand computing and The Business Web," said Adam Gross, vice president, developer marketing, salesforce.com. "Infopia's AppExchange solution allows customers to increase revenues by extending their sales reach to the vast eBay marketplace, while optimizing customer satisfaction and service through a centralized single-view of the customer -- all delivered on demand." Infopia's Marketplace Manager for AppExchange is one of more than 250 applications 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 customer's 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 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 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 April 30, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 22,700 customers and approximately 444,000 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 Infopia # # #
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