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San Francisco, Calif., September 12, 2005 OpSource, the SaaS Experts and salesforce.com, the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), announced that they have developed a partnership that makes it easier for salesforce.com to expand its large and rapidly growing partner community and ensure that partner solutions are reliable, robust and highly available. OpSource is a certified hosting provider for Appforce solutions.
The partnership leverages OpSource's expertise in Software as a Service (SaaS). Salesforce.com has approved OpSource's Optimal On-Demand delivery platform as a vehicle for delivering salesforce.com partner applications. Optimal On-Demand, OpSource's SaaS delivery platform, is both market and customer proven. Therefore, salesforce.com partners that choose OpSource can move quickly to the delivery stage and minimize costs while delivering the best possible solution to their customers. Optimal On-Demand allows salesforce.com partner ISVs to focus on developing software and leave operational considerations such as disaster recovery, business continuity and infrastructure to OpSource.
"Our partnership with OpSource is mutually beneficial," stated Bobby Napiltonia, SVP worldwide alliances, salesforce.com. "OpSource has been very supportive of our partners, both by improving the operational capabilities of their on-demand applications, and by speeding our partners' time to market, which results in a positive experience for the growing base of salesforce.com customers. We've invested a great deal in our reputation, and we are working together with OpSource to deliver the highest level of operational excellence across the salesforce.com community."
Several salesforce.com partners, including Marketing Advocate (www.marketingadvocate.com), ReleasePlan (www.releaseplan.com), ShadeTree Technology (www.shadetreetechnology.com) and Visual Mining (www.visualmining.com), have deployed solutions which integrate with the Appforce platform using OpSource's Optimal On-Demand, a complete solution, designed specifically for software delivered as a service. Optimal On-Demand includes both consultative and tactical services and OpSource employs a customer-focused, pay-as-you-grow pricing model that drives shared success and solves the daunting operational and capital expenditures facing software companies. Marketing Advocate is a provider of web-based software solutions for increasing the number and quality of leads for your business, ReleasePlan is the first on demand Product Delivery Platform to provide end-to-end software product lifecycle management, ShadeTree Technology is a provider of software and services that enable sales achievement by extending and leveraging investments in salesforce.com initiatives and Visual Mining, a leading developer of reporting and data visualization solutions.