Salesnet and SalesForceASP Win New Customers; LXE and Quality Technology Services; Best-in-Class CRM Vendors Beat Out Salesforce.com and Microsoft CRM

Business Wire, Dec 12, 2005

BOSTON -- Salesnet, the leading provider of on-demand CRM software focused on driving sales effectiveness, and SalesForceASP, a leading consulting and technology company, today announced the successful deployment of new customers; LXE and Quality Technology Services. Both companies evaluated several CRM solutions, including Salesforce.com and Microsoft CRM, but eventually selected the combination of Salesnet and SalesForceASP for their superior performance and focus on sales process methodology.

LXE, a leading manufacturer of rugged wireless computers, was searching for a solution that they could deploy quickly to streamline their sales activities, which they found with the combination of Salesnet's sales focused CRM application and SalesForceASP's Quote Management System. "We needed to find a hosted solution with low upfront costs that could be implemented quickly," said Peter Fausel, Senior VP Sales and Marketing for LXE. "We considered other hosted CRM/SFA solutions, but it all came down to performance; Salesnet was the clear leader in demonstrating how their product would improve our business. The integration between Salesnet and SalesForceASP's Quote Management System has been a key to our success and has resulted in a more efficient sales process that has led to exceeding sales targets each month since the implementation."

Quality Technology Services, a full service technology infrastructure services provider specializing in Managed Services, Data Center Services and Professional Services (www.qualitytech.com), was similarly searching for a CRM application as they needed to quickly move away from an in-house solution. "After looking at both hosted and traditional applications, we chose Salesnet because of its ease of management and administration as well as its existing relationship with SalesForceASP," said Matt Searfoss, Director of Marketing and Strategic Relationships. "We were up and running very quickly. The implementation was fast and seamless and SalesForceASP was able to save us a tremendous amount of time by speeding up the learning curve."

As a Value-Added Reseller of Salesnet, SalesForceASP (formerly Salesforce Analytics) helps companies turn the art of selling into science, fast. The combined strategy is geared to drive the fastest ROI for companies looking to multiply their sales performance. Both Salesnet and SalesForceASP work with customers to develop a repeatable best in class sales process that will insure that they meet their sales goals.

"Partnering with methodology consultants such as SalesForceASP has always been a key component of Salesnet's partner strategy, and this partnership continues to prove itself as a valuable component of customer wins such as LXE and Quality Technologies," said Jonathan Tang, President and Co-Founder of Salesnet. "Salesnet offers a clicks-not-code configuration, thereby allowing SalesForceASP to jumpstart the implementation for LXE and Quality Technologies by embedding its products and methodology into the application seamlessly. We are extremely pleased to be partnering with them."

About Salesnet's Business Partner Program

To learn more, prospective partners can contact partners@salesnet.com, call 1-877-350-0160, or download a free Business Accelerator Kit by visiting http://web.salesnet.com/featuregroup.asp?urh=Partners

About SalesForceASP

SalesForceASP is dedicated to improving overall effectiveness of sales people and ultimately sales teams. It is our fundamental belief that stand-alone software or services provide little benefit during a sales cycle. Our service-oriented applications not only provide teams with the most cost-effective start-up and implementation, but the most effective operational environment to drive sales.

About Salesnet

Salesnet, the leading provider of on-demand CRM software focused on driving sales effectiveness, delivers solutions that empower companies to sell more. Since 2000, Salesnet's hosted CRM solutions have served as proven alternatives to expensive, complex, packaged or premise-based CRM software. Organizations such as American Express Incentive Services, Birch Telecom, Software AG, Sovereign Bank, and Tellabs use Salesnet to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability of global sales organizations. Salesnet's Guided Performance Selling (GPS) strategy leverages software-as-a-service, configuration-as-a-service(TM), integration-as-a-service(TM), and administration-as-a-service(TM) to offer products and services designed to drive the fastest ROI in the CRM industry. In addition, Salesnet's exclusive Customer Success Roadmap strategy is aimed at driving ongoing business value with on-demand CRM. Salesnet, headquartered in Boston, provides additional information on its products and services at www.salesnet.com.