Plant Equipment, Inc. Deploys Firepond Configure-Price-Quote OnDemand for AppExchange; Firepond CPQ OnDemand Enables PlantCML to Accurately Configure Price and Quote Products On-Demand, in Less Than Half the Time

Business Wire, June 21, 2006

NEWTON, Mass. -- Firepond today announced that PlantCML's has deployed Firepond CPQ(TM) OnDemand integrating it as the product configuration, price, quote and proposal component in PlantCML's Salesforce on-demand CRM solution.

Headquartered in Temecula, California, PlantCML develops, manufactures, integrates and supports solutions for critical call-center environments. Plant selected Firepond because of its flexibility to provide complex configuration around Plant's own rules.

Ryan Borders, Sales Operations Manager for PlantCML, commented on the features that users of the integrated Salesforce and Firepond solution appreciate. Borders said, "Only certain combinations of PlantCML products work together and product availability is sometimes based on the type of user. Firepond OnDemand's powerful configuration resolves those complexities. In addition, PlantCML's primary resellers are major names in the telecommunications industry. It is imperative that our configuration and quoting solution be intuitive and flexible not only for our internal needs, but for our partners' users as well." Borders noted that with Firepond CPQ, he saves at least half the time on producing an accurate quote, and at least one additional headcount every year. Borders also cited Firepond OnDemand's ability to transfer data back to Salesforce as a key feature.

Bill Santo, CEO, said "Firepond is proud to add PlantCML to its growing list of Firepond OnDemand customers. Their complex configuration model is ideal for Firepond's solution. Also, with Firepond's seamless integration to Salesforce, customers like PlantCML can take advantage of a powerful true on-demand, multi-tenant solution for SFA and flexible configuration management."

"By using the AppExchange to add Firepond OnDemand to an existing Salesforce deployment, users now have the power to build a complete, streamlined, lead-to-order system," said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners, salesforce.com. "Firepond's tight integration with Salesforce provides users with a seamless experience as they move between a Salesforce opportunity and Firepond product configurations, quotes and proposals."

Firepond is a certified AppExchange partner. Firepond OnDemand 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 Plant

Established in 1968, PlantCML is a major solutions supplier for public and private communications providers including: Motorola, Qwest, SBC, Sprint, and Verizon. The industry leader in public and private safety telecommunications, PlantCML products include advanced call processing solutions, conventional key telephone systems, mapping/GIS/CAD/RMS, management information systems, digital logging recording systems, and comprehensive professional services. PlantCML is a Nortel Developer Partner, an ESRI Business Partner, an HP Development Solutions Partner and a Microsoft Certified Partner.

About Firepond

Firepond is a leading provider of OnDemand CPQ(TM), or Configure, Price, Quote software that automates and simplifies product pricing and configuration for companies and helps these enterprises improve order accuracy while reducing their cost of sales. Firepond's sales solutions help companies to optimize their sales processes whether their need is to solve complex product or pricing configuration, create product catalogs or provide an interactive selling system and dramatically improve response time. Firepond provides a rapid ROI through improved order accuracy (nearly 100% of submitted orders have accurate specifications and pricing), improved proposal generation time and high user acceptance. Product data is maintained using Firepond's Product Data Manager that features a highly visual and easy to learn user interface and powerful data import utilities. Firepond is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. For additional information about Firepond visit www.firepond.com or call 1-866-UCONFIG (826-6344).

Firepond is a trademark of Firepond, Inc. CPQ is a trademark of Firepond, Inc. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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