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Skinkers Desktop Alerts now available on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange

Salesforce.com Customers can now deploy Skinkers Desktop Application directly within their Salesforce implementations

09 November 2006

Skinkers, the leader in direct-to-desktop technology and salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced that Skinkers Desktop Alerts for Salesforce, is now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange. Skinkers award winning technology pushes the most important information in a customer’s Salesforce application directly to the desktop*, allowing users to monitor, track and stay in control of priority sales activities. 

Skinkers Desktop Alerts for Salesforce is now available for test drive and deployment at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.  Applications available via the AppExchange directory are built using Apex, the world’s first on-demand platform. Skinkers Desktop Alerts for Salesforce, available free of charge, has a number of useful functions designed to improve the interaction with Salesforce:

• Fast access to Salesforce: users can automatically login to their Salesforce account by either clicking on the Salesforce logo within the application or by double clicking on the system tray without having to re-type their credentials every time.
• Salesforce updates: Skinkers Desktop Alerts includes a desktop ticker tape allowing users to see their chosen updates from their salesforce.com account.
• Fast search salesforce.com: the ticker tape includes a search box allowing the user to run searches on salesforce.com without having to login.
• Built-in news reader: users can drag and drop any news feed (RSS) from their favourite websites onto the Skinkers Desktop Alert to have news updates pushed to them and displayed directly on their desktop via a state-of-art ticker tape, a compact news reader or even keyword based desktop. 

“Skinkers for Salesforce is a new way of making sure users will not miss information they should know about. With Skinkers, content can be delivered directly to users via PC desktops and handheld devices, bypassing overloaded communication channels like email. We are very proud of being able to offer this service to salesforce.com customers,” said Matteo Berlucchi, CEO, Skinkers.

Apex and the AppExchange
Apex, the world’s first on-demand platform, provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration enabling a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM.  All Apex components and applications can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange directory, enabling all the innovation that Apex unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community.

Skinkers Desktop Alerts for AppExchange is one of more than 400 applications that are now available on salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the world’s first on-demand application directory, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

The Apex platform, formerly known as the AppExchange platform, is available today.  As previously announced, the next release of the Apex platform is currently scheduled to be available in conjunction with the release of Winter 07, and the Apex programming language is currently scheduled to be available during the first half of 2007. (*) Requires an account with Spanning Partners for the Spanning Salesforce service available on http://www.spanningpartners.com

About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services.  The company’s Salesforce suite of on-demand CRM applications allows customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand.Apex, the world’s first on-demand platform, enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications that extend beyond CRM to deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy and The Business Web across the enterprise.All Apex components and applications can be easily shared, exchanged and installed via salesforce.com's AppExchange directory, available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.   Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com’s world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings. 

As of July 31, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 24,800 customers and approximately 501,000 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 Banks. 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 salesforce.com, and Apex, AppExchange, The Business Web and Successforce are trademarks of salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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