ShareMethods Used by More than 100 Companies in 15 Countries Worldwide - Accelerated by ShareNow and ShareFree for AppExchange

CNET Channel, TI Broadcast Solutions Group, and Evolution Benefits are among the new customers subscribing to ShareNow for AppExchange to manage documents on-demand.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 24, 2006 –-

ShareMethods and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced the use of ShareMethods by more than one hundred companies worldwide, with major momentum delivered by ShareNow and ShareFree, both available via the salesforce.com AppExchange. ShareMethods is used in fifteen countries around the world to support the management and secure distribution of sales and marketing materials to prospects, employees, customers, and partners. ShareNow and ShareFree integrate with Salesforce as a composite application to enable quick and easy access to dynamic libraries of business critical content. Built on the AppExchange on-demand platform, ShareNow for AppExchange and ShareFree for AppExchange are immediately available for evaluation and deployment at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. The announcement was made today at Appforce, salesforce.com’s first annual AppExchange partner, user and developer conference.

“The milestone of having 100 companies use the ShareMethods platform is significant,” said Eric Hoffert, CEO of ShareMethods, “and customer demand for ShareNow and ShareFree for AppExchange has played a key role to achieve this milestone. Key customers such as CNET Channel, TI Broadcast Solutions Group, and Evolution Benefits have signed up for our on-demand services, and our AppExchange customers are ramping up their user communities rapidly. In just four months, we have more than doubled our user base, tripled our customer base, and expanded our international reach. The global reach of our user base and the new adoption validate the customer benefits of ShareNow and the ease of deployment with the AppExchange”.

ShareMethods has extended its user base to include users in the US, Canada, Mexico, France, England, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Russia, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, and Ireland. And ShareMethods customers have further extended their use of ShareNow for AppExchange to share business critical documents with their worldwide partner networks.

“We started with a deployment of ShareNow for AppExchange for our internal sales and marketing team. That deployment brought quick value for effective sharing of best practices and key documents within the company. As a next step, we rapidly expanded our usage of ShareNow to more than twenty of our key business partners across the country, and they too are now experiencing the value of documents on-demand via ShareNow. Indeed we hope to go further and deploy ShareNow for AppExchange with an even broader partner community,” said Jimnahs Herron, Manager Sales and Marketing, Evolution Benefits.

“The continued momentum of ShareNow for AppExchange in the marketplace is important news,” said Bobby Napiltonia, senior vice president, worldwide channels and alliances, salesforce.com. “It illustrates the growing priority of managing documents for sales and marketing teams, as more and more content needs to be accessed on-demand by globally distributed teams and partners. The unique capabilities for advanced document management and collaboration provided by ShareNow move the boundaries forward for software-as-a-service. With an ability to deploy ShareNow for AppExchange easily, quickly, and cost-effectively, the benefits of using ShareNow are broadly accessible to a large user community.”

ShareNow and ShareFree provide powerful capabilities for customers to securely manage and distribute sales, marketing, and support materials. Capabilities include full document version control, review and approval workflows, user roles and permissions, Google-like full text search, customizable sales and marketing taxonomies, linking of documents to CRM data, community ratings and reviews, and deep integration with salesforce.com. Customers can quickly deploy a sales, marketing, and support knowledge center that can be securely shared across an extended network of users inside and outside of a company.

ShareNow 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 ShareMethods

With ShareMethods, sales and marketing teams can store, manage, and share documents easily and securely, collaborating with extended selling networks to close more business, providing a cost-effective alternative to developing and supporting a sales and marketing intranet or extranet. ShareMethods combines advanced document management, collaboration, and CRM integration into powerful on-demand solutions. The “Sales and Marketing Portal in a Box” approach can cost less than one tenth of the price of traditional enterprise software. ShareMethods received an “Excellent” rating for usability from eWeek and scored 9 out of 10 for “Ease of Use, Implementation, and Value” from InfoWorld. The company was recognized together with salesforce.com in the InfoWorld Top 100 for one of the Best IT Projects of 2004 and as one of the CRM WizKids for 2006 by noted CRM analyst Denis Pombriant. ShareMethods provides on-demand services to more than 100 companies on a global basis with users in 15 countries and customers including CNET Channel, salesforce.com, HID Corp., JMJ Associates, TI Broadcast Solutions Group, Evolution Benefits, OrangeBoy, and The Learning Wave. ShareMethods on-demand services include ShareNow for AppExchange, ShareFree for AppExchange, and ShareMethods. Visit http://www.sharemethods.com or call 1-877-SHARENOW for more information.

About Evolution Benefits

Evolution Benefits, Inc. began operation in 2000 with a commitment to supporting the movement toward greater consumer choice in and responsibility for employee benefits. Its primary product, the BennyÒ prepaid benefits card, applies advanced payment technologies and pioneering electronic substantiation methodologies to give employees access to FSAs, HSAs, HRAs and Qualified Transportation Accounts on a single card, creating a bridge between traditional benefit structures and the evolving consumer-directed benefits movement. Evolution Benefits now supports the programs of more than 80 managed care and administrative services organizations, and covers more than 3,000 employers, including 40 of the nation’s top-ranked Fortune and Forbes companies. Visit http://www.EvolutionBenefits.com for more information.

About TI Broadcast Solutions Group

TI Broadcast Solutions Group is a customer-focused company providing a range of client-specific solutions to the broadcast and media distribution markets. The company offers consulting, design and build services, product and site support, prototyping and lab facilities to its customers. Its structure as a family of related business units facilitates experts interacting with customers to gain insight into emerging needs and proactively develop unique solutions to address them. For more information about TI Broadcast Solutions Group, visit the company web site at http://www.tibroadcastsolutionsgroup.net or call 770-441-5200.

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 http://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.

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