Element Computer and CentraVew, LLC Partner to Deliver CRM Appliance for Small and Medium Businesses

Element Computer will offer Centraview's open-source CRM and Contact Management pre-installed on the Fusion Universal Appliance Server in Q1 05 for small and medium businesses.

Staten Island, NY (PRWEB) December 2, 2004 -- Element Computer, Inc., the developer of the popular linux-based Fusion Univeral Business Appliance for the small and medium enterprise (SME), announced a partnership with CentraView, LLC, a leading provider of browser-based Contact Management, Sales Force Automation (SFA) and Customer Relationship management (CRM) software. Element Computer will deliver CentraView's open-source software pre-installed on the new Fusion CRM Appliance which is targeted for shipment by Q1 2005.

The Fusion-CRM line leverages the power of an all-in-one appliance server supporting up to 100 users and combines the CentraView solution in configurations of 10, 25, or 50 users. Additional users may be purchased as needed. We have customers and channel partners in the US and over seas who are requesting a browser based CRM/SFA solution that runs on our server appliance," said Ray Jolly, CEO of Element Computer. CentraView offers the most feature-complete and scalable solution we could find. We expect that the Fusion-CRM appliance will be very well received, and will provide significant value to our product mix," says Jolly. This is yet another way for Element to deliver high customer value, and its a key differentiator for our channel partners, based on our proven reliable and easy to use Linux based business appliance."

Certain customers and resellers want a version of CentraView that runs their data, but without the added complexities of buying a separate server and having to configure and maintain 3rd party hardware and software," said Alan Rihm, CEO of CentraView. Pre-installing CentraView software on a dense, powerful, yet cost effective Fusion server eliminates the complexities of server setup and 3rd party software configurations, and reduces the total cost of ownership of our software. The Fusion CRM server is pre-configured with the latest version of the CentraView software, so administrators and users can become productive almost immediately. The partnership with Element Computer makes it even easier for our customers to focus on using our software to improve their business and processes, and provides a single source for all service and support."

About Element Computer, Inc.
Element Computer, Inc., founded in 2003, is the developer of the popular Fusionä network appliance which solves the top business IT problems for the SME space by providing for up to 100 users powerful features such as Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus protection, stateful firewall, VPN, bandwidth and network management, web server, email server, wireless networking, and intrusion detection and prevention. Element is also the developer of Synergy which provides Fusion customers with a web-based point-click-install method for deploying new applications from either a subscription download or a do-it-yourself mode. It also provides configuration management for all client devices on the customers LAN thus allowing administrators to manage applications and conduct disaster recovery and patch management.

About CentraView, LLC
CentraView, LLC, a leading provider of open source contact management, sales force automation and customer relationship management software, delivers unparalleled "out of the box" functionality, ease of use, limitless scalability built on the Enterprise Java (J2EE) platform.

CentraView software enables businesses and service providers of all sizes to extend relationships with their customers by delivering access to a high value application their customers need while driving profitable recurring revenue. Built by a highly skilled software development team with extensive service provider experience, CentraViews software offers businesses of all sizes a centralized view of all of their customer and business information through one intuitive browser-based interface.

For more information, please visit www.centraview.com. For additional information on CentraView product, please contact Alan Rihm at 610-410-7457.

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