Textual Introduces anagram 2.4 for Salesforce.com to Help Customers Efficiently Populate Sales Information Databases

Textuals anagram 2.4, built on the sforce client/service integration platform, enables users of Salesforce.com to capture address and event information more effectively

(PRWEB) March 10, 2005 -- Textual today announced the availability of anagram 2.4 for Salesforce.com. Tightly integrated with Salesforce.com via the sforce on-demand platform and immediately available to Salesforce.com customers, users of anagram 2.4 can capture addresses, contacts and events directly into Salesforce.com with a single keystroke. Accurate sales information enables sales professionals to efficiently and effectively close sales; however, adding to and managing these databases is often time-consuming. Now, users of anagram 2.4 for Salesforce.com can highlight and capture the information anywhere it appears -- emails, web pages or documents. Anagram eliminates transcription errors and increases the value of CRM systems through faster data entry.

Anagramss unique pattern-recognition technology automatically recognizes address elements. It does not require the user to individually cut and paste the various address fields, nor does it require users to specify each target field. According to Nicholas Maddix, President of Textual, Anagrams accuracy rate in parsing addresses is over 99%. For sales and business development professionals this translates into increased selling time that otherwise would be spent on the tedious and often inaccurate process of developing the sales database. The sales force focuses on using the data not just collecting it."

Maddix adds: Anagram instantly and intelligently translates highlighted text from any application into Salesforce.com Lead, Contact and Calendar items. The user can review, confirm or retarget the information to ensure that it automatically and accurately populates the users Salesforce.com database. anagram 2.4 for Salesforce.com was developed through the sforce Partner program."

Sforce Partners expand customer choice by creating a wide range of new customer-centric solutions, including mobile applications, hosted vertical applications, voice automation, and specific device support. All solutions are built using open standards on the sforce on-demand platform, one of the most widely used and broadly supported enterprise Web services.

About Textual:
Textual is an emerging leader of text recognition and productivity technology. Textual developed Anagram technology and deploys it to corporations and individuals to solve their data capture needs. Anagram product supports Microsoft Outlook, Palm-based organizers and CRM systems like Salesforce.com and is customizable for enterprise partners. Founded in 2000, Textual (http://getanagram.com) is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

About the Sforce on-Demand Platform:
The sforce on-demand platform allows solution developers to customize, integrate and extend salesforce.com to create sophisticated custom CRM solutions. In contrast to traditional packaged software, sforce allows developers to use the tools they already know and love from IBM, BEA (NASDAQ: BEAS), Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and open source solutions like Perl and PHP, to build CRM integrations and applications with record speed and success. Leveraging standards and technologies from Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), sforce continues to demonstrate how the on demand platforms are a central part of the new enterprise IT strategies. Free access to the sforce community, as well as more information on the sforce Developer Program, is available at http://sforce.com.

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