JMJ Associates Selects ShareOffice for AppExchange for a Global Deployment in the US, Europe, and Asia

ShareOffice powers on-demand document creation, management, and sharing for global consulting firm operating in 40 countries.

San Fransisco, CA (PRWEB) September 17, 2007 -- salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference - ShareMethods (http://www.sharemethods.com) today announced that JMJ Associates, a leading global consulting firm, has selected ShareOffice™ for AppExchange for a deployment across the United States, Europe and Asia. ShareOffice combines an online office based on open Internet standards with enterprise document management on-demand bringing major product categories together into an Office 2.0 application for the first time. The customer announcement was made today at Dreamforce 2007, salesforce.com's User and Developer Conference.

"JMJ Associates has experienced significant growth in demand for its consulting services over the last few years. As a result, the company needed to streamline its proposal preparation, review and approval process while managing thousands of documents effectively. JMJ, a long-term Salesforce customer, selected ShareOffice as the solution of choice to meet these demanding needs," said Bob Allbright, Americas regional marketing and sales manager at JMJ Associates. "The end result has been a reduction in proposal issuance time of 30 percent to 50 percent, and elimination of a lot of stress on the people involved in the proposal generation process. The automation of JMJ's proposal process is a major success story in the organization, and would not have been possible without the easy-to-use, highly functional ShareOffice application. Indeed, ShareOffice has exceeded our expectations for what is possible with on-demand applications."

"Thousands of customers are using the AppExchange to extend the benefits throughout their business," said George Hu, Chief Marketing Officer, salesforce.com. "The ability to deploy a complete online office from the AppExchange demonstrates that any application is possible on demand. ShareOffice for AppExchange delivers on this vision through providing real world business benefits for customers including faster cycle times, reduced costs, and streamlined processes."

With ShareOffice, collaborative teams can easily create, edit, and share documents and spreadsheets online; and can automatically generate common sales documents such as proposals, contracts, quotes, and customer letters in a single browser interface using customer data from Salesforce. Marketers are likewise empowered to easily and quickly create, manage and share marketing documents online such as newsletters, press releases and product brochures; support teams can create FAQs; and product development groups can manage requirements materials.

ShareOffice is the first commercially available product developed based on OpenSAM (open simple AJAX mashup, www.opensam.org). OpenSAM is a consortium of software as a service (SaaS) application vendors and a set of AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming recommendations based on open standards that allow multiple online applications to integrate. iNetOffice and ShareMethods developed OpenSAM to enable the Internet as a platform for "plug and play" office productivity suites tailored for specific business needs.

"ShareMethods is thrilled to see JMJ Associates reaping major business benefits from the use of ShareOffice" says Eric Hoffert, CEO of ShareMethods. "JMJ Associates serves a number of the largest brands in the world such as BP, Intel and Chevron. They are an industry leader in consulting and with their application of technology to solve business challenges. We are excited to see ShareOffice for AppExchange bringing benefits to JMJ Associates. JMJ Associates is a key member of the ShareMethods global community of 200 companies realizing benefits from the use of our on-demand services."

ShareOffice for AppExchange is one of the hundreds of applications now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange marketplace found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

Force.com Platform and the AppExchange

Force.com is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Force.com reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables the creation of a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond client/server computing. Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community.

The AppExchange economy continues to expand as thousands of salesforce.com customers have installed thousands of on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

About ShareMethods

ShareMethods combines advanced document management, collaboration, and CRM integration into powerful on-demand solutions. The ShareMethods applications help sales, marketing, and support teams create, manage, and share documents easily and securely. ShareMethods also helps organizations communicate more effectively with members of extended selling networks such as distributors and dealers.
ShareMethods provides a very cost-effective alternative to developing and supporting a sales and marketing intranet or extranet. 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 200 companies on a global basis, with users in 32 countries and customers including BusinessWeek (a division of McGraw-Hill Companies), CNET Channel (a division of CNET Networks), Agile Software, Inc. (a division of Oracle), salesforce.com, HID Corp., TI Broadcast Solutions Group, Evolution Benefits, and others. For more information visit http://www.sharemethods.com or call 1-877-SHARENOW in the USA.

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