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TimeTrade Systems Previews TimeDriver for the Force.com AppExchange From Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com Customers Will Be Able to Deploy TimeDriver for Automated Appointment Scheduling Within Salesforce CRM
| Quelle: TimeTrade Systems
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - November 3, 2008) - Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference --
TimeTrade Systems today announced TimeDriver for Salesforce. TimeDriver
is a personal appointment scheduling solution that lets sales professionals
invite customers and prospects to schedule time with them. The specially
integrated version of TimeDriver for Salesforce CRM lets users easily
create and send appointment invitations from within the Salesforce
application. Built using the Force.com platform, TimeDriver for Salesforce
will be available by the end of the year for test drive and deployment on
the Force.com AppExchange at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.
The announcement was made today at Dreamforce '08, salesforce.com's annual
User and Developer Conference.
TimeDriver is an appointment invitation system that eliminates phone tag
and email tag. With TimeDriver, users can include a "Click to Schedule"
link in email messages and on Web pages as a call-to-action for scheduling
an appointment. When an invitee clicks the schedule link, TimeDriver will
offer timeslots based on simple rules defined by the inviter. Sales
professionals can use TimeDriver to invite customers and prospects to
schedule time for sales demos, account reviews, consultations and other
sales interactions -- either in person or on the phone.
TimeDriver for Salesforce CRM lets users initiate a TimeDriver appointment
invitation from any Lead or Contact page in Salesforce; initiate an
invitation to a list of Leads or Contacts; control the user's availability
for appointments based on their free/busy status in Salesforce Calendar,
Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar; and view and manage TimeDriver data
via Salesforce or TimeDriver.
TimeDriver for Salesforce CRM will seamlessly add or update appropriate
data records in Salesforce. Schedule links, email invitations and
appointments created in TimeDriver will trigger the creation or
modification of any associated data records in Salesforce. For example,
TimeDriver appointments will have associated Salesforce events that appear
in the Salesforce Calendar. When an appointment is changed or cancelled,
the associated event in Salesforce will be updated automatically.
To experience TimeDriver for Salesforce CRM firsthand, go to
www.timedriver.com/dreamforce.
"In order to fully exploit the powerful capabilities of Visualforce and
Force.com Apex code we teamed with Appirio to design and implement our
TimeDriver integration with Salesforce CRM," said Ed Mallen, President and
CEO of TimeTrade Systems. "We especially like the ability to invoke web
service calls from triggers, ability to use standard list controllers,
packaging support for Visualforce pages, and the ability to use custom
buttons to refer to Visualforce pages."
"This is our sixth Dreamforce, and the momentum of the Force.com
AppExchange continues to grow with customers and partners," said Clarence
So, chief marketing officer at salesforce.com. "TimeDriver for Salesforce
will help companies better manage a critical part of the sales process,
which is scheduling appointments with customers and prospects. By
integrating TimeDriver with Salesforce, appointment scheduling can be
tightly coupled with customer communication activities."
About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange
Force.com is the only proven Platform as a Service for building and running
business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the
Salesforce CRM applications, more than 800 ISV partner applications like
those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more than 85,000 custom applications used
by salesforce.com's 47,700 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente,
KONE and Sprint Nextel.
Force.com is the fastest platform for building and deploying complex
business applications. Unlike a stack of disparate client/server hardware
and software products, Force.com unifies the development and deployment
model from the database to the device, allowing developers to easily
assemble applications with clicks, components and code, and then instantly
deploy them on salesforce.com's trusted global infrastructure. Customers
and partners are using Force.com to build all kinds of business
applications from supply chain management to compliance tracking, brand
management, accounts receivable, claims processing applications and much
more.
Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to
the entire SaaS community through the Force.com AppExchange marketplace at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.
About TimeTrade Systems
TimeTrade Systems is the leader in customer self-service appointment
scheduling solutions for enterprises and individuals. More than 200 million
appointments have been scheduled through TimeTrade. Headquartered in
Bedford, MA, TimeTrade offers Web-based solutions that enable customers to
streamline operations, improve workflow and increase marketing and sales
outreach. The company's customers include some of the largest government
agencies, retailers, healthcare and other organizations as well as
small-to-medium sized businesses. TimeTrade solves complex scheduling
issues with high-performance, highly configurable solutions that are
scalable to handle hundreds of thousands of appointments across multiple
locations. TimeTrade Systems can be reached at www.timetrade.com.