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XOBNI RELEASES SALESFORCE CRM EXTENSION TO HELP WORKERS MANAGE BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS

Microsoft Outlook users get a boost in productivity with Xobni Enterprise and its integration with Salesforce CRM

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference - November 17, 2009 - Xobni, the popular Microsoft Outlook search and relationship plug-in, today announced a new extension that allows business professionals to view Salesforce CRM information within Outlook. Xobni's Salesforce CRM extension is as an out-of-box solution available to both Enterprise and individual Xobni users, so they can easily access sales forecasts, collaboration data, and other key information directly from their Outlook inbox.

The success of email as the primary tool for business in the last 20 years has come with a significant cost for workers and companies: information overload. The amount of information and number of relationships people have to manage is spiraling out of control and workers are being forced to spend significant time at work searching for details that are critical to a company's success.

Xobni's solutions help business professionals to solve information and relationship overload by providing the most advanced search and relationship management capabilities available for Microsoft Outlook. With the extension, Xobni users can quickly access crucial information including account details, recent activity associated with the account and the individual, and the source of the lead. Putting this valuable information alongside workers' email inboxes allows them to more effectively manage their business relationships, especially those associated with lead generation. The average Xobni user saves more than 30 minutes a week, according to a recent Xobni survey, giving a measurable boost to productivity levels over time.

"Sales professionals spend countless hours every day in email searching for crucial information relating to business relationships," said Jeff Bonforte, Xobni CEO. "By providing a Salesforce CRM extension in Xobni, workers can now quickly and easily access important details without ever having to leave Microsoft Outlook."

Specific information provided in Xobni's Salesforce CRM extension includes contact information (e.g. phone, email, title, etc.), account activity, specifics on opportunities and more. Users also have the ability to drill down into detailed views of each of the main Salesforce CRM categories.

Xobni Enterprise

Xobni Enterprise is easy to deploy and provides the framework for businesses of all sizes to create and implement enterprise extensions for high-value services, including Salesforce CRM, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics and company profile information via LDAP or internal company Web sites. Extensions are immediately available for development, creating a rich ecosystem of solutions for businesses of all sizes. Additionally, Xobni allows users to quickly find critical information buried deep in their inbox, along with key attachments, contact information, calendar invites, and more. Features include:

  • Centralized Deployment and Management: Web-based portal lets customers manage user profiles, groups and access to Xobni Extensions
  • Custom Extensions: Rich API and Software Development Kit help customers build custom extensions for enterprise applications, third party websites and portals bringing relevant enterprise data into Outlook based on the sender
  • Corporate Directory Integration: Retrieve corporate profile information from LDAP/Active Directory services
  • Expanded Search Capabilities: Appointments, tasks & archived PSTs are available in search results
  • Productivity Enhancements: Each Xobni user's massive contact database can now be accessed from the auto-complete feature in the Outlook compose window
  • Enterprise grade support

The extension is immediately available for both Enterprise and individual Xobni users with certain Salesforce.com subscription versions. Full details for Xobni's Salesforce CRM extension, including version availability, are available here: www.xobni.com/salesforce.

About Xobni

Xobni is a San Francisco startup that shifts the focus of your email from one-by-one messages to the valuable relationships they reveal. Xobni offers lightning fast search and organization of your inbox. The company was founded in the spring of 2006 by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina who both dropped out of grad school to pursue Xobni full time. Xobni launched to private beta in September 2007 and opened to the public in May 2008. Xobni is funded by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Atomico Investments and others. For more information, go to www.xobni.com.

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