20/20 Companies Uses Force.com to Build Custom Applications in the Cloud for 25 Percent of the Time and Cost of .NET

Fast cloud computing development platform also facilitates easy integration with legacy and client systems to eliminate manual reconciliation and inconsistent information

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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM - News), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that 20/20 Companies is running its growing business on custom applications built on the Force.com cloud computing platform. With offices nationwide, 20/20 Companies is a leader in the marketing and sales contracting industry. 20/20 Companies used Force.com for custom application development to manage orders, invoicing and payroll, as well as employee time-tracking.

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20/20 Companies' Success with Cloud Computing:

• After an extensive analysis, 20/20 determined it could develop custom applications on Force.com at 25 percent of the time and cost required to build the same apps on-premise with .NET.
• Before building its custom applications, 20/20 sales representatives were manually entering order data into one system, and then manually reconciling with their client's systems, as well as internal company financial, payroll and reporting applications.
• The manual reconciliation among these systems was not only time-consuming, but also the source of errors and inconsistent information.
• Building an application to manage the order-to-invoice-to-payroll process on Force.com now provides a central point for the sales team to track orders, and information is automatically shared across 20/20's business applications and with clients.
• 20/20 Companies also used Force.com to build a time-tracking system, so staff can easily log in and out with the assurance that their hours will be paid accordingly, whether regular, overtime or holiday rates.
• Tapping into the AppExchange, the company easily added crystalreports.com to create rich reports and dashboards for the management team.

Comments on the News:

"We needed to create a custom solution at a reasonable cost, and we weren't looking to take any risks during the effort," said Mark Warren, chief information officer at 20/20 Companies. "It took us just four months with Force.com to build a suite of custom applications and integrate them with our payroll and financials applications, as well as with our clients' systems for invoicing, reconciliation and validation."

"Salesforce.com has a truly unique development platform that is miles ahead of the competition," continued Warren. "Force.com is ideal for building custom business applications. In a matter of months we solved issues the company had been dealing with for years, and we came in on time and on budget. Even better, this efficiency is helping increase our overall business success."

Force.com - the Enterprise Cloud Computing Platform:

• Force.com is salesforce.com's enterprise cloud computing platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/cloud-platform/).
• Force.com provides everything companies need to quickly build and deliver business applications in the cloud, including the database, unlimited real-time customization, powerful analytics, real-time workflow and approvals, programmable cloud logic, integration, real-time mobile deployment, programmable user interface and Web site capabilities.
• Customers and partners have built more than 120,000 custom applications on Force.com to run their businesses, including, supply chain management, compliance tracking, brand management, accounts receivable, claims processing, time-off applications and much more.
• Force.com enables companies to build and deliver applications 5 times faster, at about 1/2 the cost of traditional client/server software platforms. For more analyst reports and white papers please visit http://www.salesforce.com/platform/tco.
• A podcast discussing 20/20 Companies' results with cloud computing and Force.com is available here http://salesforce.acrobat.com/p86961704/.

20/20 Companies is one of the 63,200 companies of all sizes, industries and geographies that comprised the salesforce.com customer base as of July 31, 2009. Revenue and subscribers are recognized as the service is delivered.

About 20/20 Companies

Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, 20/20 Companies has been providing high quality, professional marketing and contracting services to the telecommunications, cable and energy industries for over 17 years. We provide staffing for door-to-door sales, business-to-business sales, retail kiosks, and special event marketing.

The company has succeeded in attracting and retaining Fortune 500 clients by hiring employees whose priority and expertise is customer service, maintaining a high standard of integrity, and producing quality results.

20/20 Companies shares your goals - a commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction, built on long-term relationships. 20/20's skilled and knowledgeable management team has met these challenges, implementing hundreds of direct sales and marketing campaigns in premier markets across the country. These sales teams are professional, well trained, and motivated towards success.

About salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) helps customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.

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