Vendavo Enterprise Pricing Suite Now Available on the Force.com AppExchange from Salesforce.com

Vendavo(R), the leading provider of business-to-business price management and optimization solutions (http://www.vendavo.com), today announced the availability of Vendavo Enterprise Pricing Suite for salesforce.com's Force.com AppExchange. Developed to confront the pricing challenges facing today's global business-to-business (B2B) companies, Vendavo integrates seamlessly with customers' existing Salesforce CRM systems to help improve margins. Built using the Force.com platform, Vendavo Enterprise Pricing Suite is immediately available for test drive and deployment on the Force.com AppExchange at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

With Vendavo on the Force.com AppExchange, Salesforce CRM users can access essential sales cycle information such as up-to-the-minute pricing, guidance and deal scores, which enables consistent and profitable negotiations. Vendavo leads the way in developing innovative solutions to address the pricing challenges facing today's global B2B companies. Proven in leading companies across multiple B2B industries, Vendavo helps companies improve profits by 10% to 30%.

"Salesforce CRM has become an instrumental part of the way businesses operate and serve customers today. Bringing Vendavo's solution to the Force.com AppExchange enables users to strategically leverage pricing information," said Jamie Rapperport, cofounder and executive vice-president of marketing and business development at Vendavo. "Joint salesforce.com-Vendavo customers will now have access to the right pricing information at the right time to make informed business decisions and ultimately drive profits."

"In an economy where every dollar counts, bringing together Vendavo's Enterprise Pricing Suite with Salesforce CRM helps users improve margins by leveraging relevant pricing and negotiation guidance," said Kendall Collins, Chief Marketing Officer, salesforce.com. "Thousands of customers have installed applications from the Force.com AppExchange because partners like Vendavo offer innovative solutions to expand the capabilities of Salesforce CRM."

About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform 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 100,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 55,400 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel.

Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the Force.com AppExchange marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

About Vendavo Vendavo is the leading provider of price management and optimization solutions for business-to-business companies worldwide. Vendavo Enterprise Pricing Suite solves pricing problems by giving businesses true enterprise-wide control of their entire pricing process. It combines pricing science, pricing best practices, and enterprise-class software to drive small improvements in average prices at every stage of the pricing process, from segmentation to deal close. Together, these improvements deliver big increases in profits - from 10% to 30%. Vendavo is the enterprise pricing solution of choice for more than 160 customer divisions at some of the world's biggest names in chemicals, high-tech and industrial manufacturing, consumer products, mill products and distribution.

To learn more, or to request information, visit www.vendavo.com.

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