LONDON, May 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Astadia Gains Momentum in 2008 and Continues Providing SaaS Solutions to Assist Collaboration Across Teams and Organisations

Salesforce.com Europe Dreamforce Conference -- Astadia Consulting UK Limited, the European subsidiary of Astadia, Inc., a global business consulting and SaaS solutions company, delivers productivity gains with Astadia Quoting and Astadia Report Collaboration as part of the salesforce.com-Google category of salesforce.com's AppExchange. With Astadia's two new applications customers can use Salesforce for Google Apps(TM) to collaborate on sales quotes and reporting, further enabling their businesses to run in the cloud. Built on salesforce.com's Force.com platform and Google's open APIs, Astadia Quoting and Astadia Report Collaboration are available for test drive and deployment at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. The announcement was made today at Dreamforce Europe, salesforce.com's User and Developer Conference.

With Astadia Quoting, Salesforce users can team up within a company around sales quotes and effectively manage negotiation between a prospect and sales team. The wizard-driven process takes advantage of the Salesforce application's native workflow and approval processes. Astadia Report Collaboration gives Salesforce users the ability to conveniently export any Salesforce report to their Google Apps business account, and then to grant secure, selective access to the data using Google Apps' built-in sharing and discussing functionality.

"We are excited to give Salesforce users a new and better way to collaborate instantly and seamlessly within their organisations and with their prospects and clients," says Jerry Huskins, Astadia Executive Vice President, Corporate Development. "With our two new AppExchange products, Salesforce users can connect these expertly-paired SaaS solutions and improve efficiency by creating a common view for dispersed work teams. Astadia continues to assist clients to maximise their on-demand technology investments around the corner and around the globe."

"Astadia is honored to be selected as one of two salesforce.com partners to participate in the salesforce.com-Google AppExchange category launch, and the new Salesforce for Google Apps offerings illustrate Astadia's commitment to creating straightforward collaboration solutions," says Jason Masciarelli, Astadia General Manager, APAC. "We are positioned to expand our product and service offerings throughout Europe and Asia-Pacific this year."

"With Astadia Report Collaboration and Astadia Quoting, Astadia is establishing itself as a leader in collaborative SaaS offerings for Salesforce users," said Clarence So, Chief Marketing Officer, salesforce.com. "Astadia's integration offerings have delivered significant value to salesforce.com customers and we expect similar customer success with their new AppExchange offerings at our first Dreamforce Europe user and developer conference."

Force.com Platform and the AppExchange

Force.com (http://www.force.com/) reinvents the traditional development, deployment and distribution of any business application with platform-as-a-service. Developers, customers and partners can use Force.com to easily create a new generation of on-demand applications and deploy them worldwide as a service. 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 be easily distributed to the entire on-demand community.

The AppExchange economy continues to expand, with thousands of customers installing applications via the AppExchange. Customers of all sizes can quickly and easily extend Salesforce with additional on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

About Astadia

Astadia is a global business consulting and SaaS solutions company. We help clients of all sizes improve results by transforming business processes and technologies. With a passion for quality and experience earned from thousands of client initiatives, Astadia consultants positively impact the sales, marketing, customer service and employee performance efforts of clients around the corner and around the globe. Astadia is the largest deployment partner for a number of leading SaaS companies including salesforce.com, Eloqua, and Xactly.

For more information, visit http://www.astadia.co.uk or call +44(0)845-055-9758.

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media, Jerry Huskins of Astadia Consulting UK Limited, +44-0-7858-746-429, jhuskins@astadia.co.uk