Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. Furthermore, Salesforce.com is regarded as the pioneer and real implementer of Platform-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing. The company’s Force.com products suite allows customers access to the leading CRM system, to the world’s first on-demand-platform Apex for creating new business applications in and outside of CRM as well as to Force.Sites for Webhosting and customer/partner interaction. Entering the Force.com platform, customers can map their complete business infrastructure and utilize the benefits of multi-tenancy and The Business Web across the enterprise. All Apex applications can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via the integrated AppExchange directory. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com’s world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.

The arlanis Software AG is very experienced since many years with the realization of Salesforce.com projects for our global customers but has also written the first German language developer's book regarding APEX and Salesforce.com. In addition we have also a certified AppExchange solution, called arlanis SDE. Our consultants present state-of-the-art Salesforce.com and SOA expertise on several conferences and in IT publications.

Salesforce.com Inc. - www.salesforce.com

UNISERV is the largest specialized provider of data quality solutions in Europe with an internationally usable software portfolio and services for the quality assurance of data in CRM, BI, MDM, eBusiness and direct marketing.

Uniserv employs a total of more than 110 people in Pforzheim and at its subsidiary in Paris, France, and serves a large number of prestigious international customers in all sectors of industry and commerce, such as ADAC, Deutsche Börse Group and PSA Peugeot Citroën

UNISERV GmbH - the experienced specialist for data quality - and arlanis Software AG – a certified salesforce.com consulting partner and provider of data integration solutions - have combined their expertise to create an efficient quality assurance system.

In compliance with the salesforce.com authorization concept, the joint development of the DQ Connector guarantees an improvement in the data quality of international address entries in salesforce.com CRM.

UNISERV GmbH - www.data-quality-on-demand.com

Cloud9 Analytics is the global leader in on-demand operational performance management solutions delivered directly to line-of-business managers.

The company’s initial product, Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator Suite for salesforce.com, enables sales leaders to more effectively manage their opportunities and teams. The result is a dramatic increase in deal conversion rates, higher CRM adoption, and improved forecast accuracy. Powered by a patent-pending Change Analytics engine, Cloud9’s applications deliver value in just 24 hours and require zero installation, zero maintenance and zero IT support.

Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator Suite – A complete investigative application designed to improve sales pipeline visibility, including providing insight into opportunity data on attainment, deal slippage, opportunity upgrades and downgrades, and “What’s Changed” information that can enable sales managers to quickly identify meaningful trends, exceptions or outliers.

Cloud9 Dynamic Pipeline Management solutions are employed by more than 60 organizations of all sizes globally and across every industry. Selected customers include: Covad, Data Domain, Fandango, GENBAND, Reliant Technologies, Siemens, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thomson Reuters.

Cloud9 Analytics - http://www.cloud9analytics.com.

IBM is the world's largest information technology company. Measured by revenue, IBM is the biggest provider of IT services ($46B), hardware ($31B) and financing ($2.6B), and second in software ($15B). 2004 revenues were $96.2B. IBM has approximately 329,000 employees in 75 countries, serving clients in 174, and speaking more than 165 languages.

As IBM Advanced Business Partner we offer EAI and SOA competence in the context of IBM tools and solutions. The arlanis Universal Data Converter (UDC) is an all-purpose data conversion tool to convert almost any data file - whatever its format may be - into another one. It is suitable in virtually any IT project and can easily be integrated in foreign architectures - due to its universal and unique design. With the arlanis Universal Data Converter you can convert data from one system into another, you can manage B2B data exchange and you can create import- or export-interfaces for your own applications.

IBM - www.ibm.com