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Press Release
QuickArrow Achieves salesforce.com Ready Certification
Seamless Integration Is Market-Ready for Professional Services Organizations
Austin, TX. - May 21, 2003...QuickArrow, the leading provider of automation and management software for billable professional services organizations, announced that it has
achieved salesforce.com Ready certification. The salesforce.com Ready certification validates the seamless integration and the market-readiness of QuickArrow's professional services automation solution and salesforce.com. Professional services organizations using both applications can increase the business value and results achieved through the sharing of key
sales opportunity data that is important to their resource and project planning processes.
“As a customer of both salesforce.com and QuickArrow, I view the integration of the
applications as a significant step in helping me better manage my business and respond more
dynamically to customer demand,” said Brian Hibbert, director of Professional Services at
Navis LLC – a global leader in providing enterprise software solutions for the cargo
transportation and logistics industry. “This integration provides us with real-time visibility
into our sales pipeline and allows us to more effectively plan and schedule our resources and
increase the accuracy of our revenue forecasts.”
The integration of
QuickArrow and salesforce.com delivers the
following business value to customers:
- Improved revenue forecasting for the professional services business, enhancing
forecast accuracy and understanding;
- Decreased cycle time in staffing engagements, with an ability to soft-book resources
on service engagements that reach a certain probability to close;
- Increased insight into resource requirements - certifications, skills, and profiles - for
service engagements in the sales pipeline, leading to better planning and utilization of resources.
“QuickArrow is proud to have achieved salesforce.com Ready certification, especially
because we are the only professional services automation provider to have received this
status,” said Elizabeth Davis, chief executive officer of QuickArrow. “This integration
provides our customers with a direct view into their sales pipeline, enabling them to more
accurately plan their resources and forecast revenue. The combination of QuickArrow's
PSA solution and salesforce.com truly provides a best-of-breed, end-to-end
solution for professional services organizations”.
“Salesforce.com is happy to welcome QuickArrow into the salesforce.com Ready program,”
said Roger Goulart, vice president of Global Business Development and Alliances for
salesforce.com. “By working together to integrate our core offerings, salesforce.com and
QuickArrow provide customers a compelling way to manage their company resources.”
About QuickArrow
QuickArrow, Inc. is the leading provider of automation and management software for
billable professional service organizations. QuickArrow helps
service organizations streamline their business operations for tasks such as time and expense
tracking, resource management, knowledge management, collaboration, revenue forecasting,
and project invoicing and billing. QuickArrow's software has been adopted by more than 100
service organizations spanning multiple industries including health care, financial services,
real estate, and IT services. QuickArrow, headquartered in Austin, TX, was founded in 1998
and is a venture-backed company.
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