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Wed, September 30, 2009 CODA: Unit 4 Agresso Creates New Company With Minority Investment From Salesforce.com -- CODA 2go Becomes FinancialForce.com
SLIEDRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - September 30, 2009) - Unit 4 Agresso (NYSE Euronext: U4AGR), parent company of financial software specialist CODA has announced that it has joined forces with salesforce.com (
FinancialForce.com aims to change the future of accounting and finance by delivering unique accounting applications in the cloud that give finance professionals and CFOs the efficiency, success and confidence they desire. Built on salesforce.com's enterprise cloud-computing platform, Force.com, FinancialForce.com offers accounting solutions delivered via the cloud for both salesforce.com and non-salesforce.com customers alike.
FinancialForce.com delivers the power of a real-time, enterprise accounting system to organizations of all sizes. It will support such businesses as they evolve, expand and outgrow more traditional accounting systems while offering all the benefits of cloud computing including ease of implementation, rapid return on investment and reduced cost and complexity. FinancialForce.com's rich functionality is built using CODA's 30 years' experience in designing and building world class financial applications combined with the security, reliability and availability of salesforce.com's trusted real-time Force.com service infrastructure.
The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will be run from the company's new corporate headquarters in San Mateo, California as well as from its EMEA headquarters in Harrogate in the UK. FinancialForce.com already has established sales, pre-sales and support teams in North America and the UK to take the new solution to market. Salesforce.com will provide first line support for FinancialForce.com, giving customers of both Salesforce CRM and FinancialForce applications a single consistent point of contact.
Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, has been appointed president and CEO of FinancialForce.com. George Hu, executive vice president, marketing and alliances at salesforce.com, Chris Ouwinga, chairman and CEO of Unit 4 Agresso, Edwin van Leeuwen, CFO of Unit 4 Agresso and Jeremy Roche make up the FinancialForce.com Board of Directors.
Jeremy Roche, CEO for FinancialForce.com, commented: "In establishing FinancialForce.com we are revolutionizing the future of accounting. FinancialForce.com will do for finance and accounting what salesforce.com has done for CRM. We are enabling customers of all sizes to choose accounting as part of a broader, integrated cloud computing solution and giving them the power of enterprise accounting without the pain of owning the software themselves. As a pioneer on the Force.com platform, CODA has worked closely with salesforce.com while developing and launching CODA 2go. We believe that having a native solution built on the Force.com platform will give us a significant competitive advantage when selling to salesforce.com customers and is key to our go to market strategy."
For customers using or evaluating Salesforce CRM, FinancialForce.com comes with an unequalled level of integration between its accounting functions and salesforce.com's Sales Cloud and Service Cloud. This allows users to make the most of customer relationships -- from making initial contact to ensuring smooth accounting processes and accurate invoicing, right through to the ongoing customer relationship. For non-Salesforce CRM users, FinancialForce.com offers a new choice of a comprehensive accounting solution built around salesforce.com's enterprise cloud-computing platform. FinancialForce.com will revolutionize the future of accounting by delivering a cloud computing application that helps companies get real-time insight into data from across customer services, sales and accounting, giving a complete view of the business position at a time when cash flow has never been more important.
FinancialForce.com customer Sallie Kennedy, CFO for Compliance Team, Inc., said: "Since selecting FinancialForce.com we have benefited from the improved efficiency and agility that cloud computing delivers. In addition, we have cost effective, real-time access to FinancialForce.com's best-in-class financial management capabilities but without the headache of owning, managing and maintaining the software ourselves. We can access business critical financial information at anytime and from any Web-enabled device and can act on the information quickly and decisively. We also have peace of mind knowing that FinancialForce.com is built on salesforce.com's infrastructure so our data is secure."
George Hu from salesforce.com said: "FinancialForce.com's mission is to create applications that make the finance department as successful as sales and service teams are with salesforce.com. That means creating and delivering the world's only finance applications that are as easy to deploy and use, and as customizable and trusted as Salesforce CRM. Together with Salesforce CRM, FinancialForce.com gives existing salesforce.com customers one solution for the front and back office delivered on the Force.com platform."
FinancialForce.com -- Revolutionizing the Future of Accounting with Cloud Computing
FinancialForce.com provides rich functionality for businesses around the world:
-- A complete accounting application: featuring general ledger accounting, user defined budgets and spreadsheet integration, full accounts payable, accounts receivable and invoicing -- Multi-currency and multi-company support: allowing organizations to manage accounts across different countries, divisions and companies -- Support for global accounting and reporting requirements: reducing concerns about meeting the specific reporting and tax legislation of different countries -- Real-time accounting: all ledgers are instantly updated to deliver real-time financial data and ensuring the system can never go out of balance -- Quick to implement: with no infrastructure to worry about, businesses can be up and running in hours or days -- Scalable: no matter what size the business today or in the future, the product will be able to support the management of cash flows, debtors and creditors -- Access anywhere: because FinancialForce.com is accessed via the cloud, businesses can access their accounts from anywhere that has an internet connection, without the need to acquire and maintain servers, so deployment is fast and cost effective -- Predictable license fee: with no infrastructure and maintenance fees to worry about, a business just has to pay a regular subscription based license fee -- Robust and secure: because FinancialForce.com is built on the Force.com platform, customers benefit from the reliability, security and availability of salesforce.com's proven real-time infrastructure.
Pricing and Availability
FinancialForce.com is now available to salesforce.com customers as well as non-salesforce.com customers. Pricing for the current release of FinancialForce applications starts from $125 per user per month. To order, or for more information, please visit: [ http://www.FinancialForce.com ].
About FinancialForce.com -- [ www.financialforce.com ]
FinancialForce.com aims to revolutionize the future of accounting by doing for finance what salesforce.com has done for CRM. It delivers unique cloud accounting applications that give accountants and CFOs online, real-time financial information, always in balance and always up to date. This gives them a better understanding of their business, with the confidence of reliable figures, from secure systems, looked after for them by the world's most trusted enterprise cloud computing platform.
FinancialForce.com is backed by Unit 4 Agresso (parent company of accounting software specialist CODA) and salesforce.com. It combines CODA's 30 years of designing and building financial applications, with the salesforce.com platform's decade of dependability, availability and security.
The result is a range of revolutionary cloud computing applications, including FinancialForce Accounting -- a full Software as a Service (SaaS) accounting application, delivered on a subscription basis; the first international SaaS accounting system developed on salesforce.com's cloud computing platform, Force.com.
About Unit 4 Agresso -- [ www.unit4agresso.com ]
Headquartered in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands Unit 4 Agresso was founded in 1980. Today, Unit 4 Agresso is the 4th largest mid-market ERP solution provider in the world according to analyst IDC (2008). It develops, sells, implements and supports business software for running, managing and optimizing a wide range of private and public sector organizations across the globe. The group has 3,500 staff in offices across 14 European countries and 5 countries outside Europe, from where it supports customers and partners in all regions of the world. It is publicly quoted on the NYSE Euronext Amsterdam (U4AGR).
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.
As of July 31, 2009, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 63,200 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM." For more information please visit [ http://www.salesforce.com ], or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
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About CODA -- [ www.coda.com ]
CODA was founded in 1979 and has around 500 employees working at 18 offices in 14 countries. It creates, markets and implements a comprehensive range of software systems designed specifically to meet the needs of financial directors and finance departments. These include financial management systems, analysis applications and business process management and control software to implement compliance solutions. Its service-oriented architecture also makes CODA software easy for clients and other vendors to integrate with their business applications.
CODA software is designed for multi-currency, multi-language, multi-country, multi-company and multi-site operations. It is used by around 2,600 medium and large organizations in more than 100 countries in a variety of markets and within both public and commercial sectors. CODA is a Unit 4 Agresso company.
