Current salesforce.com Customers Can Now Deploy Fairsail for Human Resources Management within Salesforce via the AppExchange
Non-salesforce.com Customers Can Deploy Fairsail for Human Resources Management Directly from Fairsail Running on the Salesforce Platform Edition
Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference
SAN FRANCISCO--Fairsail today announced the availability of a comprehensive application for Human Resource Management built on salesforce.com’s on-demand platform. First revealed at Dreamforce ’07, salesforce.com’s annual user and developer conference, Fairsail will open up a completely new area of on-demand applications integrated with Salesforce, offering companies of every size a full set of integrated human resource management tools running natively on the Force.com platform. Fairsail’s modules include:
- Performance management
- Talent management
- Succession planning
- Competency assessment and 360 feedback
- Personal development planning
The early adopter version will include four fully integrated performance management modules to help manage teams. Companies can manage objectives and track milestones for all employees in one easy to access, on-demand location. Fairsail tracks targets and performance for each employee, looking at historical trends to better understand the business climate and provide appropriate guidance. Controlled approvals and standardized performance review processes ensure timely and effective reviews which meet company guidelines and employee expectations. Companies can create and maintain accurate job descriptions for use in compensation and performance reviews as well as employee development. With Fairsail it is possible to track, evaluate, and compare all employee data in one place and improve the ability to plan and strategize. Companies can achieve gains in business profitability by increasing the effectiveness of their teams.
Fairsail is built entirely on the Force.com platform and is available in two editions. AppExchange Edition is for existing Salesforce CRM users, and for companies or departments not using Salesforce CRM, Fairsail is available as a stand-alone application run on Platform Edition.
Colin Cooper, founder and CEO of Fairsail, explains why he chose to deliver on the Salesforce Platform, “I’ve delivered customized HR web applications for the past ten years, and previously client/server applications to blue chip companies worldwide. With the AppExchange and the Force.com platform, salesforce.com has changed the landscape, offering a completely new way to deliver applications. We can now concentrate on the application functionality without having to worry about infrastructure and delivery.”
"The thousands of installs of hundreds of different on-demand applications clearly demonstrate the incredible momentum of the AppExchange as the world’s on-demand application marketplace,” said George Hu, Chief Marketing Officer, salesforce.com. “Salesforce.com customers can use the AppExchange to extend the benefits of the on-demand model throughout their organization. Industry-leading partners like Fairsail shows that the opportunity for on-demand goes far beyond CRM to application categories such as human resources management.”
Force.com Platform and the AppExchange
Force.com is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Force.com reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables the creation of a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond client/server computing. 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 benefit the entire on-demand community.
The AppExchange economy continues to expand as thousands of salesforce.com customers have installed thousands of on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
About Fairsail
Fairsail develops and markets Human Resources Management software delivered as a service on the Salesforce on-demand platform. Founded specifically to create HR applications natively for the Salesforce platform, Fairsail has seized the opportunity to extend the Salesforce platform from CRM to enterprise-wide. The AppExchange edition is for existing Salesforce users and the platform edition for any organization. Version one of Fairsail includes modules for Performance Management, Talent Management, and Personal Development. Fairsail is a privately held company based in Reading, UK with a US office in the San Francisco Bay Area.
