Salesforce.com Financial Services Customers Can Now Jump Start Their CRM Initiatives

SAN FRANCISCO--salesforce.com Dreamforce conference - OKERE, a management and technology consulting firm for on-demand business applications, and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced that OKERE’s five new financial services solutions are now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange. Developed for specific industry segments, OKERE’s solutions accelerate the time to market for financial services companies, enabling faster return on their CRM investments. OKERE’s financial services solutions are immediately available for test drive at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. The announcement was made today at Dreamforce ’06, salesforce.com’s User and Developer conference.

OKERE is one of the leading salesforce.com partners for financial services and has worked with the world’s top financial services firms, including Thomson Financial, ABN-AMRO and TD Ameritrade, to deploy global salesforce.com solutions. Leveraging this financial services experience and CRM expertise, OKERE developed solutions to help financial services companies maximize their Salesforce investments:

• Retail Wealth Management – used by financial advisors and executives for operational and sales processes, such as call list generation, prospecting, contact profiling, watch lists, financial accounts and activity tracking
• Capital Markets – designed for businesses which market to, trade with and service financial services companies, this application provides a 360-degree view of the client to support consistent, superior service
• Wholesale Banking and Insurance – facilitates communication between relationship managers, inside/outside wholesalers, and sales and marketing to eliminate the challenges of complex distribution networks
• Investment Banking – simplifies the process of deal team allocation, streamlines and consolidates communication activities, and provides a single view of the client relationship so firms can improve the speed and quality of service
• Commercial Banking – enables relationship managers to easily manage interactions, events and opportunities; provides insight into the sales pipeline to support more strategic selling efforts

“Since its inception OKERE has served financial services companies looking to reap the benefits of software-as-a-service. We’ve captured this experience into packaged solutions that deliver immediate business value,” said John Orrock, president and CEO of OKERE. “Now, with OKERE’s solutions available on the AppExchange, salesforce.com customers have fast and easy access to unique, high-value financial services applications.”

“OKERE has proven its rich industry expertise with our financial services customers, and now has developed industry-specific solutions to solve the business challenges these organizations face every day,” said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners, salesforce.com. “By leveraging OKERE solutions from the AppExchange, financial service companies can significantly jump-start their CRM initiatives.”

OKERE’s solutions are five of more than 375 applications now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange, the world’s first on-demand directory and sharing service, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

Apex is salesforce.com’s breakthrough new on-demand platform and programming language that is redefining what a multi-tenant on-demand application can be. Apex enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications that go far beyond CRM, and for the first time, to write and run their own code hosted with the security, reliability, upgradeability and ease-of-use of salesforce.com’s industry-leading multi-tenant service. Customers can use Apex to modify the core features and functionality of their Salesforce deployments for their unique business needs and quickly and easily integrate new applications and components from partners and developers. Without any infrastructure investment, developers can now build and run a virtually unlimited array of applications with unprecedented power to innovate with the same creative freedom as salesforce.com’s own developers.

About OKERE
OKERE is a management and technology consulting firm that focuses on software-as-a-service. With extensive experience in CRM, data management, integration and user enablement, OKERE’s innovative approach enables clients to maximize the value of their technology investment for faster return and greater long-term benefits. OKERE delivers comprehensive, industry-specific solutions for leading companies such as Merrill Lynch, Symbol Technologies and TD Ameritrade. OKERE is a privately-held company, headquartered in New York with additional offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, call 1.888.44.OKERE (in the U.S.) or visit www.okere.com.

About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company’s Salesforce suite of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. Apex, salesforce.com’s on-demand platform and programming language, enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications, and for the first time, to write and run their own code hosted with the security, reliability, upgradeability and ease-of-use of salesforce.com’s industry-leading multi-tenant service. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com’s world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.

As of July 31, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 24,800 customers and approximately 501,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom 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.