Convenos Increases Market Share with Businesses by using Salesforce.com AppExchange

San Francisco, Calif., <September 17, 2007>—Convenos, a provider of collaborative web conferencing solutions today announced that since joining the salesforce.com AppExchange, two out of three businesses that found Convenos Meeting Center on AppExchange, purchased its web conferencing and collaboration tool.

Traveling requires time and money, and for most businesses of all sizes budgets are continually being reduced, which creates barriers to in person meetings. Now more than ever businesses are reaching out to find solutions that will help minimize travel expenses while improving productivity and sales. Small and medium size businesses worldwide have found Convenos Meeting Center as an affordable solution for their web conferencing and collaboration needs.

“As a small business, Convenos Meeting Center is helping us to better leverage our salesforce environment by having the capability to initiate meetings directly from within salesforce,” said Jeff Leroux, VP of Client Services, Spoke Software. “By using Convenos Meeting Center we have been able to increase revenue and reduce sales cycle time, simply by having an integrated solution that cuts down on travel costs and administration time.”

“Based on a recent customer relationship survey conducted by salesforce.com, web conferencing was among the top essential services requested. Convenos has made a solid commitment to AppExchange and based on their adoption results, it’s clear their solution is highly relevant to our customer base,” said George Hu, CMO, salesforce.com.

Businesses using Convenos Meeting Center are gaining a competitive edge in their ability to meet with customers, vendors and employees, anywhere, anytime. Convenos Meeting Center is used to conduct sales calls, train customers, conduct online seminars, workshops and collaborate in real-time across geographies and time zones - for less than the cost of a tank of gas.

Convenos Meeting Center is integrated with salesforce.com to create an affordable, seamless web collaboration tool for businesses of all sizes providing the ability to launch and schedule meetings right from the salesforce application. Convenos Meeting Center customers who use integrated audio options such as Skype and High Speed Conferencing by Vapps also leverage the benefit of free audio against the traditionally high telephony charges associated with other web conferencing solutions.

In a recent Frost & Sullivan whitepaper titled “Boosting Organizational Efficiency Through Web Conferencing and Collaboration” Convenos Meeting Center is highlighted as an exceptional tool for increasing efficiencies within organizations and vendors. The report states, “Convenos delivers online collaboration tools that streamline communications and control in a simple and convenient way”, with key value propositions offered of: cost effectiveness, simplicity, workspace integration and strategic partnerships. For more information on this report visit the Convenos website at www.convenos.com.

About Convenos
Convenos is dedicated to delivering online collaboration tools that are simple, convenient, and continue to advance the web-based collaboration and conferencing industries. Convenos Meeting Center is a subscription-based web conferencing solution with an intuitive user interface, easy meeting setup, and no additional minutes-based usage or telephony charges. Convenos has built a network of strategic partnerships with companies such as salesforce.com, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Plantronics, PCHome, IPEVO and Vapps, in order to meet the needs of the rapidly emerging collaboration market. Convenos is managed by a team with domain expertise and proven successes in the high tech arena, and is privately funded.

Salesforce Platform and the AppExchange

Salesforce Platform is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Salesforce Platform reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond client/server computing. The Salesforce Platform allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange directory, enabling all the innovation that the Salesforce Platform 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.

For additional information visit Convenos http://www.convenos.com/company_news.html, or call Convenos Media Helpline at (831) 600-1407.

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR CONVENOS:
Karin Vogel
Convenos LLC
831/600-1407
kvogel@convenos.com;
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