Cameleon Software Delivers Cameleoncloud CPQ on Force.com to Streamline Sales Processes

    CHICAGO, IL, April 12, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Cameleon Software today announced that Cameleoncloud CPQ is now available on Force.com, salesforce.com's social enterprise platform for building employee-facing social apps. Cameleon's CPQ (Configure/Price/Quote) application increases sales across multiple channels and leverages Salesforce Chatter, allowing sales teams to sell on the road while interacting with the project stakeholders via the cloud, seamlessly and in real-time.

"At Cameleon Software, our vision is to help social enterprises sell more and sell faster - no matter their channel and no matter where they are. This new step shows our commitment to extend our footprint within the Salesforce ecosystem and to enable our growing number of customers to enjoy the power of a multichannel, multi-device CPQ designed to handle great complexity," said Jacques Soumeillan, CEO, Cameleon Software.

"Customers are continuing to look to our partners as they transform into social enterprises and partners like Cameleon are helping them with that shift," said Mike Rosenbaum, senior vice president, AppExchange & Force.com operations, salesforce.com. "Apps like Cameleoncloud CPQ exemplify the power of Force.com and continue to push the social and mobile cloud capabilities customers expect from the salesforce.com ecosystem."

The Power of Social, Mobile and Cloud
Cameleoncloud CPQ is a powerful application that enables sales teams to sell more and sell faster, no matter the channel (Web, call center, store, etc.), or the device (tablets, PCs, etc.). With the capacity to configure, price and quote from anywhere, companies are more responsive to their customers' requirements and can quickly grow their business through the social, mobile and open power of Force.com and Cameleon's CPQ cloud technology.

Product Key Features
Cameleoncloud CPQ, the first mobile CPQ natively available on iPad and iPhone, generates professional quotes and proposals, handles complex pricing, enforces pricing strategies, cross-references special offers, and applies contractual terms. In addition, Cameleoncloud CPQ:
- accelerates multichannel deployments through an ISV portal for partners and resellers
- makes monitoring of sales activity simple through reporting and dashboard capabilities
- shortens the "quote to cash" cycle by leveraging the social and mobile capabilities of Force.com and Chatter
- enables customization with Force.com

Cloudforce Paris Welcomes Attendees to the Social Enterprise
Today, in the heart of Paris at the Maison de la Mutualite, more than 3,000 people have registered to attend Cloudforce Paris 2012, the largest social enterprise event in France.

Salesforce.com experts, partners and customers--like Axa, Mikit, Rossignol and Schneider Electric--will demonstrate how companies of all sizes in France are leveraging salesforce.com's social and mobile cloud technologies to transform into social enterprises.

In addition to a sold-out keynote, Cloudforce Paris 2012 will feature 16 break-out sessions, innovative solutions from 34 exhibiting partner sponsors, and numerous customer success stories from around the world.

The Social Enterprise Revolution
A social revolution is taking place today. The number of social networking users has surpassed e-mail users, and people access the Internet more from mobile devices than from desktops. Salesforce.com is helping companies meet the challenge of this social revolution with its social enterprise strategy. Today, companies must change the way they collaborate, communicate and share information with customers and employees to stay competitive. By leveraging salesforce.com's social and mobile cloud technologies, companies can transform themselves into social enterprises by developing social profiles of customers, and building employee and customer social networks.

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About Cameleon Software

Cameleon Software is the global leader in "next generation" product configurator, quotes, proposals and eCommerce software. Cameleon solutions empower customers' sales teams to streamline their quote-to-order process and increase sales across all channels, and marketing teams to define and launch new products faster. Cameleon's solutions integrate to leading CRM and ERP systems including Salesforce, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft and are available as both SaaS or On Premises. Rated as Positive in the Gartner Group Marketscope, Cameleon Software is a public company with strong references in industries such as insurance and financial services, telecom, hi-tech and manufacturing including ADT/Tyco, Clear Channel, Gras Savoye, SFR, IMS Health, Technip and ThyssenKrupp.
For more information, visit: www.cameleon-software.com and www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange

Force.com is the trusted social enterprise platform for building and running any employee app in the cloud. Force.com powers the Salesforce CRM apps, the more than 200,000 custom apps used by salesforce.com customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and Sprint Nextel and the more than 1,300 ISV apps built by partners such as BMC, FinancialForce.com and Fujitsu.

Enterprise apps built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed and marketed through the salesforce.com AppExchange http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

The salesforce.com social enterprise platform delivers the most trusted and comprehensive cloud technologies for social, mobile and open apps. It includes Force.com, the cloud platform for employee apps, Heroku, the cloud platform for customer apps and Database.com, the cloud database to integrate the social enterprise.

Salesforce, Social Enterprise, Dreamforce, Force.com, Heroku, AppExchange, Database.com and others are trademarks of salesforce.com, inc.

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