SaaS (News - Alert) vendor Astadia has announced the availability of two new applications, Astadia Quoting and Astadia Report Collaboration, as part of the newly-added Google Apps category on Salesforce.com's (News - Alert) AppExchange.
Customers can use the two new Astadia applications to add quoting and report collaboration to the suite of CRM, collaboration, and business productivity applications.
Built on Salesforce.com's Force.com platform, and Google's (News - Alert) open APIs, Astadia Quoting and Report Collaboration are immediately available for test drive and deployment.
Astadia Quoting creates and saves customer-ready quotes within Salesforce, "taking advantage of the workflow and approvals functionality native to Salesforce," company officials say. The quoting product offers an option to select Google Docs for output for public or private publishing of quotes to the Web.
Astadia Report Collaboration gives Salesforce users "the ability to export any report to Google Spreadsheets for further analysis, and to safely and selectively share the reports with both Salesforce and non-Salesforce users," company officials say.
Scott Blodgett, Astadia CTO, said his company is "building our family of integrated products for these two platforms on top of the social networking application that we released at the OpenSocial launch last November."
Astadia officials say the company's social networking product, AppFactor BLOX for OpenSocial, "allows Salesforce users to view and manage the social network of contacts that exists right from within their database."
Last fall Astadia Consulting announced six new vertical industry products built on the Force.com platform and available via the AppExchange. The announcement was made at the Dreamforce '07 Salesforce.com User and Developer Conference.
There are two platforms for financial services -- the Astadia Commercial Banking Platform offers local, regional banks and money center institutions a unified approach to managing client relationships across a broad range of banking products and services, with lending and treasury management coverage with expanded options for capital markets, trade banking, card services, leasing and private banking. And the Astadia Institutional Investor Platform allows broker and dealers to supply institutional clients such as fund managers and money managers with relationship data.
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