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SalesWays' Sales Cycle Manager Now Available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange

SAN FRANCISCO — August 9, 2006 — SalesWays inc. and salesforce.com [NYSE:CRM], the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced the availability of Sales Cycle Manager for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Steeped with a foundation in SalesWays methodology as described in the book Sales Automation Done Right by SalesWays Chairman Keith Thompson, Sales Cycle Manager for AppExchange is a sales opportunity management system like no other. Built on the AppExchange on-demand platform, Sales Cycle Manager for AppExchange is immediately available for test drive and deployment at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

Salespeople are often given the task of handling many different opportunities at a given time; all of which are likely to be at different points in the sales cycle with varying degrees of sales success. Inevitably, salespeople are left to work with a list haphazardly. With Sales Cycle Manager, after a salesperson provides a few key parameters about each opportunity, the system generates a list which reflects the priority and probability for each opportunity and ranks them to be worked in an order that guarantees the best use of a salesperson's time. This is just one of the many innovative features of Sales Cycle Manager.

Sales Cycle Manager's Opportunity Dashboard summarizes the critical parameters and information regarding the sales environment in an easy-to-understand dynamic interface. The intelligent Sales Advisor tests the salesperson's gut feel on the sale and acts as a coaching tool, to ensure that nothing about the opportunity is being overlooked.

"Making Sales Cycle Manager available on the AppExchange will help extend our unique, method-driven product to salesforce.com's expansive on-demand user base," said Glenn Carnegie, CEO of SalesWays, "Sales Cycle Manager will provide salesforce.com subscribers with a chance to experience the positive improvement that Sales Cycle Manager can make to their sales processes."

"The AppExchange provides hundreds of solutions that extend and complement CRM deployments as well as take on-demand computing to new places throughout the enterprise," said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners, salesforce.com. "With SalesWays offering Sales Cycle Manager via the AppExchange, sales professionals have access to an easy-to-use, proven and innovative methodology that will help them better manage their resources."

Sales Cycle Manager for AppExchange is one of more than 280 applications created by salesforce.com, its customers and partners that are now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange, the world's first on-demand application platform. AppExchange provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration for Salesforce deployments, as well as enabling a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM. AppExchange enables all of these on-demand applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with one click into a salesforce.com customer's account. AppExchange can be found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange