 January 31, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aplicor Named "2005 Product of the Year"
Boca Raton, Florida - Aplicor, Inc., a global provider of online CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) hosted business applications, today announced the company was named 2005 Product of the Year recipient by Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC™) and Customer Inter@action Solutions® magazine. The end of year industry event and independent review emphasized Aplicor's unique mid-market CRM focus and underscored distinctive SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) enterprise capabilities including the suite of graphical, drag-and-drop tools such as Workflow Designer for user-defined business workflow processes, Forms Designer for complete end-user customization of screens, and data warehousing and OLAP for drag-and-drop information analysis.
Special attention was also given to the AXIOM (Aplicor XML Integration Object Model) Web Services Gateway which exposes Aplicor Data Services (including XML schema, Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) document and complete data dictionary) and permits system administrators to create their own Web services integration in a graphical environment using industry-standard XML and Simple Object Application Protocol (SOAP) requests.
"Each year Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. Aplicor has demonstrated to the editors of Customer Inter@ction Solutions that it has gone the extra mile to help improve both the customer experience and ROI for the companies that use its technology" said Nadji Tehrani, executive group publisher and editor-in-chief of Customer Inter@ction Solutions.
Upon award designation by the TMC and CIS editorial staff, Aplicor CEO Chuck Schaeffer responded "It's my privilege to accept this award on behalf of the Aplicor team who makes this award possible. To be honored with the Product of the Year designation two years consecutively demonstrates an achievement never before obtained in the software-as-a-service industry. Successes such as this are a direct result of the personal contribution of an outstanding team. I thank the Aplicor team for their relentless pursuit in making this achievement possible."
At the award ceremony Aplicor President Mark Wakelin added, "This end of year milestone award caps another year of industry recognition as a unique CRM solution for mid-market organizations looking for more flexible, more empowering and easier to use on-demand CRM solutions. Combined with being named the Best Product Development Organization in America by the American Business Awards, Company of the Year by Regions Bank and the recipient of the CRM Excellence Award by TMC Labs all in the last year, the Aplicor product has truly reached a software-as-a-service milestone."
Aplicor will be featured in the January 2006 issue of CIS magazine.
About TMC
Customer Interaction Solutions® has been the premier publication in the CRM, call center and teleservices industries since 1982. TMC, publisher of Customer Information Systems (CIS) magazine, has been publishing high-technology publications for over 30 years. Described as "The Bible of the Industry" by The Wall Street Journal and "The standard industry source" by FORTUNE Magazine, TMC and Customer Information Solutions magazine is a leading full-service media organization which enjoys tremendous growth and reach into the CRM marketplace. With over 70,000 BPA-audited CRM industry subscribers and often referred to as 'The most trusted name in CRM, contact centers, teleservices and customer care since 1982', CIS is a dominating industry resource and is highly recognized by the CRM community as a publication with the highest standard of ethics and professional journalism. The CRM Excellence Award for 2006 will be published in the May and June issues of Customer Interaction
Solutions magazine.
About Aplicor
Based in Boca Raton, Florida, with international offices in London, England and San Jose, Costa Rica, Aplicor is a global software publisher of subscription-based and hosted CRM and ERP web-based software solutions for high growth, mid-market and enterprise organizations. The CRM application benefits clients by improving marketing effectiveness, increasing sales win rates, growing customer share and decreasing customer churn. The ERP application provides full back office accounting, job costing and distribution automation. The company’s business applications distinguish themselves by providing unique and fundamental shifts from data management to process automation, reporting to Business Intelligence (BI), and a one-size-fits-all shared hosting platform to an isolated tenancy hosting model which includes System Autonomy. Aplicor is the most independently awarded hosted solution, has achieved the highest average user count in the hosting industry and is the only CRM and ERP hosting provider with a 100 percent uptime history.
The Aplicor CRM software solution is a sophisticated product suite, designed from the ground up to use the Internet for online, real-time delivery. The business application suite is entirely customizable based on individual or group preferences and delivered at a price, implementation timeframe and usability level that truly meet mid-sized organizations user expectations, procurement requirements and business objectives. The product acquisition, implementation timeframe, time-to-production and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) are all a fraction of the time and cost of comparable applications. Aplicor CRM provides sophisticated CRM functionality previously only available to larger organizations with deep IT resources and the financial means to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars.
More information is available in the January 2006 published edition of Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine.
For further information, please contact press@aplicor.com.
Aplicor is a registered trademark. All other trademarks and products mentioned in this release are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.
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