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Verticals onDemand Honored by Beagle Research Group for Innovative VBioPharma™ SaaS CRM Application
Successful Implementation at Publicis Managed Markets Featured in WizKids Research Report
PLEASANTON, CA - March 26, 2008–Verticals onDemand, the pharmaceutical industry's only provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM solutions, won Beagle Research Group's 2008 WizKids™ Award for its VBioPharma™ SaaS CRM application. The award is presented annually to a hand-selected group of emerging companies that provide innovative business solutions designed to advance new or improved business processes. This year had seven recipients including Verticals onDemand partner, TerrAlign™ a leader in SRO solutions.
WizKids, as defined by the Beagle Research Group, are intelligent and innovatively clever people who cross the boundaries of knowledge to tinker at the edges of CRM doing things that, for the most part, have never been done before. The people at Verticals onDemand qualify as whiz kids based on their ground-breaking work on the first SaaS CRM application for the life sciences industry.
"Verticals onDemand applies its expertise in vertical markets and on-demand computing to provide affordable and powerful sales solutions to companies in specialized markets," said Denis Pombriant, managing principal of Beagle. "With Verticals onDemand, companies can get tailored SFA solutions without the high costs of a long customization project."
VBioPharma is the life sciences industry's first SaaS CRM solution and the only pharmaceutical CRM solution to come pre-validated. Built on salesforce.com's Force.com platform, VBioPharma delivers all the advantages of the SaaS model. The new application provides complete life sciences functionality including:
• physician and account profiling;
• visual affiliations tracking;
• call scheduling and route management;
• call reporting and mobile call reporting with electronic signature capture; and,
• full samples management.
Verticals onDemand developed its CRM application to provide a cost-efficient alternative over legacy client/server CRM systems, now considered inflexible, complex, and overly expensive. VBioPharma is delivered as a reliable service over the Internet, accessible through any web browser, and completely customizable at no additional cost. In addition, it runs in a disconnected mode on smartphones, laptops, and tablet PCs to ensure maximum user adoption.
VBioPharma also combines full-featured functionality for primary care selling, specialty care selling, managed care account executives, and key opinion leader management in a single application, empowering all of pharma's customer-facing teams to integrate their strategies for optimum success.
The full report, which highlights the implementation of Verticals onDemand at Publicis Managed Markets, is available at www.BeagleResearch.com.
About Beagle Research Group
Beagle Research Group, LLC is a consulting and market research organization focused on emerging companies and technologies that will have an important impact on the way business is conducted in the future. WizKids is a trademark of Beagle Research Group, LLC.
About Verticals onDemand
Verticals onDemand leverages the Salesforce platform to deliver onDemand customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for specific industry segments. Founded by software industry veterans, the company combines deep industry domain expertise, CRM deployment experience, and Software as a Service (SaaS) operations savvy with the Force.com platform, the world's first multitenant, on-demand platform. With an initial focus on the life sciences industry, Verticals onDemand customers will achieve the fastest time to value through the deployment of fully functional CRM applications that are simple to deploy, inexpensive to operate, and provide a superior user experience.
Verticals onDemand is a privately-held company headquartered in Pleasanton, CA. For more information, visit www.verticalsondemand.com.
Contacts
Lisa Barbadora
Verticals onDemand, Inc.
610-420-3413
pr@verticalsondemand.com
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