Arasys Chooses UpShot CRM For Fast Results

UpShot Corporation announced today that Arasys, a fully integrated marketing resource and fulfillment solution, is the latest in a string of companies to select UpShot's online Customer Relationship Management service. Companies choose UpShot because it can easily be configured to work the way their salespeople do, ensuring fast adoption and rapid gains in productivity.

A fully integrated marketing resource and fulfillment solution, Arasys was initially drawn to UpShot for its seamless integration with Outlook e-mail, which facilitates information sharing with a simple, one-click process for saving contact information from Outlook into UpShot, and vice versa. Arasys can work either in Outlook or UpShot to transparently manage e-mail and associated account, contact and deal information.

UpShot's integration with Microsoft Outlook and its entire desktop productivity suite dramatically improves user adoption by providing sales organizations with the flexibility and freedom to work with the tools they regularly use. This smooth integration enables companies like Arasys to increase forecast accuracy with complete details on all sales activity - including critical e-mails. Integrating with Outlook e-mail eliminates "double-entry" or the need to manually transfer information from e-mail to UpShot. By tracking every e-mail related to a deal, sale reps and VPs of sales have a complete history of every sales opportunity - giving them the insights they need to make the most of every opportunity.

Arasys, wanting to take advantage of UpShot's productivity gains as rapidly as possible, chose UpShot Turn-Key program - which extends UpShot's basic deployment service. An affordable implementation service, UpShot Turn-Key is designed to slash deployment time, effort, and costs. The implementation service, which guarantees a quick, fixed-bid deployment schedule, provides more data import, user training, and Q&A support than any other web-based SFA solution.

UpShot has been the innovation leader for Web-based services. UpShot was the first Web-based sales solution to offer: an online subscription service, synchronization with Outlook and PDAs, service level agreements, wireless access, streamlined interface for dial-up connections, guaranteed deployment, enterprise-level, real-time forecasting, offline capability, integration with Outlook - including e-mail and Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and support for multiple selling processes.

About Arasys
Arasys Technologies (formerly CSTech, Inc.) develops and deploys software solutions that automate the planning, procurement, ordering, production, management and distribution of all marketing materials and media. The Arasys integrated suite of web-based applications significantly reduces marketing spend while increasing visibility and control throughout the marketing materials lifecycle. From defining the marketing communications effort through fulfillment to the field sales channel, Arasys provides corporate marketing and their suppliers a means of connecting demand for materials and media to suppliers.

Companies such as Allstate, Jackson National Life, Rockwell Automation, and Towne AllPoints have deployed the Arasys solution to serve marketing, sales, and customer service. Arasys Technologies is a privately held firm headquartered in Schaumburg, IL.

About UpShot
UpShot Corporation provides a Web-based solution that tightly integrates sales and marketing to help organizations quickly increase their revenues. UpShot ensures rapid and widespread adoption by integrating with back office systems and popular applications such as Microsoft Outlook e-mail, Word, Excel and Lotus Notes.

Founded in 1996, UpShot is based in Mountain View, California. The company's thousands of customers include CDI (NYSE: CDI), GMAC (NYSE: GMA), Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ), and Xerox (NYSE: XRX). For further information, please visit www.upshot.com or call 888-700-8774.