Expandable Software Bi-Directional And Cloud To Cloud ERP Integration For Salesforce CRM Now Available On The Salesforce.com AppExchange

Customers Can Now Deploy Expandable ERP Integration for 360 Degree Back Office Customer Relationship Management within Salesforce CRM

San Francisco, CA /PRNewswire/ - salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference - Expandable Software, Inc. of Santa Clara, CA today announced the availability of Extended Expandable ERP Integration for Salesforce CRM on the AppExchange. The newest features provide bi-directional CRM Accounts to ERP Customer integration with the use of the Pervasive ETL and web services validation and Integration with Salesforce Products and Price Book objects. A significant addition is the availability of Expandable SaaS Integration with Salesforce that reinforces Cloud-to-Cloud business application integration. Built using the Force.com platform, Pervasive ETL and Expandable Web Services business logic, Expandable ERP Integration for Salesforce CRM is immediately available for test drive on the AppExchange at http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N300000016d1dEAA.

The announcement was made today at Dreamforce 2009, salesforce.com's user and developer conference.

Building on the initial integration release of customer master upserts with customer: activity, history, sales orders, invoices and sold serialized parts, the additional integration capability provides two key elements. First the ability to convert a Salesforce Account to an Expandable customer provides a bi-directional integration with a tier 2 full featured Manufacturing ERP/MRP and second, furthering the integration with Expandable's On-Demand ERP product provides availability for businesses driving a Cloud-to-Cloud application deployment strategy. Best practice industry ERP & CRM integration guidelines were followed in driving a complete 360 degree visibility with a business's end-customers regardless of the deployment model for a manufacturing ERP.

"With the initial Expandable ERP Integration release on AppExchange, these added features bring a tighter integration of the front office data with the back office that Expandable and Salesforce customers are demanding," said Dennis Payton, Expandable's director of product marketing. Working with the salesforce.com sales team two critical pieces, bi-directional integration and the Cloud-to-Cloud integration were accelerated on our integration road map and delivered to further our 360 degree integration strategy."

About Expandable Software Inc.

Expandable develops, markets and supports an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite designed to help executives and managers of fast-growing companies maximize business performance by maintaining visibility and control of manufacturing operations. Expandable's fully integrated accounting, engineering and manufacturing modules provide a solid back office foundation while CRM, e-business, and supply chain functions deliver front office tools to manage business relationships, and streamline transactions.

The Expandable system is targeted to manufacturers who need a dependable business foundation that will support their growth all the way to the billion dollar mark.

A full description of the Expandable ERP Integration for Salesforce CRM is available on the salesforce.com AppExchange.

Expandable is located in California's Silicon Valley and is on the web at www.expandable.com. For more information, contact Expandable Software, Inc., 1171 Homestead Road., Santa Clara, CA 95050. Phone: 408-261-7880. Fax: 408-247-2160.

About The Force.com Platform And The AppExchange

Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM applications, more than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more than 110,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 62,300 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel.

Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

SOURCE Expandable Software, Inc.