Stefanini IT Solutions and Salesforce.com Sign Alliance to Bring Software as a Service to Latin America
Thursday October 23, 2:41 pm ET

Alliance Begins in the Brazilian Market, With Plans to Expand to Mexico

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 23, 2008 -- Stefanini IT Solutions (http://www.stefanini-usa.com/), one of the main service consulting companies in the information technology area in Latin America, and Salesforce.com (http://www.salesforce.com/), market and technology leader in the Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) segments, have announced an alliance to offer Salesforce.com´s Salesforce CRM applications and Force.com Platform to the Latin American market. Stefanini, in response to the global growth of SaaS, has expanded its products and services to provide customers with the highest quality, high-performance information technology solutions and customer service.

Through this alliance Salesforce.com, the global leader in CRM, will expand its participation in Latin America. The partnership, which will be managed globally by Salesforce.com in the United States, begins by servicing the Brazilian market, but there are already plans to expand the operations to Mexico and other Latin American countries.

"With this partnership, Stefanini´s customers will gain access to Salesforce CRM and the Force.com platform to improve their customer service and relationship management processes, just like more than 47,000 companies in the world already do," said Enrique Perezyera, president of Salesforce.com for Latin America.

The sales, deployment and support in pre- and post-sales processes will be under the responsibility of the Stefanini account teams in these countries.

"In addition to counting on the full support of Stefanini´s trained technicians, Salesforce.com will also be able to benefit from the company´s customer base," said Silvio Passos, vice-president of services at Stefanini IT Solutions. "Stefanini has already started training its consultant network in order to become certified on the company´s products. The goal is to have a trained and certified team ready as soon as possible."

About Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the technology and market leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) practices. The company´s portfolio in SaaS applications, including its acclaimed CRM, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways customers manage and share business information through the Internet. The company´s PaaS Force.com allows customers, developers and partners to create powerful applications on demand that offer the benefits of multiple client platforms distributed throughout the company. Applications created on the Force.com platform, available at http://www.force.com/, may be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks, using the salesforce.com AppExchange site available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

Since July 31st, 2008, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 47,700 companies, including ABN AMRO, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, Sprint Nextel and SunTrust Banks. Salesforce.com has its headquarters in San Francisco with offices in Europe and Asia, and its shares are negotiated in the New York Stock Exchange under the "CRM" symbol. For more info, please visit http://www.salesforce.com.

About Stefanini

Stefanini IT Solutions, a global leader in IT consulting, integration and development and outsourcing, offers onshore and nearshore custom application development and maintenance, ERP, and also infrastructure services. The company has 6,500 employees and more than 450 active customers across a broad spectrum of markets, including energy and utilities, insurance, manufacturing and distribution, oil and gas, financial services, and telecom. One of Brazil´s leading IT companies, Stefanini IT Solutions is CMMI Level 5 and ISO 9001:2000 certified. Founded in 1987, Stefanini IT Solutions currently has operations worldwide, including North American offices in New York, Atlanta, Toronto, and Fort Lauderdale.