Baker Communications HomeRun! V3.0 Now Available on Salesforce.com AppExchange2

Dec. 7, 2010 - PRLog -- SAN FRANCISCO – Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference – Baker Communications today announced the availability of HomeRun! V3.0 on AppExhange 2. HomeRun! V3.0 ensures a 100% response rate to all leads within a specific timeframe, integrating sales and marketing activities by automating the frequency and delivery of sales and marketing communications to produce higher connect rates and qualified pipeline. Built using Force.com, the enterprise cloud computing platform, HomeRun V3.0 is immediately available for test drive and deployment on AppExchange 2 at www.salesforce.com/appexchange/. The announcement was made today at Dreamforce 2010, the cloud computing event of the year.

HomeRun! V3.0 leverages the powerful resources of Force.com to automate the cadence of responding to and tracking every lead, to assure that every lead is followed up immediately and the results are accessible to sales managers and sales reps for evaluation and planning next steps.

“HomeRun V3.0 is a tremendous enhancement to our salesforce.com portfolio of services,” said Walter Rogers, President and CEO of Baker Communications. “Research and experience tell us that most leads die on the vine if you don’t follow them up in the first 24-48 hours. HomeRun! streamlines that response process to help sales professionals drive revenue and close more business.”

“HomeRun V3.0 is a great example of the value our customers can find on AppExchange 2,” said Kendall Collins, salesforce.com chief marketing officer. “The real time, mobile and social characteristics of this solution simplify and enhance the process of prospecting so that our customers can concentrate on what they do best – take care of their customers.”

Features of HomeRun! V3.0 include:

•   Synchronizes marketing & sales activities to produce qualified pipeline
•   Intelligent metering of sales communication
•   Auto-escalation tools to manage and control response rates

HomeRun! V3.0 provides automated cadence management of the Prospecting cycle. Load your list of targets, create and set the frequency of marketing and sales actions one time, press "start" and walk away. HomeRun! will automatically optimize the Prospecting cycle and meter all marketing and sales activity based on completed sales actions that match marketing messages.

Dreamforce is the industry’s leading global cloud computing event. The event is focused on inspiring customer, partner and developer success with cloud computing. Attendees will learn how to maximize their current investments and explore new offerings across Salesforce Chatter, Sales Cloud 2, Service Cloud 2and Force.com and more. Over the past ten years the cloud computing economy has radically changed the way companies operate. Now as we enter the next phase, cloud computing is becoming inherently social, real time and mobile. Dreamforce is where this transition is happening with hundreds of salesforce.com partners exhibiting the latest cloud offerings, as well as training sessions, seminars and breakout sessions.

About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange 2
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 (http://www.salesforce.com  applications, more than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CA Technologies, FinancialForce.com, and Fujitsu, and 170,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com’s 82,400 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel. Force.com also enables developers to make any enterprise app social by leveraging the social collaboration components, including profiles, status updates and real time feeds available with Chatter.

Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the salesforce.com AppExchange 2 marketplace http://www.salesforce.com /appexchange/, now featuring the ChatterExchange.

About Baker Communications

Baker Communications is one of the fastest growing Performance Improvement companies in the world, delivering innovative products and services that ignite productivity in eight core business areas, including Sales, Marketing, CRM, Negotiations, Presentations, Management, Customer Service, and Time Management. Over 1,000 corporations per year, including 50% of the Fortune 500, leverage Baker Communications to improve the performance of their business critical functions.  Our employees and certified partners are distributed across the Americas, EMEA, Russia and Asia, enabling us to deliver value in multiple geographies, languages and cultures.   Baker Communications’ Coaching in the Cloud™ ignites individual, team and organizational improvement and growth delivered completely in the cloud for average ROIs of more than 20:1.  We have been recognized by Trainingindustry.com as one of the world’s “Top 10 Sales Force Automation Training Companies” and “Top 20 Sales Methodology Companies.” Baker CEO Walter Rogers can be heard every Wednesday morning on CBS Radio as an anchor co-host discussing Sales and Service Excellence.

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