COMPLETExRM, Co-Developer Of PlanPlus™ Online by FranklinCovey, Announces TopLine Partnership

Sept. 1, 2009 - PRLog -- Scottsdale, AZ. - COMPLETExRM, Co-Developer Of PlanPlus™ Online by FranklinCovey, today announced a strategic selling partnership with TopLine Strategies, a managed IT services and consulting firm based in Scottsdale. TopLine has been tapped to help bring  COMPLETExRM to enterprise clients in the Southwest and beyond. The TopLine Strategies team has between them close to 2,500 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software installations around the world, including some of the largest and most complex.

“We are excited to be working with TopLine at tackling some of the more enterprise class accounts with our technology,” said Keith Norris, Founder and CEO of COMPLETExRM. “PlanPlus Online by FranklinCovey is a service-oriented application that delivers Technology with Methodology™ by leveraging FranklinCovey’s world-renowned productivity and effectiveness methodology together with COMPLETExRM’s xRM Foundation. We think the kinds of enterprise accounts that work with TopLine will take a great interest in our product’s terrific scalability, particularly for smooth and low effort departmental CRM solutions leveraging our SaaS capabilities.

Todd Simons, VP of Product Development at FranklinCovey, said “we are strong believers that there is great synergy between the members of FranklinCovey’s family of products, such as COMPLETExRM PlanPlus™ Online, and the 1st tier managed service providers, such as TopLine Strategies.”

“What excites us most about taking PlanPlus Online to our clients today,“ said Tim Fargo, founder and Chairman of TopLine Strategies. “PlanPlus Online brings first class SaaS-based CRM solutions to clients at a fraction of the cost of some of the well known but costly CRM SaaS packages available in the market just now. Furthermore, customization is easy and practical, leveraging greater return on invest from the first day of productive use.”

About COMPLETExRM

COMPLETExRM is the leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 CRM solutions for SMB built on its xRM™ Foundation. Utilizing a Java-based Service-Oriented Application, the CxRM Foundation enables companies to customize their dynamic transactions to adjust to the new business needs of dynamic relationships. Using its xRM Foundation, COMPLETExRM creates private-label or OEM customer relationship management (CRM) offerings. FranklinCovey has partnered with COMPLETExRM to develop and deliver PlanPlus™ Online, a Web-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application that allows worldwide customers to apply FranklinCovey planning methodology combined with dynamic relationship management services via the Internet. For more information, please visit http://www.completexrm.com.

About FranklinCovey

FranklinCovey  is the global leader in effectiveness training, productivity tools, and assessment services for organizations and individuals. FranklinCovey helps companies succeed by unleashing the power of their workforce to focus and execute on top business priorities. Clients include 90 percent of the Fortune 100, more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, thousands of small and mid-sized businesses, as well as numerous government entities and educational institutions. Organizations and individuals access FranklinCovey products and services through corporate training, licensed client facilitators, one-on-one coaching, public workshops, catalogs, more than 80 retail stores and www.franklincovey.com. FranklinCovey has nearly 1500 associates providing professional services and products in the United States and for 37 international offices, serving more than 100 countries.

About TopLine Strategies

TopLine Strategies provides managed IT services and consulting on the processes and systems which affect revenue optimization, as well as premier staffing services for the technology sector. We mesh industry-recognized best practices with the unique business requirements and strategy of each client. TopLine Strategies is a subsidiary of AncAla Equity Partners (AEP). Since 1989, AEP has provided capital, management and business resources to professional service companies. AEP invests in companies that deliver innovative solutions and provide their clients with measurable business results. Learn more at: http://www.toplinestrategies.com.

TopLine Strategies Media Contact

Mr. Michael Brenneman
+1 480.503.8584, ext. 245
mbrenneman@toplinestrategies.com

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TopLine Strategies provides managed IT services and consulting on the processes and systems which affect revenue optimization, as well as premier staffing services for the technology sector.