“Mobility and collaboration have been an essential part of the Salesplace vision for more than 7 years” says Mark Durst, President of Interchange Solutions. “We launched our first mobile version in 1999 and we continue to be a leader in the mobility marketplace today. The ability to bring together these three leading technologies – Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime and BlackBerry – into one tool, far and away makes Salesplace a must have for companies looking to drive sales and service success within their organizations.”

Interchange Solutions is releasing their 4th generation Salesplace BlackBerry Edition at Lotusphere 2007. For the user there are new features that integrate seamlessly into the BlackBerry components such as email management, call logging and direct calendar integration. In addition, with the rich-client installation on the BlackBerry, the user has full access to SFA (Sales Force Automation) and FFA (Field Force Automation) features when in and out of coverage. Further, for BlackBerry administrators, the new BlackBerry edition provides simple Over The Air (OTA) installs and requires zero administrative changes to either the BlackBerry Enterprise Server or the IBM Lotus Domino server. Says Brian Arnold, VP of Research & Development at Interchange Solutions, “The BlackBerry Administrator is going to absolutely love the new Salesplace BlackBerry Edition. It can be seamlessly pushed to hundreds of users at once without the need to touch the actual device, and future upgrades are applied with a simple click of a button. It no longer matters where your BlackBerry users are located or if they are traveling out of the office. You know for certain that they are using the latest Salesplace productivity tools.”

Interchange Solutions continues to be at the forefront of teamwork and collaboration. They utilize the full features of the Lotus Notes platform for instant collaboration and communication by fully integrating Lotus Sametime throughout Salesplace. Whether you are a sales rep entering an opportunity, or a service manager viewing open cases, you can communicate instantly with the sales reps, account managers, and support personnel within your organization to have immediate access to the latest information. With the Salesplace B2B offering, Lotus Sametime is further positioned as the communication tool of choice. Prepackaged interfaces within Salesplace bring key CRM aspects of your corporate website directly into Salesplace – with Lotus Sametime visibility seamlessly extended! All Lotus Sametime communication can easily be stored directly within Salesplace so you have a history of all correspondence.

Complementing the strategies of teamwork and collaboration, Lotusphere 2007 features the introduction of essential Salesplace enhancements for Lotus Notes. The new features include advanced menu, form and tab controls, enhanced list management, application launch pads, and further automation of essential replication and Mail and Calendar Integration. With the increased ease-of-use for non-technical users, Arnold confirms, “Each new feature is carefully designed to streamline a specific user activity. Our internal motto is ‘Features for people rather than for technological convenience!’”

A key component of Salesplace being launched during Lotusphere 2007 is the new Analytics Module that allows Salesplace users to “data mine” their own individually relevant data. This allows them to take data from within Salesplace to gather business insight about their customers, prospects, internal processes and products. As a result, they are able to make well-rounded and informed business decisions – based on fact and not emotion.

Also at Lotusphere 2007, the Interchange Solutions team will be demonstrating how Salesplace can utilize News Feeds to keep your SFA and FFA teams completely up to date on news within your organization or industry. Further, with Salesplace, you can publish your own News Feeds, so your clients can receive regular updates and information published directly from your company.

For new clients, Salesplace provides an industry proven data migration toolset to help you migrate your data into Salesplace – no matter if you are migrating from Excel Spreadsheets, legacy databases, or existing CRM tools.

Durst summarizes it best when he says, “We are really excited about this years Lotusphere and showing how Salesplace brings together three key technologies – Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime and BlackBerry – into one seamless application to help our clients, and future clients, make the most of their investment in the IBM platform.”