TORONTO, ON - July 17, 2008 – Interchange Solutions Inc., the market and technology leader in Customer Relationship Management software for IBM Lotus Notes and BlackBerry, announced today that the newest release of their award-winning Salesplace software is now available – Salesplace 2008 Summer Edition. 

“Salesplace CRM, winner of the IBM CTO Award for Innovation, has long been recognized for excellence in IBM Lotus Notes and BlackBerry software development.  As we planned for our newest version of Salesplace – Salesplace 2008 Summer Edition - we set the bar extremely high for our team of world-class developers.  Not only did they rise to the challenge, they have outdone themselves again with truly break-through features” said Mark Durst, President of Interchange Solutions Inc. 

So what was their challenge?  Brian Arnold, Vice President of Research and Development explains, “Salesplace is committed to providing our clients with the best user experience possible.  We continue to focus on providing tools and features to enhance our solution’s usability, productivity, compatibility and mobility.  Our big challenge this time around was to ensure that this latest version of Salesplace fully leveraged the IBM Lotus Notes 8 framework, which is built on the new Eclipse-based Java client.  We did just that.”

 Some of the new features include:

• New Calendar/Activity Creation Methodology - providing superior Lotus Notes and BlackBerry calendar integration.

• New Time Management Planner - a simple and intuitive interface to enable users to manage their daily and weekly meetings, to dos, reminders, opportunities, call backs and cases. 

• Advanced Territory Management – provides an advanced security model which allows security to be set based on a series of ‘keys’ which can be any field defined on the document where the lookup is being performed. This popular Salesplace add-on is now a fully-integrated Salesplace Module.

• New Salesplace BlackBerry Edition – another giant step in innovation, this new edition offers significant enhancements in the areas of data accuracy, device initialization, data security, application setup & enablement and dramatically improved speed of information loading.

 And of course, not only is Salesplace 2008 Summer Edition fully compatible with IBM Lotus Notes Version 8, but it is also fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista.  Mark Durst concludes, “Our ongoing mission is to build CRM tools that work the way our clients work.  We learned a long time ago that unless a collaborative CRM system like ours is adopted widely throughout the customer’s organization, the customer won’t realize the full value of the system.  So we design our software by identifying key pieces of functionality that will make the user’s work easier and add value to the customer’s organization.  I am proud to say that I believe that we have done just that with Salesplace 2008 Summer Edition.”