Tidewell Hospice Selects SaaSMaint CMMS / EAM via Salesforce.coms AppExchange, the Worlds Most-Popular Marketplace for Business Apps

SAN FRANCSICSO, Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference (PRWEB) August 31, 2011

SaaSMaint.com today announced Tidewell Hospice has selected and deployed SaaSMaint CMMS / EAM via AppExchange. SaaSMaint CMMS / EAM enables Tidewell to manage preventive and corrective maintenance in 21 facilities across four counties in Florida. By ensuring its facilities are well maintained through a comprehensive preventive maintenance program, Tidewell is able deliver on its mission of helping people live well, by providing care, comfort, and compassion. Built using Force.com, the social enterprise platform for employee apps, SaaSMaint CMMS / EAM is immediately available for test drive and deployment on AppExchange at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/ .

The announcement was made today at Dreamforce 2011, the cloud computing event of the year. SaaSMaint will be in booth #21 in the Dreamforce Expo.

Health care organizations are increasingly looking for ways to improve the efficiency of their facilities and the utilization of their facility engineering resources, said Mike Edwards, founder, SaaSMaint.com. SaaSMaint CMMS / EAM on the AppExchange enables us to deliver cost effective and functionally robust CMMS / EAM solutions to leading companies like Tidewell Hospice.

Tidewell needed a solution to manage preventive and corrective maintenance for facilities, support systems, and vehicles across 21 sites. With SaaSMaint CMMS / EAM for Salesforce, Tidewell was able to leverage its current investment and technical competency in Salesforce CRM and find an easy to use, cost effective, functionally robust AppExchange app.

The ease of use and technology alignment with Salesforce CRM allowed us to deploy SaaSMaint CMMS very rapidly, said David Lafferty, chief information officer, Tidewell Hospice. Leveraging SaaSMaint CMMS / EAM on the AppExchange gave us enterprise-wide visibility to all of our assets and work orders. We can now quantify the amount, location and type of facilities maintenance work in our backlog. We can more effectively measure our performance, budget for repair expenses and plan capital improvements.

Before deploying SaaSMaint CMMS / EAM, we were a paper-driven maintenance department. Today, our technicians can use mobile computing devices to access documentation on the fly, said Bill Brummett, director of operations, Tidewell Hospice. Our productivity has been greatly improved. The reporting capabilities have been a key benefit for us. We are now able to easily produce documentation on our activities to support our regulatory compliance reporting. There is measurable accountability throughout the entire process.

Customers coming to Dreamforce will have to chance to see how partners like SaaSMaint exemplify the extraordinary reach of the AppExchange marketplace, said Ron Huddleston, vice president, ISV Alliances, salesforce.com. Apps like these continue to push the social, open, mobile and trusted capabilities customers expect from the salesforce.com ecosystem.

Dreamforce 2011 is the cloud computing event of the year. The ninth annual conference will welcome more than 30,000 customers, partners and developers to the new world of the social enterprise. With more than 450 sessions and 250 cloud companies in the expo, Dreamforce offers the content and educational opportunities that enable attendees to tap into the power of the social enterprise.

About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange

Force.com is the trusted social enterprise platform for building and running any employee app in the cloud. Force.com powers the Salesforce CRM apps, the more than 200,000 custom apps used by salesforce.com customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and Sprint Nextel and the more than 1,200 ISV apps built by partners such as BMC, FinancialForce.com and Fujitsu.

Enterprise apps built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed and marketed through the salesforce.com AppExchange http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

The salesforce.com social enterprise platform delivers the most trusted and comprehensive cloud technologies for social, mobile and open apps. It includes Force.com, the cloud platform for employee apps, Heroku, the cloud platform for customer apps and Database.com, the cloud database to integrate the social enterprise.

Salesforce, Dreamforce, Force.com, Heroku, AppExchange and others are trademarks of salesforce.com, inc.

About SaaSMaint.com

SaaSMaint.com is a privately held company with deep domain expertise in Enterprise Asset Management. SaaSMaint CMMS/EAM is a native Force.com application, benefiting from the reliability, scalability and performance of salesforce.coms trusted enterprise cloud computing platform. For more information about SaaSMaint.com, please visit http://www.SaaSMaint.com or call 678-932-9286.

About Tidewell Hospice

Tidewell is a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit agency serving patients and families who are living with advanced illness in Florida's Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte and DeSoto counties. When quantity of time is no longer possible, Tidewell Hospice's focus is quality making the most of the time that remains. It's a concept of celebrating life and the relationships that make every day special. To learn more, visit http://www.tidewell.org

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Distilled Intelligence Selects 55 Companies to Compete for Cash and Prizes Exceeding $25K

Washington, DC (PRWEB) October 03, 2011

Distilled Intelligence 1.0, the start-up competition created by Fortify.vc to energize DCs startups and investors, today announced the companies selected to participate at the October 11, 2011 event.

The presenters represent a strong cross-section of technology including big data, cyber security, clean / green tech, critical infrastructure, disruptive technology, analytics, design, enterprise software, medical IT, mobile commerce, SaaS providers, and social platforms.

We had a large number of submissions and many great companies to choose from. The overall quality, diversity and level of talent made this a challenging process, said Adam Fazackerley, General Partner of Fortify.vc and Master of Ceremonies for the event. Initially, the down select number was 50, but the caliber of the startups was so strong that we felt complelled to expand the field.

An independent panel of judges conducted the down select to 55 from a pool of well over one hundred companies with collaboration from the team at Fortify.vc. The full list of presenting companies is available on the Distilled Intelligence 1.0 web site, http://www.distilledintelligence.com/companies.php.

Distilled Intelligence 1.0 will take place on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 from 9:00am to 5:00pm at the Commonwealth of Virginias Center of Innovative Technology (CIT) in Herndon, Virginia. Fifty-five companies will present in the first round, 22 will advance to the second round and finally 11 will compete for the cash and prizes.

This is a unique time for innovation and investing in the Mid-Atlantic region and we are fortunate to see such support for Distilled Intelligence 1.0 from the technology community, sponsors, startups and investors, said Jonathon Perrelli, founder and general partner of Fortify.vc. Although it feels like we are throwing two weddings on the same day as we cater to the needs of both founders and investors equally, all of the hard work will pay off for this region.

The event is on track to draw more than 500 people. Tickets are on sale at http://www.distilledintelligence.com for investors and entrepreneurs who are interested in attending.

Distilled Intelligence 1.0 sponsors include: Access National Bank, Bridgeport Benefit Advisors, CIT, Cooley, DLA Piper, Heiden Group, Loudon County Virginia, Montgomery County Virginia, SecureForce, SpeakerBox Communications, Summit Financial Systems, and TIA.

About Distilled Intelligence 1.0

Distilled Intelligence 1.0 provides the region's hottest startups with an opportunity to present to angel investors and venture capital firms looking for investments. Fifty-five startups have been selected to compete for a chance to win cash and prizes totaling $ 25,000 (no strings attached). The event hosts and sponsors have assumed the mission of pairing startups with investors and are confident that companies will obtain funding as a result of attending this event.

About Fortify.vc

Fortify.vc is a seed and early stage venture fund founded and managed by serial entrepreneurs and angel investors. Limited partners and the management team all have experienced multiple successful company exits. The Founders Funding Founders theme reflects their mission to serve as a founder-friendly fund. Fortify.vc invests in talent-rich technology markets with a focus on product companies in cyber-security, mobile commerce, social platforms, and enterprise software. Fortify.vc looks for great teams with defensible market positions, in large- or high-growth sectors. The partners and mentors actively participate with portfolio companies to develop sound strategies, grow intelligently, and facilitate follow-on funding, or clear exits.

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