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Fairsail, Human Capital Management SaaS Software, Wins Salesforce.com  Award for Outstanding Innovation with Force.com Platform

 

Dreamforce Europe Barbican, London. 14th May 2008
 
Fairsail - a suite of breakthrough applications for best practice in Human Capital Management – won the award for outstanding partner innovation with the Force.com Platform at salesforce.com’s Dreamforce user and developer conference at London’s Barbican centre, 7-8 May. 
 
Colin Cooper, CEO and founder of Fairsail, explains “Until now, many HR applications have been notoriously difficult to use. Managers are busy people with little time to grapple with tricky technology, and HR managers don’t want software that demands lots of admin time. They all need an application that is as easy to use as Facebook.  Just as Facebook wires up social and family networks:  Fairsail 2.0 wires up internal company networks.  Fairsail 2.0 draws on HR expertise to support the formal manager-employee reporting relationships through performance management, talent management, development, and - through Fairsail Recruit -  dovetails with really focused competency-based recruitment. But these tools also facilitate the broader and more informal networking that’s often hard to coordinate between teams and project groups.”
 
“Innovative content is important and exciting but, added to that, Fairsail works very smoothly and powerfully because it uses the brand new technology Visualforce, provided by salesforce.com through the Force.com Platform. What’s more, salesforce.com is the only major provider of Software-as-a-Service to receive ISO 27001 certification, the internationally recognised standard for information security governance, which certifies that a provider's information security management system protects its information and that of its customers.”
 
Presenting the 1st Annual European Appy Awards at a special award ceremony held at the Dreamforce Europe user and developer conference at London’s Barbican Centre on 8 May, salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff said, "The driving force behind salesforce.com's success has been the success of our community of customers, partners, and developers. The European Appy Awards highlight the leaders in our community who have demonstrated excellence and innovation in using and developing new SaaS applications with the Force.com Platform."
 
Marc Benioff showcased Fairsail 2.0 in his keynote presentation at Dreamforce  Europe as an example of how new Visualforce technology from the Force.com Platform can be used to build web-based business applications that are  as simple-to-use as the best consumer Internet applications.

About Fairsail

Fairsail was founded in 2007 by Colin Cooper, who has more than 20 years’ experience of developing HR software for clients as diverse as Citibank, Dresdner Kleinwort, Nomura, Oracle, Channel 4, the European Space Agency, and UK local authorities.  Fairsail was specifically built to create HR applications on the Salesforce platform. The AppExchange edition is for existing Salesforce users and the platform edition is for any organization.

 Fairsail 2.0 delivers a comprehensive on-demand human capital management application in three modules:

Focus

Talent

Development

About Fairsail Recruit

This integrates and audits the whole process of recruitment - from specifying job requirements to making an offer - and contains pre-built expertise to make hiring straightforward for even inexperienced sales and customer support managers.

About the Appy Awards

The salesforce.com Appy Awards recognize achievements in innovation leveraging both Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service, as well as in furthering the mission of the Salesforce.com Foundation. Winners represent salesforce.com customers and partners who have taken salesforce.com and the SaaS (Software as a Service) industry to new levels of development, customization and application excellence.

About Force.com

Force.com reinvents the traditional development, deployment and distribution of any business application with platform-as-a- service. Developers, customers and partners can use Force.com to easily create a new generation of on-demand applications and deploy them worldwide as a service. Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to be easily distributed to the entire on-demand community.