Beagle Research Group, LLC

Recognizes Software’s WizKids

Announces annual WizKids™ Award

for advances in CRM

 

Stoughton, MA, March 1, 2007 — Beagle Research Group, LLC, today announced the winners of its annual CRM WizKids award for innovation in front office software.  The WizKids award is given to emerging software companies that demonstrate new and innovative solutions to business problems encountered in the rapidly changing front office.  Denis Pombriant, managing principal of the company and the report’s author said, “I’m very excited about the solutions represented in this report.  They show how robust the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market is.”

This year’s report includes a number of companies whose products enhance the operation of on-demand solutions either by aiding in their integration or by providing novel approaches to solving challenges in the space.  For example, Cast Iron Systems provides an solution that pre-integrates popular on-demand solutions like salesforce.com, RightNow, and NetSuite as well as legacy systems.  Other solutions such as Pragmatech for sales knowledge management and Centive for compensation management focus on specific problem areas whose importance is now emerging.

Another category includes award-winning solutions from Echopass for its integrated hosted call center service and from Sapias for mobile resource management; both bring together cellular communications and global positioning technologies to provide solutions targeted at very specific problems.  Market2Lead wins for its Internet based marketing automation and, for the second year in succession, salesforce.com receives an award for its on-demand platform, Apex.

The 2007 WizKids Award winners are: Cast Iron Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, Centive, Burlington, MA, Echopass Corporation, Pleasanton, CA, Market2Lead, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, Pragmatech Software, Inc., Nashua, NH, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA, Sapias, Inc., San Francisco, CA, and Skytide, Inc., San Mateo, CA.

 

To view and download the report click here.