Toronto, ON, Austin, Texas - 3 February 2006 - Virtual Reach Inc. (“Virtual Reach”) and Spanning Partners announced today the integration of the Spanning Salesforce service with Virtual Reach’s Newsclip software application for mobile devices.
Spanning Salesforce is a secure RSS service that allows Salesforce.com users to track new and updated leads, opportunities, documents, and other information. Now integrated with the service, Newsclip provides users real-time mobile access to that data.
The addition of Spanning Salesforce is the first of many value add features planned for Newsclip. “Partnering with Spanning Partners,” commented Brian Goldberg, President of Virtual Reach, “gives us a differentiating feature that not only adds considerable value to our application, but also broadens the appeal of Newsclip in the marketplace. Sales professionals are typically mobile,” he added, “and the addition of the Spanning Salesforce feeds makes our mobile application a great fit for a mobile professional.”
Coinciding with the release of the Spanning Salesforce integration is support in Newsclip for Basic and Digest authentication login and password protected feeds. The addition of these features opens the door for other enterprise level applications requiring security and privacy to be deployed using the Newsclip service.
“Spanning Salesforce enables sales professionals to stay on top of the constantly changing information critical to their success,” said Charlie Wood, Principal, Spanning Partners. “Newsclip now provides sales professionals with mobile access to the same information,” he added.
Within the Spanning Salesforce feature, Newsclip will accommodate up to ten different field configurations for each individual Salesforce.com account. Newsclip integration with the Spanning Salesforce service will give users access to the following RSS feeds pulling data securely from their Salesforce.com accounts:
- New Documents
- My Unread Leads
- My Open Opportunities
- My Opportunities Closing This Quarter
- My Open Cases
- My Open Escalations
The feature is already incorporated into the latest version of Newsclip. Existing subscribers can install the new version from the Virtual Reach website, www.virtualreach.com.
About Virtual Reach Inc.
Virtual Reach is a leading developer of compelling and useful software applications for wireless devices, specializing in the efficient delivery of content and media to mobile handsets. The Virtual Reach suite of products are built on a platform using RSS, or “Really Simple Syndication”, a fast growing and open Internet standard used for syndicating various forms of content throughout the world. With its flagship product, Newsclip™, users are provided with the ability to access, manage and consume content of all kinds directly on their mobile handset with ease and efficiency.
Founded in 2004, Virtual Reach is a privately owned company with its corporate head office in Mississauga, Ontario. For more information on Virtual Reach and its RSS solutions for wireless and mobile platforms, please visit www.virtualreach.com.
About Spanning Partners
Spanning Partners is a privately-held consulting firm specializing in RSS-enabling enterprise applications. The company also operates a variety of enterprise RSS services including Spanning Salesforce, which delivers information from Salesforce.com via secure, personalized feeds. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Spanning Partners was founded in 2005 by Charlie Wood, who previously served as VP of Enterprise Solutions for RSS software vendor NewsGator Technologies.
Visit Spanning Partners online at spanningpartners.com.
Virtual Reach, the Virtual Reach logo, and Newsclip are all trademarks of Virtual Reach Inc.
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For More Information, Contact:
Robert Belliveau
Director, Business Development
Virtual Reach
800 204 1831 x. 84
Charlie Wood
Principal
Spanning Partners
charlie.wood@spanningpartners.com
512 217 6551
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