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US to buy stake in banks, first since Depression- The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still lower around the world despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede.
Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing- Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.
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Court makes Conn. 3rd state to allow gay marriage- A sharply divided Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to get married, saying legislators did not go far enough when they approved same-sex civil unions that were identical to marriages in virtually every respect except the name.
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CODA Launches First Enterprise Accounting System Built and Run Entirely on Salesforce.com's Force.com Platform
Powerful international on-demand accounting application from one of Europe's
leading financial systems providers
Biggest ever development project on Force.com Platform-as-a-Service;
First accounting application designed from inception to integrate with
Salesforce CRM applications
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO)
The first release, launching today, delivers Opportunity to Cash
functionality, enabling users to go from the "opportunities" in Salesforce to
create an invoice at the click of a button and post the transaction to their
sales ledger. It is fully integrated with salesforce.com's CRM application
and will help companies manage business processes by providing simple access
for authorised users from initial sales enquiry, to closing the deal, to
collecting cash within one integrated product. The system was launched today
at Dreamforce Europe, salesforce.com's European User and Developer Conference
at the Barbican Centre in
"CODA's development team has worked tirelessly to get this first release
of the product out and we have been impressed with the level of enthusiasm and
expertise they have shown throughout the collaboration," said
CODA 2go runs on the Force.com Platform, benefiting from industry-leading performance and availability, global scale, multi-tenancy and security of salesforce.com's award-winning service.
"CODA's 25+ years experience in developing international accounting
systems, combined with the Force.com platform, have enabled us to deliver a
robust on-demand finance application more quickly and efficiently while
maintaining our high standards," said
"This is the first product of its kind and we believe it is unrivalled in the marketplace. We want to do for finance what salesforce.com has done for CRM, and Software as a Service is a logical extension of CODA's 'open platform' commitment. This clearly shows that in a mature software market we remain agile and innovative. CODA is known for developing the best finance applications in the world and we believe we have done it again, only this time delivered using the best on-demand technology available."
CODA 2go - World's First Accounting System on Force.com
CODA 2go will deliver all the advantages of CODA's financial expertise, including: multi-everything accounting; built on a unified ledger, for optimum efficiency, consistency and accuracy; together with the most flexible chart of accounts on the market -- enabling users to analyse costs and revenues easily across many different dimensions. All delivered as a flexible, scaleable on-demand service. The applications can be used individually or together or be easily integrated to supplement an existing "on-premise" accounting system. With a long track record of customer success, CODA 2go will reduce the cost and complexity of managing and maintaining software infrastructure, and will deliver significant benefits to customers, including:
-- Improved financial visibility - across the whole process, from
converting an opportunity to an order, through to creating an invoice
and tracking the delivery of the order.
-- Real-time credit management - built-in rules to ensure approval
requirements are met, for example preventing accidental credit limit
breaches.
-- Better-informed decisions - easy, controlled "self-service" access to
finance and CRM information to assist decision-makers, without tying
up the finance team.
-- Control - the finance department retains full control over which
transactions and other data items from the CODA systems are made
available to the sales team.
"When we saw CODA 2go for the first time, we knew it was the right finance
application for our professional services business," said
Pricing and Availability
Coda2go is currently scheduled to be available on a trial basis in the
current quarter via a monthly subscription model. Initial pricing for a full
subscription to CODA 2go will begin at
Please visit http://www.coda2go.com or call +44 (0)1423 509999 for more information.
The Keynote address can be viewed live from
Force.com Platform and the AppExchange
Force.com is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Force.com reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables the creation of a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond client/server computing. 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 benefit the entire on-demand community.
The AppExchange economy continues to expand as thousands of salesforce.com customers have installed thousands of on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The company's portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that customers manage and share business information over the Internet. The company's Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.com platform, available at http://www.force.com/, can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.
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About CODA
CODA is the choice for finance professionals who need business software and services they can count on.
We provide award-winning solutions that help organizations to streamline and automate their finance processes (from accounting and procurement to reporting and analysis) and to achieve better compliance and corporate governance. CODA applications work seamlessly with each other or independently and they integrate with other leading operational systems to maximize the return on your broader IT investment too. And our products are all underpinned by expert consultancy, training and support services, delivered by teams of experienced accountants, business analysts and technology specialists.
Founded in the UK in 1979, the CODA Group now employs around 600 and has offices around the world to deliver easy, local access to sales, service and support. Around 2600 medium and large organizations, across all sectors, use CODA solutions to control costs, drive performance and ensure compliance, while remaining agile and responsive.
CODA is a Unit 4 Agresso company. Unit 4 Agresso is a leading
international producer of business software for service companies and
organizations. With offices in 19 countries, including
For more information, please visit: www.coda.com
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