NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Navatar Group, a leading salesforce.com consulting partner today announced the successful deployment of the Force.com Platform to completely automate the complex accreditation process involving the customers and volunteers of The Council on Accreditation (COA), an international accreditor of community-based social and behavioral healthcare services. The new system will help COA:
* Drastically improve the intake process for organizations * Automate the complex accreditation process including milestones and scoring sheets * Provide volunteers more visibility into opportunities and automate their activities * Improve overall efficiency throughout the organization
"Navatar's solid expertise on the Force.com Platform coupled with their ability to grasp our complex organization, enabled us to meet our unique needs as an accrediting body," stated Richard Klarberg, President and CEO. "The implementation of our accreditation process application on the Force.com Platform has been transformational for COA. We now have the ability to tightly manage the entire process involving our stakeholders and provide better customer service to our organizations and volunteers."
"This innovative use of the Force.com Platform underscores why salesforce.com's product donation and discount programs exist: to allow nonprofits to operate more effectively, better serve their constituents, and enhance the impact of their social missions," said Suzanne DiBianca, executive director of the Salesforce.com Foundation. "It's also a testament to the power and flexibility of our Force.com Platform in enabling organizations like the Council On Accreditation to harness the power of cloud computing. Navatar Group has truly been a leader in maximizing the potential of Force.com to help organizations such as COA achieve their business goals."
"Navatar's deep experience in Software as a Service implementations, combined with the flexibility and power of the Force.com Platform, have enabled us to deploy a robust and complex accreditation application quickly and successfully for COA," said Alok Misra, Principal, Navatar Group. "We have developed and deployed functionality in months, using a proven technology platform in Force.com."
About Navatar Group
Navatar Group (http://www.navatargroup.com), one of the premier salesforce.com partners, is a global consulting firm providing SaaS advisory and implementation services and products. Founded by veterans of Deloitte Consulting, Navatar Group has enabled several large companies develop and launch SaaS products and helped hundreds of organizations successfully implement On-Demand solutions on the Force.com platform. We are the only firm with a comprehensive SaaS Transformation methodology designed to help On-Premise software companies move to an On-Demand business model using Force.com.
Navatar Group is headquartered in New York with offices in Washington DC and an Offshore Technical Excellence Center in New Delhi, India. Navatar Group is a business partner with the National Human Services Assembly and has successfully helped several National Assembly members such as United Way and AARP implement complex salesforce solutions.
About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange
The Force.com platform (http://www.force.com/) reinvents the traditional development, deployment and distribution of any business application. Developers, customers and partners can use Force.com to easily create and deliver a new generation of Software-as-a-Service applications. Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via the Force.com AppExchange marketplace, enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to be easily distributed to the entire Software-as-a-Service community.
The Force.com AppExchange economy continues to expand, with thousands of customers installing applications via the AppExchange. Customers of all sizes can quickly and easily extend the benefits of Software-as-a-Service business applications throughout their enterprises using the Force.com AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.
About Council On Accreditation
COA (http://www.coanet.org), partners with human service organizations worldwide to improve service delivery outcomes by developing, applying, and promoting accreditation standards. In addition to standards for private social service and behavioral healthcare organizations, COA has standards for public agencies, organizations providing services in Canada and after school programs.