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SaaS Model Sees Growing Demand Overseas
On-Demand Software From Daptiv Appeals to Organizations Looking to Improve Collaboration and Work Management
| Source: Daptiv, Inc.
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - August 10, 2009) - Daptiv, the on-demand leader in collaborative business software,
announced strong international growth in 2009 for its Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) solutions, with nearly 40 percent of new customer wins headquartered
outside of the U.S. Demand hails primarily from Latin America, Europe,
Australia and New Zealand and key growth industries include professional
services and consulting, financial services and insurance and the
communications, media and entertainment sector.
Currently, more than 20 percent of Daptiv's overall customer base is
headquartered internationally, a growing percentage, as nearly 50 percent
of Daptiv's second quarter new customers are based overseas. International
customers cite Daptiv's affordable, flexible licensing model as a primary
advantage of the SaaS model, as well as ease of use and configurability for
managing the various types of work and projects throughout an organization.
International customers include Interoute of the UK, Boursorama and LaPoste
of France, Grupo Caliente and Katcon of Mexico, Transport Canada, FVW
Mediengruppe and Badensolar of Germany, and Australia's Virgin Blue
Airways, Frontline Systems and The University of Sydney.
"Our business depends on our engineers to continually develop new projects
-- however, after creating product development technical centers we had
little to no insight into how individual engineers fit into this process
from a business perspective," said Miguel Amado, engineering manager at
Katcon, a supplier to the automotive industry headquartered in Mexico.
"With Daptiv we not only increased this visibility by 100 percent, we have
also dramatically improved Katcon's ability to collaborate across multiple
international offices. Our offices in Mexico, Luxembourg and Michigan are
now able to easily share and work together on projects in an easier, more
measurable way."
"Everyone, everywhere is feeling the pinch in this economy," said Christian
Smith, Daptiv vice president of sales and marketing. "Daptiv's dedication
to delivering solutions on-demand gives organizations the benefit of easily
piloting a solution and then quickly scaling it up and rolling it out
company-wide. Proven to pay back in less than two months, new customers can
confidently streamline their processes and improve collaboration, whether
their team is based in a single city, or is scattered across the globe."
Daptiv PPM has a globalized and localized user interface, as well as
support for multiple languages, browsers and computing platforms.
Application settings such as time zone, currency and date format can be set
at the user level, across departments, or standardized for an entire
organization so each user works in the environment that is most comfortable
to them, allowing them to be most productive.
About Daptiv, Inc.
Founded in 1997, Daptiv is the
on-demand leader in collaborative business software that enables companies
of all sizes to transform their mid-office business operations. Based in
Seattle, Washington, Daptiv has already transformed the mid-office for more
than 700 customers and 100,000 individuals at companies such as Amgen,
Assurant, BASF, BP, Chase Paymentech, FiServ, Harvard University,
Honeywell, La Poste and Virgin Blue.