Jigsaw Prospector Receives AppExchange Best of '09 Award From Salesforce.com for Sales Intelligence

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Jigsaw, a leader in data as a service (DaaS) today was honored with one of salesforce.com's AppExchange Best of '09 Awards. In receiving this customer choice award for sales intelligence, Jigsaw joined all the winners in receiving recognition for their ability to take customer success to new levels in satisfaction and application excellence.

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Jigsaw received the Best of AppExchange award for Jigsaw Prospector, its unique sales intelligence solution that provides salespeople with the tools they need for effective and efficient sales prospecting and marketing efforts. With Jigsaw Prospector, customers have access to more than 19 million accurate and up-to-date business contacts within minutes.

"We are honored to be recognized by salesforce.com customers as the best sales intelligence application," said Jim Fowler, CEO, Jigsaw. "At Jigsaw, we are committed to providing sales and marketing teams with the most cutting edge tools for facilitating business transactions and generating high-quality leads."

"The AppExchange is a marketplace for salesforce.com customers to find innovative applications designed to extend the benefits of cloud computing throughout their organizations," said Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer, salesforce.com. "Jigsaw Prospector can help our customers realize tremendous success in the cloud. We congratulate Jigsaw for its customer success and achievement as the top-ranked sales intelligence on AppExchange in 2009."

The Sales Intelligence category, one of 10 separate categories, recognizes solutions that enable users to leverage additional information within Salesforce CRM to realize greater success. The "Best of" customer choice awards recognize AppExchange partners who have had excellent user reviews in a specific calendar year. They are awarded based on user-contributed reviews and do not reflect the opinions of salesforce.com, its employees or partners.

About Jigsaw

Jigsaw (http://www.jigsaw.com) is a leading provider of business information and data services that uniquely leverages user-generated content contributed by its global business-to-business community of one million members. Jigsaw gives individuals and companies access to business contact information for 19 million business professionals and profiles of 3 million companies. In addition to delivering low-cost and easy access to high-value business information for sales, marketing, recruiting and customer service, Jigsaw provides data as a service (DaaS) through a variety of cloud-based data acquisition and management services. Founded in 2004, Jigsaw is located in San Mateo, Calif. and funded by Austin Ventures, El Dorado Ventures, and Norwest Venture Partners.

About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange

Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM (http://www.salesforce.com/) applications with more than 800 ISV partner applications like those from FinancialForce.com and Fujitsu, and more than 135,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 67,900 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel.

Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the salesforce.com AppExchange marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

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