Professional Coaching and Consulting Company Leverages LongJump's Custom Cloud-Based Applications for Business Development and Resource Management
Sunnyvale, CA, May 12, 2009 -- LongJump, a leading provider of software that powers Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced that The David Allen Company, experts in personal and organizational productivity, has selected LongJump's Business Applications Platform to manage its business development and resource management operations for the company. LongJump's multi-tenant platform is easy to deploy, provides a visual development environment and brings a unique approach to reducing the costs, complexity and repetition inherent in business application development and deployment.
LongJump Business Applications Platform
Before we made our selection, we evaluated several vendors, including some well-known competitors to LongJump. We felt that not only did LongJump go the extra mile to understand our unique business needs, but they also provided the most flexible application platform to address the complex business needs of an entrepreneurial company with global mindshareThe functionality of their offering helped us realize the vision of how to optimize our business processes over time. We're looking forward to a long and successful relationship with LongJump.Having the recognized leader in personal and organizational productivity choose LongJump is a tremendous validation of the platformFor LongJump, winning over developers and businesses alike means incorporating industry standard tools, delivering a full-featured, enterprise-level platform, and reducing the time it takes for our customers to complete pressing application projects.Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity "Before we made our selection, we evaluated several vendors, including some well-known competitors to LongJump. We felt that not only did LongJump go the extra mile to understand our unique business needs, but they also provided the most flexible application platform to address the complex business needs of an entrepreneurial company with global mindshare," stated Robert Peake, CIO of The David Allen Company. "The functionality of their offering helped us realize the vision of how to optimize our business processes over time. We're looking forward to a long and successful relationship with LongJump."
Organizations can easily leverage LongJump's existing IT applications, platform and technologies in whatever environment they choose. LongJump's PaaS can be hosted as a service in the cloud, via a third-party infrastructure such as Amazon EC2, or licensed as an installable version enabling corporate IT to create their own private clouds, behind their own company's firewall, giving them the full control and information security they require. Similarly, service providers and ISVs can license LongJump's platform to develop and bring to market new, branded Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings to realize new revenue streams. Providing more deployment options for public and private cloud computing uses, LongJump is the only proven application platform that offers this distinctive hybrid approach.
"Having the recognized leader in personal and organizational productivity choose LongJump is a tremendous validation of the platform," stated Pankaj Malviya, founder and CEO of LongJump. "For LongJump, winning over developers and businesses alike means incorporating industry standard tools, delivering a full-featured, enterprise-level platform, and reducing the time it takes for our customers to complete pressing application projects."
LongJump's Business Applications Platform was also just selected as a "Cool Vendor" in Cloud Computing System and Application Infrastructure in a newly released report on cloud computing by a leading analyst firm. LongJump's disruptive and highly innovative approach to delivering its Business Applications Platform to companies and service providers made it the only "application platform provider" to be recognized from among the rest that were also acknowledged.
About LongJump
Based in Sunnyvale, California, LongJump is a service of Relationals Inc., a privately-held, proven provider of on-demand CRM and SFA business applications to more than 400 enterprise companies. LongJump's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and catalog of highly customizable, business applications help companies reduces the time and cost of developing and delivering data-driven applications. Its business building blocks let developers and corporate IT teams gain significant time-to-value, since they can bypass the need to repeatedly recreate common business processes and functions. LongJump is the first platform-as-a-service provider to bring robust customization, integration, and powerful functionality to businesses of all sizes, enabling them to quickly design, implement and do further customization in an easy, affordable way. For more information, visit www.longjump.com or call 800.886.9028.
About David Allen Company
The David Allen Company is a professional training, coaching, and management consulting organization, based in Ojai, California, USA. Founded in 1996 by veteran management consultant and best-selling author David Allen ("Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity"), the company provides consulting, seminars, coaching, and products that facilitate the implementation of the best practices of productive work. For more information, contact the David Allen Company at 1.805.646.8432 or visit our website at www.davidco.com. GTD® and Getting Things Done® are registered trademarks of David Allen & Company.
