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style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">Force.com's platform enables companies to design and deploy

business processes inside their apps, without software

style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">Body text: New Delhi, India: Salesforce.com the enterprise href="http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/"> style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">cloud computing style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2"> ( href="http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/"> style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/ style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">) company, announced the availability of Force.com Visual

Process Manager, a new capability of the Force.com platform that will

help companies  automate any business process. With the Force.com href="http://www.salesforce.com/platform/process.jsp"> style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> size="2">Visual Process Manager style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">( href="http://www.salesforce.com/platform/process"> style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">http://www.salesforce.com/platform/process style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">), customers can visually design any complex business process

with an intuitive, visual design tool, and instantly run it in the

cloud.

style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">Companies in a wide variety of industries, including

telecommunications, financial services, and manufacturing are looking

for faster, easier and less complicated ways to automate their

important business processes that connect their customers, employees,

and operations. With Force.com Visual Process Manager, organizations

can now build business process applications with greater flexibility

and automate processes across all departments. Examples include:

style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">· Sales: href="http://www.salesforce.comc/crm/customer-service-support/workflow/"> style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> size="2">Call Scripting style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2"> and sales methodology automation

style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">· Service: Customer issue resolution and product

returns

style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">· Finance: Billing and collections

style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">· HR: Employee onboarding and performance management

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compliance

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style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">As part of the Force.com platform, businesses can create
business processes within their current href="http://www.salesforce.com/sales-force-automation/"> style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">Sales Cloud 2 style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2"> and href="http://www.salesforce.com/crm/customer-service-support/"> style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2">Service Cloud 2 style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;"> size="2"> deployments or custom Force.com applications. Force.com

Visual Process Manager helps companies automate specific business

processes by guiding users through multiple steps and recommending the

next course of action, all without any coding.

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