Xobni Launches Customizable Enterprise Solutions for Microsoft Outlook Customers

Salesforce CRM, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics and Hosted Exchange Providers Now Supported in New Partner Program

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Xobni, the popular Microsoft Outlook search and relationship plug-in, today announced Xobni Enterprise, a new service that gives businesses of all sizes the ability to deploy and manage Xobni to employees and create customizable extensions to increase productivity and efficiency within the work place.

The success of email as the primary tool for business in the last 20 years has come with a significant cost for workers and companies: information overload. The amount of information and number of relationships people have to manage is spiraling out of control and workers are being forced to spend significant time at work searching for details that are critical to a company's success. According to Basex, a knowledge economy research firm, the growing trend of information overload in businesses cost the U.S. economy more than $900 billion last year.

Xobni Enterprise builds on Xobni's popular existing service to solve email overload, and can be easily deployed and managed by IT administrators. Xobni Enterprise also provides the framework to create and implement enterprise extensions for high-value services such as Salesforce CRM, SharePoint, and company profile information via LDAP or internal company websites. The extensions are available for development, creating a rich ecosystem of solutions for businesses of all sizes.

Xobni has the most advanced search and relationship-management solutions available for Microsoft Outlook. With Xobni, users quickly find critical information buried deep in their inbox, along with key attachments, contact information, calendar invites, and more. The average Xobni user saves more than 30 minutes a week, according to a recent Xobni survey, giving a measurable boost to productivity levels over time.

"Xobni is used by employees in 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies," said Jeff Bonforte, Xobni CEO. "With Xobni Enterprise, companies of all sizes can dramatically increase the productivity of their workforces."

Xobni Enterprise gives companies the power to easily deploy, manage and extend capabilities within their organizations. Features include:

• Centralized Deployment and Management: Web-based portal lets customers manage user profiles, groups and access to Xobni Extensions
• Extensions SDK: Customers can easily add their own custom extensions for Xobni, automatically bringing key information and applications to the inbox
• Integration with LDAP, SharePoint and Salesforce.com: New Xobni Extensions give employees access to coworker LDAP profiles, CRM and collaboration data directly within Outlook(1)
• Corporate Directory Integration: Retrieve corporate profile information from LDAP/Active Directory services
• Advanced Search Capabilities: Xobni search expanded to include calendar appointments, tasks and archived PST files
• Productivity Enhancements: Each Xobni user's massive contact database can now be accessed from the auto-complete feature in the Outlook compose window
• Enterprise grade support
  

Xobni Solution Provider Program

The Xobni Solution Provider Program is designed to extend the customer reach of Xobni Enterprise and add customizable enterprise application data to the Xobni client. The Xobni Solution Provider Program is launching with premier partners including Atlius Consulting, Cogent, Echo Lane and Interdyne BMI, to integrate platforms such as SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce CRM, among others. The partner program includes:

• System Integrators - create customized extensions that bring enterprise data and applications into Outlook through the Xobni client
• Value-Added Resellers - allow IT departments to easily purchase Xobni Enterprise through their existing vendors
• Managed-Service Providers - bring Xobni Enterprise to the small business market that uses on demand services like hosted email and hosted SharePoint
  

Featured extension-supported applications will include Salesforce CRM and SharePoint.

"We are looking forward to working closely with Xobni," explained Noel Phillips, Altius Principal Consultant. "Xobni Enterprise enables us to extend the delivery of right time, right place information by connecting information from portal, CRM and back-office systems right into the user's Outlook window in the context of their current conversations. By providing a context-sensitive Xobni Enterprise window into corporate systems such as SharePoint, Oracle, SAP and line-of-business applications we can support end-users' abilities to make informed decisions quickly and effectively."

Pricing and Availability:

Xobni Enterprise is available now, with pricing options to fit the needs of any business. Full details for Xobni Enterprise are available at http://www.xobni.com/enterprise.

Learn more about Xobni's product line at www.xobni.com. For additional details on the topic of information overload visit www.basex.com/io.

About Xobni

Xobni is a San Francisco startup that shifts the focus of your email from one-by-one messages to the valuable relationships they reveal. Xobni is a relationship management tool that offers lightning fast search and organization of your inbox. The company was founded in the spring of 2006 by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina, launched to private beta in September 2007 and opened to the public in May 2008. Xobni is funded by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Cisco Systems, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Atomico Investments, BlackBerry Partners Fund and others. For more information, go to xobni.com.

Xobni Functionality

• Lightning-fast people and attachment search
• Automatic contact profiles, with a "threaded" view of email conversations
• Analytics and content integration with leading online services like Yahoo! Mail, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Skype
• Advanced search query builder
• Ability to search within email conversations and networks
• Support for phrases and Boolean queries
• Xobni Rank-powered AutoSuggest
• Advanced conversation and network filtering
  

(1) Additional cost to add these pre-defined extensions

    Contacts:
    Terra Carmichael          Paul Loeffler on behalf of Xobni
    terra@xobni.com           paul@sutherlandgold.com
    415.336.3611              510.593.6765

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