SANTA CLARA, CA– September 14, 2010 – ServiceMax today announced ServiceMax Titanium, providing small manufacturers and service-based businesses a revolutionary new way of automating their field service organizations. The new service brings together a pre-configured version of ServiceMax and Salesforce Service Cloud 2, to create ServiceMax Titanium. Built natively on the Force.com cloud-computing platform, ServiceMax Titanium delivers industry-leading CRM features with best-in-class field service capabilities and industry best practices to help companies rethink field service. Learn more during a 30-minute Titanium webinar on October 5 at 8 a.m. PDT.
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“For the past two decades our industry has neglected the needs of small service organizations. Field service teams, the backbone of their organizations, frequently still use spreadsheets and whiteboards to run their field service operations,” said Dave Yarnold, CEO of ServiceMax. “We are proud to team with salesforce.com to deliver a streamlined, yet complete field service solution to companies with less than 100 users. Titanium – the most complete field service solution available today – is easy to use, inexpensive to implement, loaded with industry best practices, and built on the world’s most powerful cloud platform, Force.com.”
“Today’s customers aren’t waiting to get their solutions in the mail, they are on Cloud 2 – they’re mobile, using social networks to collaborate and demanding real-time answers,” said Kendall Collins at salesforce.com. “With ServiceMax Titanium, Service Cloud 2 can now deliver success to small- and mid-sized field service companies like never before.”
“Our research confirms that small- and mid-size service organizations are looking to grow revenue and increase productivity without sacrificing customer service and retention,” said Sumair Dutta, Sr. Research Analyst, Service Management, Aberdeen Group. “The availability of enterprise-class field service management capabilities in a low cost cloud computing model, delivered by solutions such as ServiceMax Titanium, will provide SMBs the opportunity to meet and exceed their service initiatives.”
ServiceMax Titanium brings the innovations of Force.com, salesforce.com’s enterprise cloud computing platform, to post-sales field service, making the solution cost-efficient, easy to use, and deployable in days, not weeks. Because Titanium is delivered through the cloud, businesses no longer have to rely on clunky, outdated legacy software systems. Instead, they can focus on customer relationships and immediate customer needs, not on software maintenance or piles of work orders.
Titanium includes all the tools small service organizations require to reinvent field service from one vendor, including:
Installed Base and Entitlements
Full entitlement tracking on all equipment under warranty or service contracts. Real-time, complete access to all relevant customer and contractual information that allows companies to ensure they meet each individual customer’s needs while maximizing service revenues.
Advanced Scheduling and Workforce Optimization
Interactive, automatic and/or cost optimal assignment of work-orders to technicians. Optimize the schedules of any number of technicians with a click of a button and without any additional IT resource investment.
Work-order Management & Issue Tracking
Create work orders and assign technicians to close issues quickly. Easy-to-use tools make it simple to manage field technicians and automate the creation, assignment, execution and closure of cases and work orders.
Inventory and Parts Logistics
Complete logistics and reverse logistics for organizations whose field operations include parts movement functions and depot repair activities. Manage infinite locations of spare parts inventories, including van stock and inventory depots.
Salesforce Chatter
Real-time, secure communication and collaboration across the organization – from field service to engineering to sales to execs. Illuminate service issues immediately via Salesforce Chatter, before the customer even knows there is a problem.
Reports and Dashboards
Create reports and dashboards to give service staff the business intelligence they need to run a profitable and competitive service operation to easily see profits, losses, service levels, and much more.
Mobile and Offline Solutions
Titanium Mobile brings the real-time collaboration of Cloud 2 to field technicians on the go, providing easy access across many mobile platforms, including BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows Mobile.
Customer Portal
The customer portal offers self-service capabilities to customers so they can directly interact with a business for their field service needs by creating, tracking and managing their own work-orders.
Force.com Platform
Titanium is built and delivered on the robust and trusted Force.com enterprise cloud computing platform. It includes the unparalleled scalability and speed that thousands of small, medium, and large companies have come to rely upon.