San Jose, California—October 25, 2007 Axonom, a company that provides enterprise-level customer relationship management and partner relationship management solutions for companies that manufacture and distribute through multiple distribution channels, today announced that one of its leading customers, Compellent Technologies, has been selected as a featured speaker at the Microsoft Global High-Tech Summit 2007, a premier event for industry experts, companies and thought leaders in the high-tech manufacturing space.
Michael Beach, vice president of sales operations for Compellent Technologies, a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage solutions, was selected by Microsoft to be a featured speaker and will be on stage at 2:45 p.m. in the “Building Customer Relationships” afternoon breakout session.
“We’re excited that Axonom is a sponsor of our event and has a leading customer on stage to share its insight with the high-tech community in attendance,” said Tyler Bryson, general manager of Microsoft’s U.S. Manufacturing Group. “We are committed to aligning with partners such as Axonom, who recognize that by combining the power and ease-of-use of Microsoft CRM with its own Powertrak application, we can deliver breakthrough CRM solutions to our joint high-tech customers.”
“We’re proud to have one of our customer success stories on stage," says Mike Belongie, vice president of sales at Axonom. “Michael Beach will detail how Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Axonom's Powertrak suite for high-tech provides tools that deliver scalability, increase partner and customer satisfaction, reduce quote and order errors, and increase manufacturing forecasting accuracy.”
Powertrak provides enterprise-level customer relationship management and partner relationship management solutions for companies that manufacture and distribute through multiple distribution channels. Powertrak’s modules include Forecasting, Customer and Partner Portals, Call Center, Product Configurator, Certification Tracking and Technical Case Management. All Powertrak modules are integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and can be optionally extended with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for global partner and customer interaction.
About the Microsoft Global High-Tech Summit 2007
Microsoft’s Global High-Tech Summit 2007 seeks to bring together industry experts, companies, vendors and other thought leaders in the high-tech manufacturing space with a goal of discussing current challenges facing the industry and potential solutions for the future. Keynote speakers at the day-long conference include leaders from ABB, Accenture, Altera, AMR Research, Compellent Technologies, Finisar Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor, Dell, Intel Corp., Texas Instruments and well-known business author Geoffrey Moore. For more information, visithttp://www.microsoft.com/industry/manufacturing/hightech/summit.mspx.
About Axonom
Axonom is a leading provider of enterprise-level CRM and PRM software solutions for high tech/light manufacturing companies that manufacture and distribute make-to-order products through multiple distribution channels. By delivering more transactions more efficiently through channels at a lower cost our solutions help customers realize greater profit potential.
Axonom, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Presidents Club and Inner Circle member, is Microsoft's strategic ISV partner for delivering high tech/light manufacturing solutions on Dynamics CRM. For eleven consecutive years Axonom has been named to ISM Guide's Top 15 CRM Software Award and in 2007 CRM Magazine awarded Axonom customers with the coveted Elite Award for implementation success, achievements unmatched by any other vendor in the industry. For more information, please visit www.axonom.com.