Gelco and Salesforce.com Team to Offer Comprehensive T&E Expense Solution and Complete Customer Relationship Management
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, November 2, 2004—
Gelco Expense Management, the leading provider of travel expense management services and Salesforce.com®, the global leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) services, today announced an agreement that allows both companies to refer their clients to the services provided by each. Together the companies will promote their respective services to hundreds of thousands of users in both private and publicly held companies worldwide.
"This agreement reaffirms our commitment to partner with service providers who complement the proven success of Gelco ExpenseLink® and offers ways for businesses to streamline their operations," said Ann Altepeter, vice president of business development for Gelco Expense Management. "The combination of our leading expense management solution with the proven CRM service of Salesforce.com will increase salespeople’s productivity. By automating common sales tasks such as expense reporting, marketing program and document management processes, salespeople can focus on acquiring new business and spend less time hindered by paperwork.”
Gelco provides business services to handle all phases of T&E management, including expense report data capture, and payment and reimbursement to receipt and audit, and reporting and analysis. Salesforce.com delivers state-of-the-art on-demand CRM for the scalable, secure management of sales force automation, customer service and support, marketing automation, document management, contract management, and analytics.
Gelco and Salesforce.com will promote complementary products to their combined customer base, as well as streamline the trial and purchase of each other's services.
About Gelco Expense Management
Gelco Expense Management, a division of Gelco Information Network, is the largest and most experienced provider of expense management and reimbursement programs. Gelco provides comprehensive outsourced expense management solutions to help organizations worldwide realize T&E cost savings by supporting policy compliance, increasing process efficiency and providing expense management reporting. The Gelco solution empowers organizations with a complete suite of web-based services including expense reporting, auditing, reimbursement and analysis services. Gelco Expense Management annually processes over $5.7 billion in expense payments for over 2.2 million users. For more information about Gelco Expense Management, please visit the company’s Web site at www.gelcoexpense.com.
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For more information, please contact:
Linda Orwoll
Marketing Manager
Gelco Expense Management
linda_orwoll@gelco.com