November 11, 2009 — Chattanooga, TN — Skoodat today announced that its Foundation Edition suite of education applications has been selected as a finalist in the Force.com Forty Innovation Showcase held by salesforce.com.
Force.com Forty finalists were evaluated through a rigorous selection process, including a detailed review of each application and in-person presentations delivered to venture capital firms and salesforce.com executives in San Francisco.
“We are quite honored by this distinction,” noted Ken McElrath, CEO, Skoodat. “Two years ago, salesforce.com issued a challenge to developers to use the Force.com platform to innovate to benefit education. Skoodat was formed just 11 months ago to take on the challenge. Our small team created a disruptive business and innovative suite of applications in less than a year. It’s a credit to our team and to the power of the Force.com platform.”
Built using the Force.com platform, Skoodat Foundation Edition is immediately available for deployment to schools everywhere from the salesforce.com AppExchange, www.salesforce.com/appexchange. As a salesforce.com Power of Us partner, Skoodat offers limited license donations to qualified schools in conjunction with the salesforce.com Foundation.
“Education customers look to salesforce.com partners like Skoodat to help realize success,” said Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer, salesforce.com. “With solutions such as what Skoodat demonstrated during Force.com Forty, educational institutions will have access to innovative enterprise applications that help them run their organizations better.”
For more information about Skoodat Foundation Edition, visit the Skoodat website at: http://www.skoodat.com/apps
For more information about Force.com, visit the website at: http://www.salesforce.com/platform/
For more information about the Power of Us partner program, visit the website at: http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/partnerinitiative
Skoodat aims to provide a total solution for education, delivering tools for teachers and systems for superintendents that are fully integrated to deliver change that is real, substantive, sustainable and scalable. For teachers, Skoodat Foundation Edition includes customizable apps for grades, attendance and assignments. For principals and front office staff, Skoodat Foundation Edition offers registration, scheduling, relationship management and a host of other tools. By delivering all the apps on a secure, stable and proven cloud platform, Skoodat can provide a complete, integrated system for teachers, parents and administrators to measure, track, and analyze student performance in real time.
Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM applications with more than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more than 120,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com’s 63,200 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel.
Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the salesforce.com AppExchange marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.