Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Financial force acquires Less Software and Vana Workforce - Horizontal broadening of salesforce CRM

FinancialForce.com, company which builds business applications for salesforce.com, has announced that it has acquired Less Software and vana workforce in two separate deals.  Terms and conditions of both the deals are yet not disclosed.

Financialforce.com was founded in 2009 with investment from UNIT4 and salesforce.com.  It has been built on salesforce.com’s technology platform force.com.  Company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and supplies accounting, billing, professional service automation and service resource planning applications.  Major product Financialforce accounting is cloud financial management software for salesforce.com.  It is core to CRM support of salesforce.com.  Company’s other product offerings are also cloud based. 

Less software provides SaaS based delivery model for supply chain management solutions.  Acquisition of less software, gives financialforce.com SCM capabilities.  This will include Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ), Order Fulfillment, Service Contracts, Inventory Management, Supplier and Spend Management.  All of these products will be bundled under a suite named Financialforce SCM.  This will be in collaboration with existing suite of products of financialforce.com for financial products. 

This whole bundle will ensure that trading partners’ supply chain activity is running flawlessly and all margins and other financial activities can be shown in financial reports.  The application is ideal for companies with multi-element revenue models.

Financial force has simultaneously announced the acquisition of vana workforce.  Vana Workforce, founded in 2008, is a cloud HR company providing human capital softwares and service solutions built for global workforce.  It is also built on same platform, force.com.  It provides one complete comprehensive human capital management solution to global organizations.  Now Vana Workforce has to be re-branded as FinancialForce Human Capital Management (HCM).  Vana’s platform is easily extensible and customizable.

Now customers using salesforce CRM, can take advantage of cross-departmental analysis and analytics from supply chain solutions to financial engagements to human resource planner.  As per se, financialforce.com is revolutionizing the back office.



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