In every bad situation, there’s opportunity.
Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Salesboom.com, which like Entellium offers hosted customer relationship management software, is trying to pick off customers of the embattled Seattle software startup. It is calling the effort the “Entellium Rescue Initiative.”
“Salesboom.com’s Entellium Rescue Initiative offers current Entellium customers a safe haven during these rocky times by offering accelerated data migration services at no cost,” the company writes in a press release.
Salesboom also said that it is considering buying Entellium’s customer base outright and hiring some of the laid off employees. It notes:
Due to the magnitude and time constraints of this situation Salesboom.com will be working vigorously around the clock in the weeks to come in order to accommodate Entellium’s Customer base and Employees during this transition period.
As we reported earlier this week, other companies also are circling the Entellium assets.
– John Cook, johnharoldcook@gmail.com
13 responses so far ↓
1 Josh Whiting // Oct 10, 2008 at 10:19 am
I’m not surprised to see this from CRM vendors like Salesboom. There are a lot of customers who are going to be looking for a new home very soon. It’s hard to hide the fact that their CEO and CFO were arrested, that would make me begin to look for a different vendor. So to see Salesboom set up for these events shows they are prepared to welcome a burst of customers which can sometimes hurt organizations.
2 Mike Leach // Oct 10, 2008 at 11:14 am
Entellium’s Software Developers committed no crimes. Their smart-client CRM technology is excellent, and that’s ultimately what Ignition and others invested in.
“Rescuing” Entellium’s customers by moving them to a completely different platform would be a concession on all fronts that the company was bad to the core, which simply is not the case.
I just can’t see too many existing Rave customers taking a step backwards and using Outlook or a browser for contact management, when they’ve already been sold on the rich-web value proposition.
3 JB // Oct 10, 2008 at 11:42 am
The product is good but the customers are going to have to go somewhere. The company is closing down.
4 Josh Whiting // Oct 10, 2008 at 12:09 pm
It’s true the software developers and other employees did not commit any crimes and it truly is a regrettable situation for these people. I noticed in Salesboom’s release that they were not only focusing on Entellium’s customers but the employees affected by these events by inviting them to apply for work with Salesboom. It’s kind of a match since both of these organizations market rich web based applications.
5 Bored // Oct 10, 2008 at 2:04 pm
It looks like no other news left in Puget Sound. All we hear is Entellium. Kind of became boring to read the same. Just move on unless you have nothing else left to report.,
6 CROM // Oct 10, 2008 at 3:57 pm
You kidding…John Cook has never liked Entellium….he is loving this.
7 Bored // Oct 10, 2008 at 9:09 pm
why John did not like Entellium? They never gave you a scoop?
John, did you switch from the local tech/biz news into the criminal journalism? Please explain your excitement here, we are curious
8 JB // Oct 11, 2008 at 9:46 pm
How many other $50MM scams have we seen this year? I would say this is kind of a big deal.
9 Anonymous // Oct 12, 2008 at 11:20 pm
$50million scam? Obviously some observers either don’t understand the issue or can’t read.
10 greenberg // Oct 13, 2008 at 10:41 am
The truth is, entellium customers are in deep trouble and must find another vendor to accomodate thier crm needs, so salesboom.com was the first to help, then be it…Good for them
11 A move to gobble up Entellium customers // Oct 16, 2008 at 11:36 am
[...] follows news last week that Salesboom.com also was targeting Entellium’s customer [...]
12 Jon // Oct 19, 2008 at 8:41 pm
As a paying customer of Entellium…this sucks.
13 Reda // Nov 19, 2008 at 7:13 am
I’m Reda; Programmer , I’d Like to say Salesboom is one Excellent Developing Company and Everyone can see that, Man you should try it.
Offering this huge Service with these low prices!
Hamodah, Rami President of Salesboom is always seeking to accomplish Customer Needs and Fulfill a better CRMing thier organizations
So Try something else i guess so with All Respect.
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