Redwood Shores, CA — May 26, 2011 — Zuora, the subscription billing and commerce leader, today announced immediate availability of its May ’11 release which adds dozens of new features to the company’s 4th generation product for salesforce.com users. Rather than building homegrown integrations or relying on lightweight 3rd party connectors, Zuora customers can leverage Z-Force in order to take advantage of the best-of-breed solutions for CRM and Subscription Commerce for the entire quote-to-cash-to-renewals process. Z-Force enables both solutions to “just work” together, with no integration effort required.
This release marks Zuora’s 28th consecutive monthly product release, a pace of innovation only possible with a true multi-tenant SaaS billing platform. Every month, Zuora delivers new technology based on the feedback and experience of hundreds of customers who have already moved into the Subscription Economy.
“With the new Z-Force capabilities, we can better leverage our CRM and billing platforms together,” said Andrew Mottaz, CEO of Site9 who uses Zuora for its ProtoShare.com service. “Zuora continues to innovate at a remarkable pace and really delivers by providing us with the flexibility and customization capabilities that are mission-critical to our business.”
“The ability integrate customer management and billing within Salesforce with Zuora’s Z-Force is critical to our organization,” said Andy Rieger, COO of Transparent Health Group. “Z-Force is powerful and allows us to lower our operations costs by giving us the flexibility required to efficiently manage our sales and support processes.”
New enhancements to Z-Force in the May ’11 release include:
All of Zuora’s hundreds of customers automatically received this 28th consecutive product update with no negative impact to existing configurations and customizations. This is only possible with the modern, multi-tenant SaaS architecture found in Zuora’s Z-Commerce platform. Customers can read about the details of the May ’11 release at https://knowledgecenter.zuora.com/AA_Whats_New.
“Today customers are looking for best of breed applications across CRM and subscription commerce,” said Luke Braud, VP Engineering & Product Management at Zuora. “We built Z-Force so that our customers could combine Salesforce and Zuora without the hassle of integration. And with the May ’11 release, these two best of breed solutions work even better together.”
Zuora’s subscription billing and commerce platform changes the way subscription businesses manage and sell to customers, allowing them to bring new products to market in less time, with more flexibility and less hassle. Zuora customers are up and running within 90 days and often recognize 200% ROI within weeks. Zuora is built from the ground up by SaaS industry visionaries and veterans from salesforce.com, WebEx, Accenture, Google, eBay, Oracle and Vitria. Zuora customers include Reed Business Information, InsideView, Marketo, Ricoh, Box.net, Ning, Ustream, Informatica, Barrett Xplore and Open Range. To learn more about Zuora, please visit zuorainternprd.wpengine.com.
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