LongJump Gives Companies Competitive Edge
with Highly Affordable, Subscription-Based Pricing
Extensive Catalog of Customizable Business Applications Priced at $19.95 per User/Month Removes Price as Barrier to Professional Business Software
SUNNYVALE, CA, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 – LongJump, a provider of highly customizable, interconnected on-demand business applications, today pre-announced its formal subscription-based pricing that will go into effect on January 1, 2008. Based on strong company interest and requests from prospects, LongJump is disclosing pricing for its catalog of customizable business applications ahead of schedule. However, the applications will continue to be available for free trial usage through December 31, 2007. To help businesses get started, LongJump is also offering free live training, personalized coaching, and migration services that can have companies up and running in 5 working days.
“Companies that are looking for an online office might want to take a close look at LongJump” said David Coleman, Founder and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies, a San Francisco-based industry analyst firm focused on collaboration technologies. “LongJump, although new to the market, provides applications to SMBs at a much lower price, with better integration and similar functionality to larger application providers. This is putting pricing pressure on this market that can only be a favorable trend for SMBs. It will be interesting to see how the other vendors respond if LongJump starts to get significant traction with their on-demand applications.”
LongJump’s interconnected suite of applications span most core business functions, including HR, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Finance and IT and can scale as a business grows ─ so companies can buy only what they really need. LongJump’s offering provides a new option for SMBs that is akin to what larger on-demand application providers have brought to big businesses. One advantage companies have using LongJump applications is their ability to interconnect, meaning the data entered into one application can be easily put to use in another application. The suite of applications is ready-to-use and requires no additional application development. Customization and access controls enable even the most non-technical business people to readily tailor any of the applications to more closely fit their company processes or job functions.
From a cost standpoint, the savings are considerable. For example, to use the leading on-demand CRM application for a team of 10 would cost approximately $650 per month. With LongJump, however, that same group of ten users would only pay $199.50, lowering the cost by sixty-nine percent (69%). LongJump’s offering is a new alternative that enables companies to remain competitive while still having access to data management features and customization found in more expensive services.
Laurie McCabe, Vice President of SMB Insights at New York-based AMI Partners noted, "There is indeed a need in the SMB market for more affordable applications that are customizable and can interoperate with each other. LongJump is one of the first to fill this gap and meet SMBs' needs for flexibility and feature-rich applications that aren't cost-prohibitive."
Subscription Pricing Plan Details
- LongJump OfficeSpace: A central point for a company to efficiently share calendars, tasks, status reports, documents and other information, OfficeSpace enhances internal team collaboration and productivity, replacing email as a means of internal information exchange.
- LongJump Catalog of On-Demand Applications: Includes access to and use of any of the currently available 14 applications, including newly launched Email Campaign Manager, as well as any future applications that are developed and published by LongJump. (See separate announcement issued today introducing LongJump’s Email Campaign Manager.)
- No minimum user requirements, enabling even the smallest of companies to take advantage of LongJump’s robust applications
- Flexible option for either month-to-month usage or annual commitment
- $19.95 subscription price is based on per user, per month, with a one-year commitment, or
- $29.95 subscription price per user, on a month-to-month basis for companies that do not want a long-term commitment.
- LongJump Premium Applications: LongJump will continue expanding its catalog by introducing more applications to support core business functions both for front- and back-office operations. It also plans to introduce premium-priced applications in the near future. Pricing for these premium applications will vary from today’s newly announced subscription pricing for LongJump’s baseline catalog of applications.
“While there is a growing choice of on-demand applications from a range of vendors, these applications do not work together, are exceedingly difficult to customize, or force companies to buy more than they really need,” said Pankaj Malviya, LongJump’s founder and CEO. “With LongJump, businesses don’t have to sacrifice management and customization features over cost. We invite businesses to compare LongJump to any professional-level CRM available on the market today to see how much more value they can get for much less investment and risk."
About LongJump
Based in Sunnyvale, California, LongJump is a service of Relationals Inc., a privately-held, proven provider of on-demand CRM and SFA business applications to more than 100 enterprise companies. LongJump provides a catalog of highly customizable, web-based applications aimed at SMBs in high growth markets that need to improve their competitive position and drive revenue growth by making employees and teams more efficient and productive. LongJump is committed to raising the bar in providing an extensive catalog of highly customizable, business applications that work together while supporting the needs of its customers. For more information, please visit www.longjump.com.
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