Navatar Group, a global Salesforce.com partner and Value Added Reseller, has introduced free cloud computing CRM for financial services firms.
Officials with Navatar (News - Alert) Group said that the company is now providing free CRM for eight months, to help one prepare for the expected rebound in the worldwide financial markets.
Company officials said that this would help financial firms to get pre-built software-as-a-service for their business up and running within a day or two.
They will also get the underlying force.com seats from Salesforce.com (News - Alert) free as part of this promotion.
In addition, Navatar Group provides all implementation services, accounts/contacts migration, training, maintenance and email support for these solutions free of charge.
According to company officials, the promotion applies to new customers for Navatar Group's financial services CRM and operations solutions for private equity, hedge funds, capital markets, mergers & acquisitions and placement agents, natively built and running entirely on the Force.com Platform as a Service.
Navatar's solutions, company official said include- Navatar Hedge Fund CRM; Navatar Mutual Fund CRM; Navatar Private Equity CRM; Navatar Capital Markets CRM; Navatar M&A CRM and Navatar Placement Agent CRM.
'Financial firms can use the summer months to improve their operations and pipeline,' said Alok Misra, Navatar Group principal and cofounder, in a statement.
"Thanks to cloud computing, we are making it attainable and affordable for them to ramp up rapidly,' said Misra.
Back in May Navatar Group had announced that it now provides financial services firms most services related to salesforce.com products free of charge.
A financial firm can get pre-built CRM and operations solutions for mutual funds, hedge funds, capital markets, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and placement agents, running on Salesforce.com's platform, from Navatar Group.
Navatar also provides all implementation services, accounts/contacts migration, training, maintenance, email support and upgrades for these solutions at no charge.
The financial firm will only pay what they would normally pay for their Salesforce seats and receive everything else at no additional charge.
Further, they will never have to spend any additional time or money on maintenance, support or upgrades.
Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil's articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by Juliana Kenny