CloudApps Accelerates the Market Shift to Cloud 2.0

CloudApps, a provider of enterprise solutions helping companies reduce operating costs, comply with global climate change reporting requirements and engage with their key stakeholders to enhance brand and realize value from their carbon asset, has unveiled CloudApps Carbon Summer '10 edition on saleforce.com's ChatterExchange.

 

CloudApps Carbon Summer '10 helps speed up the market shift the next cloud computing model, Cloud 2. It is among the first applications to use Chatter's social components available in the force.com platform. The new applications can all be found on the ChatterExchange, a new category for social applications now part of AppExchange2.

 

CloudApps, a provider of carbon emissions management solutions, helps customers measure, control and lessen their usage of natural resources. CloudApps Carbon Summer '10, which is fully Chatter-enabled, can provide real time updates through Chatter feeds on a company's emissions sources, carbon footprint, disclosures made and emission reduction programs they run. CloudApps is making an appealing and viral mechanism which enables employees to get involved in the efforts of their company to lessen carbon emissions.

 

Simon Wheeldon, the CEO of CloudApps, stated that CloudApps works in ones of the most dynamic markets supplying customers with real time updates on their carbon emissions. CloudApps' customer are now trying to advance from far-reaching and fast-changing regulations that affect their working practices while at the same time incorporating social media.

 

Enabling Chatter in CloudApps Carbon adds more innovation that will lower the barrier for every employee in a company to involve themselves in lessening its harmful emissions. It gives way for the creation of 'Green Teams' - employees who work together in real time on programs that lessen the carbon footprint of a company, helping change the world.

 

Kendall Collins, the chief marketing officer of salesforce.com, said that companies can now find a cost-efficient, easy avenue to meet environmental regulations on the AppExchange2 as the market for carbon emission management increases.

 

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