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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | On-demand software |
| Founded | United Kingdom 1997 |
| Headquarters | Oxford, England |
| Key people | Bob Mann, Mike Morgan, Simon Wallace-Jones |
| Products | RelayWare Partner Relationship Management |
| Website | www.relayware.com |
Foundation Network is a vendor of Partner Relationship Management (PRM) solutions, which it delivers to businesses over the internet using the software as a service[1] model.
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[edit] History
[edit] Origins
Foundation Network was founded in 1997 by former business consultant and technologist Simon Wallace-Jones. Later that year the company secured its first global customer in 3Com, the network infrastructure vendor.
In April 2008 Foundation Network announced the release of RelayWare 8[2], the next-generation of their PRM software.
[edit] Current status
Foundation Network Ltd is a global independent software vendor headquartered in Oxford, England and specializing in Partner Relationship Management software. Such software is used by manufacturing companies with indirect sales channels-to-market to automate complex business processes and programs in order to better manage channel partner sales, marketing and associated business operations activities. This in turn may result in increased efficiency, effectiveness, partner loyalty and performance and thereby improved profitability and reduced cost of sale.
[edit] Products and services
[edit] Partner Relationship Management
The company's product; RelayWare, offers a suite of channel sales, marketing, operations and reporting tools with an integrated partner portal. It is typically delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service)[3]. RelayWare is marketed as a solution that can reduce the cost of channel operations whilst building partner loyalty, gaining competitive advantage, driving incremental sales and increasing profitability. It is aimed at global enterprise companies through to smaller regional businesses.
[edit] Customers
Foundation Network's customers include Lenovo, Lexmark, Sony, Sophos[4] and Trend Micro worldwide.
[edit] See also
- Customer Relationship Management
- Partner Relationship Management (PRM)
- Software as a Service
- Web application
