Visible Path now Available on Salesforce.com AppExchange

FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Visible Path, a leading provider of online business networking solutions, announced the availability of Visible Path for salesforce.com’s AppExchange. The service enables salesforce.com customers to find strong personal connections to their leads, accounts and contacts by identifying relationships held in common and recommending the most valuable introductions. Visible Path also weights each relationship to grant better insight into how customers can leverage their network — all from directly within salesforce.com.

“Sales professionals are always on the lookout for new inroads to prospective customers and strong paths to prospects. By integrating Visible Path into salesforce.com, we bring personal networks directly to the salesforce.com customer.”

"The popularity of AppExchange demonstrates the need for on-demand solutions, and we are excited to offer Visible Path as a service on the AppExchange platform," said Antony Brydon, CEO of Visible Path. "Sales professionals are always on the lookout for new inroads to prospective customers and strong paths to prospects. By integrating Visible Path into salesforce.com, we bring personal networks directly to the salesforce.com customer.”

With Visible Path, salesforce.com customers can:

Quickly connect with colleagues and contacts to build a broader sales network
Search their extended network from directly within salesforce.com
Find the best path to prospects with a single click
Request introductions or background information

Visible Path integrates well into existing solutions, making it more natural for people to find personal connections to the people or companies they are researching. Visible Path on AppExchange is the most recent example. Other examples include Suite Two, powered by Intel. Hosted by SpikeSource, Suite Two integrates Web 2.0 technologies from Six Apart, SocialText, SimpleFeed, NewsGator and Visible Path to drive mass collaboration in every area of an organization’s operations. Additionally, Visible Path is integrated into Hoover’s business information service as the Hoover’s Connect utility.

“We took a look at one of the key value propositions of a social network – building out relationship networks and connecting to peers in order to access new relationships – and wondered if there was a way that we could provide this functionality to our partners as more of an embedded service rather than an end destination. That’s the genesis of our partner program,” Brydon said.

More information on the Visible Path partner program is available at http://info.visiblepath.com/partners/learnmore.

About Visible Path

Visible Path helps business people manage social networks and build relationship capital.

Our free service helps business people map and manage their professional social network, connect to contacts, collaborate with colleagues and gain insight into the relationships they have and access to the ones they need. Registration is free at www.visiblepath.com. Our paid corporate networks help companies connect their employees and provide access to the corporate social network to sell, market and recruit more effectively.

Visible Path applies unique social network algorithms that automatically rate relationship strength and path strength to drive new levels of success, efficiency and trust in your social network. Visible Path uniquely allows individuals and companies to connect their social networks while maintaining privacy, security and control at both the individual and the company level. We have deployments at some of the most innovative companies in the United States, from Fortune 50 corporations to small professional service firms, and key integration and distribution partnerships with Hoover's, the leading provider of business insight and Intel Corporation.

Visible Path was founded in 2002 and has received broad industry and analyst recognition, including profiles in BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Visible Path is privately-held and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Menlo Ventures and Integral Capital Partners.