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Serene Partners With Cast Iron to Offer Fast SaaS and
Enterprise Integration

First partner program for SaaS providers that solves enterprise integration via a combination of proven technology, services, and marketing solutions

Mountain View, CA, October 16, 2008 — Cast Iron Systems, the #1 SaaS integration company, today officially launched Powered By Cast Iron™, a comprehensive program uniquely designed for SaaS providers. Powered By Cast Iron solves the challenges of selling SaaS into the enterprise by combining leading products, proven services methodologies, and customized sales and marketing strategies. The program eliminates the need for SaaS vendors, VARs, SIs, and OEMs to develop and maintain their own integration solutions and gives them everything they need to deliver low-risk, high-reward Integration as a Service (IaaS) to their customers.

“Cast Iron is the only company to offer a comprehensive program that transforms integration into a major advantage for SaaS providers,” said Ken Comée, CEO of Cast Iron Systems. “The Powered By program shares Cast Iron’s technical and marketing experience with our partners to help accelerate sales and rapidly deliver the full benefits of SaaS to their customers.”

Many SaaS buyers believe they must face complexity when integrating SaaS with existing systems that contain business-critical information. The Powered By Cast Iron program eliminates this complexity by offering simplicity, speed, and flexibility through a choice of offerings including but not limited to multiple products, including physical or virtual appliances and the Cast Iron Cloud™.

Partners Endorse Program

Many leading SaaS providers, including, Gearworks, Intelenex, NetSuite, salesforce, Serene Corporation, Taleo, and Xactly, among others, have already joined the Powered By Cast Iron program. They recognize integration as both a competitive advantage and a promising value-added revenue stream. Powered By Cast Iron lowers the costs and risks associated with integration by delivering a solution that has been proven and refined over many years, hundreds of providers and thousands of customer integrations.

“Our customers have been very successful using Cast Iron to bring Force.com and Salesforce CRM into their IT environments,” said Ariel Kelman, senior director of platform product marketing at salesforce.com. “With Cast Iron integration solutions available on the Force.com AppExchange, small businesses and large enterprises alike tell us that Cast Iron gives them great time to value for their integration projects.”

“Given the growing number of vertical solutions built on NS-BOS for NetSuite, as well as the increasing sophistication of our customer base, we wanted to provide our customers and partners options on how to connect to specific vertical and legacy systems,” said Mini Peiris, NetSuite’s vice president of product marketing. “With built-in connectivity to NetSuite solutions and the flexibility to deliver integration in the cloud or using an appliance, Cast Iron accelerates adoption of our ERP, ecommerce, and CRM suite.”

“Elegant solutions are meaningless unless they can be translated into sustainable business results,” said Ajit Kumbhare, CEO of Serene Corporation, a global systems integration company specializing in business applications and a recognized expert in Siebel CRM implementations. “Powered By Cast Iron has helped us go to market with value-added integration service offerings quickly, confidently, and successfully. Our customers are seeing shorter implementation times and significant cost savings when integrating different business applications using Powered By Cast Iron. We are particularly impressed with the flexibility of the Cast Iron integration solution to address all of our customers’ needs. When combined with the sales and marketing tools provided through the program, we knew we had partnered with a company that really understands what we need to be successful.”