Press Release

Manticore Technology’s Virtual Touchstone™ Achieves Salesforce.com’s “sforce ready” Designation

Integration with Leading On-Demand CRM Solution Empowers Direct Sales and Marketing Organizations to Produce Unparalleled Results

Austin, TX - April 25, 2005 – Manticore Technology™, a leading application service provider of online marketing optimization software, today announced Virtual Touchstone™ has achieved salesforce.com’s "Sforce ready" designation. In addition, the company announced that Virtual Touchstone is undergoing the review process for salesforce.com’s “Sforce certified” designation.

The combination of salesforce.com’s award-winning CRM solution with the powerful online marketing management capabilities and sales lead generation technology in Virtual Touchstone creates a robust link between marketing and sales organizations to reduce sales cycles, increase productivity and drive revenue.

"We are proud to have attained the "Sforce ready" designation and we look forward to building our relationship with salesforce.com during the certification process," said Nicholas Walker, chief executive officer, Manticore Technology. "The integration between Salesforce and Virtual Touchstone results in more efficiency and unification between marketing and direct sales force organizations. By increasing the number of qualified leads and providing a sales team with valuable insight into prospects’ interests, Virtual Touchstone can have a dramatic impact on a company’s bottom line."

Together, Salesforce and Virtual Touchstone offer marketing professionals the ability to provide their direct sales teams highly qualified sales leads that would normally go unnoticed by traditional web analytics and email tools. For example, valuable sales prospects that are identified through Virtual Touchstone’s Prospect Builder™ can be uploaded into Salesforce for quick sales team follow-up. In addition, detailed click-path information and email behavior on individual sales leads is tracked by Virtual Touchstone and automatically uploaded into Salesforce. By providing this information directly to the sales team, they can focus their efforts on only those leads with the greatest level of interest and similarly, the highest chance to close.

Virtual Touchstone with salesforce.com integration is available immediately. For more information, please visit www.manticoretechnology.com

Manticore Technology’s Virtual Touchstone

Developed specifically for the unique needs of online marketers, Virtual Touchstone is a complete online marketing solution for sales lead generation. With the unique technology called the Prospect Builder™, Virtual Touchstone gives marketers the power to identify qualified sales leads that traditional web analytics and email tools are unable to find. In addition, Virtual Touchstone combines advanced tracking and automated sales notification capabilities to create one easy-to-use application.

Key features of Virtual Touchstone include:

Advanced tracking capabilities - With extensive web analytics, email, and online advertising tracking, Virtual Touchstone provides complete metrics and insight across online marketing programs.
Increased sales lead identification - Prospect Builder found in Virtual Touchstone, quickly searches through online marketing data to identify qualified prospects that have been touched by a marketing campaign or visited a web site that would otherwise go unnoticed. Names of anonymous companies visiting a web site can also be identified and added to a prospect list.
Automated sales notification - Email alerts can be sent to sales and marketing representatives when a prospect visits a web site or touches an email, enabling sales to promptly follow up while the information is most relevant to the prospect.

About Manticore Technology

Manticore Technology creates integrated online marketing software for sales lead generation. With Manticore Technology’s Virtual Touchstone solution, marketers can manage their online marketing programs, identify highly qualified sales leads, and provide insight into sales prospects’ interests, ultimately reducing sales cycles, increasing productivity and driving revenue for an organization. Manticore Technology has more than 30 enterprise customers, including The Kellogg Company, Kroger, BOXX Technologies, Forgent Networks, and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Manticore Technology is a privately funded company. For more information please visit the company’s web site at www.manticoretechnology.com or call (512) 241-3780.

Contact Information:

Suzanne Tormollen
Atingo Marketing and PR
(512) 336-2295
Suzanne@atingo.com