XanGo Picks TenFold For Key Application
TenFold® Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: TENF - News), provider of the EnterpriseTenFold platform for building and implementing enterprise applications, today announced that XanGo LLC, the highest growth company in Utah and the successful network marketing distributor of XanGo Juice, selected EnterpriseTenFold MarketForce to build its next generation distributor management system. The initial contract includes software licenses and support, training, and professional services.
XanGo expects to reach annual sales of $1 billion (U.S.) by 2009 — faster than any other nutritional products network marketing company in history. The company has currently more than 250,000 distributors and expects the figure to grow to 350,000 by the end of the year.
"Our existing distributor management system was reaching the limits of its capability. We needed an immediate, new applications solution to meet our expected volumes, and one that could meet the pace of our extraordinary growth. We found no application package or development platform that could match TenFold," said Darren Pulsipher, Chief Information Officer at XanGo and author of the book, Secrets of the Change Agent: Strategies for Software Development. "Initially, given my years of IT experience, I was skeptical of TenFold's claims. However, we assessed their architecture as sound and decided to test their approach. After a week and a half, the TenFold-powered demonstration application outperformed our existing application. A six person team using TenFold technology was able to lay a core foundation for their Distributor Management system in a week and a half. It previously had been in development for more than a year and half. TenFold is by far the most compelling applications development software in the market for enterprise applications. EnterpriseTenFold is architected to meet the substantial demands of complex, distributed enterprises with performance, scalability, flexibility, and ease of integration. TenFold will save us enormous sums of money, but more importantly, it delivers huge time-to-market advantage that will allow us to sustain our business strategy and high growth rate."
"XanGo's choice and experience is a testament to the speed, quality, and power that EnterpriseTenFold brings to applications development. No other software technology could deliver on the development complexity and applications scalability in the time frame required by the business imperatives of this very demanding, high growth company," said Nancy Harvey, TenFold's President and CEO. "XanGo is a strategic customer milestone for TenFold as we continue to demonstrate the power of our revolutionary technology."
The new XanGo distributor management application, named Foundry is a TenFold-powered application that replaces a VisualBasic and SQL Server legacy system that couldn't scale to meet XanGo's volumes and was so inflexible that it couldn't change to support new XanGo markets.
"As planned, we demonstrated a fully-functioning first version of the entire XanGo application on the ninth project day," said Rob Trounce, TenFold's Project Manager. "Not surprisingly, everyone was skeptical that anyone could build an application so quickly, so seeing was believing. But we don't only demonstrate the application. The purpose of the first version and the demonstration is to get stakeholders involved in the applications development process."
"We demonstrated to over 40 XanGo stakeholders, who then walked through the application and provided feedback related to their job functions," added Trounce. "When stakeholders use an application, true requirements emerge. Since we can change the application quickly, it soon satisfies the true business need. In a TenFold project, the first demonstration is the point at which enthusiasm builds. XanGo was no exception. Bottom line is that stakeholders see, touch, and use a real application that includes bells and whistles that you couldn't possibly program in 9 months, let alone 9 days. And, we surprised everyone by running the application simultaneously in English and Spanish (which we hadn't planned to do until the third project week)."
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About XanGo, LLC
XanGo, LLC is a privately held company that offers a patented dietary supplement beverage, XanGo Juice, through a global network of independent distributors. As the first company to market a mangosteen beverage, XanGo has created a new category of dietary supplements. Headquartered in Lehi, Utah, XanGo currently has operations in the U.S., Canada, Japan, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Mexico, the Philippines and Trinidad and Tobago. For additional information, please visit www.xango.net.
About TenFold
TenFold (OTC Bulletin Board: TENF - News) licenses its patented technology for applications development, EnterpriseTenFold, to organizations that face the daunting task of replacing obsolete applications or building complex applications systems. Unlike traditional approaches, where business and technology requirements create difficult IT bottlenecks, EnterpriseTenFold technology lets a small team of business people and IT professionals design, build, deploy, maintain, and upgrade new or replacement applications with extraordinary speed, superior applications quality and power features. For more information, call (800) TENFOLD or visit www.tenfold.com.