Steelwedge Software links Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP4rocesses to existing ERP systems through familiar desktop applications including email and Excel. Steelwedge helps companies improve the effectiveness of their Collaborative Planning, Demand Forecasting, and Performance Management activities. Leading companies including Air Products and Chemicals, Aurora Networks, EDS, Enterasys Networks, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, Juniper Networks, Monster Cable, Nvidia, Spansion, Tellabs and Teledyne have deployed Steelwedge innovative planning solutions. As the leading innovator in the emerging field of Sales Planning and Performance Management (SPPM), Steelwedge is helping companies create, synchronize and collaborate on sales and operations planning (S&OP) through the development of better sales forecasts; improved demand plans, and increased field sales performance. Steelwedge offers multiple solutions: (1) Sales Revenue Planning - Top-line revenue impact is why Fortune 1000 companies choose Steelwedge for forecasting, demand planning and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP); (2) Sales Performance Management - To ensure a higher degree of focus on revenue and customer relationships ("i.e. true account management"), the sales performance management capabilities of Steelwedge support Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in bringing context and direction to sales decisions; (3) Sales Plan Collaboration - Collaboration works when there's no new software to learn, no added workload and no distractions from the tasks at hand. While most other vendors approach collaboration as a retrofit to their demand forecasting offering, Steelwedge developed Enterprise Enabled Excel (E3) as an interactive, real time planning solution and engineered collaborative planning into its core; and (4) SAP Collaborative Sales Planning and Performance Management (SAP SPPM) - This solution is specifically designed to support users of SAP r/3 by offering an inexpensive and easy-to-use solution for two-way Excel-based online and offline sales collaboration and planning. The solution is also capable of integrating in sales pipeline opportunity (CRM) information and key planning data from other applications to drive sales planning processes and provide an overall view of corporate sales performance. Steelwedge strategic and business partners include Deloitte, Hitachi Consulting, IBM, ICON, Oliver Wight and SAP. Founded in 2000, Steelwedge is privately held and located in Pleasanton, California. For more information, please visit www.steelwedge.com. Steelwedge and all Steelwedge product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Steelwedge Software, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective holders.