XANT Awarded 2009 Best of State in the On-Demand Telephony Technology Category
Provo, Utah – May 6, 2009 – XANT, the leading provider of telephony tools and lead management CRM software for inside sales representatives, today announced that they have been awarded the prestigious ‘Best of State’ Medalist Award in the category of science and technology in the specific area of telecommunications for their market leading web-based productivity solutions for companies who sell remotely.
“The Best of State award demonstrates the hard work and continual striving for excellence of our employees,” said David Elkington, CEO and Co-Founder of XANT. “This recognition has special meaning for us because it caps an amazing series of awards for our team, including ContactCenterWorld Finalist for the United States, The American Business Awards (Stevies) Finalist, Customer Interactive Solutions Product of the Year for 2008, and Internet Telephony Magazines Product of the Year for 2008. This was accomplished based on the creativity and innovation of our team and the award goes to them.”
Utah Best of State Awards recognize and promote outstanding individuals, businesses and organizations throughout Utah. Winners of the awards are judged on innovation, originality, and excellence in their field, and their impact on the community.
“The field of nominees was stronger and more competitive than ever before,” explained Mark Layton, Founder and President of the Best of State Awards. “The Best of State Awards were created to recognize outstanding individuals, organizations and businesses in Utah. This award identifies XANT as the leader in their category demonstrating its impact and success in the marketplace.”
XANT was the first company to combine a web-based lead management CRM database with on-demand telephony tools like a dialer and voice messaging. They created the industry around immediate response technologies for web leads as a result of research done in conjunction with Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and Sloan School of Management at MIT. Its PowerDialer for Salesforce embeds its flagship phone dialer software inside of the world’s leading on-demand CRM solution, salesforce.com
XANT stays involved in the community with its community outreach program. Current projects include helping non-profits like the George Wythe University – Glenn Beck at the Capitol event, and the DME Medical Research Foundation for infant and pre-natal cardiac research.
About XANT
XANT was the first hosted lead management solution with built-in auto dialer technology. XANT also pioneered the field of lead response management (LRM) and gained prominence with joint research by Kellogg and MIT on the impact of immediate response to leads. Omniture beta-tested the integration of the XANT flagship PowerDialer product into Salesforce.com, which was soon followed by Dun & Bradstreet, Infopia and nearly twenty other companies using the product since production was announced at Dreamforce ’08. XANT also announced a voice messaging tool called JabberDog for Salesforce and an inbound screen-pop product called ResponsePop for Salesforce.com. To learn more visit https://www.XANT.
XANT Contact:
Ken Krogue
801-853-4070