Redkite

March 21, 2012 – New York, NY – Redkite, a leading provider of strategy, design and implementation services for Salesforce.com customers, announced today the appointment of Tal Gozhansky to its executive team.

Tal will lead Redkite’s strategic partnerships, deepening Redkite’s relationships with leading cloud technology companies. In addition, Tal will leverage his years of experience in design and delivery of cloud solutions to advise clients on the principals of moving to the cloud and how to build integrated solutions leveraging best of breed technologies.

Tal joins Redkite from Hearsay Social, a leading social media platform built for enterprise clients, where he educated clients on the use of technology to manage social media strategies. In addition, Tal has years of experience implementing Salesforce for enterprise clients, both as an employee of Saleforce.com and as a Vice President at Citi, where he was the program manager responsible for the replacement of Smith Barney’s wealth management platform for more than 20,000 financial advisors. With Salesforce, Tal designed and implemented solutions for clients across financial services, hospitality, high tech and shipping.

“We are very excited to bring Tal on board,” said Brennan Burkhart, Redkite co-founder. “He has been on our radar since we started Redkite, and has only gained more experience since then with his roles at Salesforce and Hearsay Social. He brings unique perspective to the management team and both extends our vertical expertise and adds new technologies to our tool kit, enabling us to provide even greater value to our clients.”

About Redkite

Redkite is a Salesforce solution provider founded by delivery professionals who have pioneered the design and deployment of cloud solutions to enterprise clients since 2004, on more than 150 implementations for Fortune 500 companies. Redkite provides a wide range of services for Salesforce customers including cloud strategy and advisory, custom implementations. Redkite also provides advisory and development services for leading companies building products the Force.com platform. To learn more about Redkite, please visit www.redkitetechnologies.com.

If you installed in|force Connector, you should have received an email with the unfortunate news that the application is no longer available, and that you should expect your installation to stop working after January 31st, 2012. If you didn’t get that email, then please check your spam folders or see here for more information.

While we’re sorry to have to pull the app, we’re also very proud of it, and extremely thankful for the support we’ve received since it was released last November. Despite only being available for 11 months, the app is the 2nd highest rated free app of all time on the Salesforce AppExchange, and the highest-rated free app released in the last 5 years.

In the coming weeks and months, we intend to share some of the lessons learned building the app, including some of the technical challenges of working with the LinkedIn API.

Thank you once more for the generous support you’ve given the app. If you enjoyed using the app, we always appreciate 5-star reviews. Although it’s the end of the road for in|force Connector, we think it would be a fitting epitaph to receive a “Best of 2011, App of the Year” award — and these are determined by the number of reviews and the overall rating.

We’ll be back soon with more apps. If you haven’t seen it already, Redhot News is the slickest app out there for seeing news stories on your accounts and contacts directly in Salesforce. Check back soon for news of our CrunchBase connector and our powerful Call Sheet + List Builder application.

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Congratulations to Brennan on completing the New York City Marathon!

Salesforce has confirmed that the Cloudforce NYC 2011 event will be hosted at the Javitz Center on November 30th, 2011 (which also happens to be St. Andrew’s Day).

Redkite will be there with a booth, so please drop by and see us. We might even have some new (previously-unseen) products to demo.

Full event details, including registration, here.

Redkite is pleased to announce the winner of our iPad competition. Congratulations goes to Jason Santiago of Stripes Group. Thanks to everybody who visited us at Dreamforce and to all those who installed our Redhot News for Salesforce. We’ll be at Dreamforce again in 2012, so please drop by for a chat and to see what’s new.