Posts Tagged ‘lead capture’

Bye-Bye CardScan? - January 9, 2009 at 10:32 am

In case you haven’t heard we announced CardLasso back in November of last year.  We have had a lot of interest and received some great feedback since it was shown in the Dreamforce keynote by Adam Gross, namely:

  • This is great, but I don’t have an iPhone
  • Could I use this for Tradeshows?
  • Do you have any Corporate plan options

I’m glad to say that we have now implemented each of the above suggestions and they are either live in Lasso, or are currently in beta.  

Card Entry via Web Cam
If you don’t have an iPhone you can enter cards directly from your laptop or PC with an attached USB Web Cam.  This option allows for high-volume card entry and doesn’t require a proprietary scanner (such as CardScan).  

Other Mobile Phones
We also have a new mobile offering that will allow you to enter cards from ANY mobile phone (including Blackberries which you have all asked about).  This approach will work with any phone that allows you to take a picture and send an email.

Native Blackberry Client
We are also developing a native Blackberry client to have even tighter integration with this platform, so if you are excited about the new Blackberry Storm you got for Christmas, stay tuned.

Lasso Offline for Tradeshows
If you are in marketing and go to tradeshows, you know the pain of entering hundreds or thousands of business cards.  We utilized our 2Go mobile platform and built a special offline version of Lasso that allows you to rapidly capture pictures of cards using a web cam in an offline mode and then they can be uploaded for transcription once you have Internet connectivity.

We are very excited about Lasso and it is a great showcase of what can be done with force.com Sites.

If you are interested head over to http://www.lasso2go.com to sign up for a $1.99 trial to give this a spin.
 

Model Metrics Introduces CardLasso and the Lasso2GO Platform: The First and Only Application that Automates Capture of Business Card Data Using Your Mobile Device Camera - - November 2, 2008 at 10:09 pm

CHICAGO and SAN FRANCISCO – Today at Dreamforce 2008, salesforce.com’s annual user and developer conference, Model Metrics revealed a revolutionary cloud-computing application called CardLasso. CardLasso, part of the Lasso2GO application suite that utilizes services from salesforce.com’s new Force.com Sites capability and Amazon Web Services, enables users to capture business card information using a mobile device camera and automates the transcription of contact data, which is automatically presented for download to the user from www.lasso2go.com.

<Link to full press release>