SaaS.com as a Roundtable Sponsor at NAPEO's Annual Conference 2007
November 01, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. - November 1, 2007 - SaaS.com a.k.a WebApps, Inc., a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) with a major push in Time & Labor Management, exhibited at the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations' (NAPEO) Professional Employer and Marketplace 2007. The conference took place in Chicago, IL from October 22-24. SaaS.com contributed as a Roundtable Sponsor for the 2007 event.NAPEO is the largest association representing more than 370 professional employer organizations (PEOs) nationwide. Marketplace 2007 offered educational selections including 16 advanced concurrent sessions, seven inspiration labs, roundtables, and four keynote presentations. As a Roundtable Sponsor, SaaS.com was able to experience increased visibility among a number of PEO attendees.
Expert moderators hosted the roundtables and facilitated open discussion of issues related to the table's topic. Attendees shared challenges and solutions with PEO colleagues and benefited from the opportunity to network on specific aspects of PEO operations. Each discussion rotation lasted 20 minutes, allowing attendees to discuss three different topics during the hour-long session.
"Marketplace 2007 gave us the ability to become more in tune with PEO's needs and demands for the future while allowing us to educate attendees about the SaaS model and how it can work for them," said Alexandra Quintero, Business Development Manager for SaaS.com. "We hope that, by attending, we thoroughly provided PEOs with a clear understanding of how they can benefit from our software, including the ability to deliver a better overall solution to end-users."
To drive more traffic to SaaS.com's booth, the company also chose to participate in the "Passport to Prizes" program. In order to win a number of prizes, including a $4,000 grand prize, conference attendees were required to visit each sponsor's booth and get their "Passport to Prizes" stamped.
NAPEO's members represent more than 70% of the industry's revenues and range in size from small PEOs to large, publicly held companies. The organization provides its members with educational services and a number of useful business resources. This year's conference highlights included four inspirational and educational keynotes, featuring speakers David Ulrich, Chuck Martin, Scott Klososky, and Steven S. Little. Networking highlights consisted of the Marketplace Exhibit Hall, Passport to Prizes, and Celebrate Sinatra, a dinner and dance complete with live entertainment that featured Sinatra favorites.
About SaaS.com -
Formed in 2001, SaaS.com helps companies deliver both internal and consumer-facing applications as a service that are more intuitive, easier to deploy, and offer lower total cost of ownership. Two distinct business lines include a pre-existing set of Human Resource centric applications that are offered under a private-label model and a pure multi-application, multi-tenant delivery platform that can be coupled with industry-specific business logic and proprietary data to be delivered as a complete SaaS solution - - www.SaaS.com.
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