articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . june 2013 entellium type private defunct industry on demand software founded kuala lumpur malaysia 2000 headquarters seattle washington key people paul johnston products rave esalesforce ecustomercenter website www.entellium.com entellium was a u.s. software company that developed on demand customer relationship management crm software for small and midsize businesses . it was sold to intuit in bankruptcy court but as of october 2009 intuit was reportedly not using the software . 1 contents 1 company description 2 wire fraud scandal 3 bankruptcy 4 products 5 gamer influenced design 6 recognition 7 notes 8 external links company description edit entellium was founded in kuala lumpur malaysia in may 2000 by paul johnston a former apple sales executive . the company moved its headquarters to seattle washington in 2003 . 2 entellium continues to maintain a research and development office in kuala lumpur . wire fraud scandal edit on october 7 2008 paul thomas johnston the former chief executive officer ceo of seattle based entellium corp. and parrish l. jones the former chief financial officer cfo 3 were arrested and charged with wire fraud for lying to investors in u.s. district court in seattle . 4 according to the fbi the two software executives devised a scheme to defraud investors in the company by representing that company revenues far exceeded the actual figures . the government alleges that actual 2006 revenues were 582 789 but the pair inflated the revenues to nearly 4 million ; actual 2007 revenues were 1.4 million inflated to 6.2 million ; and actual 2008 revenues were 1.7 million inflated to 5.2 million . the false revenue numbers according to the government were used by the pair to attract millions of dollars in private investment including 19 million from ignition partners of bellevue . two ignition partners told government investigators that they never would have made such an investment had they known the actual revenue figures . forty entellium staff were laid off after the arrests . 5 bankruptcy edit on december 2 2008 entellium filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection paving the way for some assets to be sold to financial software maker intuit . 6 products edit entellium s products include two customer relationship management applications and an issue tracking system rave a smart client crm application built on the windows presentation foundation 7 esalesforce a web based crm application built on the asp.net framework ecustomercenter a web based issue tracking system gamer influenced design edit in building its rave product entellium used gamer influenced design gid 8 9 a concept that incorporates video game features into business software . rave includes the following gid features star rankings associated with prospects and opportunities animated effects contextual activity sets contact database custom user profiles user performance ranking recognition edit entellium has received the following awards and media coverage for its software a bronze 2007 idea honor co sponsored by businessweek magazine 10 a leader ranking from forrester research in the categories of both sales force automation sfa and customer service management 11 crm magazine s 2004 2005 and 2006 market leader award for sales force automation sfa 12 notes edit cook j. 2009 . entellium one year later . techflash . seattle post intelligencer venture capital notebook http www.seattletimes.com business former entellium cfo pleads guilty in fraud ex entellium execs charged with wire fraud for lying to investors . puget sound business journal . retrieved 23 august 2015 . 40 laid off at software company as execs arrested entellium files for bankruptcy protection . the seattle times . 2 december 2008 . retrieved 23 august 2015 . entellium builds a crm suite to rave about . destinationcrm.com . retrieved 11 june 2015 . new york times why work is looking more like a video game about.com rave a gamer s look at crm industrial designers society of america idsa 2007 idea winners bronze the forrester wave customer service management software q2 2007 destinationcrm.com the 2007 market awards sales force automation external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title entellium & oldid 740461473 categories companies established in 2000crm software companiescustomer relationship management softwaredefunct online companies of the united statesintuitsoftware companies based in seattlehidden categories orphaned articles from june 2013all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 21 september 2016 at 06 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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