Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that it was selected by Orasi Software, Inc., a leading services provider, to power its new Orasi CloudPerform solution.

The offering combines HP LoadRunner software with the Skytap Cloudto facilitate load and performance testing for a broad range of applications commonly used on the web.

Application development and testing teams are under constant pressure to deliver high quality software on time and on budget. To meet these demands, many are looking to the cloud for instant access to scalable and dynamic IT environments. Skytap is a perfect fit for advanced load tests as it provides elastic environments for load generation. With CloudPerform, users can quickly generate large loads that simulate systems with hundreds of concurrent users. CloudPerform eliminates the complexity and expense of building specialized test environments and makes the HP LoadRunner application available to users via an on-demand cloud environment and in as little as 24-hour licensed increments.

With over one million virtual machines (VMs) launched by customers using its cloud service, Skytap is consistently recognized as the leading cloud solution for application development and testing. CloudPerform users benefit from Skytap’s on-demand, self-service and scalable cloud infrastructure, as well as industry-leading visibility and control features for management of complex testing environments. To enable collaboration between dispersed test teams, Skytap provides the ability to instantly duplicate complete virtual data centers, and snapshot and share entire configurations for deeper inspection.

“Partnering with Skytap allows us to provide a simple, self-service, and solution-oriented cloud environment to our customers,” said Caleb Billingsley, AVP Performance Technology, Orasi. “Skytap was a natural fit for our solution given the company’s longstanding leadership in the application development and testing market. By combining the power of Skytap Cloud and HP LoadRunner, we’re helping customers produce higher quality software in less time.”

“Cloud computing has quickly evolved from commodity Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings to value-added solutions which instantly solve real business and technical problems,” said Scott Roza, CEO of Skytap. “Orasi’s CloudPerform offering is a compelling example of how Skytap can serve as a dynamic and flexible platform for broader solutions, and we’ll continue to look at ways companies can leverage our service to deliver similar offerings.”

Orasi has provided a complete self-service portal that allows users to sign up with just a credit card and is available for load testing in under an hour. Support for CloudPerform will be provided through Orasi’s premier software support organization, and includes a stand-alone Knowledge Base available at supportweb.orasi.com. Users can submit support tickets at http://supportweb.orasi.com or use the free forums at http://www.eyeontesting.com.

For further information on this partnership and how Skytap is powering the Orasi CloudPerform solution, please visit the Skytap blog.

About Skytap, Inc.

Skytap is the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions for dynamic workloads. Skytap enables users to run enterprise applications unchanged in the cloud, collaborate securely with global teams, and gain unparalleled business productivity. Additionally, IT organizations can gain visibility and control over cloud projects, align capacity with demand, and reduce costs by 70% or more. Enterprises can securely connect Skytap to their data centers and create virtual private clouds. Skytap is ideal for any dynamic workload including application development, testing, virtual training, application migration and sales demonstration projects. To buy or learn more, visit www.skytap.com.

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Eight hundred million Facebook users can’t be wrong, but they appear to be an increasingly cautious lot.

“Our Social Media Habits survey offers compelling insights into consumer behavior and attitudes, especially given the conventional wisdom how we value – or don’t value — privacy in the social media space”

Indeed, while users of popular social media sites are generally comfortable with the sites and visit them regularly, they also have serious reservations about privacy and security on the social web – recent efforts by site operators to address those concerns notwithstanding.

These are among the top findings of the “Social Media Habits and Privacy Concerns Survey,” a new nationwide study by uSamp (www.uSamp.com), a leader in providing targeted audiences for global consumer insights and innovative SaaS technologies for audience engagement and business intelligence.

Using SurveyBuilder™ (www.surveybuilder.com), its self-serve survey authoring platform with on-demand consumer audiences, uSamp surveyed nearly 600 adult men and women about the social media sites they frequent and the kind of information they share online.

The Social Media Habits survey is one of uSamp’s Datapoint studies, conducted using SurveyBuilder. To view the infographic summarizing top-line findings or other Datapoint studies, please visit http://blog.usamp.com/blog/2012/01/30/infographic-usamp-datapoint-study-finds-gender-gap-over-social-media-privacy/.

Facebook Firmly in Front

The good news for IPO-bound Facebook especially is that more than 80 percent of all social media buffs log on to the site. The uSamp survey found that nearly twice as many respondents of all ages (and both genders) used Facebook as any other destination on the social web. The nearest competitors were YouTube (46 percent of respondents), Twitter (33 percent) and MySpace (32 percent).

But the study also showed that Facebook and other sites face real challenges in the months and years ahead as user concerns over privacy and security grow. While 65 percent of respondents said they were generally comfortable with privacy protections on social media sites, they nonetheless expressed specific concerns about privacy risks.

“Our Social Media Habits survey offers compelling insights into consumer behavior and attitudes, especially given the conventional wisdom how we value – or don’t value — privacy in the social media space,” said Lisa Wilding-Brown, uSamp’s Vice President of Global Panel and Sampling Operations.

“User privacy is an enormously dynamic area, and even as site operators attempt to address the issue, consumer perceptions are slow to change. Using SurveyBuilder, we were able to both create a comprehensive survey instrument and tap uSamp’s vast online panel of survey respondents rapidly – the same kind of performance our clients are experiencing as they get hands on with this powerful new platform.”

Privacy has long been a thorny issue for Facebook and other social media sites. In its SEC filing for its IPO, Facebook referenced the word “privacy” 35 times. Some observers suggest that such concerns might prompt users to reduce their use of social media sites, or stop visiting them altogether. Yet another worry for Facebook and other social media destinations: the coming explosion in smartphone and tablet access may pose even greater security and privacy risks.

While 64 percent of respondents said they were either “very comfortable” or “somewhat comfortable” with the level of privacy protection on social media sites, 28 percent expressed some level of discomfort about privacy protections. And among those who don’t use social media at all, 73 percent cited privacy concerns as their rationale for not participating.

Some 85 percent of respondents said that individual users should bear primary responsibility for their own privacy, but fully 75 percent agreed that social media sites themselves should also assume responsibility for privacy protection.

The Demographic Divide

On matters of social media usage and security/privacy, the uSamp Datapoint survey also found significant differences among both genders and across age groups. Women of all ages were generally more worried than men about both privacy and personal security.

While women are just as willing to provide personal information about their relationships, jobs, brand preferences and political and religious affiliations as men, when it comes to the nitty-gritty – details like phone numbers, email and physical addresses that might jeopardize personal security — women are significantly more wary than men.

Interestingly, the study found that three-quarters of both men and women were willing to share their relationship status, but only 20 percent of women would share their location, while 35 percent of men would part with that information. And although 55 percent of men don’t mind revealing their email address, only 42 percent of women would do so.

The survey also found that different age groups expressed varying levels of comfort about privacy. While more than 70 percent of both men and women under 35 said they were either “very comfortable” or “somewhat comfortable” with privacy protections, only 54 percent women and 56 percent of men from 35-49 and 57 percent of women and 45 percent of men over 50 felt “very comfortable” or “somewhat “ comfortable with privacy protections.

Not surprisingly, the study found younger respondents were heavier users of social media than their elders, with 86 percent of the 18-24 age group visiting social media sites daily. There were, however, intriguing differences between genders and age groups in how social media sites are used.

Older women were found to be heavier users of social media than older men – 60 percent of women over 50 visited sites daily while only 37 percent of men in the same age group were daily visitors. And 63 percent women from 35-49 visited daily while only 57 percent of men checked in every day. The study also found that women over 35 were more likely to use Facebook than men in the same age group.

About uSamp

uSamp (uSamp.com), the Answer Network, is a premier provider of technology and survey respondents used to obtain consumer and business insights. uSamp’s solutions and SaaS platform transform the way companies gain intelligence to make better, faster decisions about their products and services by tapping into uSamp’s 6.5 million global panel of survey respondents.

Through uSamp’s proprietary technologies for self-serve survey authoring, self-survey sampling, and private-label panel management, companies have on-demand access to millions of profiled survey respondents. uSamp is based in Los Angeles, with five offices throughout the United States, Europe and India. The company has more than 200 team members worldwide, led by serial entrepreneurs Matt Dusig and Gregg Lavin. uSamp ranked #11 in the 2011

Forbes America’s Most Promising Company List, was named one of the fastest growing private companies in Los Angeles by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal and one of the best places to work in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

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eEye Digital Security today released Retina CS 3.0, the most recent version of its award-winning vulnerability management solution, to identify and manage threats in public and private cloud computing environments and across the growing number of mobile devices and applications running on Android and connecting via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.

Synergy Research Group’s November 2011 Cloud Market Share Report found that private cloud strategies increased more than 30 percent compared to the previous year. Private clouds, which provide enterprise IT services behind the corporate firewall, now are used by enterprises with large data centers and by a growing number of federal government agencies.

But despite concern about breaches, data loss, attacks and regulatory compliance, cloud security typically has not integrated with traditional vulnerability management. To close that growing gap, the award-winning Retina CS now offers Cloud Connectors integrated with VMware vCenter and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Cloud Connectors allow security administrators to incorporate their cloud infrastructures into existing security processes and compliance requirements, a capability previously unavailable. With Retina CS 3.0, enterprise security teams now can:

• Scan and centrally manage vulnerabilities, including assessment policies for Windows and thresholds, online, nearline and virtual applications
• Centralize and streamline management including easy-to-use reporting, ticketing and real-time alerts through a single web-based console

With the rapidly growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, security administrators also need tools to manage an onslaught of smartphones and tablets. Retina CS 3.0 now extends eEye’s existing threat assessment and vulnerability management for a growing number of mobile devices, such as phones and tablets, with new Mobile Connectors for Android, which includes the development of an Android agent for on-device vulnerability assessment and management.

Retina CS 3.0 also adds support for Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync. These new capabilities are in addition to the market-first solution eEye delivered for BlackBerry in 2011. Security administrators now can:

• Identify and fix vulnerabilities detected on Android mobile devices
• Manage, evaluate and report via a centralized management console that provides vulnerability assessment and reporting, ticketing and real-time alerts
• Easily inventory all devices connecting through ActiveSync, including Apple, Android, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Symbian, and HP WebOS tablet and identify OS vulnerabilities with no agent required on devices

Noted Andrew Hay, senior security analyst for 451 Research’s Enterprise Security Practice (ESP), “Despite the many advantages offered by private cloud services, the identification of threats and management of vulnerabilities continue to be a challenge. Incorporating support for widely used cloud services, in addition to the many wildcard mobile devices in today’s enterprise, greatly expand the utility and effectiveness of products like Retina CS 3.0.”

In addition to Cloud Connectors and support for additional mobile devices, other new features of Retina CS 3.0 include:

• Support for built-in patching via multiple Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers
• New reports in Retina Insight
• Improved scalability and performance in Retina Insight
• Better usability and flexibility, including alerts, filters, report details and Windows event monitoring with Blink/RPA 5.0

Retina CS 3.0 with support for private cloud, Android Connectors and ActiveSync now is available. For more information, including a data sheet, video overview and information on how to try Retina CS Community, please visit www.eeye.com/retina.

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About eEye Digital Security

Since 1998, eEye Digital Security has made vulnerability and compliance management simpler and more efficient by providing the only unified solution that integrates assessment, mitigation, protection, and reporting into a complete offering with optional add-on modules for configuration compliance, regulatory reporting, and integrated patch management. eEye’s world-renowned research and development team is consistently the first to uncover critical vulnerabilities and build new protections into our solutions to prevent their exploit. Thousands of mid-to-large-size private sector and government organizations, including the largest vulnerability management installations in the world, rely on eEye to protect against the latest known and zero-day vulnerabilities.

Retina CS recently was awarded a five-start “Best Buy” rating in Vulnerability Assessment solutions from SC Magazine. The review can be seen at http://blog.eeye.com/general/sc-magazine-5-star-award.

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Indeed, while users of popular social media sites are generally comfortable with the sites and visit them regularly, they also have serious reservations about privacy and security on the social web – recent efforts by site operators to address those concerns notwithstanding.

These are among the top findings of the “Social Media Habits and Privacy Concerns Survey,” a new nationwide study by uSamp, a leader in providing targeted audiences for global consumer insights and innovative SaaS technologies for audience engagement and business intelligence. Using SurveyBuilder, its self-serve survey authoring platform with on-demand consumer audiences, uSamp surveyed nearly 600 adult men and women about the social media sites they frequent and the kind of information they share online.

The Social Media Habits survey is one of uSamp’s Datapoint studies, conducted using SurveyBuilder. To view the infographic summarizing top-line findings or other Datapoint studies, please visit http://blog.usamp.com/blog/2012/01/30/infographic-usamp-datapoint-study-finds-gender-gap-over-social-media-privacy/.

Facebook Firmly in Front

The good news for IPO-bound Facebook especially is that more than 80 percent of all social media buffs log on to the site. The uSamp survey found that nearly twice as many respondents of all ages (and both genders) used Facebook as any other destination on the social web. The nearest competitors were YouTube (46 percent of respondents), Twitter (33 percent) and MySpace (32 percent).

But the study also showed that Facebook and other sites face real challenges in the months and years ahead as user concerns over privacy and security grow. While 65 percent of respondents said they were generally comfortable with privacy protections on social media sites, they nonetheless expressed specific concerns about privacy risks.

“Our Social Media Habits survey offers compelling insights into consumer behavior and attitudes, especially given the conventional wisdom how we value – or don’t value — privacy in the social media space,” said Lisa Wilding-Brown, uSamp’s Vice President of Global Panel and Sampling Operations.

“User privacy is an enormously dynamic area, and even as site operators attempt to address the issue, consumer perceptions are slow to change. Using SurveyBuilder, we were able to both create a comprehensive survey instrument and tap uSamp’s vast online panel of survey respondents rapidly – the same kind of performance our clients are experiencing as they get hands on with this powerful new platform.”

Privacy has long been a thorny issue for Facebook and other social media sites. In its SEC filing for its IPO, Facebook referenced the word “privacy” 35 times. Some observers suggest that such concerns might prompt users to reduce their use of social media sites, or stop visiting them altogether. Yet another worry for Facebook and other social media destinations: the coming explosion in smartphone and tablet access may pose even greater security and privacy risks.

While 64 percent of respondents said they were either “very comfortable” or “somewhat comfortable” with the level of privacy protection on social media sites, 28 percent expressed some level of discomfort about privacy protections. And among those who don’t use social media at all, 73 percent cited privacy concerns as their rationale for not participating.

Some 85 percent of respondents said that individual users should bear primary responsibility for their own privacy, but fully 75 percent agreed that social media sites themselves should also assume responsibility for privacy protection.

The Demographic Divide

On matters of social media usage and security/privacy, the uSamp Datapoint survey also found significant differences among both genders and across age groups. Women of all ages were generally more worried than men about both privacy and personal security. While women are just as willing to provide personal information about their relationships, jobs, brand preferences and political and religious affiliations as men, when it comes to the nitty-gritty – details like phone numbers, email and physical addresses that might jeopardize personal security — women are significantly more wary than men.

Interestingly, the study found that three-quarters of both men and women were willing to share their relationship status, but only 20 percent of women would share their location, while 35 percent of men would part with that information. And although 55 percent of men don’t mind revealing their email address, only 42 percent of women would do so.

The survey also found that different age groups expressed varying levels of comfort about privacy. While more than 70 percent of both men and women under 35 said they were either “very comfortable” or “somewhat comfortable” with privacy protections, only 54 percent women and 56 percent of men from 35-49 and 57 percent of women and 45 percent of men over 50 felt “very comfortable” or “somewhat “ comfortable with privacy protections.

Not surprisingly, the study found younger respondents were heavier users of social media than their elders, with 86 percent of the 18-24 age group visiting social media sites daily. There were, however, intriguing differences between genders and age groups in how social media sites are used. Older women were found to be heavier users of social media than older men – 60 percent of women over 50 visited sites daily while only 37 percent of men in the same age group were daily visitors. And 63 percent women from 35-49 visited daily while only 57 percent of men checked in every day. The study also found that women over 35 were more likely to use Facebook than men in the same age group.

About uSamp

uSamp, the Answer Network, is a premier provider of technology and survey respondents used to obtain consumer and business insights. uSamp’s solutions and SaaS platform transform the way companies gain intelligence to make better, faster decisions about their products and services by tapping into uSamp’s 6.5 million global panel of survey respondents. Through uSamp’s proprietary technologies for self-serve survey authoring, self-survey sampling, and private-label panel management, companies have on-demand access to millions of profiled survey respondents.

uSamp is based in Los Angeles, with five offices throughout the United States, Europe and India. The company has more than 200 team members worldwide, led by serial entrepreneurs Matt Dusig and Gregg Lavin. uSamp ranked #11 in the 2011 Forbes America’s Most Promising Company List, was named one of the fastest growing private companies in Los Angeles by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal and one of the best places to work in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile management tools, continued to see its investment in the agile community deliver significant returns as it grew its user base to over 50,000 teams and added 90 agile consulting partners.

This growth stems from VersionOne’s ongoing commitment to delivering high-quality agile education and leading agile events, conferences, associations and user groups all over the world.

“This past year served as a testament to the success and momentum of the lean and agile software development movement, and we look forward to continued success in the coming year.”

Scaling Agile Through Community Support

As the single most active sponsor of, and contributor to, the agile and lean community, VersionOne invested over $2 million in 2011. VersionOne sponsored, spoke at, participated in, and promoted hundreds of local, regional, national and international events around the world. The Company’s popular AgilePaloozas, which drew nearly 1,600 attendees, brought internationally recognized agile coaches and trainers into local communities for a day of learning and advancing agile methods.

Ninety New Agile Consulting Partners

VersionOne realizes the agile expertise that its partners offer is critical to their customers successfully adopting, transitioning and scaling their agile initiatives. With that in mind, VersionOne added 90 agile consulting partners to its partner community in 2011.

By leveraging the unique expertise of its global partner network, VersionOne is able to offer superior agile training, coaching and consulting services based on its customers’ specific needs.

VersionOne’s extended partner network allows the Company to deliver a holistic agile solution, including both agile services and software tooling for those seeking to adopt agile.

As part of VersionOne’s commitment to providing a different kind of relationship with its partners, VersionOne promoted nearly 1,500 partner training classes to tens of thousands of agile practitioners across the globe.

“Enterprises are making significant investments in their adoption of agile methods and practices. Our investment in community and partner education has eased this transition for thousands of software professionals across the globe,” said Robert Holler, VersionOne co-founder and CEO.

“This past year served as a testament to the success and momentum of the lean and agile software development movement, and we look forward to continued success in the coming year.”

About VersionOne

VersionOne is recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile software development tools. By simplifying the planning and tracking of agile projects, VersionOne helps teams deliver better software faster – evidenced by its recognition to the 2011 SD Times 100 list of leading software companies. Since 2002, companies such as AAA, Adobe, Boeing, bwin, Lilly, Lockheed Martin, NASDAQ, Qualcomm, Sabre and Siemens have turned to VersionOne. Today more than 50,000 teams from over 170 countries use VersionOne. Agile Made Easier @ VersionOne.com.

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Crystal Macaulay, 781-871-8860
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News Facts:

• Zmags, the leading provider of rich media mobile and social merchandising, today announced that Hugh Merryweather joined the executive team as Chief Financial Officer.
• Merryweather will oversee the organization’s financial operations and strategically guide the company as it continues its momentum in the explosive tablet and social commerce space.
• Merryweather brings extensive strategic planning, fundraising and internal compliance experience to Zmags, along with strong relationships with investment banking and venture capital organizations.
• He joins Zmags from Circles, a leading concierge services provider specializing in customer and employee engagement, where he spent more than 10 years, and was actively involved in the company’s sale to Sodexo in 2007. Shortly after joining Circles in 2000, he was called upon to assist in raising Circles’ D round of venture funding. It was after the successful closing of venture funding in 2001 that Merryweather was named CFO.
• He most recently served as Global CFO and Head of New Business Development, overseeing the North American and European finance teams, as well as North American new business development, Employee Engagement Operations, IT Infrastructure, Facilities, Risk and Compliance.
• Prior to Circles, Merryweather was the executive director at edu.com and director of partnerships for Fidelity Investments.
• Merryweather holds a joint MBA/Master’s degree in Accounting from Northeastern University and a BA in History from Amherst College.

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“The tablet and social markets are growing at a breakneck speed and Zmags is a company that has its finger on the pulse of the connected consumer,” said Merryweather. “Retailers will look to companies such as Zmags for guidance as to how to best reach and engage this new class of consumers and it felt like the perfect time to join this team as it helps redefine the shopping experience.”

“For Zmags, 2011 was a transitional year, making the move from a better publishing experience to an unmatched rich media merchandising experience for retailers,” said Michael Schreck, president and CEO, Zmags.

“With such an extensive global financial and business development background, we knew Hugh was the best person to come on board in 2012 to propel Zmags forward as we, and this market, continue to grow and gain momentum.”

About Zmags

Zmags helps thousands of the world’s most progressive global retailers and brands design brilliant and consistent marketing and merchandising campaigns across social, mobile, tablet, and e-commerce platforms, driving product discovery and inspiring purchases. Using the Zmags on-demand rich media merchandising platform, leading brands have measurably and dramatically increased customer engagement, conversion rates, order size and brand loyalty without the burden of IT constraints. Zmags is among the fastest growing technology companies in North America, ranking #70 on the Deloitte 2011 Technology Fast 500.  Zmags is headquartered in Boston, MA. with European offices in London and Copenhagen. For more information about Zmags, please visit www.zmags.com.

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Providers are feeling the need to integrate clinical and financial operations across their enterprises to succeed under emerging payment models.

Flint River Hospital and Oklahoma Surgical Hospital are meeting this growing challenge by implementing an enterprise clinical and financial system from Prognosis Health Information Systems.

“Patient care and revenue management must work in tandem if healthcare providers are going to succeed under changing payment models that will be based on proving clinical value, not merely quantifying services,” said Philip Eastman, Director, Flint River Hospital, a 40-bed hospital in Montezuma, Ga.

“The next level of healthcare delivery is becoming more integrated, and we felt the need to put information systems in place to support this model.”

Flint River has been using the Prognosis patient and general accounting system for about ten years. With incentives available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Flint River leaders wanted to add a clinical system to their computing portfolio. After reviewing several options, they chose the ChartAccess®Comprehensive EHR from Prognosis HIS because of its ease of use and close integration with the company’s financial system.

Flint River began implementation of the ChartAccess EHR in early 2012 – and expects to quickly qualify for government incentives being made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, while also improving overall clinical care.  With the normal 120 day implementation schedule, Flint River will be able to begin its 90-day Meaningful Use attestation period well before the last 2012 deadline of July 1.

Built as a “disruptive innovation,” the solution provides a viable alternative to other options by providing a platform that helps community hospitals overcome the cost, speed of implementation, and usability obstacles commonly cited as impediments to electronic records success.

A shared web-native EHR system, ChartAccess software applications are made available as a service over an encrypted health information network. The system’s built in analytics and health information exchange (HIE) capabilities help hospitals provide consistent, high-quality patient care.

“From a management perspective, we expect to gain more control over our clinical and financial operations,” Eastman said. “Because the EHR system is being hosted in the cloud, our managers are able to – from any location – log in and download reports that help them to get some insight on what is going on from both a financial and clinical perspective.”

The financial solution offers powerful revenue management modules including patient accounting, accounts payable and A/R collection tools. The system stands out from other available financial systems as the advanced solution can produce one single unified patient statement with information from inpatient, outpatient and long-term care providers. With many other systems, patients are bombarded with a series of individual statements from each provider.

 “We are offering what rural and community hospitals need – a comprehensive computing solution that makes it possible to meet goals such as achieving meaningful use, improving patient safety and succeeding under new payment models,” said Ramsey Evans, CEO of Prognosis HIS. “Our system, however, is different in that it not only offers the potential to meet these goals but also helps community and rural hospitals deal expediently with the complicated challenges that are so pervasive in healthcare today.”

About Prognosis Health Information Systems

Prognosis Health Information Systems (PHIS), Houston, is committed to utilizing advanced 21st-Century technologies to help healthcare providers significantly improve the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care while also achieving better financial results. PHIS enables rural and community hospitals to utilize pure browser-based electronic health record (EHR) and financial systems designed to be fully operational in less than six months at a predictable, affordable cost. For more information, visit www.prognosisHIS.com. Follow us on Twitter (@PrognosisHIS).

Monetate, a provider of marketing optimization technology, recently launched its Agility Suite, a product suite designed to provide online marketers access to web site agility to keep pace with evolving consumer behavior in omni-channel retail.

Installed on an e-Commerce site with a line of code, Monetate’s Agility Suite is delivered to businesses through a cloud-based platform that runs in the browser, and allows marketers to make data-driven changes outside of the IT queue. The Agility Suite offers marketers a digital toolkit focused on harvesting deeper customer engagement, actionable data and more relevant and targeted message delivery.

Launched in January 2012, the Monetate Agility Suite is comprised of five product layers designed to enable marketers to:

• Test an unlimited number of marketing campaigns;
• Connect with key segments of web site traffic in real time;
• Maintain messaging consistency between distinct marketing channels throughout the purchasing cycle; and
• Merchandise and display products better than ever before.

“The number one challenge we consistently hear from CMOs is finding technologies that allow them to rapidly improve the online customer experience,” said David Brussin, Founder & CEO, Monetate. “Monetate’s Agility Suite was designed to meet this demand and provide very specific marketing solutions in one comprehensive suite of products.”

eTailers utilize the suite to streamline testing, measurement and optimization of messaging to meet changing consumer expectations.

“All the ingredients to make smart marketing decisions are built in with Monetate ― including integrated data collection, easy customer segmentation tools, the ability to rapidly test and serve new content, and robust reporting and analytics capabilities,” noted Mahender Nathan, VP of Direct at Godiva.