Mashery Positioned in the “Visionaries” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies

by OpenView

Mashery, a leading provider of API (Application Programming Interface) management technology and services, today announced today it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.”1

To be considered for this Magic Quadrant, vendors “must market comprehensive technology for SOA (service oriented architecture) governance policy management, and/or around registries and repositories across the artifact (service or other type of reusable) life cycle, from planning through design, operation, maintenance and retirement.” Gartner defines a visionary in this category as a company that can “typically approach this market with a fresh view from an innovative angle, and are big into the cloud. When they typically feature an incomplete set of functionality, they have power and the mind share to grow that set for the customers to come, often in a different way from established Leaders; visionaries carry no baggage. In a market stretched by several waves of transformation (cloud, the increased maturity of clients, the changing concept of application, different development styles, evolving organizational arrangements, ever-growing B2B multi-enterprise process requirements, to name a few), most future Leaders will be former Visionaries.”

“Mashery is thrilled to see Gartner acknowledge the importance of API management in the enterprise agenda,” said Oren Michels, Co-Founder and CEO of Mashery. “This reaffirms our view that the future of digital business lies in embracing an API strategy. As APIs evolve from read to write to commerce-enabled, they’re becoming a pervasive, powerful channel through which companies can interact with their constituencies. The close collaboration we see between IT and business in leveraging fundamental business opportunities through API initiatives is key to achieving success,” continued Michels.

Gartner Magic Quadrant Disclaimer:

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

1 Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies” by Paolo Malinverno and Daryl C. Plummer, October 17, 2011.

About Mashery

Mashery, the world’s leading provider of API technology and services, helps more than 100 top brands — including USA TODAY, Hoover’s, Klout, Associated Press, RDIO and Expedia — build digital distribution platforms that open new distribution channels, speed time-to-market, and spur innovation. Mashery takes a holistic approach to APIs — from crafting platform strategy and setting business objectives, to managing API delivery and facilitating relationships with a network of 130,000 developers. Mashery was founded in 2006. For more information, visit www.mashery.com.

 

Sedgwick County Health Center Selects Prognosis HIS HER

by OpenView

The rush to qualify for electronic health records adoption funds makes following the crowd a tempting choice but not necessarily the right one.

Instead of implementing the same system that other providers in rural Colorado are using, Sedgwick County Health Center extensively evaluated other options and chose to go with an electronic health record (EHR) solution from Prognosis Health Information Systems.

“There is a lot of pressure around here to do what everyone else does. But we decided that we needed to really do our homework and pick the system that would ultimately best fit our hospital,” said David Garnas, CEO at Sedgwick, a 12-bed hospital located in Julesburg, a Colorado town with a population of about 1500. “So, we evaluated systems based on workflow, ease of use and incentive fund reimbursement criteria.”

A steering committee that included representatives from across the hospital compared proposals from seven EHR vendors that serve the rural and community hospital market. From there, two vendors were invited to provide demonstrations to the executives and clinical users at Sedgwick.

The ease of use and intuitiveness of the ChartAccess® Comprehensive EHR from Prognosis HIS piqued the selection committee’s interest. 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 delivered via a cloud computing model, 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.

The fact that Prognosis has implemented many of these systems in less than 120 days – and has already helped 14 healthcare providers meet meaningful use sealed the deal, according to Garnas.

“The ability to utilize an online dashboard to track and direct progress toward meaningful use is something that is really important to us because we are looking to quickly qualify for the government’s incentive funds. We realize that Prognosis really excels at helping hospitals leverage this tool to bring about meaningful use,” Garnas said.

Sedgwick is planning to go-live on the system in February, completing implementation within 120 days and then attest to meaningful use to qualify for its share of the government’s $27 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act incentive monies.

“Our success is proving that we are offering a true innovation that the market really needs. Our EHR is making it possible for hospitals that might have previously been left on the sidelines to not only join the digital revolution but to become leaders in healthcare IT,” saidRamsey Evans, CEO of Prognosis Health Information Systems. “Our powerful solution provides advanced functionality along with an implementation approach that is enabling rural and community hospitals to fully leverage the power of technology, and, more importantly, to improve the care and service that they deliver to their communities.”

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).

Cloud-Based Medical Billing Software Company Kareo Launches Electronic Patient Statements & Payment Portal for Medical Practices

by OpenView

Kareo, Inc., the leading provider of easy and affordable cloud-based practice management and medical billing software for physicians in the United States, announced today the launch of electronic patient statements and payment portal.

The new capabilities equip medical practices to accelerate cash flow through comprehensive credit card, debit card, check processing, secure electronic patient statement delivery, and online bill pay.   These tools get the medical office paid faster while giving patients more convenient ways to pay, whether at their doctor’s office or from the comfort of their homes.

“The rapid increase in medical costs paid out-of-pocket by patients is now resulting in a cash flow crisis for small medical practices,” says Dan Rodrigues, the founder and CEO of Kareo.  “By making it easy and affordable to accept credit and debit card payments, send electronic patient statements, and give patients the option to pay online, we are helping medical practices take control of their growing patient receivables in order to get paid faster and more efficiently.”

Here is how it works:  Medical office staff captures patient email addresses during registration.  During check out, patient copays can be processed via credit card, debit card, or check transaction in the office.  The insurance company is billed and any remaining patient balance is billed to the patient via an email notification.  Patients click through the email notification to view their bill online and conveniently make an online payment.  If a payment is not made online promptly, the patient will automatically receive a printed statement in the mail with options for making a payment online, by phone, by mail or at the medical office.  At any time, the medical practice is able to process credit cards, debit cards, and check transactions in their office or on the phone.  With pricing for the entire service at less than a dollar per day plus competitive transaction and statement fees, medical practices will experience cost savings as well as significant improvements in managing the patient-due receivables.

The shifting economics toward more patient-funded healthcare is fueling the need for tools to simplify the patient payment process. In just three years, the average medical practice has seen a 50% increase in revenue dependency from money owed to them by patients.  These patient responsible funds used to account for about 20% of the revenue and now are tracking at 30% or more as the prevalence of high-deductible plans, greater co-insurance, and under insured scenarios increase.  Medical practices simply cannot afford to overlook technology advancements aimed at aggressive, proactive management of patient-due receivables.

This announcement continues Kareo’s commitment to providing solutions to solve business problems faced by small medical practices in partnership with leading healthcare solutions companies.  The online statements, payment portal, and payment processing for Kareo’s medical billing software are powered by InstaMed, the leading Healthcare Payments Network for secure and compliant healthcare and payment transactions for providers, patients, and payers.

About Kareo

Kareo is a leading provider of easy to use, affordable, cloud-based practice management and medical billing software to thousands of physicians and hundreds of medical billing companies.  Kareo’s user-friendly and quick-to-implement solution enables physicians to get paid faster by storing patient records, verifying insurance eligibility, submitting electronic claims to insurers, posting electronic insurance payments, billing patients, managing accounts receivable, and much more.  For more information on Kareo, please visit www.kareo.com.

About InstaMed

InstaMed is the leading Healthcare Payments Network connecting providers, payers and patients with healthcare clearinghouse,eligibility, estimation, patient payment and patient billing transactions on one integrated platform. InstaMed delivers payment assurance to providers, enables payers to disburse payments at a lower cost with fewer incidents of fraud, and gives patients a simple, convenient and secure way to pay. The InstaMed Network powers healthcare payments for over 200,000 providers nationally with tens of billions of dollars in healthcare payments processed. Visit InstaMed on the web at www.instamed.com.

Exinda Targets Accelerated UK Growth Via Channel Revamp

by OpenView

Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimization solutions incorporating Unified Performance Management, today added further momentum to its UK market push with the launch of its new Partner Program and the appointment of several key personnel to its UK sales and technical teams.

The move comes amid increasing enterprise demand for Exinda’s next generation WAN optimization technology and growing interest from resellers looking for a differentiated, high margin proposition to take to market.

The new Partner Program sees the creation of a Platinum Partner status aimed at a select number of value added resellers that want to commit and invest in building successful business revenues with Exinda. The plan is to recruit a total of up to 10 Platinum partners by the end of the year. Benefits of the Platinum Partner status include increased margin; deal registration; lead generation; sales and technical training; joint marketing; technical services and support. Exinda is also evaluating its existing Gold partners as part of a review to establish a more committed and focused business relationship with partners moving forward.

“We are fully committed to a two-tier channel model in the UK and have a proven distribution partner in VADition/Exclusive Networks,” explained Adam Davison, Exinda’s VP Sales EMEA. “We are now looking to aggressively recruit a select number of value added resellers as Platinum partners. These partners will live and breathe our Unified Performance Management story and have the skills to fully capitalize on the only truly integrated visibility, QoS and acceleration platform in the market, as well as our unique video caching capabilities. We’re ideally placed in this burgeoning market opportunity for next generation WAN optimization as enterprises look to realize the benefits of Cloud, SaaS, video and Web 2.0 applications.”

To support the growing UK business and enhanced channel model Exinda has made a number of key personnel appointments to its UK sales and technical support teams. David Richards (ex Blue Coat, Packeteer, Juniper) and Rob Marshall (ex Bluefort) have been appointed as Regional Sales Managers for the North & Scotland and the South & Ireland respectively. Louise Robson has also joined the sales team from Riverbed to take up an inside sales role responsible for driving lead generation activities.

“There are fantastic opportunities for Exinda resellers in the UK market,” commented Neil Ledger, joint CEO of VADition, part of the Exclusive Networks Group. “It is growing revenues worldwide, year-on-year, at a rate consistently above 100%, and recently reported revenue growth of over 49% for the three months ended September 30, 2011, compared with the same period in 2010. Much of this is fuelled by the expansion of its sales and support capabilities in markets like the UK.”

Exinda’s technical team has also been boosted by the appointments of Simon Jackson as SE Director EMEA and Tim Reeve as SE for the UK. With previous experience gained at Websense, Blue Coat and Packeteer the appointments further enhance Exinda’s pre sales and technical support capabilities.

“We have assembled a stellar team of people that have proven track records, pedigree and credibility in the market. They have all achieved high levels of success at competitive organizations and it is testament to Exinda’s technology, industry vision and market proposition that they have decided to switch allegiances away from these legacy vendors in favor of our next generation WAN optimization approach”, concluded Davison.

About Exinda®

Exinda is a proven global supplier of next generation WAN Optimisation and Application Acceleration products. The company has helped over 2,500 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide improve the end user experience, manage application performance, manage congestion over the WAN and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive. For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com.

OpenView Labs Shares What Great Companies Are Made of: The Power of Business Aspirations

by OpenView

Do you know the secret to building a great company? Are you building a successful culture? Can your employees explain your company’s mission and vision?

Recently the team at OpenView Labs answered these challenging questions and many more in its latest eBook, A Guide to Defining and Realizing Your Company Aspirations. The eBook features checklists and step by step guides to help senior management teams understand and define a set of aspirations for their companies very quickly.

Aspirations, simply put, are what companies aim to be over time. They are long term goals for any business. Aspirations typically include your mission, vision, values, and priorities. The ultimate goal of identifying, expressing, and living your company aspirations is for everyone in and around your organization to embrace and act in a manner consistent with those objectives.

“During the early years of a company’s life, the founders and senior leaders generally focus on product development and customer development. During this period of formation, the team is working out its basic product, initial value proposition, market focus, and go-to-market approaches. Once the product and customer development has reached a reasonable point of maturity, the team then begins to turn its attention toward company development. One of the best steps an organization can take at this point is to become aspirations-driven. This eBook walks you through the process,” said Brian Zimmerman, Managing Director of OpenView Labs.

Industry experts including Tony Hsieh of Zappos.com, Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks, Erica Olsen of M3 Planning, and Susan Kerr of Advancing Inspiration have contributed ideas and insight to help you build aspirations for your company.

“For young companies, it’s critical to build a team with character, core values, and integrity. Find people who have different strengths and experiences than you, but whose styles are complementary. Defining your company mission and values from the start will help ensure that your team remains focused on the company’s core vision as your business grows,” said Scott Dorsey, CEO of ExactTarget.

Get your copy of The Power of Business Aspirations from OpenView Labs and start defining and expressing your aspirations today.

About OpenView Labs

OpenView Labs is the strategic and operational consulting arm of OpenView Venture Partners, a global Venture Capital fund that invests in expansion stage technology companies. The Labs was formed to assist the management of OpenView portfolio companies build great companies by gathering, creating, storing, and disseminating best practices across all functional areas. The dedicated full-time teams, Senior Advisors, and network at OpenView Labs spend the bulk of their time working on behalf of the OpenView Venture Partner’s Portfolio companies. This work includes incubating methodologies, testing approaches, performing research projects, developing and implementing forums and workshops, gathering the best network and ideas for building great companies, and coaching the management of the portfolio companies.

Skytap and Customer Invited to Speak at Leading Technology Conferences

by OpenView

Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that it was invited to speak on successful agile development practices at the upcoming Better Software conference taking place on Nov. 6-11 in Orlando. Additionally, Skytap customer, Boeing, will discuss successful cloud strategies at the Gartner Data Center conference on Dec. 5-8 in Las Vegas.

Better Software East Conference

What: Cloud-enabled Development: Putting the Agile into the Infrastructure
When: Wed., Nov. 9 10:15 a.m. ET
Where: Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, FL
Who: Brian White, VP of products at Skytap

Session Description: As software development teams seek greater efficiency and effectiveness, they often find that they are held back by old IT architecture for development and test. They wrestle with low-powered servers, difficult-to-scale static environments, and a slow IT provisioning and change processes. Today, software leaders at Calypso, Centric Group, Serena Software, and others have radically changed the way they build, test, and deploy software — almost exclusively using cloud computing to power their development processes. Some teams report benefits of 75% faster development cycles with 70% lower operating costs. In this session, Brian White describes the techniques and practices employed and success factors you can follow to achieve similar results. Brian will also provide specifics on which application workloads are ideal for the cloud model and how the use of cloud computing supports agile development practices.

In addition to speaking at the event, Skytap invites Better Software conference attendees to stop by booth #3a on the expo floor for a product demo and overview.

Gartner Data Center Conference

What: Case Study: Cloud Will Augment, Not Replace Next-Generation Data Centers
When: Wed., Dec. 7 from 10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT
Where: Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV
Who: Cameron Haight, VP of research at Gartner; David Nelson, enterprise technical architect at Boeing

Session Description: These days, there is a lot of discussion around public, private and hybrid clouds. At Boeing, our strategy is to make cloud an integral part of our IT architecture. We have built our data centers to be optimal for business-critical applications. At the same time, we have found the cloud to be very useful for new innovative applications. We have defined an IT architecture that uses public clouds for dynamic workloads and uses a hybrid cloud model for getting the best of both. In this session, we will discuss our cloud strategy, data center architecture, lessons learned and best practice tips.

About Skytap

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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Monetate Publishes Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Ecommerce Websites for Holiday Traffic

by OpenView

To offer guidance on optimizing ecommerce website performance for the holidays, Monetate, the leading provider of testing, targeting and personalization solutions for websites, has published an eBook detailing how retailers can optimize the increased traffic driven to their websites during the holiday shopping season.

Free to download, the 27-page eBook provides strategic insight and best practices to ensure maximum sales. The eBook provides digital marketers with simple ways to:

●    Review the fundamentals of the holiday shopping season, including 10 tips retailers can implement this year.
●    Conduct a segmentation and metrics review of holiday shoppers, including what retailers can learn from their analytics to turn new customers into high-value customers.
●    Highlight unique value propositions, differentiated for each customer segment.
●    Implement a holiday calendar that serves as a how-to plan for promotions leading up to the holidays.

Monetate works with top ecommerce brands such as Best Buy, Urban Outfitters, PETCO, QVC and many others to improve website performance and marketing ROI. The company’s team of digital marketing experts work closely with each client to ensure they make the most of their marketing dollars and optimize website investments. Monetate supports thousands of campaigns across clients each day and has served over 6 billion unique online experiences to consumers to date.

“The holiday shopping season does not have to be a frenzied time for online retailers,” said Monetate founder and CEO David Brussin. “We developed this eBook to help retailers optimize their website performance and provide digital marketers with actionable tips to make a significant impact on the bottom line this holiday season.”

About Monetate

Monetate is the leading provider of testing, targeting, and personalization solutions for websites. The company’s cloud based platform empowers marketers to test and target product offers and site features and convert successful tests into personalized messaging and promotional campaigns, instantly, anywhere on the website. Monetate removes the IT bottleneck and is quick and easy to install using just a single JavaScript tag, inserted only once, and requiring no internal IT resources. Some of the best known brands in the world use Monetate to make the most of their online marketing dollars, increase conversion rates, and personalize the website experience including Best Buy, Aeropostale, Urban Outfitters, Altrec, The Sports Authority, PETCO, QVC and more. Based in Philadelphia, Monetate serves a growing list of B2C websites around the world. For more information about Monetate, visit http://www.monetate.com.

Metrics Marketing Group Announces Magento®-ExactTarget Integration

by OpenView

Metrics Marketing Group, an analytics-driven database marketing and interactive services firm, announced today the release of their in-house developed Magento-ExactTarget integration, enabling merchants to create, deploy and track transactional emails with ExactTarget straight from the Magento platform.

ExactTarget, a leading global interactive marketing solutions provider, and Magento, the fastest growing eCommerce platform on the market, are two of Metrics’ leading interactive services. Metrics Marketing is the only solution provider in the Magento development community to offer the ExactTarget extension.
Metrics Marketing’s Magento-ExactTarget integration gives merchants the ability to create a better shopping experience for their customers by delivering targeted, relevant emails based on behavioral and transactional data. With this functionality, merchants can address abandoned shopping carts by employing highly effective and engaging emails to customers automatically. The integration offers more than 29 different triggered emails including newsletters, new order, order update, shipment update and more.

“Successful eCommerce sites need to focus on building long-term customer relationships instead of one-time transactions,” said Scott Roth, senior director of partner marketing and alliances at ExactTarget. “Metrics Marketing has integrated Magento and ExactTarget to help online marketers create an ongoing dialogue with their customers around the world through highly targeted and personalized interactive marketing programs.”

“As merchants look to create precise triggered and transactional emails to customers, the ExactTarget Extension for Magento provides an enterprise-class solution featuring ExactTarget’s award-winning email platform,” said Phil Robinson, head of business development for Magento. “And we appreciate the leadership once again shown by Metrics Marketing in bringing this extension to market.”

The Magento-ExactTarget integration is currently available for all of Magento’s platform editions including Magento Community, Professional and Enterprise. Metrics Marketing is continually updating the integration to include enhanced dashboards to feature simple analytics data, abandoned cart and campaigns.

“We saw an opportunity to improve the interaction between a distinguished eCommerce platform and a reputable interactive marketing platform to create a solution to target customers more effectively and efficiently,” said Stephen Kidwell, eCommerce practice director. “The Magento-ExactTarget integration now enables online retailers the opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind customer experience as a result of this improved interaction.”

Metrics Marketing is a Magento Gold Solution partner, ExactTarget Platinum reseller and 2010 ExactTarget Partner of the Year.

To learn more about Metrics Marketing’s Magento-ExactTarget integration, visit www.metricsmarketing.com, or contact Adrienne Embery-Good, Business Development Manager at Metrics Marketing via email at [email protected] or call 440-471-6009.

 

About Magento

Magento is the fastest growing eCommerce platform with over 180 solution providers and 60,000 merchants and brands worldwide, enabling over $25B in transactions each year. Magento is a feature-rich, professional Open Source eCommerce platform solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the presentation, content, and functionality of their online channel. Based in Los Angeles, Magento is a fast-paced, entrepreneurial organization dedicated to the mission of enabling the eCommerce ecosystem. For more information about Magento, visit www.MagentoCommerce.com.

About ExactTarget

ExactTarget is a leading global provider of on-demand email marketing and interactive marketing solutions. The company’s Interactive Marketing Hub technology provides organizations a single solution to connect with customers via email, integrated text messaging, landing pages and social media. Supported by collaborative global services teams, ExactTarget’s technology integrates with more sales and marketing information systems than any other in the industry, including Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Omniture and Webtrends among many others. ExactTarget powers permission-based multichannel communications for thousands of organizations around the world. For more information, visit www.ExactTarget.com.

About Metrics Marketing

Based in Cleveland, Metrics Marketing offers comprehensive analytics-driven database and interactive marketing services that include: automated/triggered marketing systems, marketing database development and hosting, email strategy and deployment, predictive modeling, segmentation analysis, search marketing, creative services, website design, development and hosting, eCommerce solutions, web usability, web analytics, user research, traditional market research and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy consulting. Metrics Marketing Group is a Precision Dialogue company and is located at 905 Corporate Way in Westlake, Ohio. Additional information can be found at www.MetricsMarketing.com.

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