NextDocs Corporation, the global leader in Microsoft SharePoint based software solutions for life sciences industries, announced today that the company was ranked #67 on the 30th Annual Inc. 500 list, an exclusive ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

NextDocs Corporation placed #67 on the list, with an astounding three year sales growth rate of 3213 percent, and an increase of almost four million dollars in revenue this past year alone. NextDocs also ranked #3 in Philadelphia and #9 in the Software category.

“NextDocs has been seeing great momentum in growth this year and we are honored to be recognized by Inc. for the second consecutive year,” said Zikria Syed, CEO of NextDocs. “While this award recognizes the dedication and hard work we’ve put into building and growing NextDocs into the company it is today, it only drives us to look towards many more years of such success.”

NextDocs’ solutions help life sciences companies of all sizes reduce the cost and complexity of meeting compliance requirements by leveraging SharePoint-based compliance software. The company has over 100 customers across the life sciences industry, in a variety of sectors, including: pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, contract research organizations and university research foundations.

The 2011 Inc. 500 companies represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which will be unveiled in the September issue of Inc. Complete results of the Inc. 500, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on Inc.com/500.

NextDocs will celebrate with fellow award winners at the Inc. 500|5000 Conference & Awards Ceremony in National Harbor, Maryland, September 22-24, 2011.

About NextDocs Corporation

NextDocs is the global leader in providing Microsoft SharePoint-based compliance solutions to life sciences organizations. It enables businesses in regulated industries to achieve compliance with FDA and other agencies while automating processes, improving efficiency and dramatically reducing costs. NextDocs customers include Pharmaceutical companies, Bio-Techs, Medical Device companies and CROs. For more information on NextDocs Corporation and the software solutions visit www.nextdocs.com .

Methodology

The 2011 Inc. 500 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2007 to 2010. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2007. Additionally, they had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent–not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies–as of December 31, 2010. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2007 is $100,000; the minimum for 2010 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at www.inc.com/500 .

About Inc. Magazine

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. ( www.inc.com ) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 710,106, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit us online at www.inc.com .

Monetate today announced the launch of Monetate 11, a next-generation online marketing platform that gives marketers new levels of control over messaging and promotions on their website. Installed on the website with just one line of code, Monetate 11 is delivered to businesses through a cloud-based platform that enables marketers to inject customized content and features into web pages between the ecommerce server and the site visitor’s browser. To make testing, targeting, and personalization of websites even easier, Monetate 11 features iPad compatibility so marketers can design and manage campaigns from just about anywhere.

“Monetate 11 breaks the mold of all previous website testing and optimization products,” said Monetate founder and CEO David Brussin. “We designed Monetate to empower marketers to take control of their websites and deliver relevant content to online consumers in a strategic manner that makes the most of the traffic driven to their site from all sources. In this new era of agile commerce, Monetate provides marketers with the necessary features and performance to optimize website content for specific visitors in a way that drives real results to the bottom line.”

“Monetate means a better customer experience, and everybody feels better about that,” said Bob Myers, CEO of Sheplers. “When you are trying to deliver the best possible website experience to each and every customer, with a minimum of pain, Monetate is a huge asset to have on your side.”

“Monetate makes us more efficient in how we bring change to the website and that has really changed our business for the better,” said Dmitri Siegel, Executive Director of Marketing at Urban Outfitters.

Campaign Management Made Easy

Monetate 11 enables marketers to handle all aspects of creating, measuring, and managing campaigns to deliver targeted website content — without IT involvement. To get started, marketers simply enter the “who, what, when, and why” of the campaign into the Monetate dashboard. A rich set of tools makes it easy to launch and manage campaigns, including campaign cloning, tagging, and filtering, all new in Monetate 11.

Test Content to Determine What Works

Each Monetate campaign is automatically A/B tested against a control group and the results are tracked in real time so you can quickly see the impact on key metrics like conversion, average order value, cart abandonment, and revenue per session. Monetate 11 supports an infinite number of A/B/n and Multivariate tests, enabling some customers to routinely run more than 100 concurrent tests per month. When tests trend positive, Monetate 11 allows you to disable the control group with one click so the content that performs best is immediately visible to all site visitors, with zero additional cost or coding.

Target Offers and Promotions by Customer Segment

Monetate 11 delivers an unmatched range of targeting options that enable commercial websites to tailor content to disparate traffic segments and create more relevant, compelling, and valuable interaction with their customers. Targeting abilities provided by Monetate 11 include:

• GeoTargeting: Tailor messaging and promotions according to the site visitor’s location. Use geographic targets like country, state, shipping zone, and media market, or target based on demographics like median income. You can also segment offers according to distance from physical stores, offices, or shipping points, even the real-world locations of your competition.
• Weather-based Targeting: Emulate the brick and mortar retail strategy of adjusting displays and promotions based on the weather. Monetate 11 knows what the weather is like where site visitors are located so you can target traffic segments with climate-appropriate products, messaging, and promotions.
• Behavioral Targeting: Target based on any aspect of past or current visitor behavior on your site. Mix and match from a rich menu of criteria including buying patterns and brand preferences, product and category browsing history, number of days since last visit, number and value of items added to cart, and much more.

Personalize the Online Shopping Experience

Monetate 11 features rules-based product recommendation capabilities that allow marketers to target recommendations based on complex business rules, as well as their knowledge of customer preferences. This ensures the right product is put in front of the right customer at the right time. Additionally, the powerful image compositing tool that is built into Monetate 11 enables marketers to automatically create high-quality creatives to run alongside targeted campaigns.

The Flexibility to Add Functionality

Monetate 11 gives marketers the ability to test and deploy their own HTML and JavaScript. Organizations can further leverage Monetate’s tag to evaluate third-party website features like customer reviews, social media integration, product videos, and predictive search, with no back-end coding or IT involvement required. Companies can then use Monetate to seamlessly convert successful test deployments into permanent site features.

Analytics & Reporting

At the heart of the Monetate platform is an analytics engine that provides marketers with all the data they need about traffic segments and purchasing patterns to make informed decisions about the promotions, messages, and other content they deliver to consumers. Monetate 11 adds tagging and filtering of campaigns to provide multiple perspectives on key metrics like conversion rate and average order value. Since Monetate lets marketers design and run multiple concurrent campaigns while simultaneously testing them in real time, without having to rely on their IT department or hire specialized staff, the result is vastly improved marketing efficiency and website ROI.

Availability: All existing Monetate customers are being automatically upgraded to Monetate 11.

About Monetate
Monetate is the leading provider of testing, targeting, and personalization 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 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, visithttp://www.monetate.com.

 

 

Earlier this month, Monetate, the platform that provides marketers with testing and targeting services for their websites, announced that it had closed a $15 million series B funding round, led by OpenView Venture Partners, which added to the $5.1 million series A round the company raised back in December from First Round Capital and FLOODGATE. With over $20 million in the bank, Monetate has been developing a new platform that gives marketers greater control over messaging and promotions on their websites as well as testing, targeting, and personalization tools.

As we reported a few weeks ago, the coolest part about Monetate’s platform is that it can be installed using a single line of code. The startup’s newest version of its cloud-based platform enables marketers to integrate customized content and features between the eCommerce server and the site visitor’s browser.

“One of the unfulfilled promises from the early days of eCommerce was that marketers would be able to deliver the right message to the right customer at the right time”, says Monetate CEO David Brussin. “With Monetate, we have inserted a new level of agility into the eCommerce marketing experience, providing marketers with the ability to make educated campaign decisions that will directly contribute to increased conversion”.

What’s more, as marketers and marketing teams are so often on the go, Monetate 11 allows its customers to test, target, and personalize their websites on the iPad, giving users that extra layer of mobile functionality. Another bonus: All current Monetate users will be automatically upgraded to the new version of its platform.

Monetate 11, like its predecessors, aims to cut out the IT middleman by giving control of creating and measuring marketing campaigns and serving customized user experiences back to marketers. They simply enter the “who, what, when, why” of the campaign into the Monetate dashboard, and the platform takes care of the rest, offering users the ability to take advantage of campaign cloning, tagging, and filtering.

Marketers will also be able to do automatic A/B testing against a control group, tracking the results in realtime, so that marketers can quickly see the impact their new campaigns will have. Users will also have the added benefit of new targeting options, including geotargeting to tailor messages and promotions to a visitor’s specific location, weather-based targeting, and behavioral targeting.

Monetate customers will also now be able to test and deploy their own HTML and JavaScript, target recommendations based on complex business rules, and access all the data they need about traffic segments and purchasing patterns to make informed decisions about the promotions, messages, and other content they deliver to consumers through its analytics and reporting features.

Monetate is really a no-brainer for eTailers and eCommerce marketers. It’s a great solution, and along with an infusion of new capital, the startup’s new version may very well have legs. After all, its platform has already attracted brands like Petco, Urban Outfitters, Sports Authority, QVC, Casual Male, Dick’s Sporting Goods, to use its targeting and testing services on their eCommerce platforms — and Brussin told us that the company has added hundreds of millions in collective revenue to these businesses, removing the need for businesses to hire specialized teams and decrease bounce rates and shopping cart abandonment.

 

Exinda, a leading global provider of WAN optimization and application performance management solutions, and Synnex, (NYSE:SNX), a leading distributor of IT products and services, today announced that the U.S. General Services Administration has authorized the addition of Exinda’s suite of WAN optimization products and services to the Synnex GSA contract (GS-35F-0143R) under Federal Supply Schedule 70.

The GSA Schedule 70 award allows the federal, state and local governments to purchase Exinda products from Synnex through a streamlined process and pre-negotiated pricing that will save them time, resources and money.

The Exinda products now available on the GSA IT Schedule 70 include its full suite of WAN Optimization solutions that improve application performance and user experience on the WAN by offering IT managers complete visibility, control and optimization of the traffic on their networks. Each Exinda solution incorporates the ExOS 6.1 software, which includes the Exinda Edge Cache™, increased Optimization Scalability, and support for IPv6.

“Exinda’s solutions address network issues facing IT managers today, including the increase in rich media such as video traffic, the growing number and complexity of users and devices, and the rising demand for a better user experience on the Wide Area Network,” said Kevin Suitor, Exinda’s VP of Marketing. “We are pleased that Synnex has been authorized to include Exinda’s products under its GSA contract, making Exinda’s WAN Optimization solutions readily available to federal agencies.”

General Services Administration GSA is a centralized federal procurement; property management and policy agency created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. It acquires, on behalf of federal agencies, office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services. It also plays a key role in developing and implementing government-wide policies. GSA, comprised of 13,000 associates, provides services and solutions for the office operations of over one million federal workers located in more than 8,000 government-owned and leased buildings in 2,000 U.S. communities.

About Synnex

SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE:SNX), a Fortune 500 corporation, is a leading business process services company, servicing resellers, retailers and original equipment manufacturers in multiple regions around the world. The Company provides services in IT distribution, supply chain management, contract assembly and business process outsourcing. Founded in 1980, SYNNEX employs over 10,000 full-time and part-time associates worldwide. Additional information about SYNNEX may be found online at www.synnex.com.

About Exinda

Exinda is a proven global supplier of WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration products. The company has helped over 2,000 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.

Exinda and the Exinda logo are trademarks of Exinda. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

 

There are few pieces of software in our virtual toolboxes here at Techgage that are quite as important as Acronis True Image Home. With it, we can keep regular backups of our own PCs, and also create full PC images of our benchmarking rigs that allow us to get back into action fast in the event that we need a fresh start. These are just two features of the many that are available.

The latest version, 2012, has just seen a release and with it comes a substantial new feature and some important updates. Something we don’t ever see (that I’m aware of) in disk imaging software such as Acronis is file synchronization, but to be honest, it’s an important feature to have. Under both Linux and Windows, I make good use of sync programs to keep files in more than one place, and with 2012, Acronis finally delivers that same ability to its customers.

 

According to the press release, you can use file synchronization between PCs, USB devices, NAS boxes and even through the cloud, via Acronis’ own True Image Online. The company states, “If a change is made in one location, it is automatically updated in others, meaning home users can access their most up-to-date data anywhere, any time. Consumers can also share data securely with their family and friends.“

This feature seems to be similar to Dropbox in some regards, where each device can access the same monitored folder and then thanks to synchronization, you can access that up-to-date data on multiple devices.

One lacking ability that older Acronis releases had was the inability to properly support 2TB+ storage devices along with the GTP partition table, but both of those things have been remedied here. In addition, 2012 also brings improved NAS support, better optimized network transfer and an improved UI.

Acronis True Image Home 2012 retails for $49.99 for 1 PC or $79.99 for 3 PCs. I’ll be taking the latest version for a spin in the near-future and might prepare a quick look. For those interested in the software, I recommend you check out our review of True Image Home 2011 as most of what’s mentioned there will apply just as well to 2012.

Forrester Research Inc. Vice President and Principal Analyst Shar VanBoskirk will join ExactTarget for a live webcast at 1 p.m. Aug. 31 to unveil new independent research on the future of interactive marketing in America.

“Forrester’s new interactive marketing forecast provides the most complete assessment of marketers’ plans to increase investment in interactive channels and offers a solid benchmark for brands to use in planning for the years ahead.”

Sponsored by ExactTarget, the webcast will feature a first look at new data from Forrester’s just released Interactive Marketing Forecast, 2011 To 2016 (US) and offer exclusive insights into how marketers plan to adopt cross-channel marketing across email, mobile, social media and the Web.

“The interactive marketing landscape continues to rapidly evolve, as marketers add new channels and expand existing tactics to improve their online brand experience,” said Tim Kopp, ExactTarget’s chief marketing officer. “Forrester’s new interactive marketing forecast provides the most complete assessment of marketers’ plans to increase investment in interactive channels and offers a solid benchmark for brands to use in planning for the years ahead.”

In addition to providing attendees a framework for future interactive marketing growth, VanBoskirk will also offer new insights into the aggressive investments brands are making to boost interactive marketing. Key areas of discussion will include:

• How brands are reallocating budgets from offline channels to fund interactive marketing;
• Why interactive marketing is driving a new ‘customer obsession’ among leading brands;
• How interactive is leading marketing to create a single view of the customer across all channels;
• Why brands are expecting to deliver greater efficiency from email, mobile and social.

Marketers may register for the free webinar here.

The exclusive Aug. 31 webcast follows the launch of the Forrester Consulting study commissioned by ExactTarget that found 48 percent of interactive marketing executives rank understanding customers’ cross-channel interactions as one of the top challenges facing marketing today. Entitled “The New Campaign Management Mandate,” the June 2011 study found marketers’ lack of cross-channel insights result in brands interacting through disconnected channels that fail to deliver seamless brand experiences and the real-time, relevant dialog consumers expect.

About ExactTarget

ExactTarget is a leading global provider of on-demand email marketing and interactive marketing solutions. The company’s Interactive Marketing Hub TM 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 including Expedia.com, Best Buy, Aurora Fashions, Papa John’s, CareerBuilder.com, Gannett Co., Inc., The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The Home Depot and Wellpoint, Inc. For more information, visit www.exacttarget.com.