Mashery, the leading provider of API (Application Programming Interface) management and strategy services, announced today its new Distributed Commerce service, which lets companies offer secure purchases and financial transactions on any app, device or social network — whether developed in-house or by strategic partners. Mashery has also become the first API management provider to be fully certified and designated as a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliant Level 1 Service Provider through a Record of Compliance (ROC) letter from the PCI Security Standards Council™.

With the explosion of connected devices — Cisco predicts one trillion by 2013* — smart companies want to extend buying cycles to the full range of consumer touch points, including mobile devices, social networks, and strategic affiliate channels. Mashery Distributed Commerce lets them do just that, with a platform for accepting credit card transactions and purchase authorizations directly through APIs. In addition to achieving PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) 2.0 Validated Service Provider status, Mashery Distributed Commerce also includes an OAuth 2.0 Accelerator, making it possible to authorize purchases through APIs when stored payment information is on file.

“Mashery Distributed Commerce allows Best Buy to securely offer purchase transactions through our strategic partners,” said John Bernier, Partner Engagement Manager at Best Buy. “And, we can execute transactions seamlessly, without forcing users to leave our partners’ apps or sites, which makes for a more compelling, user-friendly experience than traditional affiliate programs.”

Mashery Distributed Commerce adds financial transactions to the growing list of content and services that companies are distributing via APIs, which already includes product information, media content, secure account management, and information services. Because Mashery is a PCI Compliant Service Provider, Mashery Distributed Commerce takes API management and transmission “out of scope” for customers’ PCI audits, meaning one less headache for companies looking to enable secure transactions and grow their businesses beyond existing channels and networks.

“Because Mashery has passed the extensive independent PCI audit and received a Record of Compliance, we give merchants the freedom to deploy fully customizable purchase experiences wherever, whenever, and on whatever devices their customers want to transact,” said Oren Michels, CEO and Co-Founder of Mashery. “And we remove a major piece of the merchants’ compliance burden, speeding time-to-market by allowing them to launch fully PCI compliant commerce APIs immediately. Unlike so-called PCI-ready API management solutions, which purport to be PCI compliant simply because they run in a PCI certified data center, Mashery Distributed Commerce lets compliance officers rest easy knowing their entire API management infrastructure has already passed a PCI audit.”

Mashery Distributed Commerce provides companies with the ability to:

• Securely offer purchases and financial transactions through any app, on any device, and in any context — including those developed and/or distributed by third parties, strategic partners, or social networks.
• Empower affiliates to accept transactions directly without forcing users to leave a site just to complete a purchase.
• Create flexible, personalized transaction touch points for customers across multiple shopping experiences without having companies incur additional PCI liability — setting compliance officers at ease.
• Exchange B2B financial transaction and purchase data with strategic partners via APIs.
• Designate APIs that carry sensitive data, triggering enhanced security measures such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) transmission and more stringent developer access control.
• Easily configure OAuth 1.0 or 2.0 (two-legged or three-legged) authentication for purchases where payment account information is on file.

For more information about Mashery’s new Distributed Commerce service, please visit http://www.mashery.com/solution/commerce.

* Cisco Systems, Inc., International CTIA WIRELESS® 2010 Keynote Address, March 2010

About Mashery
Mashery, the world’s leading API management and strategy services company, helps more than 100 leading brands — including Best Buy, Netflix, and The New York Times — connect with customers and partners across devices, markets and the Web. 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 over 115,000 developers. Mashery’s tools and services transform our customers into true digital platforms, so they can open new distribution channels, speed time-to-market, and spur innovation. Mashery was founded in 2006. For more information, visit www.mashery.com.

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.

 

Backup and recovery specialist Acronis, is today launching Acronis^® True Image^™ Home 2012, the latest version of its multi award-winning consumer software. In a move that promises to shake up the market, Acronis is the first  to combine online backup, local backup and file synchronization in one product, not only protecting home PCs but also giving home users easy access to their digital lives, wherever they are, whenever they want.

Acronis True Image Home 2012 brings together Acronis’ established, easy to use, disk imaging backup and recovery technology with file synchronization. The software allows home users to sync their files no matter where they are stored – PC, USBs, NAS, as well as in the cloud via Acronis^® True Image™ Online. 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.

Until now, file synchronization technology has been found in dedicated file sync products but not in disk imaging backup products, which is used to capture an entire PC, including the operating system, applications and files for fast and reliable recovery. Acronis True Image Home 2012 offers all these technologies in one easy-to-use solution.

The file sync is as simple as setting up a folder (akin to My Documents) and placing data in that folder. The information is automatically transferred and available between the different locations that the user wants to access. Home users can also choose to sync their data securely with family and friends with Acronis True Image Home 2012 installed on their PCs and laptops. Synchronization is easy via a home network or over the internet.

“Since 2002, we’ve been trusted by home users worldwide to protect their most valuable information. We’ve built a strong user base that provides us with excellent feedback to further enhance our products,” explains Jason Donahue, CEO of Acronis. “With the new version, we’ve thought beyond traditional backup features, to really give people an easier computing experience. People have spent years saving their files to flash drives or emailing themselves the latest version of their documents and it’s messy and ineffective. Our latest developments will enable home users to take that extra leap, from hoping you have the latest version, to knowing that you do.”

“The product is very simple to install, very fast, responsive and is really easy to use,” said beta tester Phil Coats. “I found that the ‘Get Started Tutorials’ were easy to understand. Logging also gets a big thumbs up!”

Other new or improved features in the product include:

• New: Extended support large disks (2TB+)
• Improved: Acronis® Nonstop Backup™ now compatible with NAS, plus better optimized network load
• Improved: Enhanced NAS support
• Improved: Enhanced GUI

Notes to editors

Pricing and availability

Acronis True Image Home 2012 is available through select retailers and online athttp://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/. Recommended retail price is $49.95.

The Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack add-on is available online athttp://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ and through retailers for $29.95. It enables users to restore the backed up image to dissimilar hardware, regardless of make, model or installed components.

Licensing

Licensing is one perpetual license per machine. Each computer to be synchronized requires a license. Acronis True Image Online license covers up to 5 PCs.

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About Acronis

Acronis is a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. Its patented disk imaging technology enables corporations, SMBs and consumers to protect their digital assets. With Acronis’ disaster recovery, deployment and migration software, users protect their digital information, maintain business continuity and reduce downtime. Acronis software is sold in more than 90 countries and available in up to 14 languages. For additional information, please visitwww.acronis.com. Follow Acronis on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acronis.

Acronis® and the Acronis logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Acronis Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

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Press contacts:

Lucy Millington
Acronis, Inc.
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[email protected]

NextDocs Corporation, the global leader in Microsoft SharePoint based software solutions for life sciences industries, today announced that the Company has received $10.3 million in a Series A financing from OpenView Venture Partners. NextDocs will use the financing to accelerate their current rapid growth, including investments in broadening product lines, customer service and support, and expansion into new markets.

“What truly differentiates NextDocs is the breadth and depth of its solution, the exceptional list of large and mid-market customers, and extraordinary operational execution. The vision for NextDocs is to become the leading solution provider focused on addressing a wide range of compliance-centric needs in regulated industries.”

“The market for life sciences compliance solutions is undergoing significant change, and life sciences companies are no longer satisfied with the incumbent solutions due to their complexity and cost,” says Firas Raouf, Venture Partner at OpenView Venture Partners. “Over the past few years, a new breed of compliance solution providers has emerged to satisfy the evolving needs of these companies. These new entrants have leveraged Microsoft SharePoint as the platform upon which to build the next generation of compliance solutions. After spending a good deal of time researching the space, it became clear that NextDocs was the leading provider in this emerging sector.”

NextDocs’ solutions help life sciences companies of all sizes reduce the cost and complexity of meeting compliance requirements by leveraging SharePoint-based Document and Quality Management software. Founded in 2006 by Chief Executive Officer Zikria Syed and Chief Technology Officer Matt Walz, the company is currently headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe.

“It has been a busy few months at NextDocs,” says Syed. “We announced the creation of a Life Sciences Scalability Lab with Microsoft and a partnership with NNIT to expand our offerings in Europe. In addition, Microsoft named us a winner of their Life Sciences Innovation Award, and their Life Sciences Partner of the Year. As we continue to build on this momentum, we will look to deploy this capital from OpenView Venture Partners to enhance our existing product offerings for customers and expand product lines to meet our clients’ changing needs.”

NextDocs continues to grow rapidly, and in 2010, was ranked #52 in Inc.’s annual list of fastest growing companies in the United States. 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.

Raouf, who will be joining NextDocs’ Board of Directors, continues, “What truly differentiates NextDocs is the breadth and depth of its solution, the exceptional list of large and mid-market customers, and extraordinary operational execution. The vision for NextDocs is to become the leading solution provider focused on addressing a wide range of compliance-centric needs in regulated industries.”

Madison Park Group acted as the investment banking advisor to NextDocs in this transaction.

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.

About OpenView Venture Partners

OpenView Venture Partners is an expansion stage venture capital fund with a focus on high-growth software, Internet, and technology-enabled companies. Through its staff of seasoned operating executives, who collectively bring several decades of technology and management experience to the firm, OpenView is able to help portfolio companies with quickly ramping up Product, Go-To-Market, and Organizational and Operational functions to best practice levels. The firm was founded in 2006 and has a total capital under management of approximately $240 million. OpenView Venture Partners is based in Boston and invests on a worldwide basis.

eEye Digital Security, a provider of IT security and unifiedvulnerability management solutions, will exhibit in Booth T23 at the AFCEA LandWarNet Conference, August 23-25, 2011, at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida.

The LandWarNet Conference is presented by AFCEA International, which was established in 1946, as a non-profit membership association serving the military, government, industry, and academia as an ethical forum for advancing professional knowledge and relationships in the fields of communications, IT, intelligence, and global security. The LandWarNet Conference is the premier forum to bring Government and Industry together to openly communicate commercial best business practices and government implementations. This year’s event theme is “Transforming Cyber While at War.”

eEye will offer conference attendees the opportunity to explore the company’s latest innovations, demonstrated in Booth T23, primarily the newly released Retina CS 2.5 Management solution, as well as add-on modules for Configuration Compliance, Government Regulatory Reporting, and Patch Management.

eEye has developed a specific set of IT security solutions to help Government agencies ensure security and compliance through centralized vulnerability management and compliance offerings such as:

• Retina.GOV: Retina.GOV provides unified vulnerability management and compliance with continuous monitoring of systems to adhere to government-related compliance and assessment standards.
• Retina Network Security Scanner: This flagship component of Retina.GOV is SCAP-certified as an FDCC Scanner, Authenticated Configuration Scanner, Authenticated Vulnerability and Patch Scanner, and Unauthenticated Vulnerability Scanner.
• Government Report Packs: Automated compliance reporting around specific regulations such as FISMA/NIST, FERC/NERC, and MASS 201.
• Configuration Compliance: Auditing and reporting on common industry configuration guidelines and best practices such as DISA GOLD Disk, FDCC, NIST, USGCB, Microsoft, and more.
• Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA): eEye has been the leader in providing complete auditing capabilities, offering more comprehensive IAVA audits than any other vulnerability management provider.
• DISA STIG Auditing: eEye provides STIG auditing capabilities for Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP Professional, and additional Microsoft systems.
• FDCC Auditing: eEye provides FDCC auditing capabilities for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

“Clearly, Government organizations are under intense pressure to protect the nation’s data and systems. Exhibiting at the LandWarNet conference gives us the opportunity to interact with Government IT Security personnel to hear their latest challenges,” said Brad Hibbert, VP Strategy, eEye. “We also look forward to demonstrating eEye’s latest solutions to show them how they can more easily prioritize security and compliance risks, as well as remediate vulnerabilities to better protect their IT environments.”

eEye will also encourage conference attendees to take advantage of free resources that the company provides to the IT security community, including a free vulnerability scanner, Retina Community. Most recently, the Company released a new IT security research report, In Configuration We Trust, which outlines simple configuration changes that can dramatically improve an organization’s security posture. eEye’s Zero Day Tracker provides an online catalogue of the newest zero-day vulnerabilities, instructions for quick remediation, and a historical record of past vulnerabilities. eEye’s Vulnerability Expert Forum (VEF) webinars, hosted monthly by CTO Marc Maiffret and the eEye Research Team, continue to attract hundreds of IT security professionals seeking insight and information on recently announced critical vulnerabilities from Microsoft and other software vendors.

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. More at eeye.com.

NextDocs Corp., which employs 50 engineers, techs, sales and support people at its King of Prussia headquarters  customizes Microsoft SharePoint software for clinical drug testing and other corporate medical uses, says it’s raised its first venture capital since its founding five years ago by Microsoft veterans Zikria Syed and Matt Walz: $10.3 million from Boston-based, $240 million-asset OpenView Venture Partners.

OpenView partner Firas Raouf, who’ll join NextDocs board, called NextDocs “the leading provider” of “a new breed of compliance solution providers” in a statement. NextDocs will use the money to expand into other “regulated industries.”

Current NextDocs clients include Merck, SanofiAventis and other big drugmakers. The company works closely with Microsoft’s pharmaceuticals division, which is based in Malvern.

It seems pretty likely that if you’re a business in a heavily regulated industry, like pharmaceuticals, you can bank on spending huge chunks of time meeting compliance standards with government bodies like the FDA.  Thus, it seems even more likely that if you do a little browsing around the Internet, you could probably find someone to do that for you.  To that end, compliance solutions providers like NextDocs have cropped up to help businesses in regulated industries save time and money.  On Monday, NextDocs announced a $10.3 million Series A round from OpenView Venture Partners.

Founded in 2006, the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based company leverages Microsoft SharePoint to enable businesses in the life sciences industries meet compliance standards while automating processes, improving efficiency, and reducing cost.  NextDocs has already drawn quite the impressive client list, including five of the top ten pharmaceutical companies in the country.

In addition to pharmaceuticals, NextDocs also serves research institutes, clinical research organizations, labs, technology service providers, and medical device makers.  Some of the names you might be familiar with include Pfizer, Sanofi, Evenflo, Charles River Labs, Inventiv, St. Jude Medical, Duke Clinical Research, Stanford University, Wake Forest University, and more.

“The market for life sciences compliance solutions is undergoing significant change, and life sciences companies are no longer satisfied with the incumbent solutions due to their complexity and cost,” says Firas Raouf of OpenView Venture Partners, in a statement. “Over the past few years, a new breed of compliance solution providers has emerged to satisfy the evolving needs of these companies. These new entrants have leveraged Microsoft SharePoint as the platform upon which to build the next generation of compliance solutions. After spending a good deal of time researching the space, it became clear that NextDocs was the leading provider in this emerging sector.”

In 2010, NextDocs was ranked number 52 in Inc.’s annual list of the fastest growing companies in the U.S.  The company plans to use the new capital from this round to accelerate growth, invest in new product lines, rev up customer service and support, and expand into new markets.