SILICON SLOPES, Utah, Nov. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Workfront, the leading provider of cloud-based Enterprise Work Managementsolutions, today announced Pete Childs joined the company as its new Chief Financial Officer and a member of the executive leadership team.

As Workfront’s Chief Financial Officer, Childs will be responsible for the overall financial strategy and direction of Workfront, as well as the finance, accounting, planning, and legal teams.

Childs brings over 20 years of experience working in finance leadership, including the successful completion of two IPOs. Prior to Workfront, Childs was the Chief Financial Officer at Cvent, a leading cloud-based enterprise event management platform. During his tenure at Cvent, Childs completed a $1 billion IPO and a successful follow-on less than six months later. He also contributed to the company’s high growth, and profitability with a 30+% CAGR, resulting in a doubling of revenue while maintaining positive margins during his tenure. Childs also held leadership positions at HCR ManorCare and Towers Watson, where he also participated in the company’s IPO.

“Pete is a great addition to the Workfront team due to his proven success and in-depth knowledge of what it takes to financially manage a high growth SaaS company,” said Eric Morgan, CEO of Workfront. “Pete’s insight and experience will play a vital role in the direction we take the company in the future.”

Childs replaces former Workfront CFO Michael Olsen, who left the company earlier this year for personal reasons.

Childs joins Workfront at an exciting time as the company just announced $33 million in funding and the acquisition of online review and approval leader ProofHQ, both of which add to Workfront’s growing opportunity. Workfront was also recently listed as a Leader in the Gartner Inc., 2015 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Based IT Project and Portfolio Management Services^[1] and a Challenger in the Gartner Inc, 2015 Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management^[2].

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About Workfront

Workfront is a cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solution that helps marketing, IT, and other enterprise teams conquer the chaos of excessive email, redundant status meetings, and disconnected tools. Unlike other tools, Workfront Enterprise Work Cloud is a centralized, easy-to-adopt solution for managing and collaborating on all types of work through the entire work lifecycle, which improves team productivity and executive visibility. Workfront is trusted by thousands of global enterprises, like Cars.com, Cisco Systems, Comcast, iProspect, Schneider Electric and Trek. To learn more, visit www.workfront.com or follow us on Twitter @Workfront_Inc.

SEATTLE, Nov. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand Environments as a Service (EaaS), today announced that GE Healthcare, Informatica, and Schneider Electric have successfully deployed Skytap’s training solution to increase the effectiveness of their training programs and collaboration across global teams. Skytap’s comprehensive virtual training labs solution has seen strong adoption in the market as it helps these and many other companies deliver a highly scalable hands-on software learning experience, improve performance of employees and partners, and drive overall business success.

Today’s training departments are expected to deliver an increasing volume of classes, while controlling costs and IT support requirements. This places immense pressure on conventional training infrastructures as they are often time-consuming to provision, and their network requirements consume bandwidth quickly. The limitations of these physical and online classroom delivery models have created an immediate need for solutions that deliver fast, easy, and secure virtual training on a global scale.

For example, using Skytap’s virtual training solution, GE Healthcare has raised the bar in the effectiveness of its training “100-fold” in their words. Previously, training within the U.S. and Canada required expensive travel. With Skytap, the company can bring its training straight to employees living almost anywhere with a global reach expanding as far as Kenya. “In the past, I had to bring someone into the training center at headquarters so they could access hands-on environments,” said Doug McKelvey, Training and Organizational Readiness manager at GE Healthcare IT. “Leveraging Skytap, we’re actually able to give that student, in their home location the ability to actually do the hands-on training. When you’re dealing with technology, hands-on is the only way people learn.”

Using Skytap’s self-service web UI, trainers can provision new classrooms in seconds to provide a hands-on learning environment anywhere in the world, including self-paced course delivery that students can schedule around their own availability. Skytap’s virtual training solution also allows training organizations to take their existing instructor-led and remote training environments to the cloud without any application rewrites.

“Skytap is a very scalable solution, and you can replicate environments in a matter of minutes,” said Alex Gurevich, senior manager of global education services at Informatica. “The most important thing is that we can integrate with our learning management system and fire off labs that are available to students within two to three minutes from the point of registration.”

According to Andrew Garbutt, an instructional designer at Schneider Electric, the use of Skytap has allowed his team to triple its training base, while relying on the same number of trainers or less. “Skytap helps us very quickly deploy training resources so we can dive right into providing the software training people expect from us,” said Garbutt. “With Skytap, we’re now able to reach three times as many students.”

To learn more about how Skytap simplifies training programs across all industries, visit the Skytap customer page here:https://www.skytap.com/company/customers/.

About Skytap, Inc.
Skytap provides Environments-as-a-Service (EaaS) to transform the software development lifecycle and help customers deliver better software, faster. Today’s enterprise is challenged to continuously deliver new customer-facing applications, while overcoming increasing change and complexity in IT infrastructures. Our customers use Skytap to manage, share, deploy and decommission on-demand environments that contain everything needed to collaborate at each phase of the SDLC, without unnecessary costs and project delays due to manual configuration and dependencies. Enterprise IT organizations maintain full visibility and cost control, while allowing dev and test teams to self-provision labs and share complex environments with ease, for a lasting boost to agile DevOps initiatives. To try Skytap and learn more, visit www.skytap.com.

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SILICON SLOPES, Utah, Nov. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Workfront, the leading provider of cloud-based Enterprise Work Managementsolutions, today announced that its ongoing growth has landed it a spot in MountainWest Capital Network’s (MWCN) Utah 100. This year marks the eighth time the company has been included in the MWCN rankings.  Workfront made the list at number 72 this year.

MWCN has named the 100 fastest growing companies in the state of Utah for over 20 years. Companies are evaluated based on five years of compound annual growth and revenue generation.

“Workfront’s continued success comes from the fact that we solve a huge business problem for marketing teams, creative agencies, and other enterprise departments,” said Eric Morgan, CEO of Workfront. “For most organizations, work can feel like a whirlwind of chaos and disorganization. We solve these problems by moving work management from spreadsheets and email and giving workers a comprehensive tool purpose-built for managing the lifecycle of work. As a company, a ranking on the MWCN Utah 100 reinforces the appreciation we have for our customers and their continued confidence in us.”

Workfront experienced steady growth and market share in 2014, achieving 49% year-over-year total SaaS subscription growth.

Other 2015 Workfront accolades include:

• Leader in the Gartner Inc., 2015 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Based IT Project and Portfolio Management Services
• Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave™: Portfolio Management for The Tech Management Agenda, Q1 2015
• Most Influential Global SaaS Companies in the Montclare SaaS 250
• Challenger in the Gartner Inc., 2015 Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management
• Ranked number 1 in Top Ten Reviews 2015 Best Online Project Management Review
• Ranked 28^th in Utah Business Magazine‘s Fast 50 for seventh year in a row
• Ranked 279^th in Apps Run the World‘s Cloud Top 500 Application Vendors

Workfront was also listed as one of Utah’s Best Companies to Work For in 2014.

To learn more about Workfront, visit www.workfront.com

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About Workfront

Workfront is a cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solution that helps marketing, IT, and other enterprise teams conquer the chaos of excessive email, redundant status meetings, and disconnected tools. Unlike other tools, Workfront Enterprise Work Cloud is a centralized, easy-to-adopt solution for managing and collaborating on all types of work through the entire work lifecycle, which improves team productivity and executive visibility. Workfront is trusted by thousands of global enterprises, like Cars.com, Cisco Systems, Comcast, iProspect, Schneider Electric and Trek. To learn more, visit www.workfront.com or follow us on Twitter @Workfront_Inc.

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (PRWEB) October 30, 2015 — OpenView Venture Partners, the premier growth engine for expansion-stage software companies, announced today the addition of Rufus King as the firm’s first Chief Legal Officer. A venture lawyer by trade, King has spent his career focused on venture capital and technology companies. His work spans both the private and academic sectors, but always with a focus on venture and entrepreneurship.

In his role as Chief Legal Officer, King will work to improve the firm’s legal processes while facilitating interactions between OpenView’s portfolio companies, investors and other stakeholders. And, in an increasingly complex compliance and security environment, he will help OpenView and its portfolio members both navigate and reduce these risks.

Prior to joining OpenView, King launched the Center for Law and Entrepreneurship at Villanova Law School, serving as its inaugural Director. At the Center, King worked to build a bridge between the Law School and the entrepreneurial and venture communities by creating new courses, internships and a legal clinic.

He was previously an equity partner at the law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston, where he represented a wide range of private investment funds, both in the United States and internationally. His clients included prominent venture capital, buyout and mezzanine funds. During his time there, he successfully completed more than 100 fund formation projects and also worked with a select group of investors into private investment funds, such as pension plans, college endowments and sovereign wealth funds.

King has also served as outside legal counsel to companies in the information technology, biotechnology and medical device industries, from inception, through initial public offerings, to public-to-public mergers.

“We are thrilled to have Rufus as part of the firm,” said Dan Demmer, Managing Partner at OpenView. “Rufus brings with him a wide breadth and depth of experience in both high tech and venture capital that will undoubtedly benefit OpenView, our portfolio members and prospect companies.”

“Since its inception, OpenView has done things differently. I am honored to join such an innovative and experienced team,” said Rufus King. “I have true passion for entrepreneurship, venture capital and the law and I am so excited to combine these as OpenView’s first Chief Legal Officer.”

King received his JD, cum laude, from Harvard University and holds a graduate degree from the University of Oxford as well as a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude. He has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Legal 500 U.S.

About OpenView Venture Partners
OpenView Venture Partners is an expansion-stage B2B software venture capital firm with nearly $700 million in total capital under management. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Boston, MA, OpenView provides its portfolio with value-add services through OpenView Labs. Programs range from recruiting to market research and marketing and sales strategy. For more information, visit openviewpartners.com.