uSamp, the technology leader in providing targeted audiences for global consumer and business insights, announced today a record quarter, fueled by European growth, which is up 42 percent year over year.

This growth is thanks to strong demand for the cutting-edge, technology-based research that the company provides to the world’s most significant companies. Further growth is expected in 2014.

“uSamp has experienced a tremendous year of growth, as well as significant product innovation and an influx of thought leadership, thanks to key additions to our executive team,” said Alan Gould, CEO, uSamp. “We have the greatest minds in the business, providing exceptional value and fast, actionable insights to thousands of customers through the largest online panel in the world. I’m pleased to report that our performance this past year reflects that demand and that loyalty.”

uSamp continues to serve 30 of the top 50 Honomichl companies, an annual compilation of the top 50 revenue-generating marketing research firms in the U.S. The company recently completed its 50,000th research project since inception and is pleased to announce a 90+ percent completion success rate for proposed research opportunities.  Customers cite flexibility, responsiveness, competitive pricing, accuracy, innovation and speed as top reasons for their continued business with uSamp – all of which contributed to an all time-high Customer Satisfaction (C-Sat) score of 98 percent, a testimonial to their continued loyalty.

uSamp announced its plans to launch its Adaptive Profiling™ system to manage and access audiences for market research, a departure from the industry standard to ultimately double survey completion rates. Also in March, the company announced a significant investment in its next-generation sampling business called SampleCORE™. The technology enhancements – including the move to a fully-open Application Programming Interface (API) platform and enhanced sampling and distribution mechanisms – will provide clients with greater flexibility, efficiencies and scalability.

Enhancing uSamp’s footprint in mobile, the company joined forces with CrowdComputing Systems (CCS) – provider of WorkFusion, the leading crowd computing software platform – to integrate uSamp’s global audience of 12 million into WorkFusion’s to build the world’s largest distributed network.

In addition to experiencing a record quarter in terms of revenues accompanied by a streak of product innovation, uSamp recently bolstered its executive team with key strategic hires and promotions. Elisabeth Mischel, a senior executive from Nielsen Catalina Solutions, joined the company as vice president for Instant.ly platform, which delivers business and consumer insights on-demand with extraordinary speed, accuracy and ease-of-use. Karyn Hall, a former director at Kraft, also came on board as vice president of Instant.ly. Finally, Ted Bouzakis, most recently head of North American sales, was promoted to executive vice president and head of North American sales for the company.

About uSamp

uSamp is the technology leader in market research providing automation, mobile and global sample and insight solutions for marketers. Based in Los Angeles, with five offices in the United States, Europe and Asia, uSamp has been recognized in Inc.’s 500|5000 exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. For more information visit www.usamp.com

Sonian , the pioneer in cloud-powered email archiving, today announced that Sonian’s Email Archive was named a finalist for the 2014 SIIA Software CODiE Awards for Best Big Data Solution.

The SIIA CODiE Awards , the premier awards for the software and information industries, have been recognizing product excellence for 29 years.

“Being named a CODiE Awards finalist marks another important milestone in Sonian’s remarkable growth trajectory,” said Greg Arnette, CTO, Sonian. “We’re honored to be recognized by SIIA, the software industry’s leading association. As we continue to lead the way in email archiving, we remain committed to delivering innovative solutions and long-standing expertise in moving corporate data to a secure cloud archive.”

Sonian’s reference architecture leverages cloud infrastructures to enable organizations to access the dynamic scaling, unlimited storage and highly available, redundant and durable environment of the public cloud architecture. Its primary application is an archiving service that can be deployed in minutes, requires no hardware or software, and is compatible with all major email systems.

“This year’s CODiE Awards finalists showcase the innovation and creativity in today’s market. We are happy to recognize them for their products that are breaking ground in the software industry,” said Rhianna Collier, VP for the Software Division at SIIA. “I look forward to honoring all the finalists in May at our awards program at Maximize.”

This year’s program features 28 Software categories, several of which are new or updated to reflect the latest industry trends. Winners will be announced during a special Awards dinner on May 21 in San Francisco during the industry’s premier ISV gathering of SaaS, BI, and Cloud providers, Maximize .

Details about each finalist are listed at http://siia.net/codies/2014/finalists.asp

About Sonian

Sonian’s secure, scalable cloud-powered information archiving platform enables organizations to protect intellectual property and preserve communications to conduct early stage discovery, achieve regulatory compliance, and cut IT costs. Sonian’s archiving services can be deployed in minutes, require no hardware or software, and are compatible with all major email platforms. Sonian provides the only archiving offering in the market built from the ground up using advanced cloud computing technologies and more than 15,000 customers in 40 countries benefit from Sonian’s industry-leading price/performance and usability. Boasting strong partnerships with the world’s leading technology companies, Sonian combines innovative technology with deep archiving expertise to satisfy customers of all sizes and industries. For more information, please visit http://www.sonian.com .

About SIIA

SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. SIIA represents approximately 700 member companies worldwide that develop software and digital information content. Information technology (IT) and software security are critical issues to SIIA’s members, many of whom strive to develop safe, secure and state-of the-art products that effectively serve their commercial and government customers alike, while protecting their intellectual property.

The SIIA Software Division provides a forum for companies developing the applications, services, infrastructure and tools that are driving the software and services industry forward. For further information, visit www.siia.net/software .

Socrata, a Seattle-based cloud software company focused exclusively on democratizing access to government data, today announced Jeff Kaplan as its first-ever Director of Multilateral and NGO.

Based in Socrata’s Washington, D.C. office and already a recognized global leader in open data, Kaplan will focus on opportunities for global multilateral institutions and non-governmental organizations to use Socrata’s open data platform, open performance solution, and other analytics apps to improve decision-making and drive innovation.

Before joining Socrata, Kaplan spent a decade as a strategic management consultant to government agencies and multinational companies. Over the past four years Kaplan has been working predominantly as a Senior Consultant with the World Bank.

“Open data has quickly achieved a momentum and importance for multilateral organizations, governments, and development partners of all kinds that is undeniable,” says Amparo Ballivian, Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Data Development Group. “Jeff is one of the most effective, pragmatic, and thoughtful open data leaders in the world. He is a great asset to engage these communities and grow the open data ecosystem.”

“I am passionate about the transformative potential of open data for organizations and enterprises,” explains Kaplan. “I have seen firsthand how opening data can power entrepreneurship and innovations that tangibly improve people’s lives and an organization’s effectiveness.”

Kaplan was instrumental in the launch of high-profile open data efforts by the World Bank and leading countries from Eastern Europe to Africa – including Moldova, first in open data among Eastern European and former Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, and Nigeria’s Edo State, the first sub-national open data portal in Africa. Kaplan also led a series of open data assessments for governments in Africa, Latin America, and Russia using a diagnostic tool he co-designed for the World Bank. Most recently, he advised Mexico’s Office of the President during the opening phase of its national open data initiative.

Kaplan was an early thought leader in open technologies. He was Founder and Director of the Open ePolicy Group, a pioneering, global network of government CIOs and industry executives based at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society that published the “Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems.”

“Jeff is a visionary. He sees the global potential of open data as a tool for smarter development and widespread quality of life improvement. He’s experienced, tech savvy, and able to assess what organizations need to find success quickly,” says Socrata Founder and CEO Kevin Merritt.

Kaplan received a B.A. in History from Yale University. He then completed his J.D. at Harvard Law School, where he served as the Editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.

Hiring Kaplan comes on the heels of Socrata announcing its suite of financial transparency apps. These open data apps not only increase access to finance data but make it easy to sort through and understand, making them useful tools for government organizations, multilaterals, and NGOs.

About Socrata

Socrata has already established itself as the leading company in open data for more than 100 governments and organizations on five continents. Delivered as turnkey cloud services, Socrata’s data consumerization products help organizations unlock data and transform it into useful information that everyone can easily access, visualize, share, and reuse. Innovators like the World Bank, Kenya, the United Nations Development Programme, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, USAID, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the City of New York have all chosen Socrata as the data sharing platform for their open innovation initiatives.

Today, during the fourth annual Monetate Summit event, Monetate announced the launch of a new platform which aims to fundamentally disrupt digital marketing and place greater control in the hands of today’s marketers.

The new Monetate platform, consisting of ContentBuilder, TargetBuilder, EventBuilder, and ActionBuilder is democratizing digital marketing by giving marketers a single, self-service user interface from which they can initiate and scale customer experience programs.

The new Monetate platform was designed for marketers by marketers to free them from the constraints of IT, creative and analytics, in order to provide customers with the best possible experience.

“The new Monetate platform puts full control in the hands of the marketer; providing a simple and intuitive means of accelerating creative output and seamlessly managing campaigns across multiple channels and screens,” said Bruce Ernst, vice president of product management, Monetate. “The most scalable programs are the ones that reduce or eliminate as many implementation roadblocks as possible. The launch of this new platform frees marketers from the need to draw upon scarce and costly IT, Creative, Business Intelligence and Professional Services resources.”

Today’s marketers understand the value in creating more relevant and personal experiences for their customers. However, a recent survey conducted by Monetate and eConsultancy, revealed that 54 percent of marketers are “challenged by having to pull together the necessary technology, data and skills to make delivering these experiences work.” The new Monetate platform resolves these challenges by placing everything a marketer needs to create incredibly personalized experiences in a single, understandable and easy to use interface.

The new Monetate platform includes:

• ContentBuilder – Accelerate creative output. Build dynamic content. Democratize creative resources. ContentBuilder allows marketers and their creative counterparts to more quickly and easily build targeted campaign assets, apply them to campaigns and map them to the right audience – allowing for unlimited campaign variations based on just a single asset.
• TargetBuilder – Define audience segments. Know your customers. TargetBuilder allows marketers to easily define and select audience segments and mitigates the need for a centralized customer database. TargetBuilder can define segments based on three criteria – cookies, DOM elements, and Javascript variables.
• EventBuilder – Customize analytics criteria. Reduce dependency on Javascript properties and variables. React in the moment. EventBuilder allows marketers to track standard and custom engagement events for their marketing campaigns; eliminating the need to make physical page changes to accomplish this.
• ActionBuilder – Launched in April 2013, ActionBuilder is a point and click editor that makes it simple for marketers to modify any part of their website, preview changes in real time, and immediately apply the experience to specific customer segments. Once created, those actions are reusable and can be applied to completely different campaigns.

These new tools represent the latest in a host of features focused on delivering enterprise class personalization in a self-service format. The self-service feature set also includes an integration API that allows users to easily map web templates and page types for use in campaigns, as well as a dashboard that monitors performance in real time. The expanded feature set is part of a new breed of tools aimed at allowing user experience teams to work in unison with other cross-functional groups, including creative, analytics, marketing and IT.

For more information on the Monetate platform and our expanded feature set, visit our features page.

About Monetate

Monetate is a marketing acceleration software company that believes when the customer wins, the marketer wins.

A new kind of marketing technology, the Monetate Acceleration Cloud lets marketers understand their customers’ situations, behaviors and preferences, and act on those insights with in-the-moment, relevant experiences, targeted to the right customer at the right time.  The Monetate Acceleration Cloud runs above traditional infrastructure and is accessed through one seamless interface.

Monetate generates billions of dollars of new revenue for businesses, helping them grow 39 percent faster than the industry average. Brands such as Best Buy, National Geographic, and Celebrity Cruises rely on Monetate to put the customer first, creating stronger relationships that drive sustained competitive advantage.

Kareo Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based medical office software and services for small medical practices, announced today that it has hired Tom Patterson as Chief Financial Officer.

Patterson joins Kareo as a member of its executive leadership team and is responsible for management of the company’s financial, legal, and administrative functions. Patterson brings more than 19 years of experience helping high-growth private and public companies scale.

“I’m pleased to have Tom join Kareo during this time of significant growth,” said Dan Rodrigues, CEO and founder of Kareo. “Tom brings to Kareo considerable operational, private and public company experience that will benefit Kareo tremendously as we build our financial and administrative platform to support the expansion of our business.”

Tom Patterson joins Kareo after two years as CFO of Teletrac, a private equity backed SaaS company in the fleet management technology space where he successfully lead the company through a strategic combination with a Fortune 200 company. Prior to Teletrac, Tom spent over nine years with Quest Software in various roles, including VP of Finance, which, before its recent sale to Dell Computers, was publicly traded and the largest software company in Orange County. During his tenure at Quest Software, Tom helped grow the company from approximately $200 million in revenue and 1,500 employees to more than $850 million in revenue and more than 4,000 employees. Prior to Quest Software, Tom spent over six years in various finance and operational leadership roles at Citrix Systems supporting rapid growth from less than $100 million in revenue and 150 employees to more than $600 million in revenue and over 1,500 employees as well as driving the expansion of the company’s global footprint from three to 35 operating jurisdictions. Tom holds a Bachelor’s degree, dual-major in Accounting & Politics, and a M.S. in Taxation from the University of Miami.

“I’m thrilled by the opportunity to join Kareo at a time when the company is growing rapidly and preparing strategically for the significant opportunities ahead,” said Tom Patterson, CFO of Kareo. “I look forward to contributing to the company’s mission to help small practices succeed while developing a strong financial and operational roadmap that will allow Kareo to reach its long-term financial and strategic business objectives.”

Patterson’s hiring comes at an exciting time for the company as Kareo recently announced the closing of $29.5 million in new growth capital. This capital will be used to invest in sales and marketing to accelerate growth, further enhance the company’s cloud-based software platform, and scale its revenue cycle management operations.

About Kareo

Kareo is the only cloud-based medical office software and services platform purpose-built for small practices. At Kareo, we believe that, with the right tools and support, small practices can do big things. We offer an integrated solution of products and services designed to help physicians get paid faster, run their business smarter, and provide better care. Our practice management software, billing services, and free, award-winning fully certified EHR help more than 20,000 medical providers more efficiently manage the business and clinical sides of their practice. Kareo has received extensive industry recognition, including the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 500/5000, Forbes Top 100 Most Promising Companies, and Black Book #1 Integrated EHR, Practice Management and Billing Vendor. Headquartered in Irvine, California, the Kareo mission is to help providers spend their time focused on patients, not paperwork. For more information, visit www.kareo.com.

Monetate announced today the appointment of marketing industry expert Tim Kopp to the company’s Board of Directors.

Kopp will help guide the company as it continues to grow and expand its industry-leading Monetate Acceleration Cloud.

The Monetate Acceleration Cloud is a software platform that helps businesses deliver customized digital experiences to consumers. Monetate’s solutions are generating billions of dollars of new revenue for the world’s leading brands, helping them grow, on average, 39 percent faster than their competitors.

Kopp is a 20-year marketing industry leader widely recognized for his role in building dominant software-as-a-service (SaaS) marketing brands ExactTarget, and WebTrends. For ExactTarget, Kopp helped lead the company through dramatic global expansion, including a successful IPO in 2012 and subsequent acquisition by Salesforce.com.

“I am passionate about seamlessly fusing left and right brain marketing to create incredible customer experiences. I believe Monetate has the necessary ingredients to accomplish this and in the process create and define a new category of software – a next generation marketing SaaS leader for the world’s best brands,” said Kopp. “Monetate’s groundbreaking Acceleration Cloud will usher in a new era of personalized marketing for the world’s best CMOs and marketers. I am inspired to be joining the Board of a company that I expect will change the way we think of ‘marketing’ now and well into the future.”

Prior to ExactTarget, Kopp served as CMO of WebTrends and led the transformation of the brand from a one-product company to a full marketing platform. He also held roles as Vice President of Worldwide Interactive Marketing for Coca-Cola, and as Interactive Marketing Leader, at Procter & Gamble, where he was a founding member of the company’s interactive marketing program, achieving approximately$17 billion in annual sales.

“We are at a very exciting and critical time in Monetate’s business story, growing rapidly and constantly improving our solutions to provide marketers with exactly what they need to succeed in today’s market,” said David Brussin, CEO and co-founder of Monetate. “Tim Kopp’s expertise in helping to grow businesses with a similar mission and trajectory will help guide us to future successes.”

For more information on Monetate’s Acceleration Cloud, visit www.monetate.com.

About Monetate

Monetate is a marketing acceleration software company that believes when the customer wins, the marketer wins.

A new kind of marketing technology, the Monetate Acceleration Cloud lets marketers understand their customers’ situations, behaviors and preferences, and act on those insights with in-the-moment, relevant experiences, targeted to the right customer at the right time.  The Monetate Acceleration Cloud runs above traditional infrastructure and is accessed through one seamless UI.

Monetate generates billions of dollars of new revenue for businesses, helping them grow 39 percent faster than the industry average. Brands such as Best Buy, National Geographic, and Celebrity Cruises rely on Monetate to put the customer first, creating stronger relationships that drive sustained competitive advantage.

Monetate, a marketing acceleration software company, announced that Robert J. Lawson, formerly of RingCentral, has been named chief financial officer for Monetate.

With more than two decades experience in finance and technology, Mr. Lawson will oversee all Finance, Accounting, Administration and Legal functions at Monetate. In his previous role, Mr. Lawson was the senior vice president and chief financial officer at RingCentral, where he implemented the processes and systems needed to enable RingCentral’s 2013 IPO. He also led investor relations for the company.

Prior to RingCentral, he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Codexis, Inc., where he successfully led the first IPO of an advanced biofuel company in April 2013.

Before that, he was vice president of finance for Intuit, Inc.’s TurboTax and Quicken businesses. While at Intuit, he held various senior financial management positions, including vice president of investor relations and financial planning and analysis. Prior to Intuit, Mr. Lawson served for 15 years in various financial management roles at General Electric.

Mr. Lawson holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

About Monetate

Monetate is a marketing acceleration software company that believes when the customer wins, the marketer wins.

A new kind of marketing technology, the Monetate Acceleration Cloud lets marketers understand their customers’ situations, behaviors and preferences, and act on those insights with in-the-moment, relevant experiences, targeted to the right customer at the right time.  The Monetate Acceleration Cloud runs above traditional infrastructure and is accessed through one seamless UI.

Monetate generates billions of dollars of new revenue for businesses, helping them grow 39 percent faster than the industry average. Brands such as Best Buy, National Geographic, and Celebrity Cruises rely on Monetate to put the customer first, creating stronger relationships that drive sustained competitive advantage.

Intronis, Inc., an award-winning provider of world-class cloud backup solutions exclusively for the IT channel, today announced it has earned three distinct industry honors from CRN for its executive leadership and partner program excellence.

Neal Bradbury, Co-Founder and VP of Channel Development for Intronis, was named one of CRN Magazine’s 50 Most Influential Leaders on the 2014 Channel Chiefs list. Noted among the channel’s “movers and shakers,” Bradbury joins an elite list of the IT channel’s top executives and vendor brands. Intronis’ Rob Merklinger, VP of Sales, was also recognized as one of this year’s CRN Channel Chiefs, marking his second year on the list.

Regarded as one this year’s “Best Channel Vendors,” Intronis was also selected for CRN’s 2014 Partner Program Guide and awarded an elite 5-Star Partner rating for its focus on delivering channel enablement and success to its managed service provider (MSP) partners. CRN’s listing for Intronis’ 2014 Partner Program can be viewed online.

“Ensuring the success of our channel partners is top of mind in all we do, and we remain steadfast in our commitment to providing the IT channel’s best-performing, cloud-based backup and data recovery solutions, enablement tools and sales support,” says Rick Faulk, Chairman and CEO, Intronis. “It’s a great honor to see Neal and Rob recognized again by CRN for their ongoing channel advocacy, leadership and relentless focus on partner success, and we are extremely proud of our ranking as a 5-Star Partner.”

In 2013, under the guidance of Bradbury and Merklinger, Intronis exceeded its sales targets by growing its business with existing partners and welcoming new Intronis partners. The company also made significant investments to better support and enable its channel partners’ success. Among these achievements, the company created a Partner Success Organization, completed its first State of the Cloud Backup Study, and made several enhancements to its cloud backup solution and resources including support for virtualized environments and new usability enhancements to its partner portal.

“Investing in the business resources that will help our partners be more successful is a top priority at Intronis,” says Jasmine Lombardi, Vice President of Partner Success, Intronis. “We take great pride in empowering our partners and will be introducing even more enablement resources and support offerings in the weeks ahead.”

To learn more about Intronis online, follow the channel-friendly cloud backup and recovery innovator on Facebook and Twitter, and read the Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery Blog.

About the CRN Channel Chiefs

For more than 10 years, Channel Chiefs have been selected by the CRN editorial team based on channel experience, program innovations, channel-driven revenue, and public support for the importance of IT channel sales. The 2014 Channel Chiefs list was featured in the February/March issue of CRN, and online at http://www.CRN.com.

About the CRN Partner Program Guide

The CRN 5-Star Rating and Partner Program Guide is the definitive listing of manufacturers and software publishers that deliver products and derive sales through the IT channel. Intronis sells exclusively through the MSP community and is recognized as one of the IT industry’s most friendly channel vendors. The 2014 Partner Program Guide is now featured on CRN.com and the 5-Star Partners listing is also highlighted in the April 2014 issue of CRN.

About Intronis

Intronis is an award-winning provider of world-class cloud backup solutions exclusively for the IT channel. Intronis offers the deepest Exchange and SQL backup on the market, securely protects physical and virtual data with native support for VMware, Hyper-V, and physical system images, and easily integrates with top RMM and PSA tools. Intronis’ complete data protection platform has been field tested by thousands of MSPs and is centrally managed from a single console that can be customized and rebranded. In 2014, the company was recognized as a “Best Channel Vendor” by Business Solutions Magazine and one of the “Top 100 Cloud Computing Vendors” and “Top 20 Coolest Cloud Storage Vendors” by CRN Magazine. Learn more at http://www.intronis.com.

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