VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile project management tools, announces a free, two-part #agilelive webinar series focused on helping businesses scale agile collaboration across their enterprises faster, easier and smarter. The webinars will be held on July 17 and July 24 at Noon ET.

Register for the webinar series here. Everyone who registers will also receive a link to the recordings of the webinars.

The first webinar on July 17 will feature David Hussman, well-known agility coach, instructor and practitioner, who will share insights into the essentials for successfully expanding the power of effective collaboration and the delivery of great software. Participants will learn how to:

Start the right conversations at the right time with the right players
Get people talking and sharing the information necessary for success
Ask the essential questions focused on outcomes
A quick preview of the Collaboration that Scales webinar can be found here.

The second webinar on July 24 will feature Andy Powell, Product Evangelist and Bob Vincent, Product Manager, who will demonstrate how VersionOne provides the end-to-end framework to help capture and facilitate collaboration across the enterprise. Participants will see a:

Platform for enabling enterprise-wide collaboration and decision making
Development team-based environment for improving planning and communication
Customer-facing solution for capturing and prioritizing feature requests
Metrics and reporting for ensuring stakeholder visibility and business alignment
“We’re excited to host this year’s AgileLIVE webinar series focused on Accelerating Enterprise Agile,” said VersionOne President and CEO Robert Holler. “As part of our commitment to bringing the software community resources that make agile easier, this series leverages real-world insights from industry thought leaders to give participants new ideas and perspectives they can use tomorrow.”

About VersionOne

VersionOne is a recognized leader and visionary in agile application lifecycle management. Our mission is to help companies envision and deliver great software. Our promise is to promote and serve the best interests of the agile software development community with genuine respect and humility. Every single day we work hard to make a difference both in our community and with our customers.

Today more than 50,000 teams including over 35 of the Fortune 100 use our products to help them scale their agile initiatives faster, easier, and smarter. Whether a small team just starting out with agile or a global enterprise, VersionOne customers get the best software tools in the industry backed by the pioneers of agile project and lifecycle management. Follow us on Google+, Twitter, Facebook and our blogs.

Agile Made Easier @ VersionOne.com

UnboundID, a leading platform provider for identity data, today announced that it has joined the Technology Partner Program from CA Technologies as a Select Level member and has obtained CA Validation of its Identity Data Platform with CA SiteMinder(R). The UnboundID Identity Data Platform enables companies to dynamically manage, protect and share customer data in real-time across cloud, mobile and social applications.

The CA Validation program is designed to provide a standard process to verify technology partners’ integrated products. Specific criteria must be met including confirming a technology partners’ integrated solution correctly installs, configures, and performs as described by the technology partner.

Through this agreement, UnboundID products can be used as back-end storage and management of Users, Keys, and Policies, enabling customers to use their existing investments in CA SiteMinder for single sign-on while migrating to a high-performance identity infrastructure based on the UnboundID platform.

“We are excited to have UnboundID join our partner program and achieve CA Validation,” said CA Technologies Shawn Sprague, Sr. Director SiteMinder. “UnboundID’s platform complements CA SiteMinder well and our joint customers can feel confident in the integration of our technologies.”

As companies move from IT-centric services to business service innovation, and develop and deploy more heterogeneous hybrid environments, they require IT solutions that meet their requirements to simplify, secure and accelerate the management of their environment. The Technology Partner Program from CA Technologies enables the development of value-added integrations for all CA products. The result is an extensive ecosystem of third-party companies and products that help CA Technologies deliver rich solutions across a broad spectrum of IT management disciplines to meet the management needs of the most demanding IT environments.

About UnboundID Corp.

UnboundID is a leading platform provider for identity data, enabling companies to dynamically manage, protect, and share customer data in real-time across cloud, mobile and social applications. UnboundID solutions help companies increase average revenue per customer while significantly lowering their costs for service and application delivery. UnboundID is a privately held company based in Austin, Texas, and is funded by Silverton Partners and OpenView Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.unboundID.com.

UnboundID is a registered trademark of UnboundID Corp. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Security and networking VAD Cloud Distribution has announced a new distribution agreement with WAN optimisation specialist, Exinda for the UK and Northern Ireland.

The partnership extends Cloud Distribution’s networking practice, of which it claims Exinda is now a key component. The vendor’s products have been installed within 3,000 mid and large size enterprises, addressing issues such as bring your own device (BYOD), cloud application migration and internet traffic control.

“Having recently been recognised by Gartner Research as a Visionary in its 2013 Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers, we were looking for an equally innovative networking expert distribution partner – we found it with Cloud Distribution,” explains Kevin Kirksey, VP global Sales for Exinda.

“This partnership is an exciting opportunity for both our organisations,” adds Adam Davison, director at Cloud Distribution. “I see first-hand the impact they are making in the market with their unique approach to network management. No other solution on the market today can provide network visibility, WAN and Internet control and application optimisation within a single suite.

“Our resellers will appreciate being able to address their customers’ concerns around an increasingly distributed and mobile network that cannot contend with the demands being placed on it.”

Monetate will preview LivePredict, its upcoming automated segment discovery product, at eTail Europe on 25-26 June 2013 in London. LivePredict will be the first product on the market that automatically identifies valuable customer segments and gives marketers the ability to take action instantly by creating and displaying online content targeted specifically to those segments.

Monetate developed LivePredict to address a major unfilled market need in customer segmentation. In a recent survey conducted by Econsultancy, 94 percent of all marketers reported personalisation is “critical to current and future success” of their businesses, but fewer than 20 percent are using segment discovery tools to uncover what messages and content should be presented to which audiences.

Too often, marketers who want to target specific customer groups with personalised content or offers have to predefine the segment based on intuition or a time-consuming deep dive of data,” said John Healy, chief operating officer at Monetate. “LivePredict takes the guesswork out of targeting by automatically surfacing and ranking customer segments by the potential business opportunity they contain. It enables brands to easily connect high-value customers with high-impact experiences that foster brand loyalty and create lifelong customers.”

At eTail Europe, Monetate will showcase its complete customer experience platform, which leverages big data to create personalised online customer experiences in real time. Attendees can discover how retailers use Monetate solutions to create a web experience that reacts intelligently to a customer based on data such as purchase history, device, location, in-session browsing behaviour and more. Monetate will also show how brands can easily deploy A/B/n and multivariate testing, and quickly optimise their websites to provide the experience that works best for different customer segments.

About LivePredict

LivePredict automatically identifies over-performing and underperforming customers segments, and the attributes and behaviours that define them. It eliminates the guesswork for marketers when deciding who to target with which campaigns, along with the time-intensive task of performing manual, post-hoc segmentation on every campaign. Without having to enter any query or even know what questions to ask, Monetate LivePredict autosurfaces and ranks customer segments by the potential business opportunity they contain. Monetate LivePredict estimates potential business opportunity according to the size of the segment and the performance of the segment compared to the site average.

About Monetate

Monetate empowers marketers to leverage Big Data to create more personalised and engaging online customer experiences. By providing a more relevant web experience, leading brands are able to anticipate and react to consumer preferences to generate stronger customer relationships and significantly increase profits.

Monetate drives billions of pounds of revenue every year for some of the best-known brands in the world, including Patagonia, The North Face, National Geographic, Kiddicare, L’Occitane, Best Buy and Macy’s. The company’s comprehensive product suite and conversion expertise enable marketers to deliver a more relevant customer experience with unprecedented agility.

Leading marketers rely on Monetate’s cloud-based browser technology to achieve a new level of speed and control, allowing them to run 16 times more optimisation campaigns compared to industry averages. The Monetate technology includes advanced products for testing, merchandising, targeting and cross-channel consistency, providing an opportunity to bypass IT restraints and react in real time to customer demands. Monetate also helps marketers implement best practices and drive online revenue through its expert strategic services and content publishing teams. For more information visit http://monetate.com/ or follow us on Twitter @Monetate.

Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that Thor Culverhouse has been appointed CEO. Thor previously served as President and CEO of Stratavia, a leading provider of data center automation software solutions, which was acquired by HP in August 2010.Thor replaces outgoing CEO, Scott Roza, who led Skytap through five years of consecutive growth, while expanding the company’s customer roster to over 250 enterprises. Scott will continue to serve on Skytap’s board of directors.

“Skytap has a tremendous market opportunity in enterprise cloud computing and its recent milestones demonstrate that the company has the right combination of technology and talent to accelerate its growth,” said Thor Culverhouse. “The company’s vision for empowering development and test teams through intuitive cloud services directly addresses some of today’s biggest challenges in building and deploying new software. I look forward to working with the Skytap team to build upon the company’s track record of success and drive greater adoption of its hybrid cloud solution.”

As CEO of Stratavia, Thor successfully transformed the company from an early stage managed services business to a license software business focused on data center automation and private cloud deployments. After the company’s acquisition by HP, Thor ran the Global Accounts Sales Force for HP Software where he led a team of 200 sales professionals across the company’s largest software accounts. Prior to Skytap, Thor founded willbeHired, a social recruitment platform. Thor has also served in leadership roles at companies including IBM, Informix, and Tektronix.

“Skytap is already a leader in helping enterprises embrace and manage cloud services,” said Matt McIlwain, managing director at Madrona Venture Group. “The seamless transition from Scott’s outstanding leadership to date to Thor’s passion for the future of enterprise cloud will help Skytap and its customers realize their full potential.”

About Skytap

Skytap is the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions for dynamic workloads. Skytap Cloud gives businesses a fast, easy, and secure way to create complex computing environments in the cloud. Customers can run enterprise applications unchanged in the cloud, collaborate securely with global teams, and gain unparalleled business productivity. Additionally, IT organizations maintain full visibility and control over cloud projects, align capacity with demand, and reduce costs. Enterprises can securely connect Skytap Cloud to their data centers and create hybrid clouds. Skytap is ideal for any dynamic workload including development and testing, software demos and evaluations, and virtual training.

Kareo, Inc., the cloud-based medical office software and services provider for small medical practices, announced today its integration with Demandforce, an Intuit Inc. company (Nasdaq: INTU). Demandforce is now integrated with Kareo’s Practice Management application and available to Kareo’s current customer base of over 20,000 medical providers.

With this new integrated solution, medical practices can expand their practice management activities to include building online reputation, proactively engaging with patients for preventive or recurring care, and delivering cost efficient and effective growth campaigns.

“It is so important today for potential new patients to be able to find us, learn about us, and interact with us online,” said Dr. James Libecco, Akron Skin Center. “Having online tools to reach our existing patients will help us reduce no-shows, manage follow-up care, and engage with patients who have fallen off our radar. Our practice will improve with the addition of Demandforce and Kareo.”

Kareo customers now have additional options for automating appointment scheduling and confirmations, including the ability to use two-way text messaging. By leveraging Kareo and Demandforce, a medical practice can improve office staff schedule management efficiency by as much as 50% while decreasing missed appointments by 40%. With powerful patient survey tools, a medical practice can proactively build its online reputation on popular Internet review sites and gain customer traction through online marketing. Demandforce automatically tracks results and revenue from all communications and online marketing efforts to provide real-time visibility into the success of the small medical practice.

“By integrating Demandforce, Kareo now delivers an all-in-one, integrated service that helps small practices succeed,” said Aimee LaFont Leifer, director of business development, Demandforce. “It’s a pleasure to work with a company that understands the unique needs of small practices and how to build solutions to help these practices access the tools and resources previously only available to large healthcare organizations.”

“Small practices face a uniquely challenging environment in which they operate today,” said Rob Pickell, CMO, Kareo. “By joining forces with Demandforce, we are able to offer small practices powerful tools to support reputation management and growth while enabling much more effective and efficient patient engagement. This is another way that we are striving to deliver solutions and services to help small practices and their patients thrive and prosper.”

Available today, the Demandforce and Kareo integration allows customers to get up and running in as little as 30 minutes. To maximize success with the Demandforce offering, Kareo customers have access to Generation Demandforce, an online community for Demandforce users that provides real-time support via training videos and user feedback. Pricing for Kareo Practice Management with Demandforce is available upon request.

About Kareo

Kareo is the only cloud-based medical office software and services platform dedicated to small practices. At Kareo, we believe that, with the right tools and support, small practices can do big things. We offer an integrated suite of products and services designed to help small practice physicians get paid faster, run their business smarter, and provide better care. Our Practice Management software, Billing Services, and free, full-featured EHR help more than 20,000 medical providers more efficiently manage the business and clinical sides of their practice. Based in Irvine, California, Kareo’s mission is to help providers spend their time focused on patients, not paperwork.

Spredfast, the leading independent social marketing software provider, today announced that registration is open for the 2013 Spredfast Social Summit, the company’s annual customer conference, which will be held October 16-18, 2013 in Austin, Texas. Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group, will deliver the opening keynote, while social media industry leaders from brands including Whole Foods Market, REI, General Mills, LinkedIn, and Clorox will share use cases and best practices for proving social’s impact across the business.

The three-day event will bring together social media teams from Spredfast customer and partner organizations, as well as industry analysts and influencers to engage in discussions around navigating today’s challenging social landscape and how to achieve business success through effective, powerful social media programs.

“Our customers and partners are at the forefront of using social media in unique and effective ways to better achieve their business goals,” said Rod Favaron, Spredfast CEO. “We are excited to bring back the only user conference in our industry to help facilitate knowledge sharing amongst social thought leaders and provide unparalleled insight into the organizational processes and social use cases that are driving results.”

Confirmed brands speaking along with Huffington at the Spredfast Social Summit include: LinkedIn, General Mills, Whole Foods Market, AT&T, Brooks Brothers, REI, LexisNexis, Clorox, HomeAway, ARAMARK and Caterpillar.

Additional information on the Spredfast Social Summit 2013 can be found at the following link: http://summit.spredfast.com/. Customers should also follow the Twitter hashtag #SFSummit to stay up to date on the latest Summit agenda and activities.

About Spredfast:

Based in Austin, Texas, Spredfast provides social media management software that allows organizations to manage, monitor, and measure their social media programs at scale. Spredfast enables more people, in more places, to engage in more conversations from a single platform on supported social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, and popular blogging platforms. Some of the enterprise and agency adopters on board with Spredfast include AT&T, Jason’s Deli, Warner Brothers, Whole Foods Market, AARP, AGAIN Interactive, Coty Beauty, HomeAway and Ogilvy. For more information, visit www.spredfast.com

Media Contact:

Brittany Edwards

[email protected]

(512) 359-6055

SOURCE Spredfast

/Web site: http://www.spredfast.com/

 

American Business Awards Names ExactTarget’s Annual Client Conference Best Tradeshow, Honors ExactTarget’s Marketing Team with Annual Accolade Global digital marketing leader ExactTarget (NYSE:ET) announced today that its annual Connections conference was named best Convention in America by the American Business Awards. ExactTarget garnered the title at the eleventh annual Stevie Awards, earning top recognition for its annual three-day client conference that attracted more than 4,000 marketers and software developers in 2012 and has featured world-renowned speakers, including Sir Richard Branson,Michael J. Fox, Soledad O’Brien and David Blaine. “The American Business Awards is a great validation that ExactTarget Connections is the world’s premier digital marketing conference, bringing together the best B-to-B and B-to-C marketers and technology in the world,” said Scott Dorsey, ExactTarget’s chairman and chief executive officer. “Connections is a powerful experience that provides marketers around the globe with inspiration and education that transforms digital marketing campaigns of many of the world’s leading brands.” In addition to earning the top Stevie Award for its Connections conference, the American Business Awards also honored ExactTarget with a Silver Stevie Award for Marketing Department of the Year, recognizing the company’s global strength in demand generation, branding and product marketing. “ExactTarget has pioneered a new approach to marketing, bringing the passion and energy for branding found in B-to-C organizations with the laser precision on process and results found in the best business marketing teams,” said Tim Kopp, ExactTarget’s chief marketing officer. “This recognition is an incredible testament to the strength and passion of our global marketing team and the tremendous results we’ve delivered.” The accolades from the American Business Awards follow a series of honors for ExactTarget, including: ‘Top Workplace in Atlanta’ by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the second consecutive year ‘Gold Stevie Award for Customer Service Department of the Year – Computer Software (Up to 100 Employees)’ by the American Business Awards Named among the fastest growing software companies in Software Magazine’s annual Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software providers Recognized among America’s fastest growing companies by Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Forrester Voice of the Customer Award finalist for incorporating customer insights into everyday business decisions ‘Indiana Business Leader of the Year’ awarded to Co-Founder and CEO Scott Dorsey by theIndiana Chamber of Commerce ‘Silver Stevie Award for Contact Center of the Year (Up to 100 Seats)’ by the American Business Awards ‘Bronze Stevie Award for Contact Center Management Team of the Year’ by the American Business Awards ‘Silver Stevie Award for HR Executive of the Year’ awarded to Todd Richardson, senior vice president of human resources by the American Business Awards ‘Bronze Stevie Award for Human Resources Department of the Year’ by the American Business Awards ‘Best Places to Work in America for Recent College Grads’ by national career services firm Experience for the second consecutive year The recognition for ExactTarget Connections comes as the company prepares for its Connections 2013 event Sept. 17-19 in Indianapolis. Expected to welcome more than 6,000 attendees, the event will feature keynotes from former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, biographerWalter Isaacson and author Jim Collins. Registration is available online at www.ExactTarget.com/Connections2013. About ExactTarget ExactTarget is a leading global provider of cross-channel digital marketing software-as-a-service solutions that empower organizations of all sizes to communicate with their customers through email, mobile, social media, Web and marketing automation. ExactTarget’s suite of integrated applications enables marketers to plan, automate, deliver and optimize data-driven digital marketing and real-time communications to drive customer engagement, increase sales and improve return on marketing investment. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana with offices inAsia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America, ExactTarget trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “ET.” For more information, visit ExactTarget. Media Contact Kari Brownsberger (Finn Partners) 312.329.3980 [email protected]