AtTask, the only provider of Enterprise Work Management for marketing teams today announced they had been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Gartner Inc. report, Cool Vendors in CRM Marketing Applications, 2013.

Gartner states, “The Cool Vendors in this research offer unique marketing capabilities for MRM and distributed marketing, and a data- and workflow-driven marketing platform. These vendors provide opportunities for innovation with their specialty focus, but should be considered in a broader context for integrated marketing management (IMM), with the expectation of some risk due to their small size.

“It’s great validation for AtTask and our Marketing Solutions Group to be included in Gartner’s Cool Vendor report,” said Eric Morgan, CEO of AtTask.  “To be one of three vendors named in the report demonstrates the value that AtTask provides marketing teams and the need for our solution in this market.”

The report continues, “This year’s Cool Vendors in marketing applications provide more robust people and project management and distributed marketing capabilities, and a data-driven cross-channel marketing platform.”

Cool brands like Tommy Hilfiger , Harry & David, Red Bull , Workday, and GoPro use AtTask for marketing teams to bring visibility, communication, and harmony to their marketing teams.  AtTask is the only work management solution in the market that meets the unique needs of the enterprise: managing repeatable, structured, frequent, interdependent work that requires significant team collaboration.

AtTask Enterprise Work Management for marketing teams includes:

• Resource management and allocation – Optimize people resources with real-time updates on where people are working, and where they are needed   
• Marketing work coordination – Ensure that the right people work on the right activities at the right time with the right information.
• Creative production management – Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of creative projects, including reviews and collaboration
• Request management – Stop the ad hoc flow of requests by managing both internal and external work requests
• Financial management – Track and forecast budgets, revenue, planned versus actual costs, ROI goals and more.
• Complete Work Visibility – Check the status of individual and team work at any time, including relevant assignments, dependencies, milestones, progress, status, issues, and more.

Morgan continues, “AtTask for marketing teams eliminates the chaos marketers feel and allows them more time to stay in the right side of the brain where creativity lives.”

To read the full Cool Vendors in CRM Marketing Applications, 2013 report, visit http://www.attask.com/promo/email/attask-cool-vendor.

Additional Resources:

• Listen to how top marketers are solving communication and visibility problemshttp://www.attask.com/marketing/webinars/solve-visibility-problem/
• Read how other marketing customers are using the AtTask http://www.attask.com/marketing/customers/
• Watch how AtTask can calm the chaos of marketing teams http://www.attask.com/marketing/integrated-marketing-work-management

About AtTask

AtTask is the only provider of cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solutions for enterprise teams. This provides a single, central place to better manage and control the chaos of enterprise work, which improves visibility and productivity by eliminating wasted time dealing with fragmented, siloed tools and processes. With AtTask, teams, managers and executives receive visibility into work planning, prioritization, resourcing and sequencing to help everyone work more efficiently toward achieving the organization’s goals. AtTask has a broad range of Global 500 and other enterprise customers, such as Nike, Cisco, ABC, ESPN, 3M, and Trek. To learn more, visit www.AtTask.com or follow us on Twitter @AtTask.

Gartner Disclaimer

Gartner does not endorse any vendor; product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Contact:

Shelbi Gomez
[email protected]
801-477-9813

Exinda, a global provider of next-generation WAN optimization and Network Control solutions, has announced  it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., as a visionary vendor in the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers.

According to Gartner, “As basic acceleration capabilities mature, we are seeing a resurgence of interest in visibility and control, both as a means to demonstrate WOC effectiveness, and as a bandwidth/response time planning tool. Providing advanced traffic management capabilities for application and user performance measurement and SLA reporting are key emerging requirements for WOC equipment.”

These market conditions have allowed Exinda to thrive in the midmarket with its unique suite-based offering. Exinda is the only vendor to deliver WAN optimization, Network Control and Application Monitoring in a single, easy-to-use suite. Its WAN optimization and Network Control solutions are used by midmarket enterprises and institutions around the globe. Exinda has:

• Experienced four consecutive years of strong double-digit growth
• Helped more than 2,600 customers around the world assure their critical application SLAs
• Established leadership in key vertical industry segments, including education, manufacturing, retail, government, financial services and hospitality
• Grown channel relationships with more than 200 trusted partners around the world.

“It is an honor to be recognized as a visionary in the Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers,” said Exinda CEOMichael Sharma . “Exinda’s vision of application SLA assurance mirrors the fundamental shift we are seeing in corporate networks as they evolve away from basic throughput maximization and towards providing a predictable user experience for all network applications. By providing IT managers clear visibility into their network traffic, and giving them the ability to set policies at the user, group and application levels to prioritize that traffic, Exinda is well-positioned for success, now and in the future. “

To qualify for the 2013 WAN Optimization Controller Magic Quadrant, vendors’ products needed to include traffic management capabilities, such as WAN QoS classification, enforcement or traffic shaping; compression, bandwidth reduction capabilities, including compression, caching and/or data deduplication; generic protocol acceleration (for TCP or HTTP, for example); application- or higher-level protocol-specific optimization features, such as acceleration of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) file-sharing protocol. Vendors also needed to have global installations and support capability.

To access the report, please visit the Exinda website.

(1) Gartner “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers,” by Joe Skorupa , Mark Fabbi , and Bjarne Munch , 29 April 2013

About the Magic Quadrant

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Exinda

Exinda is a leading global supplier of WAN optimization and Network Control solutions. Exinda enables organizations to assure a predictable user experience for strategic business applications through policy-based WAN optimization and Internet Control that intelligently allocate network bandwidth and optimize traffic based on the priorities of the business. The company has helped more than 2,600 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide assure application performance, improve the end-user experience, contain recreational applications and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive. For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com.

AtTask, the only provider of Enterprise Work Management for marketing teams today announced they had been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Gartner Inc. report, Cool Vendors in CRM Marketing Applications, 2013.

Gartner states, “The Cool Vendors in this research offer unique marketing capabilities for MRM and distributed marketing, and a data- and workflow-driven marketing platform. These vendors provide opportunities for innovation with their specialty focus, but should be considered in a broader context for integrated marketing management (IMM), with the expectation of some risk due to their small size.

“It’s great validation for AtTask and our Marketing Solutions Group to be included in Gartner’s Cool Vendor report,” said Eric Morgan, CEO of AtTask. “To be one of three vendors named in the report demonstrates the value that AtTask provides marketing teams and the need for our solution in this market.”

The report continues, “This year’s Cool Vendors in marketing applications provide more robust people and project management and distributed marketing capabilities, and a data-driven cross-channel marketing platform.”

Cool brands like Tommy Hilfiger , Harry & David, Red Bull , Workday, and GoPro use AtTask for marketing teams to bring visibility, communication, and harmony to their marketing teams. AtTask is the only work management solution in the market that meets the unique needs of the enterprise: managing repeatable, structured, frequent, interdependent work that requires significant team collaboration.

AtTask Enterprise Work Management for marketing teams includes:

• Resource management and allocation – Optimize people resources with real-time updates on where people are working, and where they are needed
• Marketing work coordination – Ensure that the right people work on the right activities at the right time with the right information.
• Creative production management – Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of creative projects, including reviews and collaboration
• Request management – Stop the ad hoc flow of requests by managing both internal and external work requests
• Financial management – Track and forecast budgets, revenue, planned versus actual costs, ROI goals and more.
• Complete Work Visibility – Check the status of individual and team work at any time, including relevant assignments, dependencies, milestones, progress, status, issues, and more.

Morgan continues, “AtTask for marketing teams eliminates the chaos marketers feel and allows them more time to stay in the right side of the brain where creativity lives.”

To read the full Cool Vendors in CRM Marketing Applications, 2013 report, visit http://www.attask.com/promo/email/attask-cool-vendor.

Additional Resources:

• Listen to how top marketers are solving communication and visibility problemshttp://www.attask.com/marketing/webinars/solve-visibility-problem/
• Read how other marketing customers are using the AtTask http://www.attask.com/marketing/customers/
• Watch how AtTask can calm the chaos of marketing teams http://www.attask.com/marketing/integrated-marketing-work-management

About AtTask

AtTask is the only provider of cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solutions for enterprise teams. This provides a single, central place to better manage and control the chaos of enterprise work, which improves visibility and productivity by eliminating wasted time dealing with fragmented, siloed tools and processes. With AtTask, teams, managers and executives receive visibility into work planning, prioritization, resourcing and sequencing to help everyone work more efficiently toward achieving the organization’s goals. AtTask has a broad range of Global 500 and other enterprise customers, such as Nike, Cisco, ABC, ESPN, 3M, and Trek. To learn more, visit www.AtTask.com or follow us on Twitter @AtTask.

Gartner Disclaimer

Gartner does not endorse any vendor; product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Contact:

Shelbi Gomez
[email protected]
801-477-9813

VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile project management tools, today announced the availability of its Spring 2013 release.

With the introduction of a new Portfolio Timeline and enhanced Conversations, the new release extends VersionOne’s enterprise agile offering to help customers improve organizational visibility and collaboration and simplify coordination of their agile portfolio management (APM) initiatives.

As identified by VersionOne’s recently announced State of Agile Development survey, organizations of all sizes are expanding their use of agile, with almost 50 percent now using agile practices across five or more teams. As agile adoption continues to grow and more teams are introduced to agile methods, effective management and tracking to business objectives becomes increasingly difficult.

The new Portfolio Timeline allows Project Management Offices (PMOs) and project leaders to quickly get a high-level view of their portfolio of business initiatives, enabling them to see progress and identify at-risk projects. The Portfolio Timeline also allows program and project managers to drill down into each level of their project hierarchy to obtain more detailed information, driving better decision making.

“This product release extends our enterprise feature set to better support customers practicing agile across their entire organization, giving them the visibility and interactive collaboration capabilities they need to manage cross-project initiatives from inception through delivery,” said Robert Holler , president and CEO of VersionOne.

Additional feature updates further strengthen an organization’s ability to support enterprise-wide agile initiatives within VersionOne. These include:

• Conversation Groups – enable more effective communication through the ability to target conversations to specific groups and topics.
• “My Conversations” – provide a personalized, consolidated view of conversations each team member is currently engaged in, and current status.
• Ideas improvements – give product managers more granular control over the information that is displayed on both future and previously delivered ideas. Notifications are also included to allow customers and users to engage in timely conversations occurring around new ideas.
• Application Catalog – allows teams to easily identify applications currently in use that can be integrated with VersionOne.

For more information about the Spring 2013 product release, visit http://www.versionone.com/release/2013/spring/

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

Exinda, a global provider of next-generation WAN optimization and Network Control solutions, has announced that it has enhanced its network-shaping capabilities, adding a 10Gbps license to its solution for mid-market data centers.

The addition of a 10Gbps license gives enterprises with growing bandwidth requirements advanced user-level visibility and network shaping in an integrated solution, resulting in more effective management of recreational traffic and assurance of critical application SLAs.

“Traditional network shaping solutions have helped mid-market enterprises ease their ongoing bandwidth crunch, but these organizations are still strained, with no visibility into whether the traffic they are shaping is mission-critical or recreational,” saidAaron Brown , vice president of product management at Exinda. “Exinda is the only vendor to pair 10Gbps network-shaping capabilities with intelligent acceleration and user-level reporting in a cost-effective, single-box solution.”

Exinda’s enhanced network shaping solution for 10Gbps is designed to meet the needs of high-traffic data centers, including those of educational institutions, manufacturing operations, retail organizations and more. RMIT University, one of the top 100 universities in the world for engineering and technology, recently upgraded its network connection to 10Gbps.

Exinda customers can utilize the 10Gbps license to:

• Segment recreational and business-related traffic, so IT managers can prioritize applications like Desire2Learn, and contain recreational traffic like YouTube.
• Set policies and report at a group or user level, so the CEO’s weekly video conference is prioritized while bandwidth hogs are identified and contained.
• Accelerate ROI attainment as a result of Exinda’s easy set-up and management
• Create SLA definition and enforcement across the enterprise to guarantee a predictable application user-experience across the network.

“Enterprise network managers with rapidly growing network bandwidth requirements struggle to define and deliver application SLAs to the business,” said Jim Metzler , founder and vice president at Ashton, Metzler & Associates. “The ability to monitor and shape traffic at the scale of 10 Gbps will help them resolve one of their biggest issues: assuring user experience.”

About Exinda

Exinda is a leading global supplier of WAN optimization and Network Control solutions. Exinda enables organizations to assure a predictable user experience for strategic business applications through policy-based WAN optimization and Internet Control that intelligently allocate network bandwidth and optimize traffic based on the priorities of the business. The company has helped more than 2,500 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide assure application performance, improve the end-user experience, contain recreational applications and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive. For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com.

uSamp, a leading provider of business insights through mobile and online survey technology, has appointed Alan Gould to the position of Chief Executive Officer.

Founders and Co-Presidents, Matt Dusigand Gregg Lavin, will continue to operate the company’s core sampling business.

Gould comes into this new role as an experienced industry veteran with great understanding of the business insights marketplace. In 2000, he founded IAG Research and built the company into a leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry. He served as its co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen for $250 million. Following the company’s merger with Nielsen, Gould created and served as CEO of Advertiser Solutions, a business unit of the Nielsen Company.

“I am delighted to join uSamp’s executive team. uSamp is one of the fastest growing companies I have ever seen in the marketing services space with a special talent for introducing great technology to its clients.” said Mr. Gould. “uSamp possesses on demand access to millions of consumers around the world and combines that access with the industry’s most advanced mobile research products. I look forward to working with Matt and Gregg and this special group of innovators to expand our position as a go-to provider of key business insights.”

Gould recently served on the boards of VIZU, which was acquired in July 2012 by Nielsen, Harris Interactive (2011- 2012) and the READ Alliance, an organization that teaches young children to read. Since 2011, Gould has been a Venture Partner with Greycroft Partners (www.greycroft.com) a leading early stage venture capital firm with offices in Los Angeles and New York and has served as a member of uSamp’s board of directors, in addition to a role as Board observer with Crowd Computing Software and Netsertive, both Greycroft portfolio companies.

“We are excited to welcome Alan to his new role as CEO. He is an industry leading product innovator for marketing data and analytics, with a history of successfully starting and leading companies to sustained growth. We are certain he will bring great energy and leadership to our already strong team,” said uSamp co-founder Matt Dusig.

About uSamp

uSamp (www.uSamp.com), the fastest growing company in the Market Research Industry, is a premier provider of technology and survey respondents used to obtain consumer and business insights. uSamp’s leading-mobile technology and SaaS platform transform the way companies gain intelligence to make better, faster decisions about their products and services by tapping into uSamp’s 12 million member global panel of survey respondents. Through uSamp’s proprietary technologies for self-serve sampling and survey authoring, companies have on-demand access to millions of profiled survey respondents. uSamp is based in Los Angeles, with five offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. The company has more than 200 team members worldwide. uSamp was No. 213 on the 2012 Inc. 500|5000 exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies and is recognized on the 2011 and 2012 Forbes’ America’s Most Promising Company list.

NextDocs announced has the release of NextDocs 6, the latest version of its award-winning regulated content management and compliance suite.

With 5 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and two of the largest CROs relying on NextDocs solutions, the company’s platform is on track to become the new industry standard for regulated content management.  NextDocs 6 includes expanded capabilities to meet the demands of the highly global, mobile and collaborative life sciences operating environment.

“The life sciences industry has been undergoing a major IT platform shift, and that shift is accelerating,” said Zikria Syed, Chief Executive Officer of NextDocs.  “Content management and compliance are too critical to the success of life sciences companies to rely on legacy systems.  The leaders in the industry are rapidly turning to regulated content management solutions based on open standards to more comprehensively address compliance, harmonize business processes and promote online collaboration.”

Nearly 90 percent of digital content is unstructured according to IDC, the IT analyst firm, exposing companies to varied compliance and efficiency issues.  In a separate study, nearly 37 percent of life sciences companies have reported scaling back or replacing their legacy systems, such as EMC Documentum.  Nearly 65 percent of life sciences companies say they have shifted or plan to shift to Microsoft SharePoint-based content management systems.

NextDocs solutions, which work alongside the dynamic SharePoint platform, enable businesses in regulated industries to comply with FDA and other health authority regulations, while also streamlining and automating business processes, improving collaboration and reducing costs.  NextDocs 6 includes the following new capabilities and enhancements to its Regulatory, Clinical and Quality solutions, including SOP:

• Compliance Engine: A more advanced workflow and security engine that enables sophisticated business processes and functions including controlled print, delegation, change control and periodic review.
• Compliance Dashboard:  Improved dashboard and search capabilities that provide a single view of document status, workflow details and the full audit trail, to help users focus on critical tasks.
• Redefined Mobile Experience:  An enhanced mobile experience that opens up adoption to an expanded set of business roles, both inside and outside the enterprise.
• Pre-Built Deployment Configurations: Over 500 out of the box workflow configurations, based on industry-proven best practices, which enable faster and lower cost deployments.

NextDocs 6 enhancements are designed to meet the business needs of both mature companies with highly developed online regulated content management processes, as well as emerging, high-growth companies that aspire to more automated, scalable and compliant processes:

“We’ve leveraged our experience across more than 100 customer deployments to design NextDocs 6.  Now, customers can take advantage of a next generation technology platform, while also embedding  industry-proven best practices,” said Satwik Seshasai , Chief Technology Officer at NextDocs.

The advantages of the pre-built configurations, compliance engine and redefined mobile experience are extremely beneficial in a clinical trial management environment.  NextDocs Trial Exchange solves the challenges that life sciences companies face in managing clinical documents in an increasingly global and partner-enabled environment.  The solution allows remote trial site staff to contribute documents to an established eTMF work stream, receive and complete tasks generated by the sponsor, view document statuses, and retrieve documents on demand using tablets and smart phones.  As a result, it can reduce the time and cost of trial management, improve collaboration with investigators, and strengthen security and compliance.

The company also announced the availability of NextDocs QuickStart, an all-inclusive, cloud-based offering for companies looking to get started with electronic regulated content management.  QuickStart includes the pre-configured software, implementation services and support required for a successful deployment.  The solution and cloud infrastructure are pre-validated, which speeds deployment and lowers costs.

NextDocs has announced the release of NextDocs QuickStart, an all-inclusive, cloud-based offering designed for emerging growth life sciences companies seeking to get products to market faster.

NextDocs QuickStart includes the pre-configured software, implementation, support and validation required for establishing an online regulated content management program that supports 21 CFR Part 11 compliance.

“We recognize that emerging growth companies are driving significant drug discovery innovation, and they want to get these products through trial and to market faster,” said Nitin Bhatia , Vice President of Global Services at NextDocs.  “To accelerate this process, they need access to the same technologies that established life sciences companies rely on; however, they often lack technical expertise, resources and budget.  NextDocs QuickStart enables these companies to quickly establish the online regulated content management processes necessary to reach the next stage of growth.”

QuickStart is based on the industry-proven NextDocs solution – which provides the process definition, automation and validation required for regulatory, clinical or quality management programs, including eTMF and SOP.  The offering enables companies new to electronic content management to establish a compliant program quickly.

QuickStart is offered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) and is built on the Microsoft Cloud technology platform, which delivers the industry’s highest levels of reliability, performance, privacy and security.  The solution and cloud infrastructure come validated and are SSAE 16 and ISO compliant, eliminating deployment hurdles and reducing costs.

“We’ve leveraged our experience across more than 100 industry deployments to design QuickStart,” said Bhatia.  “It is the industry’s only offering that allows companies to get up and running quickly, and meet the demands of growth, without the disruption that comes when switching platforms.”

This clear path for growth allows companies to start with a cost-effective service offering, scale by adding capabilities, as needed, and even take the solution on premise as the company grows or is acquired.   QuickStart and all other NextDocs solutions share the same software code base and user interface, so costly migrations and re-training down the road are eliminated.

More information about NextDocs Quick Start and NextDocs 6 is available online at www.nextdocs.com.

CONTACT:

Dan Cahill
917-617-0106
[email protected]