Exinda, a global provider of WAN Optimization 2.0 and application performance assurance solutions, announced that it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s 2012 Top 100 Global award, a prestigious recognition honoring the year’s most innovative private technology companies and entrepreneurs from across the globe.

“We’re very pleased that Red Herring has recognized Exinda’s strength and momentum in the market in considering the company for the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Global award,” said Exinda CMO Nolan Rosen. “As networking priorities evolve from throughput maximization and towards providing a predictable experience for users, customers around the world are embracing Exinda’s WAN optimization 2.0 solutions. Our unique focus on assuring the performance of the specific applications that are most critical to the customer’s business has led to the company’s significant growth, and we are well poised to continue that momentum in 2013 and beyond.”

The Red Herring editorial team selected the companies demonstrating the most innovative technologies and business models originating from more than 1,000 companies from over 40 countries. These companies, representing past Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America awards, are judged on a range of qualitative and quantitative metrics, including but not limited to, technology innovation, financial performance, growth criterion, management’s execution standards, potential globalization of the strategy and market share improvement.

“Technology companies are becoming the bright spot in the economic outlook based on their increasing role within macro-economic environments,” stated Alex Vieux, chairman of Red Herring. “2012 has confirmed the sector’s vibrant activity and its resilience to widespread economic problems. An unprecedented number of entrepreneurs are attempting to jump ahead of the competition and aspire to make a difference. Breakthroughs obsolete each other faster than ever before. Exinda has performed exceptionally in its field and strongly deserves to be singled out as one of the Red Herring Global Finalists.”

The finalists will present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Global Forum in Los Angeles, November 27-29, 2012. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on November 29 at the event.

About Exinda

Exinda is a proven global supplier of next-generation WAN optimization and application assurance solutions. 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.

Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced the addition of a multi-virtual private network (Multi-VPN) capability to its industry-leading AutoNetworks™ technology.

AutoNetworks is Skytap’s unique software-defined networking capabilities for complex, multi-network, multi-machine environments. With multi-VPN capability, users can create multiple two-way secure connections between their Skytap virtual environments and on-premise servers, or connect a single Skytap environment to multiple geographically distributed on-premise endpoints. Multi-VPN capability provides enterprises with the easiest, fastest, and most flexible way to create secure hybrid clouds.

“In a recent Gartner survey, close to half of respondents believe they will be using hybrid cloud by 2015. To do so, IT architectures and processes will need to change and extend — and the same is true for security capabilities,” said John Pescatore, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. “Now is the time to be planning how to ensure company and customer data can be protected when public and private cloud services are used and also how security policies and architectures can take advantage of cloud delivery to actually increase levels of security.”

“Moving our development and testing environment to Skytap Cloud has accelerated our software release cycles, boosted productivity, and improved quality,” said Keith Weisel, manager of application development at Dendreon Corporation. “The new multi-VPN feature enables us to securely connect multiple locations and teams into Skytap Cloud, providing a secure hybrid cloud solution that is ideal for our application lifecycle management process.”

Multi-VPN is the latest addition to Skytap AutoNetworks, a rich set of functionality that leverages software-defined networking for complex multi-machine cloud environments. AutoNetworks empowers customers with self-service hybrid clouds as well as advanced network creation, management, and security.

• For hybrid clouds, AutoNetworks offers the self-service creation and management of multi point-to-point VPN connections via IPsec, one-click network connections from environments to VPN tunnels, and self-healing VPN connections via dead peer detection.
• AutoNetworks also empowers self-service network creation and management for each environment, automatic management of IP addresses for networks within an environment (DHCP), automatic name resolution services for VMs on a network (DNS), and the ability to customize to use external custom name resolution services (custom DNS) for VMs on a network.
• Lastly, AutoNetworks enables the automatic creation of network-isolated environments; one-click options to expose environments via public IPs and specific ports; one-click network connections between environments within Skytap Cloud using inter-configuration network routing; and the ability to create multiple networks for multi-tier architectures (e.g., database back-end, web front-end).

“Skytap customers are using AutoNetworks to dynamically create over 2,000 networks each day in Skytap Cloud,” said Brian White, vice president of products at Skytap. “Multi-VPN capability delivers on our customers’ desire to easily and flexibly use Skytap Cloud as a secure extension to their on-premise resources, starting with dynamic workloads including development and testing, virtual training, and software demos where the business benefits of moving to the cloud are compelling.”

Introducing CloudControl™ Scheduler

Skytap also announced the availability of Scheduler, a new CloudControl™ feature, which allows customers to automate state change operations of Skytap Cloud configurations and templates. Users can create a schedule by choosing the resource in Skytap Cloud they want to automate, the action to be performed — run, save, suspend, or shut down — and the time the action should take place.

For example, customers can accelerate development and testing workflows by scheduling automated unit and functional tests to run nightly; schedule load tests to run during off-peak hours; or schedule daily access for off-shore testing teams. For virtual training, customers can schedule virtual classroom environments to run on the specific days and hours of a recurring training class calendar, or make sure all Skytap Cloud environments are initiated and suspended at the start and finish of each business day. Once a scheduled action is assigned, Skytap users receive automated e-mail notifications when the task has completed. With the automated resource control capabilities provided by Scheduler, customers can increase productivity by eliminating repetitive and manual tasks.

Skytap CloudControl is a set of unique features that provide enterprises with advanced cloud resource management, automated control, and powerful administration. Scheduler is the latest addition to CloudControl, which also includes the ability for Skytap Cloud administrators to assign resource limit quotas for users; set maximum burstable limits; send automated e-mail notifications as quota limits are approached; assign role-based access privileges for all users; create usage reports; enable users to create clones of complete environments; and save complete environments as point-in-time templates that capture memory state and all network settings.

About Skytap, Inc.

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. To try Skytap Cloud and learn more, visit www.skytap.com.

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Lindsey Bradshaw
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Prognosis Health Information Systems(Prognosis HIS), the leading provider of an integrated electronic health record (EHR) and financial system enterprise solution for rural and community hospitals, today announced that Health Language, Inc.’s (HLI) Language Engine® (LE) and provider-friendly terminology (PFT) will be integrated into its inpatient and outpatient EHR systems in future releases.

Developed by the global leader in health care terminology management, these tools will streamline physician workflow, documentation and revenue cycle management, as well as ease the transition to ICD-10 and satisfy meaningful use (MU) stage two data mapping provisions.

“We are committed to helping our customers achieve meaningful use attestation, but beyond that we want to equip them to thrive in the emerging digital, pay-for-performance health care environment,” explained Prognosis HIS CEO Ramsey Evans. “We partner with industry leaders that can help us deliver the most user-friendly solutions with robust functionality, configurability and reliability that meet the specific needs of rural and community hospitals, and that’s exactly what our relationship with HLI will accomplish.”

Embedding HLI’s tools into ChartNotes™, Prognosis HIS’ clinical documentation solution, will further enhance its exceptional ease of use and flexibility that already enable individuals with basic computer skills to easily and quickly configure templates to reflect their personal preferences and organizational needs. By incorporating HLI’s data mapping and provider-friendly terminology tools, physicians and other caregivers can continue using their customary descriptions for diagnoses and procedures supplemented by free text. This eliminates the need to learn or look up specific codes, frees physicians and nurses to focus on patient care and eases the transition to ICD-10.

The focus on optimal ease of use and flexibility and ensuring that ChartNotes accommodates physicians and nurses rather than the all-too-common practice of forcing them to conform to a system’s requirements are hallmarks of Prognosis HIS’ product development approach. This continuous focus explains why ChartNotes is popular with physicians and nurses, how 100 percent of Prognosis HIS’ eligible hospital customers have achieved meaningful use, and why the company can achieve a 120-day go-live timetable.

Additional benefits include:

• Encourages EHR adoption by enhancing physician productivity and streamlining workflow
• Speeds searches for diagnosis and problem list codes by allowing clinicians to use familiar words and abbreviations
• Enhances data mining and analytics by automatically mapping preferred terms to the correct standardized codes
• Meets MU stage two mapping requirements by converting problem list data into SNOMED CT codes
• Boosts billing efficiency and accuracy by converting clinical terms into the appropriate billing codes
• Seamlessly maps between ICD-9, SNOMED CT and ICD-10
• Eliminates productivity and revenue declines that would result if physicians were forced to choose the correct code from ICD-10’s 155,000 options, up from 17,000 items under ICD-9

HLI’s PFT ensures all common clinical expressions, abbreviations and synonyms used by physicians and other clinicians to describe the same conditions and procedures are linked. This simplifies the capture, analysis and exchange of information and provides the interoperability that is essential as new treatment and financial models — such as pay for performance, value-based reimbursement, accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes, bundled payments and shared risk arrangements — fuel the need for data-driven business intelligence and reporting mandates. HLI’s LE updates, maps, distributes and provides access to current versions of more than 100 clinical and administrative code sets, including SNOMED, ICD-9, ICD-10, RxNorm and LOINC as well as a hospital’s proprietary content. The LE can also convert unstructured text into coded, structured data for clinical documentation, billing and analytics.

“Organizations that lack the technological resources and infrastructure to adapt to health care’s ongoing transformation will falter under the demands of new care models and industry regulations,” said Brian McDonald, executive vice president of Health Language. “Our partnership with Prognosis HIS is a strong example of how a fully integrated, intuitive EHR system can help providers tackle data sharing and analysis challenges, while positioning them for competitive, long-term growth.”

About Health Language, Inc.

Founded in 2000 and based in Denver, Health Language, Inc. (HLI) provides leading healthcare terminology management solutions and professional services that normalize all data within a healthcare organization into standardized code sets such as ICD-10, SNOMED and LOINC. By establishing a data infrastructure in which disparate information is fully integrated, HLI’s advanced Language Engine (LE) and supporting tools enable healthcare providers and payers worldwide to simplify the management and analysis of critical patient, financial and operational information. This, backed by a team of HIM experts that support the integration process, helps hospitals, health systems and other healthcare organizations to overcome industry challenges such as Meaningful Use, ICD-10 and health information exchange. For more information, visit www.healthlanguage.com or call 720.940.2900.

About Prognosis Health Information Systems

Prognosis Health Information Systems provides an enterprise solution, including EHR and financial systems, to rural and community hospitals. It offers a predictable path, including 120-day go-live schedule, built-in Clinical Pathways™ and Meaningful Use Scorecard™ to drive standard of care, and fixed-fee implementation with one all-inclusive cost. One hundred percent of Prognosis HIS’ eligible clients have achieved meaningful use. Plus, it has helped lower A/R days by more than 50 percent. Learn more at www.prognosisHIS.com

Media Contact

Angela Jenkins
Amendola Communications for Prognosis Health Information Systems
720.859.6930
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Consolidated Services Group, Inc. (CSG), a technology-driven, clinically-based medical claims management provider, today announced that Xtium, a leading enterprise cloud software and solutions company, will provide the enhanced technology infrastructure to support the company’s new Hamilton, New Jersey “supercenter” and continued nationwide expansion.

Founder and CEO Michael Morrone said, “This state-of-the-art technology infrastructure advances CSG’s position as a medical claims management innovator. The increased capabilities will support our nationwide expansion, empowering CSG to compete successfully with any medical management provider.”

CSG will utilize Xtium’s state-of-the-art top-tier data centers to host CSG’s medlogix® technology to provide increased performance, resiliency and data redundancy. The infrastructure will also offer improved security and disaster recovery capabilities. Importantly, it will deliver increased capacity and flexibility for future growth and agility.

CIO Stan Tomasevich said, “We are very excited to deploy this powerful Xtium technology solution. The improved resiliency, security and flexibility will benefit all medlogix® users and clients, providing improved performance and significant scalability for future expansion.”

Medlogix®, CSG’s proprietary web-based case management and bill review software, integrates all CSG services in a customizable, user-friendly platform. With real-time access to the ongoing medical management of a claim, users can track step-by-step case progress for medical case management, case status, provider billing and IME status. Nurses and adjusters can communicate online in real time using the medlogix® bulletin board messaging system. Leveraging this technology, CSG provides a direct link to information and decisions critical to maximizing efficiencies in the complex, claims-handling process.

“Xtium is pleased to be CSG’s trusted technology partner and provide the infrastructure and managed cloud hosting services to support its growth and innovation,” said Tim Buckley, CEO, Xtium. “We look forward to assisting CSG in its continued nationwide expansion and providing its users and clients with improved technology performance.”

About Consolidated Services Group (CSG)

Consolidated Services Group (CSG) is a technology-driven, clinically-based medical claims management provider specializing in managed care, utilization review and bill review services. CSG offers a complete, integrated solution, including seamless collaboration through our proprietary medlogix® technology; recommendations from highly qualified medical professionals; and access to a nationwide network of premier health care providers through select PPO affiliates. CSG’s powerful mix of medical expertise, proven processes and innovative technology delivers a more efficient, disciplined insurance claims process. The result is reduced severity, lower expenses and increased productivity for the auto insurance and workers’ compensation insurance carriers; third party administrators (TPAs); and government entities we serve. Visit http://www.csg-inc.net to learn more.

About Xtium

Xtium is a leading enterprise software and solutions company providing managed cloud hosting, online backup and virtual disaster recovery services. We offer companies the most secure virtual private cloud experience with guaranteed application performance across the network. Our architecture is flexible, allowing customers to remain in control. We are the only enterprise service company certified to deliver Riverbed®, SAP® and VMware® technologies. To learn more, please visit http://www.xtium.com.

Intronis, Inc., the leading provider of world-class cloud backup solutions for the IT channel, today announced the company received $12 million in funding led by new investor, Greenspring Associates, with participation from OpenView Venture Partners and the company’s executive management team.

Interim CEO Jay Bolgatz said Intronis will use the funding to hire additional associates, drive greater technology innovation and expand the company’s market reach in the U.S. and abroad. “This is a tremendous opportunity for Intronis to build on the success of our technology and further support our channel partners with the industry’s leading cloud backup and recovery solution and support,” explained Bolgatz.

“We have been paying close attention to Intronis over the last few years, and are very impressed with the company’s leadership and consistent execution, as well as its innovative technology, exceptional partner satisfaction rating and year-over-year sales growth,” said John Avirett, principal, Greenspring Associates.  “Intronis’ proven success and relentless focus on delivering a high-quality, highly reliable solution to the managed service provider (MSP) market positions the company for sustainable growth, and we are pleased to play a role in its future.”

“Intronis’ go-to-market strategy for cloud data protection is rock solid, and we look forward to working with Greenspring as we continue to enhance the company’s dominant position with MSPs,” said George Roberts, Intronis board member and venture partner with OpenView Venture Partners. OpenView initially invested in Intronis in 2007.

Founded in 2003, Intronis has experienced strong growth, more than doubling its revenues in the last two years. The company is set to announce general availability of its Fall Release later this month. The new release supports virtual machines and cloud-based infrastructure, enabling channel partners to streamline the overall management of online backups for multiple virtual machines across several servers to the cloud, as well as on premise locations, and establish profitable, recurring revenue streams.

“Cloud-based data backup and recovery has become an essential solution for businesses and consumers,” explained Bolgatz. “This funding, combined with the upcoming launch of our Fall product release, will create unstoppable momentum that further enables Intronis and our channel partners to capitalize on the global market’s increasing need for reliable backup and recovery services.”

To learn, see and hear more about Intronis online, follow the company on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

About Greenspring Associates

Established in 2000 as a global venture capital firm, Greenspring Associates currently manages both a dedicated late stage direct investment platform as well as a globally diversified fund-of-funds platform.  Since inception, the Firm has invested in over 55 portfolio companies alongside of its leading venture capital and growth equity managers both in the United States and Europe.  Through the Firm’s value-added investment approach, it primarily invests across the information technology and communications stack, as well as healthcare and energy-related technologies.  The Firm currently manages over $2.2 billion in committed capital for a diverse group of pension plans, insurance companies, foundations, endowments and family offices in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia.

About OpenView Venture Partners

OpenView Venture Partners is an expansion-stage venture capital fund based in Boston that is focused on high-growth software, Internet, and technology-enabled companies. Through its staff of seasoned operating executives, who collectively bring several decades of technology and management experience to the firm, OpenView is able to help portfolio companies quickly optimize their product, go-to-market, and organizational and operational functions. Founded in 2006, the firm invests globally and has approximately $440 million in total capital under management.

About Intronis

Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery is a world-class cloud backup solution for the IT channel. Intronis provides the industry’s easiest to use secure data solution for offsite and local backup, which generates a monthly recurring revenue stream to add to your business. Intronis offers the best, deepest Exchange, SQL backup on the market, U.S.-based customer support, and is also integrated to major solutions in the MSP ecosystem. The solution has been field tested by thousands of MSPs, and the company has been awarded Best Revenue Generator seven times and Best Customer Support twice by members of ASCII.

Seventeen additional rural and community hospitals have exceeded baseline requirements to complete stage one meaningful use attestation using Prognosis Health Information Systems‘ electronic health record (EHR).

In October, nine organizations attested meeting criteria for the 90-day reporting period and the remaining attested for the 365-day reporting period. These hospitals joined other organizations to continue Prognosis HIS’ 100 percent meaningful use success rate amongst eligible clients.

The 17 hospitals largely credit Prognosis HIS’ industry-first Meaningful Use Scorecard™ and Meaningful Use Live Stats, which visually track real-time analytical progress of each patient’s care and the hospital’s progress toward achieving the meaningful use objective percentages. A component of Prognosis HIS’ EHR, the scorecard quickly checks off compliance with 19 core and menu objectives and prompts providers with live statistics and guidelines to resolve problems before patients are discharged. All of Prognosis HIS’ clients plan to demonstrate stage one meaningful use requirements again in 2013 and stage two meaningful use requirements in 2014.

Brian Miller, CEO of Dallas County Memorial Center in Fordyce, Ark., selected Prognosis HIS’ EHR to implement and activate in time to meet the fiscal year deadline. “We thought that if purchasing an EHR quickly, the turnaround on our investment would be faster than waiting for 2013. For a critical access hospital, funding is extremely important. We found the best solution through Prognosis HIS.”

Continuing, Miller said, “Prognosis’ meaningful use consultants were on top of the job with our daily check list from the beginning, which proved vital to our success. Prognosis has been down this road before. They understand health reform and the pieces and parts that make up meaningful use. It creates for a mutually accountable relationship. Our physicians have used the EHR since go-live.”

“The second year wasn’t stressful at all. With year one, we were learning the system and attesting at the same time. We all felt the pressure to attest,” said Joy Henry, chief nursing officer at Faith Community Hospital in Jacksboro, Texas. “In the second year, we fully understood the meaningful use objectives and the system. It became more like maintenance. Prognosis HIS’ system guides us through documentation and alerts us to what needs to be done. When all of your team is using it, completing the objectives becomes more like second nature.”

“Helping our eligible hospital clients achieve meaningful use is a significant company milestone,” said Ramsey Evans, CEO of Prognosis HIS. “Our nation’s rural and critical access hospitals are the primary provider of health care services in their local communities. We’re proud to support their mission to advance patient care with our easy-to-use Web-native technology, comprehensive training background, strong expert guidance and committed partnership.”

Continued Evans, “Year two attestations truly showcased the usability of our EHR. Feedback from our clients who attested early and used it successfully for 365 days demonstrates we’re on the right track, providing the best overall system functionality.”

About Prognosis Health Information Systems

Prognosis Health Information Systems provides an enterprise solution, including EHR and financial systems, to rural and community hospitals. It offers a predictable path, including 120-day go-live schedule, built-in Clinical Pathways™ and Meaningful Use Scorecard™ to drive standard of care, and fixed-fee implementation with one all-inclusive cost. One hundred percent of Prognosis HIS’ eligible clients have achieved meaningful use. Plus, it has helped lower A/R days by more than 50 percent. Learn more at www.prognosisHIS.com.

Media Contact:

Angela Jenkins
Amendola Communications for Prognosis Health Information Systems
720.859.6930
Email Contact

Balihoo (www.balihoo.com), the premier provider of Local Marketing Automation (LMA) technology and services to national brands with local marketing needs, today announced a webinar in partnership with BIA/Kelsey, advisor to companies in the local media industry, on local revenue opportunities many national brands are missing and the marketing strategies that will help national brands increase sales at the local level.

“Local Revenue Opportunities: Are You Missing Your Share?”

“Local Revenue Opportunities: Are You Missing Your Share?” will examine local revenue opportunities from every direction, including marketing breakdowns, to market forecasts and trends and proven strategies. The webinar will highlight the challenges marketers’ face when starting a local program and how to overcome these obstacles with an effective local marketing strategy that will help national brands capture more revenue at the local level.

“BIA/Kelsey forecasts digital spending alone to grow to about 25 percent of the local ad spending pie in 2013,” said Shane Vaughan, Balihoo’s CMO. “Webinar participants will come away with the knowledge and skills to help their brand increase its share of local revenue with proven local marketing strategies and tactics.”

Join this information-packed webinar that will offer insights and tactical strategies such as:

• The three ways national brands can bring enterprise-class marketing to their local marketers through relationships, data and technology.
• Case studies that demonstrate how brands can successfully use local market ad data, such as BIA/Kelsey’s Media Ad View, to plan and maximize local marketing spend and ROI.
• Valuable co-op dollars. Why they are often left on the table and what national brands can do to use these dollars to win in local markets.

Who: Balihoo and BIA/Kelsey

– Jed Williams, Program Director Social Local Media, BIA/Kelsey

– Shane Vaughan, Chief Marketing Officer, Balihoo

What: Webinar: “Local Revenue Opportunities: Are You Missing Your Share?”

When: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST

Where: Click here to register for the webinar.

About Balihoo

Balihoo is the premier provider of Local Marketing Automation (LMA) technology and services to national brands with local marketing needs. By automating local marketing, Balihoo gives national brands unprecedented control over local marketing execution and the ability to control the customer experience closer to the point of purchase. Additional information about Balihoo is available at www.balihoo.com.

About BIA/Kelsey

BIA/Kelsey advises companies in the local media space through consulting and valuation services, research, Continuous Advisory Services and conferences. Since 1983, BIA/Kelsey has been a resource to the media, mobile advertising, telecommunications, Yellow Pages and electronic directory markets, as well as to government agencies, law firms and investment companies looking to understand trends and revenue drivers. BIA/Kelsey’s annual conferences draw executives from across industries seeking expert guidance on how companies are finding innovative ways to grow. Additional information is available at http://www.biakelsey.com, on the company’s Local Media Watch blog, Twitter(http://twitter.com/BIAKelsey) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/biakelsey).

Contacts

Emanate for Balihoo
Tom Francoeur, 617-474-1405
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