SIIA PREVIEWS
3Tera, Inc. is the innovator of grid and utility computing services that simplify the deployment and scaling of SaaS applications. Named a 2007 Category Breaker by Networkworld magazine, 3Tera's AppLogic grid operating system enables hosting providers to offer the first true utility computing services that completely remove the cost and complexity associated with hardware infrastructure. SaaS providers can now get new online services to market quickly by utilizing resources from commodity hosting providers on a pay-as-you-go basis, while maintaining complete control of applications including visual operation, scaling, and on-demand resource provisioning.
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Vladimir Miloushev, CEO
Vlad is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded four companies. He has a proven ability to identify market opportunities, define new product categories, develop and communicate compelling market vision, and to attract talent, investors, partners and customers. A recognized software architect, Vlad is a key inventor on 23 patents in object-oriented software, operating systems, networks and storage.
Vlad is the principal founder of 3TERA. He led the development of the company's vision and business plan and has attracted the company's team and world-class advisors. Together with Peter Nickolov, Vlad invented the company's core technology.
Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), is the leading provider of easy-to-use, on-demand applications for remote support and desktop access - GoToAssist & GoToMyPC, online meetings - GoToMeeting and web seminars - GoToWebinar.
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Gregory Batchelor, EMEA Marketing Manager
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Gregory Batchelor is EMEA marketing manager at Citrix Online, a company that is taking the Software as a Service (SaaS) and real-time collaboration markets by storm. Reporting 50 percent year-on-year growth and nearly $150 million in revenue in 2006, Citrix Online has firmly established itself as a leading pure-play Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider for real-time collaboration in Europe. Gregory is responsible for driving Citrix Online's products awareness in EMEA, encompassing the award-winning Citrix® GoToMyPC® remote desktop access, Citrix® GoToAssist™ remote technical support, Citrix® GoToMeeting™ and Citrix® GoToWebinar™ Web-based collaboration services. Gregory holds a master's degree in Marketing and previously worked in sales and marketing positions at WebEx Communications and Oracle.
Clarizen is an on-demand collaborative project management solution that combines a dynamic environment with powerful project management tools. With Clarizen, teams can manage projects in a single environment while keeping information secure and private. Clarizen gives team members real time visibility of changing conditions. The system's collaboration tools enable users to share information securely. Armed with relevant information, teams can "sense" change as it happens and respond proactively.
A hosted solution, Clarizen requires no software or hardware installation, and doesn't require IT resources for maintenance and upgrades. Clarizen's state-of-the-art data center ensures high availability and security.
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Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO and co-Founder
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Avinoam Nowogrodski brings over 20 years of experience in sales, engineering and business management to Clarizen. He brings insight and expertise gained in those positions to Clarizen's vision of bringing collaborative project management to every business. Prior to establishing the company, Avinoam co-founded SmarTeam Corporation, a leading provider of collaborative product life cycle management (PLM) solutions. As CEO from 1995 - 2005, Avinoam's leadership molded SmarTeam through many phases, from its early entry into the market via an indirect channel through the creation of an enterprise PLM solution portfolio sold and supported by IBM. In 1999 SmarTeam was acquired by Dassault Systemes (DS) and Avinoam served on the DS General Executive Management team for 6 years. At his departure from the company, SmarTeam had 3,500 customers across diverse industries and over 100,000 users worldwide.
IT FACTORY is a leading provider of CRM, HRM, and ERP add-on services, which are all delivered with pre-packaged integration with a variety of ERP systems - collectively defined as Integrated Business Services, which customers can subscribe to. This effectively means that IT FACTORY enables customers to connect with people, information, and processes in the most cost-efficient way as customers instantaneously get value and there are no upfront investments, only a fixed monthly fee. IT FACTORY's goal is to have customers that subscribe to success using the best solutions and add-on services on the market.
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Henrik Jeberg, Chief Strategy Officer
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As Chief Strategy Officer, Henrik has the overall responsibility for the company's strategic direction and the global business development.
Henrik joined IT FACTORY in April 2007 and comes with more than 15 years of experience in the international IT industry.
He has held a wide range of top-management positions, incl. CIO with the Danish Ministry of Finance, Director with Gartner in Paris, and a 6 years tenure with Navision Software (now Microsoft) where he held a series of directorships in Denmark, France, Australia, and finally the position of MD for Asia.
Henrik holds a masters degree in Electrical Engineering and a bachelor degree in Business Administration.
He has also attended Executive Education programs at the French business school INSEAD and at the University of Oxford in the UK.
Kaiser Technology - Our Core System is a Software for vertical und collaborative processes enabled using a standard platform (RSP: Real-Time Solution Platform) to create agile and intelligent real-time solutions that are not dependent on certain HW, network, system or plant control solutions and can run on DEMAND in the mode of SaaS. The Concept standardises flexible processes, integrates them with the existing environment, is implementable and supportable over the web, don't forces customer for release changes, offers a safe methodology and allow rapid implementation. The Expertise and experience obtained in more than 300 real-time installations is embodied in the RSP and Reference Solutions, which are configurable.
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Eren Kangeldi, CEO
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Eren Kangeldi is the Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Technology AG, a Swiss software manufacturer who develops and implements real-time applications for manufacturing and logistics. Kangeldi joined Kaiser Technology in 2006 and is one of its co-founders.
During the past two decades, Kangeldi has managed several complex organizations and successfully penetrated global markets with multinational teams. Kangeldi previously worked with IBM, SAP, Ramco Systems and SKYVA which was later acquired over ABB. He obtained his industry know-how in various positions with Oerlikon Bührle and Digitron.
Eren Kangeldi holds a BSC in Engineering obtained at BBA, Zurich as well as an MBA from the University of Applied Sciences in Bern. He also holds a Masters Degree in Business Modeling and Coaching obtained at the University of San Francisco.
LeCayla Technology offers a complete revenue management solution for your software - from usage metering through billing and payment, On-Demand. Optimised pricing and efficient delivery are key to success in the SaaS market. Lecayla gives you the flexibility to offer exactly the pricing model your need to win more business and maximise revenue. Combined with automated contract administration and customer on-boarding, LeCayla is the fastest route to SaaS profitability and success.
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Gary Ramsay, COO
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Gary has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry with over 8 years leading successful product development teams. Most recently he has been head of Product Development in Norkom Technologies and Trintech. Prior to this he was Operations Director in the start up, Exceptis Technologies, which was eventually sold to Trintech. Gary holds a degree in Engineering Science from University of Exeter.
Macrovision Corporation is the market leader in content protection, software licensing and installation, and digital rights management (DRM) technologies. Macrovision solutions enable customers to securely distribute and market their products to consumers and businesses. The content protection and copy management technologies they provide cover over $130 billion of protected entertainment content worldwide.
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Jim Ryan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, EMEA
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Jim Ryan is the Senior Vice President and General Manager, EMEA, for Macrovision. With over 18 years experience, many in international sales markets, Ryan is ultimately responsible for aligning Macrovision's EMEA revenues with its global vision and sales expectations.
Prior to his current role, Ryan led Macrovision's service organization as well as its support, operations and pre-sales teams from 2004 to 2006. He began this role after Macrovision acquired his former company, InstallShield Software Corporation, where he held many roles lastly as senior vice president of international sales and operations between 1998 and 2004.
Before joining InstallShield Software Corporation, Ryan was a regional sales director at Reliant Data Systems (now Compuware Corporation), responsible for direct sales channels as well as OEM sales.
Wesupply provides On Demand electronic intelligent trading solutions and supply chain collaboration solutions.
Electronic Intelligent Trading
We enable our clients to facilitate electronic communication of transactions. We create an intelligent network to connect divisions, suppliers, customers and trading partners with disparate business systems. The intelligent layer provides visibility across the entire network, monitors events and provides analyses and alerts of key performance metrics to enable companies to control their network.
Collaborative Trading
We provide a number of intelligent process solutions aligned to business rules and logic addressing specific business processes to drive out costs, release significant working capital and improve margins.
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Brian Marsden, CEO
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Brian is a seasoned senior executive who has held senior international positions at D&B, Manugistics and RockPort Trade Systems. More recently he was Senior Vice President in charge of international operations at QRS who were a $140 million supply chain and content provider, based in San Francisco - Marsden is a well respected figure in the global supply chain management sector.
Winweb's Small Business Infrastructure is aimed at the small business segment and integrates SaaS On-demand Technology ( CashBook, AccountsOffice and OnlineOffice) with Business Process Outsourcing (call handling, bookkeeping, credit control, web-sites, SEO, parcel service, fax, etc. ), professional advice (accountants, business advisors) and solution partners (NCR, Paypal, Skype, ebay). All services are supported by a 24x7 live support service. The aim is to reduce small business mortality by providing a complete and cost effective small business infrastructure during business start-up and growth phase.
Presenter:
Stefan Topfer, CEO
Stefan Töpfer has played a vital part in building the Internet as we
know it today. Just after the World Wide Web had been created he led Nacamar
Group plc. to build one of Europe's largest Internet backbone networks. Since
1999 Nacamar has become part of Tiscali. Since then Stefan has been
involved in several projects which introduced new ways of using the Internet
to simplify everyday life and increase productivity. In 1994 he founded
Winweb International. As CEO and Chairman of Winweb he is again extending
the boundaries of the Internet by using it in a unique way to simplify the
life of small businesses, by using SaaS technology to provides Business Process
Outsourcing (BPO) for SMEs - Small Business Infrastructure - in Europe, the US and Australia. He also blogs about the impact of SaaS or webware on his (http://www.sme-blog.com) Small Business Blog.
Wrapped Apps Corporation (WAC)is a SaaS technology enabler. The Wrapped Apps Service Delivery Platform (SDP) significantly reduces the time, development cost, and architectural barriers to SaaS. The SDP enables ISVs to leverage existing technologies, focus on their core offerings, get to market quicker with reduced costs, and monetize their assets. The SDP also gives Service Providers a substantive competitive advantage; shortening their sales cycle and time to market, and enabling them to integrate complementary services to offer a true "turnkey" SaaS solution. The Wrapped Apps SDP is based on open standards, and enables Web, Windows, Linux, single-user, and multi-tenant applications within 30 days.
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Jeff Bennett, Chairman
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Jeff Bennett, started his 16 year software career with Corel Corporation (1991-2000) as their executive responsible for North American Professional Services and Support. Jeff was a key member of the leadership teams responsible for several mergers and acquisitions such as the WordPerfect Utah closure, the acquisition of MetaCreation, the Borland merger attempt and the acquisition of a Linux professional services organization.
In 2000, Jeff joined the leadership team of Webplan Inc (now Kinaxis) and developed strong relationships with key integrators such as Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In January 2002, Jeff founded ServiceVantage Corporation, a high tech consulting firm focusing on the support, service and SaaS initiatives of their impressive portfolio of clients. Jeff Bennett joined the executive team of Wrapped Apps Corporation in October 2006 and is responsible for business and partnership development to further expand the SaaS ecosystem.
