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Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Join us at All About the Cloud 2013

April 15, 2013 By Katie Carlson

Here are our top 10 reasons you should register now to join us at All About the Cloud, May 7-9, San Francisco.

10. Your job’s on the line: Your customer or CEO is speaking… can you afford NOT to show your support?!

9. Luxury Suite Giveaway: How would you like to win a luxury suite at a Major League baseball game to entertain your top prospects/customers? This is a raffle not worth missing!

8. Location: Downtown San Francisco. Need I say anything more?

7. Analyst Knock-down: The discussion is bound to get provocative when four of our industry’s most-regarded analysts get together to opine on what’s next for the cloud.

6. Next Generation: Speaking of what’s next, I know you’ll enjoy meeting the ten early-stage companies selected to present during this year’s Next Generation program.

5. Who Wants to be a Cloud Geek: Test your knowledge of the industry, brainstorm with your colleagues, and cheer on your favorite contestant. You won’t want to miss our second annual game show!

4. Networking…networking…networking: A Speed Networking session, our Welcome Reception, an Offsite Networking Extravaganza that’s always the topic of next-day water cooler conversation, meals, and networking breaks. (SIIA members take advantage of additional networking events!)

3. CODiE Awards Presentations: Prepare to collect your award, or to congratulate your partner, as we announce the companies selected as having the year’s best products and services from 25 business software categories.

2. International Announcement: Be on hand for a special announcement by SIIA and “a secret partner” on a new initiative for cloud innovation! What could it be?????

1. Sessions: A robust conference agenda features breakout tracks designed for members of your leadership team responsible for growth opportunities: CEOs, CMOs and other senior marketing executives, and your top business development executives.

Register now and join me in SF! If you’re not from the local area, book your hotel room before our block expires and make your travel arrangements now as there are lots of great direct flight options from the east coast to SFO.

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Which Next Gen Companies Are Disrupting the Market? Find Out at All About the Cloud

April 3, 2013 By Rhianna Collier

SIIA announced today that 10 early stage technology companies have been selected as the 2013 SIIA NextGen companies. As part of the 2013 NextGen program each company is invited to participate in a special showcase at SIIA’s All About the Cloud conference. All About the Cloud – the software industry’s most comprehensive ISV conference – will be held May 7-9 in San Francisco.

Much of the discussion about market disruption has focused on large, brand name businesses, but there is tremendous innovation taking place at companies that get little attention. NextGen companies– chosen by a Selection Committee comprised of M&A, VC and advisory executives–are young businesses that offer innovative software and services. The CEOs of these companies will participate in the “Next Generation of Cloud” panels during All About the Cloud.

The 2013 SIIA All About the Cloud NextGen companies are as follows:

Armor5 Inc. has a unique approach to solving some of the most challenging security and compliance problems in enterprise today – migration of corporate assets from intranet to cloud and increased use of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) into the workplace.

Appnomic Systems is a leading provider of preventive IT performance management and automation solutions enabling IT Operations to avoid major IT incidents, improve mean time to repair, increase IT staff productivity, and achieve new levels of compliance.

DICOM Grid a leading provider in cloud-based medical image exchange, DICOM Grid transforms the way healthcare systems worldwide share, manage, and store medical images. By leveraging ongoing advances in information technology and adapting them to healthcare, DICOM Grid solves a critical challenge in diagnostic imaging.

GoSpotCheck provides a mobile solution for retail companies to help improve their field reporting & intelligence. We provide a unique solution that enables these companies to get real-time & structured data from the field, improving the processes and understanding of their operations.

Integrate is the first advertising technology provider that empowers media buyers to plan, launch, analyze, and optimize marketing campaigns across performance, digital and traditional media. Integrate’s AdHQ offers marketers an end-to-end solution that supports the entire lifecycle of paid media campaigns in one intuitive dashboard.

PlaceIQ is a leading provider of location intelligence, enabling advertisers to reach and define mobile brand audiences at scale for a wide range of marketing activities. Working with agencies, brands, and channel partners, PlaceIQ deploys proprietary, patent-pending big data science to aggregate and analyze extensive amounts of location data from multiple sources. The resulting intelligence gives marketers an unprecedented understanding of consumer behavior, while offering a privacy-friendly way to define, locate, reach and measure mobile audiences.

Shopping Cart Elite is for online retailers who are dissatisfied with the limitation of their Shopping Cart, Shopping Cart Elite is a sophisticated shopping cart that will completely automate your business. We have created a system that doesn’t require you to pay thousands of dollars to App partners to have marketing and SEO tools for your business, we made a great product and bundled it all into one complete turnkey package.

Techcello is a ready to use application development framework stack on top of .NET that saves 90-150 people months of effort. Established ISVs, New SaaS Product companies, Large multi-national Enterprises, BPOs, HROs and KPOs use Techcello to build .NET solutions with a configurable Multi-tenant architecture that can be scaled on a Private or Public Cloud.

VoloMetrix’s Social Enterprise Intelligence application applies privacy filters and then analyzes anonymous, real-time information from corporate email, calendar, instant messaging, and social platforms to provide deep actionable insights into the ways teams are spending their time on the most important business priorities.

xTuple business management software gives growing companies control over operations and profitability. xTuple integrates all critical functional areas in one modular system: sales, accounting and operations — including customer and supplier management, inventory control, manufacturing and distribution — the powerful tools to Grow Your World®.

Rhianna Collier is VP for the Software Division at SIIA. Follow the Software team on Twitter at @SIIASoftware.

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SIIA Announces Software Finalists for 2013 CODiE Awards

March 20, 2013 By Rhianna Collier

Today SIIA announced the 127 finalists for the 2013 SIIA CODiE Awards in Software Business categories. These finalists recognize applications, products, and services, which deliver solutions for use by business, government, consumers, academic, or other organizations.

This year there were 27 Software categories, including twelve new and updated categories that reflect the continued growth and evolution of cloud computing, mobile, big data, and video. Highlights include Best Cloud Platform as a Service Solution, Best Big Data Solution, Best Mobile Device Application for Consumers, Best Mobile Device Application for Enterprise, and Best Video Tool.

Winners will be announced during a special Awards luncheon on May 9 in San Francisco during the industry’s most comprehensive ISV conference, All About the Cloud.

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. The first round review of all nominees include industry executives and analysts, representatives of media outlets, bloggers, and investors. The judges are responsible for selecting the CODiE Awards finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.

Details about each finalist are listed at http://siia.net/codies/2013/finalists.asp

2013 CODiE Awards Software Finalists

Best Big Data Solution

Metamarkets: Metamarkets
Pentaho: Pentaho Business Analytics
Tableau Software: Tableau Software 7.0
Terapeak: Terapeak 9.0
Varonis Systems: Varonis Data Governance Suite

Best Business Intelligence/Analytics Solution

Anametrix: Anametrix Digital Analytics Platform
Birst: Birst 5
Bloomberg Government: Bloomberg Government
Cambridge Semantics: Anzo Pharma Competitive Intelligence Solution
GoodData: GoodData
Logi Analytics: Logi Info
United Communications Group (UCG): OPIS Spot Ticker

Best Cloud Application Service

Adaptive Planning: Adaptive Planning
Aria Systems, Inc.: Aria Subscription Billing Platform
Aryaka: Aryaka WAN Optimization as-a-Service
ClassLink, Inc.: ClassLink LaunchPad iOS & Touch Apps
Fiberlink Communications: MaaS360
Fieldglass, Inc.: Fieldglass
New Relic: New Relic
ServiceMesh: ServiceMesh Agility Platform

Best Cloud Infrastructure

Aryaka: Aryaka WAN Optimization as-a-Service
NetSuite, Inc.: NetSuite SuiteCloud
OnApp: OnApp Cloud
Piston Cloud Computing: Piston Enterprise OpenStack
Virsto Software: Virsto for vSphere 2.0

Best Cloud Management Solution

Actifio: Actifio Protection and Availability Storage (PAS)
ActiveState Software, Inc.: Stackato 2.2
AppNeta: PathView Cloud
Clarizen: Clarizen
ClassLink, Inc.: ClassLink LaunchPad Suite
PerspecSys: PerspecSys Cloud Data Protection Gateway
Zenoss, Inc.: Zenoss Core 4

Best Cloud Platform as a Service

Apprenda: Apprenda PaaS Platform 3.5
Asteor Software Private Limited: Techcello – Multitenant Application Development Platform
Badgeville: Badgeville
Coupa Software: Coupa Spend Optimization System
Gust: Gust

Best Cloud Storage & Back Up Solution

Backblaze: Backblaze Online Backup
Citrix: Citrix ShareFile
Quorum: Quorum Solution
Red Hat, Inc.: Red Hat Storage Servers for public and hybrid clouds

Best Collaboration Solution

Adobe Systems, Inc.: Adobe Acrobat XI Pro
Affinnova, Inc.: Affinnova Concept Studio
FPX, LLC: FPX CPQ OnDemand
GlobalEnglish: GlobalEnglish Product Suite
Gust: Gust
Mindjet: Mindjet (MindManager, Connect and Mobile integrated as single Mindjet
Spigit: SpigitEngage

Best Commerce Solution

Bridgeline Digital, Inc.: iAPPS Commerce
GoECart.com: GoECart 360 Ecommerce Suite
LivePerson, Inc.: LiveEngage
Telerik Corporation: Sitefinity Ecommerce by Telerik
Terapeak: Terapeak 9.0
Virtual Piggy Inc.: Virtual Piggy

Best Enterprise Mobile Service

Amtel: Mobile Lifecycle Management
Fiberlink Communications: MaaS360
Xactly Corporation: Xactly Express

Best Financial Management Solution

Adaptive Planning: Adaptive Planning
Intacct Corporation: Intacct
NetSuite, Inc.: NetSuite OneWorld
Xactly Corporation: Xactly Incent

Best Human Capital/Talent Management Solution

cfactor Works Inc.: cfactor Version 8
Fieldglass, Inc.: Fieldglass
IQNavigator, Inc.: IQNavigator
Replicon, Inc.: Replicon Time Attend with Cloud Clock
SilkRoad technology: Point
The Resumator: The Resumator – Hire with Confidence

Best Integration Solution

Dell Boomi: Dell Boomi AtomSphere®
MuleSoft: CloudHub
Operative: Operative.One
Pervasive Software – Integration Business Unit: Pervasive Data Integrator
Scribe Software Corporation: Scribe Online

Best Marketing Automation Solution

Cision, Inc.: Cision
Eloqua Corporation: Eloqua
Marketo: Marketo: Marketing Software Suite
Ontraport: Ontraport

Best Mobile Development Solution

Cenzic, Inc.: Cenzic Mobile
IBM Corporation: IBM Worklight
OutSystems: Agile Platform 7.0
Telerik Corporation: Kendo UI Mobile by Telerik

Best Mobile Device Application for Consumers

Cvent: CrowdTorch Mobile Apps
Expect Labs: MindMeld
Pearson: Prep for the GED Test: MyFoundationsLab Edition

Best Mobile Device Application for Enterprises

AirWatch: AirWatch MDM/MCM/MAM software solution
Cvent: CrowdCompass Mobile Apps
Enterproid: Divide by Enterproid
Fiberlink Communications: MaaS360
GlobalEnglish: GlobalEnglish Product Suite
SpringCM: SpringCM

Best Monetization Solution

Aria Systems, Inc.: Aria Subscription Billing Platform
GoodData: GoodData
Virtual Piggy Inc.: Virtual Piggy
Zuora, Inc.: Z-Business

Best Open Source Innovation

BonitaSoft: Bonita Open Solution
Hortonworks: Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1
LEWIS Pulse: Puppet Open Source

Best Project Management Solution

Clarizen: Clarizen
EPM Live: EPM Live
Innotas: Innotas PPM
LiquidPlanner: LiquidPlanner
Metafuse, Inc.: Project Insight – Project and Portfolio Management Software

Best Relationship Management Solution

Coveo: Coveo for Salesforce
Nimble: Nimble 2.5
Ontraport: Ontraport

Best Security Solution

AirWatch: AirWatch MDM/MCM/MAM software solution
AlienVault: AlienVault Unified Security Management Platform
CloudLock, Inc.: CloudLock for Google Apps
Coverity, Inc.: Coverity® Security Advisor
MANDIANT: Mandiant Intelligent Response (v2.2)
NetWrix: NetWrix Change Reporter Suite

Best SEO Solution

Conductor: Conductor Searchlight
Shopping Cart Elite: Shopping Cart Elite

Best Social Business Solution

Badgeville: Badgeville
Marketo: Marketo Social Marketing
Nimble: Nimble 2.5

Best Supply Chain Management Solution

Acumatica: Acumatica
eBizNET Solutions Inc.: eBizNET WMS – Warehouse Management System
NetSuite, Inc.: NetSuite Manufacturing Edition
Shipwire: Shipwire

Best Systems Management Solution

Appnomic Systems, Inc.: OpsOne
Netuitive, Inc.: Netuitive 6.0
NetWrix: NetWrix Change Reporter Suite
ServiceNow: ServiceNow Enterprise IT Service Automation
SUMMUS Software, Inc.: Summus IT Management Suite 4.0.2

Best Video Tool

Adobe Systems, Inc.: Adobe Presenter 8
Brighter Futures for Beautiful Minds: Wonkidos Animated Social Skills
kPoint Technologies Pvt. Ltd.: kPoint

For more information on All About the Cloud, attending the CODiE Awards luncheon, and to see a full schedule of events, visit http://www.siia.net/aatc

Rhianna Collier is VP for the Software Division at SIIA. Follow the Software team on Twitter at @SIIASoftware.

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AATC Speaker Profile: Mark Cunningham, Founder & CEO, Indicee

March 15, 2013 By Katie Carlson

SIIA AATC Speaker Profile

Name: Mark Cuningham
Title: Founder & Cheif Executive Officer
Company: Indicee

Bio:
Mark Cunningham is a thought leader and entrepreneur with more than 20 years’ experience in the business intelligence (BI) industry. He has been on the founding team of four successful startups, including his current role as Founder & CEO of cloud BI company,Indicee. As a strong advocate for cloud computing and social business, Mark is passionate about bringing greater insight and data-driven decision making to the new breed of social enterprise.

Mark began his entrepreneurial career in 1992, when his family company began building the world’s first Windows-based reporting tool, Crystal Reports. Crystal was later acquired by Business Objects for $820M.

Home town: Vancouver, BC.

First job: Well, it depends on how far back I go! I collected golf balls from the water hazards and resold them to the golfers during my years in elementary school. I painted fences in high school. I worked as a bike courier during university. I guess my first real job was working on the team that created Crystal Reports.

What are you currently reading? I just finished reading Neil Young’s autobiography and now I am reading Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, and Social Business by Design by Dion Hinchcliffe and Peter Kim.

All-time favorite music: I am a guitar player so I can’t answer that question. There are too many to choose. But I play rock, blues and jazz with a few of the bands that I’m in.

What is the best meal you have had recently? I had a great pork loin dish at Bix in San Francisco recently.

What is your next (dream) career? Vintage Cars and Guitars….buy, sell…whatever. I just like being around them. If I can make money along the way too, that would be cool.

Hobbies: Guitar, photography, kitesurfing, aviation, vintage cars, cycling…the list is long.

What do you think is the hot button issue for the software & services industry in 2013?
2013 will be all about “social business” and the advancement of technologies to support the new, collaborative way of working. This trend has seen many ISVs build social elements into the core of their applications over the last couple of years; in some cases, completely overhauling product suites or building new apps from scratch. This year, I expect to see greater sophistication in the tools that are helping to drive social business performance, including an increased demand for analytics. Businesses now want empirical evidence on the effectiveness of their social activities and the technologies they are using to support it. The need to link social strategies to business objectives is something we’re hearing all the time right now at Indicee and for that reason, I think 2013 will be a big growth year for social business analytics vendors.

What are you looking forward to most at AATC?
Can I only pick one? In that case, I’d have to say that I’m most looking forward to joining the panel on Selling More with Sales Intelligence. We have an interesting take on this subject at Indicee as we’ve been working with customers to prove, with real data, that using social channels internally to grow collective sales intelligence has a positive impact on sales performance. It should be a great conversation. I’m also excited to hear about this year’s NextGen companies, as we were winners last year. Oh, and the speed networking sounds fun. Ok, so that was three things…

Why is your company a member of SIIA?
We’ve been SIIA members for almost two years now and really value the networking opportunities that come with our membership. All About the Cloud is a great example of this!

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AATC Speaker Profile: Rick Nucci, General Manager, Dell Boomi

March 15, 2013 By Katie Carlson

SIIA AATC Speaker Profile

Name: Rick Nucci
Title: Founder & General Manager
Company: Dell Boomi

Bio: Rick Nucci is the Founder and General Manager of Dell Boomi where he is responsible for all operations and strategic direction. He has led the company’s successful transformation from a traditional software product company to a leading infrastructure provider in the SaaS and cloud computing industry. In his role at Dell Boomi, Rick is constantly engaged with customers and partners to ensure alignment between business needs and Dell Boomi’s strategy and operations.

Rick frequently speaks at industry and business events nationwide including Gartner AADI, Dreamforce, Cloud Expo and All About the Cloud.

Home town: Lebanon, PA

First job: DJ

What are you currently reading? Beezus and Ramona, and TechCrunch

All-time favorite music: Vanilla Ice (duh)

What is the best meal you have had recently? Miso Cod at Ozumo

What is your next (dream) career? Something combining music and technology…

Hobbies: Music (attending live shows, etc.), travel

What do you think is the hot button issue for the software & services industry in 2013? Big Data, Mobile, Social, and Cloud are top of mind for our industry. Cloud is seeing continued and aggressive growth which is driving new levels of agility for enterprises of all sizes.

What are you looking forward to most at AATC? Networking with other ISV executives to understand best practices around sales, go-to-market, and product.

Why is your company a member of SIIA? The connections we have made at SIIA have proven very valuable to both our BD efforts as well as helping us to learn and share with industry peers.

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SIIA Invites Digital Content, Media & Software Companies to Present at 2nd Annual Strategic & Financial Investment Conference

March 12, 2013 By Kathy Greenler Sexton

SIIA is now accepting applications for its Strategic & Financial Investment Conference, held June 13 at New York City’s Princeton Club. Invited to apply are private and public companies with revenues from $5M to $100M and which operate in the Education Technology, Media and Digital Content, Information Services and Software Services industries.

The Strategic & Financial Investment Conference is an invitation-only conference for qualified strategic and financial investment professionals. These individuals represent the corporate finance and corporate development groups of public and private corporations, venture capital and private equity firms, banks and others seeking strategic and financial investments, and acquisition and partnership opportunities. The conference provides presenting companies a unique opportunity to tell their story and network.

The goal of this unique event is to expose the great work being done by leading media, publishing and technology companies and to connect them with investors who can help take their innovations to the next level.

Executives interested in presenting at the conference may apply online at http://siia.net/investment/2013/apply/.

Presenting companies can be public or private, and will present in one of three tracks:

Early-stage companies with under $10M in revenue
Growth companies between $10-25M in revenue
Established companies over $25M and up to $100M in revenue

Kathy Greenler Sexton is Vice President and General Manager of the SIIA Content Division. Contact Kathy at kgsexton@siia.net.

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