Bridgestream, a leading provider of authorization management software, closed its Series A funding led by new investors Outlook Ventures and Hummer Winblad. Bridgestream sells an enterprise-class software solution that aggregates, stores, manages and updates authorization information to enable organizations to secure systems and data across the enterprise, in real-time. Bridgestream reduces the time and costs associated with manual authorization processing while improving a firm's overall security and compliance.
Twentieth Century Television and Classmates Online, operator of www.classmates.com, the leading online community that connects more than 35 million members with friends, family, military and work colleagues, announced the July 7 debut of Classmates, the television show. Classmates will feature real-life reunion stories of Classmates.com members captured live on camera. The 13-week test strip will air five-days-a-week on FOX owned-and-operated stations in 25 major markets, reaching 45% of total U.S. households.
Echopass, the leading provider of hosted contact interaction solutions, salesforce.com, the world leader in delivering software-as-service customer relationship management solutions, and Genesys Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Alcatel, announced the delivery of the Echopass Telecenter. Telecenter provides an affordable, enterprise-strength contact center for telemarketing, telesales and customer service organizations. Mid-sized businesses can now deploy fully integrated CRM and customer interaction capabilities at a fraction of the time and cost of a premise-based system. Customers, such as SonicWall, have noted that EchoPass enables support representatives to "handle two to three times the workloadá while delivering an increased level of customer satisfaction."
nSite Software, the only hosted solution provider that captures, automates and optimizes dynamic manual processes in real-time, released version 3 of its offering and closed a $6 million follow-on financing led by WorldView Partners. Version 3 provides instant automation of additional processes through end-user initiation and wider accessibility through simple email access. Using nSite, end-users initiate and manage their own processes, gaining control and visibility, accelerated decision making, and optimized productivity, without the need for IT resources. Businesses realize immediate and substantial ROI by enabling their end users to quickly automate the countless exception based processes that occur in any existing enterprise system, along with the numerous manual people-to-people processes that exist within every company.
Reconnex launched its first product, a LAN appliance that tracks sensitive data as it moves around corporate networks and warns security staff when that data appears to have been compromised. The G2 Content Analyzer searches for customer-designated data and logs any traffic containing that data. The device can filter traffic based on parameters. The G2 is designed to protect against employees who try to read or steal data and those who inadvertently put it in jeopardy. Intellectual property theft costs Fortune 1000 companies billions of dollars each year. Many disclosures of intellectual property are accidental and caused by innocent employees trying to do their jobs. "New government regulations require companies to track when certain data leaves their networks," says Paul Hooper, CIO of Extreme Networks, which is beta-testing the G2 analyzer for internal use. Firewalls and anti-virus software address external threats, but "you need to protect outbound as well as inbound," he says.
Toolwire and Logilent completed their merger and have deployed an integrated product line. The resulting offering delivers live, hands-on access to software and networking technologies to corporate users. LiveLabs reduce instructor-led delivery costs by more than 35 percent and training administration and IT costs by 80 percent. Cisco, which relies on more than 40,000 channel partners and 500,000 systems engineers for 85 percent of its revenues takes ecosystem workforce development very seriously. Utilizing Toolwire, Cisco provides remote, hands-on access to Cisco equipment via chaotic, real-world scenarios. Cisco has delivered more than 320,000 live labs to its ecosystem in over 109 countries.
