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Teesnap Welcomes a New Director of Operations and Director of Sales and Marketing to the Team

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July 23, 2018

Teesnap Welcomes a New Director of Operations and Director of Sales and Marketing to the Team

Teesnap, the fastest-growing technology company in the golf industry, is proud to welcome two new members to their executive team: David Barham, the new Director of Operations and Jeff Featherstone, the new Director of Sales and Marketing.

On the heels of month-over-month growth and surpassed revenue goals, Teesnap’s focus on providing superior service and solutions never wavered. The addition of Barham and Featherstone will ensure the company continues to meet its goal of staying at the forefront of technology and service.

“Teesnap has hit a point in its growth cycle where we need extra support to continue our fast-paced growth and ensure we continually provide high-end service to our clients,” said Jason Copley, Vice President of Operations. “The skill sets and backgrounds of these two executives are tremendous. They’re great compliments to the existing leadership team here at Teesnap.”

Barham joins the Teesnap team with 15 years of experience optimizing operations with critical, thoughtful, and strategic analysis. His experience in building, developing, and mentoring diverse teams made him stand out.

He joins Teesnap after successfully launching a new division at Vivint, which lowered logistics costs by $4MM. He also raised the global service level from 95 percent to 99 percent and minimized unbalanced inventory in the field. David brings to his new role a variety of skills that will lend themselves well to disrupting and innovating in the golf industry. In his spare time, he enjoys photography, listening to music, following technology trends, and spending time with his family.

Featherstone has 22 years of experience in sales with experience in almost every position imaginable. From being an individual contributor in a small business to building high-performing sales teams for Fortune 500 companies, he has a real passion for working with people and making a meaningful impact.

In the past five years, Featherstone built teams to specifically attack and improve user experience within the hospitality, smart grid/smart cities and distribution/transportation verticals. He could not be more excited to join the Teesnap family and work with its extraordinary sales and marketing team.

Vendasta Brings G Suite to Marketplace

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Ed O’Keefe

Vendasta is helping more businesses seamlessly ‘go Google’ with its integration of G Suite. The partnership means Vendasta customers (partners) can now access G Suite in the Vendasta Marketplace, and easily re-sell the solutions to their clients.

“More than five million businesses are using G Suite to collaborate smartly and securely in the cloud,” said Ed O’Keefe, Executive VP of Vendasta’s Marketplace. “Our partners are now able to drive their local business clients toward one of the best productivity tools on the market.”

The Total Economic Impact™ of G Suite report shows a 304 percent return on investment over three years among businesses who moved from legacy on-premise infrastructure to Google’s web-based solutions. Further, 70 percent of companies on Forbes’ Cloud 100 list are active G Suite customers.

G Suite is everything a business needs to do its best work, together in one package that works seamlessly from a computer, phone or tablet. Among its features are:

Easy account setup and custom @yourcompany business emails with Gmail;
Team scheduling with Google Calendar;
Virtual meetings and messaging with Google Hangouts & Google Chat;
And cloud-based storage on Google Drive.

Brendan King

“Our vision is to be the single source of truth for local businesses, and this partnership with G Suite marks a fundamental leap toward our goal,” said Vendasta CEO, Brendan King. “Businesses need one login, one password, and one set of controls to be able to access their information, connect with their contacts, carry out work, or check work that’s being done on their behalf. Our platform helps our resellers turn their customers into ‘A’ players over all aspects of their businesses, whether it be marketing, accounting, HR, Legal, insurance, or productivity. G Suite is an ‘A’ player tool.”

G Suite is available to Vendasta partners in the Marketplace right now. To learn more about Vendasta, its G Suite integration, and the platform’s other solutions, connect today.

The Marketing Practice Chooses Bridge to Launch Ambitious Learning and Development Academy for Employees

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The Marketing Practice Chooses Bridge to Launch Ambitious Learning and Development Academy for Employees

The Agency will use Bridge Learn to deliver a learning academy to attract and develop leading marketing professionals

Bridge by Instructure, Inc. (NYSE:INST), a talent management software suite for businesses, announced today The Marketing Practice (TMP) has chosen Bridge Learn to deliver professional development for employees. The Marketing Practice is a B2B marketing agency focused on the technology and business services sectors. Working with clients such as Salesforce and O2, they have 140 employees throughout the UK, US and Germany.

Their goal is to become the premier B2B marketing agency. Obsessed with doing things right, TMP recognise the importance of education, and so are committed to training the best B2B marketing professionals.

The agency’s ambition is to develop an academy (TMP Academy) and to combine all their experience with the best of what’s available from other sources — including Harvard Business Review, Marketing Week and academic sources — into an online training programme for employees.

David van Schaick

“We found that lots of marketing training is mostly B2C focused, is introductory or mid-level and aimed at specific tactics or a single channel. We find that it’s really hard to get good B2B training encompassing strategy to execution. The best training we’ve had is content we’ve developed ourselves,” said David van Schaick, CMO and Chief Digital Officer at The Marketing Practice.

To realise this ambition, TMP needed a flexible system for not only delivering training but for creating content. Without learning management software already in place, TMP began to search for a solution. “Bridge Learn was a clear winner. Its authoring tool is easy to use, so we can create and curate content easily, including uploading of rich content such as videos. It’s also easy to create structured programs with different learning activities and the interactivity of quizzes helps employees retain and apply what they’ve learnt,” explained van Schaick.

Jeremy Carter

The first modules in the academy programme will cover marketing strategy, creativity, the psychology of buying decisions, communications planning, data, digital marketing and inside sales. These topics will be part of an ongoing 1:1 and personal development cycle at TMP.

“For agencies like The Marketing Practice, clients are won and retained because they employ marketing consultants who are up to date with their industry best practice and knowledge,” said Jeremy Carter, Director, Bridge, EMEA. “Technology plays a powerful role in making learning faster, convenient and continuous, which is exactly what Bridge is doing for employees at The Marketing Practice.”

Entytle Insyghts approved as the first Aftermarket Recurring Revenue application on Microsoft AppSource

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Entytle Insyghts approved as the first Aftermarket Recurring Revenue application on Microsoft AppSource

In order to be accepted as an offering on Microsoft AppSource, the Entytle Insyghts solution was thoroughly vetted and approved by Microsoft, including security and compliance reviews.

Insyghts is a SaaS application purpose-built for B2B manufacturers to drive customer engagement, loyalty and Aftermarket revenue growth for industrial equipment manufacturers. Insyghts assembles data from multiple, siloed and disparate enterprise systems, and applies sophisticated analytics and machine learning to uncover aftermarket opportunities, monitor account health and grow top-line revenue.

Vivek Joshi

The approval of Entytle Insyghts on Microsoft AppSource is a significant achievement. “Launching on Microsoft AppSource is a major milestone for Entytle”, said Vivek Joshi, CEO and Founder of Entytle. “Industrial manufacturers are struggling with Aftermarket engagement and revenue growth. With this launch, any Microsoft customer can now take advantage of our solution. Insyghts is incredibly easy to use, delivers actionable insights directly to end-users and is seamlessly integrated into Dynamics 365.”

Trusted by leading B2B manufacturers globally like Grundfos, Hayward Gordon, Nederman, Russelectric, Evoqua and others, Entytle Insyghts helps recapture lost wallet-share, reduce churn, and drive upsell from the installed base.

Ozonetel Announces a Unique Omnichannel Widget That Combines Voice and Chat

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Ozonetel Announces a Unique Omnichannel Widget That Combines Voice and Chat

Cloud Telephony Systems pioneer Ozonetel launched a new Omnichannel service widget – KOOKOO Interactive Assistant. The widget enables web visitors to place one-click, VOIP calls from the website. In a first-of-its-kind offering, it runs a parallel chat session concurrently with the voice call.

“Customers and agents use the parallel chat to exchange details that are frustrating to spell out over the phone. This includes names, email ids, links and booking ids,” Murthy Chintalapati, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ozonetel, explained. “It promises a smoother customer experience, and helps close transactions two times faster.”

“Businesses also cut costs on toll-free bills. We estimate that contact centers can cut costs by 50%, within two years of adoption.” Murthy adds.

Chaitanya Chokkareddy

Chaitanya Chokkareddy, Chief Innovation Officer, Ozonetel, says: “Our Interactive Assistant closes the debate on live chat versus voice support. It combines both platforms to create a truly responsive, mobile-first experience. We’ve bundled features to benefit both sales and customer support.”

“The KOOKOO Interactive Assistant is in keeping with our desire to continuously innovate,” Chokkareddy continued. “Early this year, we rolled out bots and artificial intelligence capabilities to further improve B2C customer engagement. We will soon extend the AI capabilities to improve self-service options on the widget too.”

KOOKOO Interactive Assistant is supported by the KOOKOO Platform and KOOKOO CloudAgent. The Cloud contact center software at the backend ensures advanced calling features, automatic call distribution, skill hunting and visual IVR. Integration with all leading CRMs and Ticketing solutions including Zendesk, Zoho, Salesforce, Freshdesk, and Hubspot -ensures automatic capture and retrieval of caller details.

SaaS and Technology Industry Revenue Acceleration Expert Jeff Loeb Joins Chief Outsiders’ Northeast Group

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SaaS and Technology Industry Revenue Acceleration Expert Jeff Loeb Joins Chief Outsiders’ Northeast Group

“Executives-as-a-Service” firm welcomes CMO specializing in high-velocity demand generation for SaaS and growth companies

Chief Outsiders, one of the nation’s fastest-growing management consulting firms, has announced the addition of digital marketing and go-to-market strategy specialist Jeff Loeb to its team of fractional CMOs.

Drawing from more than 20 years of SaaS, software, technology, and cloud expertise wielded within organizations ranging from start-ups to the Global 2000, Loeb partners with emerging company and mid-market business executives to accelerate revenue, increase pipeline, build awareness and optimize marketing ROI. Loeb couples go-to-market strategy and digital marketing expertise to accelerate new customer acquistion and increase customer lifetime value.

Prior to joining Chief Outsiders, Loeb served in executive marketing roles including Chief Marketing Officer at Vidyard, a SaaS video platform, Chief Marketing Officer and executive vice president at IT Management software firm Ipswitch, and vice president of global marketing at application performance management software company dynatrace.

While serving at these enterprises, Mr. Loeb drove awareness, leadership recognition, and revenue acceleration, growing dynatrace from $35M to $300M in revenue , and increasing revenue by 50% annually at Vidyard. Additional success stories include growing cloud pioneer Navisite from $10M to $100M in revenue, and driving eight company website redesigns, resulting in 50-80 percent increases in conversions and traffic.

“SaaS, cloud and technology businesses, in order to stand out and succeed, require compelling and persuasive digital and content marketing strategies to uniquely position their brand, attract new traffic, drive conversions, and rapidly land and expand,” said Slade Kobran, Managing Partner of Chief Outsiders’ Northeast team. “Jeff is an invaluable ally for B2B SaaS startups and mid-market companies alike who need assistance in creating high-velocity, low-friction customer acquisition and growth.”

Loeb earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the founder of the MIT CIO Symposium, the largest CIO event in the Northeastern United States.

Microzu.com, an Alternative to Amazon Marketplace for e-Retailing

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Microzu.com, an Alternative to Amazon Marketplace for e-Retailing

Microzu.com, a Colorado based e-Commerce company, is pleased to announce the launch of their latest innovation to help online entrepreneurs find an alternative marketplace to grow their business. Designed to be user-friendly for beginners and savvy online e-Retailers, Microzu.com marketplace is free.

“Starting an e-retail business should no longer be an obstacle for anyone,” says Mr. Reggie Abbott, Microzu Lead Strategist.

According to Mr. Abbott, Microzu offers a virtual warehouse accessible to e-retailers once they are accepted as a vendor. Entrepreneurs can pick products of their choice from Microzu virtual warehouse and there is no registration fee.

According to Ms. Jenell C., a recent college graduate and owner of JCs Health and Beauty, Microzu marketplace is the ideal place for small e-Retailers like her, as it is not an Amazonian forest where you will get lost among millions of vendors.

For Mr. Bud W., a Chicago based e-Retailer expert, there is no easier way than Microzu to start your online business.

According to Bobby H., owner of B & H Pet Supplies, the sense of being part of community of vendors where members care about each other, is the greatest networking platform you can have.

Designed to be user-friendly, users can upload their merchandise on-the-go or from their desktop.

Abbott says that the beautiful part of Microzu.com marketplace is the vast amount of inventories, the large number of web stores vendors can channel out their products across multiple selling platforms.

Vendors can change product lines whenever they discover a new market niche at no additional cost.

Furthermore, according to Reggie, vendors get the technical assistance and business mentoring in term of designing their logo, starting their store, and promoting their store on major social networks. Monthly community webinars and easy to read white papers are published to support vendors.

“We’re very excited with the successful release of Microzu marketplace application. We purposely designed this App to be extremely user friendly with the cell phone and mobile device users in mind,” states Dr. Yaya Bamba, Managing Director at Y2Fox, Inc. parent company of Microzu.

Microzu.com is a subsidiary of Y2Fox Data Solutions, which is a trusted Cloud Service and Cyber Security Provider for the U.S Federal, State, and Local Government.

Bossa Nova Acquires AI Company, HawXeye

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Company welcomes Professor Marios Savvides as Chief AI Scientist and expands AI research partnership with Carnegie Mellon University

Bossa Nova, the leading provider of real-time, on-shelf product data for the global retail industry, today announced the acquisition of the artificial intelligence company, HawXeye.

Founded by Prof. Marios Savvides and Andy Lin, HawXeye is a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The company has introduced significant advancements in face detection and object recognition technology. Prof. Marios Savvides has joined Bossa Nova as Chief AI Scientist bringing over 18 years of experience in deep learning, facial biometrics, and object recognition. Savvides will be responsible for advancing AI capabilities within the retail environment, resulting in precise product recognition at large scale, highly accurate identification of out-of-stock and misplaced products.

Additionally, Bossa Nova also announced a new partnership with the CyLab Biometrics Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Founded and led by Savvides, the lab will advance research in AI, analytics, and robot perception in retail and autonomous navigation. With the addition of HawXeye and CMU’s technical expertise, leadership, and research, Bossa Nova gains exclusive licenses to more than 52 core IP properties in deep learning, correlation filters, 3D modeling, and additional product recognition technologies.

Bruce McWilliams

“With the leadership of Prof. Savvides, the HawXeye team has an impressive track record of successfully transferring AI research out of a lab environment and into reliable and scalable products,” said Bruce McWilliams, CEO of Bossa Nova. “We have only scratched the surface of what’s possible in retail and together, we will accelerate the development of advanced, AI-powered, data-focused solutions. We’re thrilled to welcome the HawXeye team and Prof. Savvides to Bossa Nova and to further expand our relationship with CMU.”

Prof. Marios Savvides

“Bossa Nova is changing the retail ecosystem. They deliver unparalleled real-time product data to the largest retailers in the world through fully autonomous service robots,” said Prof. Marios Savvides, Chief AI Scientist of Bossa Nova and director of CyLab Biometrics Center at CMU. “When combined with their robotics technology, our AI can unlock unprecedented levels of accuracy, reliability, and scale in retail scene understanding. With Bossa Nova, we’re confident we can create a new era of retail data and analytics.”

Field Squared Continues Solid Market Momentum and Expands Leadership Team

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Field Squared Continues Solid Market Momentum and Expands Leadership Team

Field Squared, Inc.™, the industry’s first Field Service Management Process Automation Platform, today announced its continued market momentum over H1 2018, having signed a number of new customers or expanded contracts with existing customers. The company also announced the hiring of two key new executive appointments as well as enhanced its field service management platform.

Christopher James Camut

“The type of growth we’re seeing across both new and existing customers is very exciting,” said Christopher James Camut, Director, President and CEO at Field Squared. “Field service organizations are realizing the benefits of digital transformation, and this momentum acknowledges how unique our field service management platform is in the marketplace. We can’t wait to share exciting things over the rest of 2018.”

Customer Growth

In H1 2018, among other sales accomplishments, Field Squared grew its customer base, most notably signing new or expanding existing multi-year contracts with five large enterprise customers. Customers have chosen Field Squared because of the configurability of the platform, the ability to integrate with any back-office systems and the superior customer support.

Key New Executive Appointments

Field Squared hired two newly formed executive appointments to the company’s leadership team, bringing on Tiffany Aasted as director of marketing and Dan McDaid as director of sales.

Tiffany Aasted brings extensive technology marketing expertise across cloud and SaaS companies to lead the company’s marketing department.

Dan McDaid joins the company with a wealth of sales experience and an extensive background in SaaS and hybrid technology solutions. In his role, he will also lead the company’s partner programs.

Platform Technology & Innovation

Over H1 2018, the company released a number of innovative features to its field service management platform, including:

Scheduling and route optimization enhancements
Work order management feature-set expansion
Enriched field service analytics, reporting and business intelligence
Advanced work order Smart Form automation features
iOS and Android mobile application updates

Kasten Launches K10 on Google Cloud Platform Marketplace for Data Management of Stateful Applications on Kubernetes

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Kasten Launches K10 on Google Cloud Platform Marketplace for Data Management of Stateful Applications on Kubernetes

Kasten, a cloud-native data management company, today announced its K10 platform is now available to all users of the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace (GCP Marketplace). The K10 platform provides customers with the ability to operationalize at scale data protection, disaster recovery, cloud migration, and copy management of stateful Kubernetes applications. For the first time ever, K10 is now available to deploy with one click to Google Kubernetes Engine with a usage-based pricing model. Commercial Kubernetes applications can be deployed on-premise or even on other public clouds through the GCP Marketplace.

K10 uses a novel application-centric approach to data management that enables enterprises to meet business continuity and compliance requirements around stateful container based applications running at scale on public and private Kubernetes deployments. Kasten’s solution allows infrastructure teams to bring much needed operational discipline and peace of mind when handling use cases like Backup and Recovery, Test/Dev Environments, Cloud Migration and Disaster Recovery without sacrificing the flexibility and agility that developers have gotten accustomed to on a dynamic platform like Kubernetes.

Niraj Tolia

“Enterprises are adopting Kubernetes at unprecedented pace and are increasingly using it as their primary infrastructure for both stateless and stateful applications. This has created tremendous demand for the Kasten K10 platform which simplifies the operational complexity around data management in this environment,” said Niraj Tolia, co-founder and CEO of Kasten. “We are excited to partner with Google Cloud to further simplify the process through which customers can deploy K10 both in the cloud and on-premises.”

GCP Marketplace is based on a multi-cloud and hybrid-first philosophy, focused on giving Google Cloud partners and enterprise customers flexibility without lock-in. It also helps customers innovate by easily adopting new technologies from ISV partners, such as commercial Kubernetes applications, and allows companies to oversee the full lifecycle of a solution, from discovery through management.

“To remain competitive and deliver on user demands, organizations adopting cloud need ready access to trusted, tested and portable applications that can run across their entire infrastructure. At Google Cloud we strive to make it as easy as possible for customers of all sizes to deploy, purchase and manage leading solutions in the cloud,” said Jennifer Lin, Director of Product Management Google Cloud. “The availability of commercial Kubernetes applications from providers like Kasten is a critical part of extending enterprise investments and can simplify adoption of container-based infrastructure no matter what environment they operate in, either on-premises or in the public cloud.”

Teesnap Welcomes a New Director of Operations and Director of Sales and Marketing to the Team

Vendasta Brings G Suite to Marketplace

The Marketing Practice Chooses Bridge to Launch Ambitious Learning and Development Academy for Employees

Entytle Insyghts approved as the first Aftermarket Recurring Revenue application on Microsoft AppSource

Ozonetel Announces a Unique Omnichannel Widget That Combines Voice and Chat

SaaS and Technology Industry Revenue Acceleration Expert Jeff Loeb Joins Chief Outsiders’ Northeast Group

Microzu.com, an Alternative to Amazon Marketplace for e-Retailing

Bossa Nova Acquires AI Company, HawXeye

Field Squared Continues Solid Market Momentum and Expands Leadership Team

Kasten Launches K10 on Google Cloud Platform Marketplace for Data Management of Stateful Applications on Kubernetes

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