Customer Relationship Management Training

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Xactly Corporation, (http://www.xactlycorp.com), the market leader in on-demand sales performance management, today announced a strategic relationship with Barry Rhein and Associates, one of the world's foremost sales effectiveness consultants. Through the partnership, Barry Rhein and Associates will offer sales training and sales effectiveness consulting to Xactly customers as part of Xactly's extensive sales performance management ecosystem.

"There's an enormous synergy between sales skill- and mind-set development as practiced so successfully by Barry Rhein, and sales performance management as delivered by Xactly," said Steve DeMarco, Xactly vice president business development. "Barry provides the catalyst that enables sales methodologies to be effective, while Xactly provides the on-demand infrastructure that enables companies to incent strategically and maximize sales performance.

Beyond recognition: Success at the SSAs

There may have been many rivals at the Business Software Satisfaction Awards but the winners were all united in praising their customers for making it such a successful night. Louise Druce reports.

Spanning several categories, including accounting and finance, HR and training and customer relationship management (CRM), the awards were voted for by consumers. As many of the winners commented, it meant that rather than just feeling happy to have earned recognition among experts in the industry, the end-user perspective truly validated their achievements.

Duncan Wood, Sage CRM product manager, said: "It's so good to hear that our customers are recommending our software because that's our vision." Sage was nominated in several categories but scooped the on-premise CRM award. "It was absolutely fantastic to get the award," he continued.

EventMingle Improves Tradeshows, Conferences and Events while Becoming ...

EventMingle.com allows attendees, exhibitors, speakers and press editors to meet online, prior to attending the actual event in order to enhance their one-to-one interaction during the event.

Unlike other event based social networking applications, attendee relationship management applications and instant online communities for tradeshows, conferences or events, EventMingle is licensed at no cost to the producer of the event.

Official transcript of Mulroney appearance

Clear the cameras, please.
I call to order the 10th meeting of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
Our order of the day is to study the Mulroney Airbus settlement, pursuant to the following resolution adopted by the committee on November 22, 2007.
That, in order to examine whether there were violations of ethical and code of conduct standards by any office-holder, the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics review matters relating to the Mulroney Airbus settlement, including any and all new evidence, testimony and information not available at the time of settlement and including allegations relating to the Right Hon. Brian Mulroney made by Karlheinz Schreiber and, in particular, the handling of allegations by the present and past governments including the circulation of relevant correspondence in the Privy Council Office and Prime Ministers Office.

Platform Computing Acquires Scali Manage Business

TORONTO, and MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Platform Computing announced today it has acquired the Scali Manage business from Massachusetts-based Scali Inc. Scali Manage(TM) is an integrated and flexible High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster management and monitoring system. This strategic acquisition supports Platform's vision to be the partner of choice for HPC infrastructure software worldwide. The Scali Manage product complements Platform's existing HPC offerings and extends Platform's products' cluster and grid management capabilities.

While the use of clusters and grid infrastructure is on the rise, the integration and management of these systems remains complex. Products such as Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS)* and Scali Manage have been developed specifically to improve performance, simplicity, and lower the support cost necessary to operate a HPC infrastructure.

CVD Equipment Names Karlheinz Strobl Vice President of Business ...

RONKONKOMA, N.Y., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV) , a designer and manufacturer of standard and custom state-of-the-art equipment used in the development, design and manufacture of advanced electronic components, materials and coatings for research and industrial applications, announced today that it has appointed Dr. Karlheinz Strobl as Vice President of Business Development. Strobl's responsibilities in this newly-created position will include new product, process and market development and identifying and optimizing the strategic opportunities between CVD and the emerging nano, solar and clean energy markets, as well as other new technology-driven markets.

Prior to joining CVD, Dr. Strobl worked in a variety of startup, turnaround and corporate environments, in industries such as optics, medical, electroforming and thin film coatings.

Broadcom's VDSL2 Chipsets Power ZyXEL's IP DSLAM and CPE Equipment for ...

BERLIN, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadband World Forum 2007 -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that its VDSL2 and StrataXGS(R) Ethernet products have been qualified and selected by Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) of Taiwan for mass deployment in its next generation IP services network. Broadcom's powerful VDSL2 chipsets were originally selected by ZyXEL Corporation for incorporation in the ZyXEL VES-1600 and IES-5005 next generation access products. As a result of this successful engagement, Broadcom and ZyXEL have teamed together to provide VDSL2 IP DSLAM and customer premises equipment (CPE) products to Chunghwa Telecom for its next generation VDSL2 access network.

The selection by CHT provides decisive market validation of the Broadcom(R) VDSL2 technology and the ongoing collaboration between Broadcom and ZyXEL to develop best-in-class, standards-based solutions for Ethernet aggregation, ITU G.992.1/3/5 ADSL1/2/2+ and ITU G.993.2 VDSL2 access markets.

Elonex customers left without warranty cover

Customers of IT services company Elonex are annoyed and frustrated that the company will not be honouring service warranties now it has been taken over.

"There will be a number of customers who wish to place fault calls under previous warranty agreements," said John Power, corporate sector manager at Elonex PLC, in an email sent to customers.