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New Online Training Course Tackles OSHA's Updated Chemical Safety Data Sheet Rules
Press Release: MSDSonline – Tue, Oct 2, 2012 8:50 AM EDTCompanies:ICG Group, Inc.RELATED QUOTESSymbol Price Change
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Safety Data Sheets undergoing big modifications in the US due to OSHA's adoption of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS)
MSDSonline offering new on-demand training course to help companies train employees in time for fast- approaching compliance deadlines
CHICAGO, Oct. 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MSDSonline, the leading provider of sustainable cloud-based EH&S solutions, today announced the launch of a new online workplace training course entitled "Safety Data Sheets." The new course, geared toward employees exposed to hazardous chemicals in the workplace, explores in depth each of the 16 sections that make up OSHA's new styled safety data sheet (SDS) in the GHS format.
Posted on October 1, 2012
San Francisco, CA – October 1, 2012 – Inc. magazine ranked Freeborders on its sixth annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The global provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions to financial services and Internet based businesses, was recognized as a Inc. 500|5000 company for the third consecutive year based on its three-year sales growth.
“Being named to this prestigious list in a region that is home to many of the world’s most thriving technology companies is an honor. It reflects our mission to innovate with web, mobile and social technologies which make our customers wildly successful,” says Jean Cholka, CEO of Freeborders. “Our own success and growth comes from helping our clients get better insights into their business. This is something we make possible by fully harnessing the power of their IT applications, infrastructure and data.”
In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2012 Inc. 500|5000 companies remains an impressive 97 percent. The companies on this year’s list report having created over 400,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $299 billion.
“Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500/5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward. Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is,” says Inc. Editor Eric Schurenberg.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/5000.
Posted on October 3, 2012
According to the Everest Group Research report “Offshore Locations: Plans and Perceptions of Buyers and Services Providers 2012-2014”, China is among the key growth locations for companies. It is closely following India as a preferred destination among buyers and service providers.
For more than ten years, Freeborders has witnessed the rise of China as the country-of-choice for all types of IT outsourcing, from legacy application maintenance to the development of aggressively innovative web-based and mobile services. China has become highly attractive to decision-makers who are thinking in terms of long-term strategic advantages.
Among the key reasons to select China for offshore IT outsourcing are:
Access to talent,
The understanding of the business requirements from foreign companies, and
China’s proven success record of helping companies gain competitive advantage through IT.
Consider these facts. Chinese colleges are churning out graduates in the fields of engineering, science and technology. This includes 600,000 engineering graduates per year—more than India (400,000) and the United States (70,000) combined. There are more people learning English in China than there are native English speakers in the U.S.
Today, simply deciding on outsourcing is not enough. The choice of the outsourcing location has a significant impact on the business. Access to China’s high-value IT outsourcing capabilities can help companies stay competitive. We project China to become the world’s largest supplier of trained IT professionals. Choosing China as the outsourcing location helps companies to balance the scale and pricing of IT project implementations.
For more information, read our White Paper Choosing China.
Contract Represents One of the Largest CloudStore Procurement Deals Since Catalogue Published
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LONDON, Oct. 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GovDelivery announced today the Cabinet Office's Government Digital Service (GDS) has signed a contract to leverage GovDelivery's Digital Communication Management (DCM) solution. This deal represents GovDelivery's largest UK contract to date, as well as being one of the largest CloudStore procurement deals announced since the Catalogue was published earlier this year.
Under the agreement, the Inside Government content of the GOV.UK website will use GovDelivery's DCM platform to provide email notification services to help the users of government policy information stay up to date when things change.
A spokesperson from Cabinet Office said, "The Inside Government content on GOV.UK is where people who are personally or professionally interested in the business of government will be able to research how government works and see what it is doing. With the DCM platform we will meet our user needs for timely alerts when information changes."
The GovDelivery platform is a proven digital communications solution driving successful results for other UK-based government agencies like Parliament, Driving Standards Agency, Department for Business Innovation & Skills and the Met Office. On the forefront of government communication technology, GovDelivery understands digital government trends, and can help clients utilise and leverage them quickly. GovDelivery will offer Inside Government users lots of choice, allowing them to receive alerts and notifications on many different topics of interest. This granularity means the DCM solution will better serve researchers and stakeholders, delivering only the information they need when they want it.
GDS used the CloudStore catalogue to procure the GovDelivery solution quickly and efficiently and aim to have the service implemented in as little as 10 working days.
"We are very proud to have been chosen by GDS to support an exciting and important initiative like the Inside Government pages on the GOV.UK website. GovDelivery will be a vital tool in helping GDS keep citizens up to date with the latest government news, policy, consultations and publications," said Dave Worsell, Director, Government Solutions with GovDelivery UK. "We view this as a testament to the high value GovDelivery's solutions provide in driving successful citizen outreach and digital engagement across the UK. We are committed to continuing to serve the UK and international public sector with proven solutions that scale and deliver the most value to government organisations of all sizes."
GovDelivery DCM is used by over 550 government organisations globally to reach more people, automate communications, save money and improve program results. Government entities achieve these objectives by using the platform to encourage residents and stakeholders to sign up for and receive updates on specific topics, from road closures to health and safety news and local authority service updates through email, SMS/text messaging, and other digital channels such as social media and SMS.
For government organisations, communicating vital information to large groups of residents and stakeholders with digital communication channels provides the best foundation for achieving mission critical results. To that end, digital communications have been proven to provide excellent results for government organisations tasked with realising and measuring benefits from digital by default, channel shift, while also maintaining high customer satisfaction.
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Company Overview
2012 STATISTICS
3-year growth:11%
2011 Revenue:$29 million
2008 Revenue:$26.2 million
Employees:1000
Jobs added, prev. 3 years:392
Founded:1999
Industry:IT Services
Industry rank:#681
Source: Inc5000-2012
October 4, 2012
The procurement outsourcing (PO) market has seen steady growth in the past few years, with more than 50 new contracts signed each year in 2010-2011.
As the global PO market continues to mature, more buyers are recognizing the value of outsourcing procurement activities to optimize their companies’ spend, according to global consulting and research firm Everest Group.
Because of this, there are a growing number of firms that are adopting such PO practices, which is the transfer of ownership of procurement processes or functions to service providers.
In recent years, the PO market has reached over 300 contracts, Everest Group reported, with service providers managing more than US$190 billion (SG $232.9 billion) for clients.
Additionally, Everest Group also found that organisations that practice PO have recorded a 5-10% savings on their outsourced procurement spend.
Sources: Procurement Asia
Workday's revenue nearly doubled in 2011 to $134.4 million. Its net loss widened to $79.6 million from $56.2 million.
The IPO values the company, founded by ex-PeopleSoft executives David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, at almost $4.5 billion. Duffield and Bhusri left PeopleSoft following its acquisition by Oracle Corp in 2004 for $10.3 billion.
Workday is now among the most richly valued of recent cloud computing IPOs, with a valuation of 22 times trailing sales in the last twelve months.
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Scott Burns, CEO of GovDelivery
October 9, 2012 By Matt Williams
For years and years, governments have been feeling the pressure to communicate more effectively with the public. Social media and other readily available tools have been a big factor in changing citizen expectations, and some governments have done a better job than others at meeting the increased demand for transparency and real-time information. Some governments have chosen to bring in outside expertise to modernize their communications. One of the biggest players in this emerging market is GovDelivery, a St. Paul, Minn.-based company providing automated messaging solutions, social networks and other tools that are tailored to the needs of government.
Government Technology caught up with the company’s CEO Scott Burns about the present and future of government-to-citizen communication. What he had to say might surprise you.
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CI helps retailers, manufacturers and other advertisers make their products and services easier for consumers to find and buy both online and in local retail stores. Integrating its powerful product database with both online marketing services such as display advertising, manufacturer based where-to-buy, paid search, shopping engines, social marketing, storefront, order management and robust performance analytics, CI offers the most complete set of performance-based commerce services in the industry. The company, through its proprietary Ad Network, also drives $2B annually in referred sales from leading manufacturers to retailers in Computing, Home Improvement, Appliances, Consumer Electronics, Toys and a variety of other consumer packed goods. Clients include Best Buy, HP Home and Home Office, Kimberly-Clark, Neiman Marcus, Philips, Target, Garmin, OfficeMax, Samsung, Charming Shoppes, Black & Decker and hundreds more.
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GovDelivery is the leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions. GovDelivery’s digital subscription management solution provides organizations with a fully-automated, on-demand public communication system. Organizations using GovDelivery provide citizens with better service and access to relevant information by proactively delivering new information through email, mobile text alerts, RSS and social media channels. GovDelivery’s clients include the U.S. Departments of Defense, State, Labor, Transportation, Treasury, Homeland Security, Justice, Health and Human Services, state agencies across 30 states, the cities of Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis and hundreds of other organizations across the public sector.
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Wayne, PA-based InvestorForce is a leading provider of performance reporting solutions, with products to address the needs of consultants, plan sponsors and their money managers. InvestorForce enables the institutional investment community to manage investment decisions and exposure more effectively by providing real-time transparency and analysis. InvestorForce has successfully brought the most advanced,
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Founded in 1996 and based in Chicago, MSDSonline is a leading provider of on-demand EH&S compliance solutions, offering products and services for managing and authoring material safety data sheets (MSDSs), managing hazardous chemical inventories, reporting workplace incidents, training employees and administering other critical EH&S information. The company’s mission is to provide sustainable solutions that help customers improve employee safety, streamline compliance and reduce potential exposures to workplace hazards and risks. MSDSonline has been recognized for the last five years on Inc. magazine’s list of America’s 5,000 fastest-growing private companies.
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Procurian, the procurement outsourcing specialist, is driving a fundamental change in the way today’s businesses achieve financial agility and fund growth. Procurian is the only procurement outsourcing specialist with superior market intelligence integrated into an operational approach, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in realized savings.
aber ich hoffe, dass sie in 2012 doch einmal die 35-Millionen-Dollar-Umsatzmarke schaffen, was sich bei inzwischen 1.000 Beschäftigten, davon ca. 800 in Asien, doch wohl einstellen müsste.
Date Insider Shares Type Transaction Value*
Sep 30, 2012 MILLER PETER K
Director 1,603 Direct Acquisition (Non Open Market) at $10.68 per share. 17,120
Sep 30, 2012 ADELMAN DAVID J.
Director 1,603 Direct Acquisition (Non Open Market) at $10.68 per share. 17,120
Sep 30, 2012 DECKER THOMAS A
Director 988 Direct Acquisition (Non Open Market) at $10.68 per share. 10,551
Sep 30, 2012 BERKMAN DAVID J
Director 517 Direct Acquisition (Non Open Market) at $10.68 per share. 5,521
Sep 30, 2012 HAGAN MICHAEL J
Director 516 Direct Acquisition (Non Open Market) at $10.68 per share. 5,510
Sep 30, 2012 RINGO PHILIP J
Director 959 Direct Acquisition (Non Open Market) at $10.68 per share. 10,242
Sep 30, 2012 GERRITY THOMAS P
Director 2,013 Direct Acquisition (Non Open Market) at $10.68 per share. 21,498
IR of ICG Group sleeping, but here are the facts: Boutique merchant bank The Raine Group led the Series D round, which was also joined by education investor Debrorah Quazzo and existing investors Novak Biddle, ICG Group and Salmon River Capital.
GSV Capital, Raine Group in $23.5m Parchment financing
19 Oct 2012
Publically-traded venture firm GSV Capital has helped education credentials manager Parchment raise a $23.5m financing round.
Boutique merchant bank The Raine Group led the Series D round, which was also joined by education investor Debrorah Quazzo and existing investors Novak Biddle, ICG Group and Salmon River Capital.
More than 30 percent of the US secondary school market and 1,800 postsecondary and corporate organizations actively use Parchment technology for exchanging electronic transcripts, the company said.
Raine Group co-founder and partner Jeff Sine said, “Few trends in education are as large, mission-critical and transformative as the movement of credentials from paper to electronic and from fragmented systems to a unified network.
“Parchment is uniquely positioned to tap this opportunity.”
Last week it emerged private equity firms had accounted for almost two-thirds of deal value in the US education sector since the turn of the year, according to new research.
Firms were responsible for 59 per cent of 2012 M&A value in the sector, which has seen a leveling off of deal volume following a sharp rise in the early months, according to a new report from mid-market investment bank Berkery Noyes.
Posted on October 18, 2012
Virtustream partners with Freeborders to reduce IT costs and enable disaster recovery for medical device company
SAN FRANCISCO—October 18, 2012—Virtustream, Inc., the leading enterprise cloud solutions provider, today announced that Lanx, Inc., one of the largest, privately-held, global spinal implant companies in the U.S., has selected Virtustream’s xStream platform through its partner Freeborders to move the company’s SAP environment to the cloud. Freeborders, which provides IT services to large and medium-sized businesses, will use xStream to migrate Lanx’s mission-critical, enterprise data and applications to a virtual multi-tenant cloud environment. With Virtustream and Freeborders, Lanx expects to have its entire SAP environment up and running in the cloud within 45 days. Virtualization will help Lanx reduce infrastructure costs as well as provide data replication for disaster recovery.
“Virtustream has a proven record of success with SAP production environments and a technology that will support our disaster recovery while significantly reducing our IT costs. This combined with Freeborders’ expertise in implementing and supporting SAP solutions proved to be an ideal combination and a best of breed solution,” said Taylor Erickson, vice president of IT at Lanx. “xStream will provide the performance we require to run our SAP applications, as well as the agility and elasticity to meet our needs as our business continues to grow.”
Lanx previously used physical servers to support its SAP environment. To facilitate its first move to the cloud, the Lanx team evaluated various options and selected Virtustream because it was the only cloud provider that offered enterprise-class cloud technology, consumption-based pricing, mission-critical application assurance and proven SAP expertise. Powered by Virtustream µVMTM (Micro-VM) technology, xStream delivers enterprise-grade security and compliance, multi-tenant efficiency, application performance SLAs and consumption-based charging for both mission-critical legacy and web-scale applications in the cloud. The solution is agile and scalable enough to respond to changes in Lanx’s business demand and accommodate the company’s future growth. With Virtustream’s elastic pay-as-you-go approach, Lanx will be able to substantially cut IT infrastructure costs. The company will also be able to support disaster recovery for its SAP production landscapes, thanks to Virtustream’s multiple data centers with built-in replication.
“We found Virtustream to be an ideal infrastructure partner given its deep expertise with enterprise-class cloud solutions for SAP environments,” said Dan McNerney, senior vice president of SAP Global Services, Freeborders. “With Virtustream’s unique Micro-VM technology and security capabilities, we can expand our portfolio to offer our customers a comprehensive cloud solution that effectively meets all their SAP application needs in the cloud.”
“After successfully deploying numerous enterprise SAP production environments to the cloud in the past, we are excited to do the same for Lanx,” said Rodney Rogers, chairman and CEO of Virtustream. “We look forward to working closely with Freeborders on this project, and expect additional success in the healthcare industry as a result of this collaboration.”
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Is procurement outsourcing still "the next big thing"?
October 10, 2012
Introduction
It is three years since an Ovum report asked whether procurement outsourcing was set to be the next major growth area within the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. Since then, vendors and market watchers alike have continued to insist that the sector is on the verge of a major expansion, while enterprises have, on the whole, maintained a more cautious attitude toward outsourcing their procurement function.
Highlights
Recent growth may not have been earth-shattering, but the procurement outsourcing market continues to mature and develop. For example, since Ovum’s previous report on the sector was published three years ago, there have been notable shifts in the vendor landscape, with many companies looking to expand their capabilities through acquisitions.
The client base for procurement outsourcing is dominated by large firms (with annual revenues of $1bn or more), and there has been significant uptake from the consumer packaged goods (CPG) and manufacturing verticals.
Revenues grew 23% to $37.4 million compared with $30.5 million in Q2 2011
•EBITDA of $7.8 million from $5 million in Q2 2012
•Signed 2 new clients as well as 6 key expanded or extended contracts with existing clients
•Established delivery operations in Buenos Aires to support client needs in Latin America
•Complete Media IQ acquisition which significantly enhances Procurian’s marketing spend optimization capabilities in the area of media spend.
–Integration of Procurian and Media IQ creates leading platform with more than 75 specialists actively working with approximately $7 billion of spend each year, across 40 blue-chip clients
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