Access Data Corp., the leading provider of omnibus transparency solutions for the financial services industry, today announced that its SalesVision® software continues to gain momentum as a turn-key, outsourced solution for enterprise-wide sales and asset reporting. Access Data’s SalesVision®, a comprehensive, single vendor solution, provides clean, controlled and consistent asset and sales data aggregated from multiple financial intermediary platforms. Benefits include improved enterprise sales reporting, automated calculation and tracking of sales compensation, and ongoing monitoring of detailed trading activities.

United Metro Media, LLC d/b/a Job News, the nation's premier independent multi-media local recruitment advertising organization, has received $6.7M in mezzanine financing from BIA Digital Partners SBIC II LP. AdMedia Partners, a New York investment bank serving media, advertising and marketing services businesses, and related online and information services businesses, acted as a financial advisor to United Metro Media, LLC in the financing.

United Metro Media d/b/a Job News provides employers comprehensive multi-media recruitment solutions through a weekly employment publication that is distributed through a powerful local exposure network in 21 markets in 8 states, coordinated regional websites in each market, partnerships with local TV and radio stations, and job fairs, also in each market. Through its multimedia offerings, Job News reaches in excess of 15 million job seekers every year.

nParallel, the international brand communication, merchandising strategy and display agency, announced that Megan Diamond, president of nParallel, has been named one of the 25 "Women to Watch in Business" by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal. Diamond was recognized for her executive leadership in guiding nParallel's development from a boutique creative shop into a full-service agency that designs, plans, fabricates and manages clients' retail store displays and tradeshow exhibits.

This is the tenth anniversary of the Women in Business awards. Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal launched the project to honor women who are transforming Minnesota businesses and playing prominent roles in their communities and the state. The annual Women in Business publication shares and celebrates the honorees' success stories. The 2007 publication was issued as a supplement to the Friday, July 27, 2007 edition of Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal (www.minneapolis-stpaulbusinessjournal.com), a weekly business newspaper.

With all the demands of modern-day business, leaders increasingly face the challenge of having too much to do, and not enough time to get it all done. Add in personal pressures, such as juggling time for family and other relationships, and you have a recipe for disaster.

"The overwhelming feeling that you are always getting further and further behind is not unlike dealing with financial debt," said Jeff Timpanaro, CEO of Oberata Consulting. "You feel like you're always making 'payments' but never getting ahead, no matter how hard you work."

Trulia, the best place to start your real estate search, has launched the Trulia Partner Program to enable trainers, small and mid-sized brokers, MLSs, associations and publishers to promote the Trulia Pro marketing solution to their members and visitors, while generating additional revenue.

"Trulia Pro has proven to be a cost effective and targeted way for real estate agents to market their listings and their personal brand, in the local areas that matter most to them," said Sami Inkinen, co-founder of Trulia. "Dozens of partners have already joined the Trulia Partner Program in order to provide their agent communities with smart, ROI driven marketing tools in today's uncertain market."

Anexsys, a leading provider of payments solutions to government, selected Cerado in order to know more about their competitors in the electronic payments industry. Now, less than two weeks after signing onto the Cerado Competitive Intelligence Service, Anexsys is already seeing results.

Cerado delivers to Anexsys timely, relevant information on their competitors, including competitive pricing, products, management bios, key customers, alliances, strengths and weaknesses, and other targeted information. Both the Anexsys direct sales force and the sales teams of their channel partners use information from the Cerado service to tailor their offerings to their prospects. Having this information enables the sales teams to identify the current weaknesses of their competition, and allows them to present Anexsys solutions in the most compelling manner possible, while taking into account current competitive conditions.

This time last year I predicted that the stock market would go up around 8% and that the return on bonds would be lower than people had come to expect over the last 20 years. Those following my advice averaged 8-10% on their money last year. So what is your plan for 2005?

But wait! I was wrong! Instead of going up 8% the S&P 500 index went up 8.99%. I was also expecting bonds to earn 3-4%. The intermediate term treasury index only increased 2.02%. I recommended investors decrease the amount of money they have in bonds and increase the portion in stocks. I also suggested using Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) as a replacement for some of the money in the portfolio previously allocated to bonds.

Greensboro, NC (PRWEB) June 5, 2006 –- TCDI, a leader in Litigation Technology, announces three staff promotions and three new employees. These changes highlight the continued development of TCDI in electronic discovery and case management solutions and help TCDI focus on further improving the quality of services provided to clients.

Promoted are, Heather Bumbalough, to Project Manager, Polly Hatcher, to Vice President of Discovery Services, and Will Matos, to Director of Technical Sales. The three new staff members are Marshall Madison, Systems Administrator, Wiley Moore, Database Administrator, and Ben Thomas, Software Developer.

U.S. CAD, the Western U.S.'s largest provider of computer-aided design (CAD) services and products, and its largest Autodesk® solutions reseller, will present the fourth annual Southern California CAD Summit Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008, at the San Diego Convention Center.

U.S. CAD presents the fourth annual Southern California CAD Summit Sept. 25, 2008, at the San Diego Convention Center.

Themed "Come Together: Integrating Data Across the Extended Design Team," the summit will feature the more than 45 classes on the latest Autodesk technologies in such areas as Building Information Modeling (BIM), sustainable or "green" building design and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). Taught by U.S. CAD's team of Autodesk Certified Instructors, class topics will include:

"Design Visualization in 3ds MAX Design"

"Gotta Have Style With Civil 3D"

"MapGuide Enterprise for Facilities, Project Management & GIS!"

"Setting up your Projects in Revit Structure"

"Bringing it all Together with NavisWorks"

"A Day in the Life of Design Visualization"

"A Better AutoCAD - AutoCAD Map 3D!"

"Structural Analysis Workflows with Revit Structure"

"Green Building Analysis Using IES"

"Structural Collaboration with the Extended Design Team"

"New Feature Enhancements in AutoCAD Architecture 2009"

When: 7:30 a.m. welcome/networking breakfast (classes start at 8:30 a.m.) to 5:15 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

MobilePlanet Inc. today announced that it has changed its name to eXpansys in the US marketplace. MobilePlanet, a subsidiary of eXpansys plc, is a leading retailer of smartphones and handheld devices with wireless connectivity, serving retail customers through the internet and corporate customers through direct sales channels.

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eXpansys’ growth has been both organic and through a number of strategic acquisitions over the last 5 years, one of which was MobilePlanet in 2005. The name change is part of a global branding strategy following the companies listing on the AIM, through an April 2007 IPO on the London Stock Exchange.

For the third straight year, Janet Ault, a renowned professional voice over talent, will be sponsoring the Jewell Lewis award at the House of Broadcasting Charity Golf Tournament. The 12th annual tournament will be played at OrangeTree Resort and Golf Club and will raise funds for the museum.

Janet Ault, Professional Female Voice Talent Will Be Sponsoring the Jewell Lewis Award at a Charity Golf Tournament

The Jewell Lewis Award is presented to the female golfer with the lowest score for the tournament. Janet also furnishes the prize for the winner. Past prizes have included spa days and iPod Nanos, personally donated by Janet, an icon in the commercial voice over acting industry. Janet is also providing table favors from Arizona's own FairyTale Brownies. "It is an honor sponsoring this award named after such an amazing woman."

"Staff meetings devoted strictly to brainstorming new ideas may seem like a waste of time to some in the organization," said Jeff Hoffman, speaking at a recent CIO Roundtable Forum luncheon attended by Atlanta technology executives. "... but somewhere within the group is an idea that may be worth millions." Hoffman spoke on the need for businesses to create an ongoing innovation development process. He outlined a number of methods for farming solution ideas for development into viable businesses.



Hoffman, currently the managing partner of Smith-Hoffman Capital, an Atlanta based private equity firm focusing on early stage technology companies needing investment up to $5M, is an accomplished entrepreneur and technology innovator who started his first company while he was still attending Yale. Hoffman's first startup, a software company in the travel industry named CTI, was acquired by American Express and today still serves as its technology division. For his achievements, Jeff was named one of the 25 Most Influential Executives in travel and tourism worldwide.



Hoffman's other notable startups include Virtual Shopping, acquired by Europe's Wallenberg Group, and most recently, Priceline.com, where Jeff was one of the founding team and held two CEO titles in Priceline's family of companies. He currently serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Advanced Technology Development Center at Georgia Tech, as well as serving on the boards of numerous technology companies and charity organizations.



Hoffman explained that Priceline was developed from just such an 'invention day' where staffers were asked to bring up ideas that could solve a problem in the business world. Priceline was originally designed as an Internet service to organize and aggregate potential demand -- by pioneering the 'name your own price' concept, which enables capturing of potential lost sales at a consumer's 'price line,' still preserving a brand's pricing policy.

- but with a digital twist. iD is a USB flash drive that gives doctors, EMS responders and health-care professionals access to a person’s critical, potentially life-saving medical information at an accident scene or in any emergency situation.

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Medical professionals rely on patient background information in order to provide care and to administer appropriate medications, but many emergency situations make immediate identification impossible. As a result, nearly 200,000 people die each year from medical errors in the US alone, and most are the result of missing or inaccurate medical information. Access to reliable and timely information is a very real consideration and often critical for patient treatment success, especially for people with sensitive medical conditions like diabetes, rare blood types or medication allergies. Most importantly, iD allows owners to convey pertinent medical and legal information even when they are unconscious or unable to respond!

CompTIA, the leading trade association for the world's information technology (IT) industry, today announced the finalists for the third annual CompTIA SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards.

The awards recognize innovative software products and new business models in eight different categories. Award winners will be announced in June. Finalists by category are:

Company Achievement in Innovation - Next IT Corporation, Spokane, Wash.; INTEGRITY Global Security, Santa Barbara, Calif.; and Blue Vector, Mountain View, Calif.

Open Kernel Labs (OK), a global provider of systems software and virtualization technology for embedded system platforms, today outlined its product roadmap for the first half of 2008. OK's software attacks two of today's most pressing issues facing embedded devices developers - vulnerability to outside attacks and internal system failures due to application access issues.

OK's product strategy leverages cutting-edge virtualization and microkernel technology from NICTA -- Australia's pre-eminent Center of Excellence for information and communications technology. OK's relationship with NICTA combines use-inspired research with an experienced development staff -comprising the largest independent staff of kernel hackers working today to solve the toughest problems for the developers of wireless subscription devices.

There are many off-beat destinations in South Africa the majority of people have never heard of. Soekershof Walkabout is one of those 'primary unusual destinations'. Together with Grootbos Nature Reserve in Standfort and The Backpak in Cape Town Soekershof Walkabout in Robertson is accredited for the Fair Trade in Tourism in South Africa trademark. This was officially announced during the travel fair Reise Pavillion in Hannover (Germany).

Soekershof Walkabout is the 17th tourism business in South Africa with the Trademark of Fair Trade in Tourism in South Africa (FTTSA - http://www.fairtourismsa.org.za).

TAOW Productions, has been hired by Immersive Media Corp. to help the company promote its advanced 360-degree spherical video technology. Under the agreement, TAOW will provide creative services to market the breakthrough technology as well as identify, develop and demonstrate new applications that use the technology to expand the boundaries of experiential marketing.

Immersive's technology enables viewers to move within streaming video in every direction and from all angles. The breakthrough technology recently gained worldwide attention when Google announced it was incorporating the technology into its interactive map service. TAOW believes the video technology will have a revolutionary effect on marketing by allowing people to "experience" places and events like never before.

FLAVORx, the company that has helped physicians, pharmacists and veterinarians turn bitter-tasting medications into tasty, flavored liquids, announces plans to launch a major public awareness campaign.

This nationwide initiative is aimed at educating the public about flavoring services offered by pharmacists and veterinary hospitals.

This multi million-dollar program is part of FLAVORx's ongoing commitment to supporting pharmacists and veterinarians who use the FLAVORx system. The company's 24/7 customer support service is the model for the industry; FLAVORx professionsals answer questions from caregivers who seek to make an impossibly bitter, or just wretched-tasting, medicine appealing to a patient's taste buds.

The readers of Condé Nast Traveler have named the Kenwood Inn and Spa (www.kenwoodinn.com) the Top Resort in Mainland USA in the magazine's 21st Annual Readers' Choice Awards. The awards are derived from the Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Survey, the largest independent poll of consumers' preferences. Over 32,000 readers voted this year.

Smartly tucked away in Sonoma County's Valley of the Moon, the Kenwood Inn and Spa is an intimate retreat hailed by wine country aficionados as the ultimate getaway. The 2 ½ acre grounds of the Inn are literally alive with oak groves, walnut and fruit trees. The Mediterranean-style villa has three lush courtyards - each with an exquisite saline swimming pool - fountains, a serene pond, meticulously landscaped flora, and abundant ivy cascading up, down, and around the Inn. Private guestroom entrances lead into each of the secluded twenty-nine rooms and suites designed with guest privacy in mind. In-room indulgences include: fireplaces, featherbeds, Rivolta Carmignani Italian linens for both bed and bath, and plush cotton bathrobes. Kenwood's full-service spa highlights the organic products of ARCONA, along with treatments that utilize vinotherapy and the healing power of grapes. The restaurant at the Kenwood Inn & Spa offers yet another compelling draw as it is available only to in-house guests. Italian-born, executive chef Renzo Veronese shops local farms and farmer's markets, stocking the kitchen with in-season organics and fresh ingredients and creates a rustic Italian, a la carte menu focused on house made pastas, meats and fish incorporating estate grown fruit as available.

Tallinn, Estonia (PRWEB) April 15, 2009 - "The brainstorming session was a great example of the cooperation between the private and public sector," said Gert Stahl, the Director of Internationalisation Division of Enterprise Estonia. "You normally have to advertise products and services, and advertise them a lot, but a good legal and tax environment, competitive prices and excellent products are the advertisement for a financial centre, and investors will naturally be drawn to it" said James Oates, a British CEO working in Estonia.