June 2007
Plextronics Awarded Funding from DOE
Plextronics has been awarded funding by the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar America Initiative (SAI). The award comes from the Solar Photovoltaic Technology Incubator, a program created to make solar photovoltaic technologies competitive with existing technologies by 2015. Plextronic's project will focus on commercializing thin film organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology to enable low-cost solar modules. Subject to negotiating an acceptable statement of work with the DOE, Plextronics expects to receive up to $3 million over the course of the 18-month project. The DOE has also identified Pittsburgh as one of 13 2007 Solar America Cities (click here for more information).
Jun 21 | Permalink
Red Rock to Distribute Unitask Products Down Under
Unitask, providers of software that makes the Oracle E-Business Suite easy, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Red Rock Consulting. Red Rock is Australia and New Zealand's largest Oracle consulting and support organization.
Jun 21 | Permalink
TOA Positioned as a Gartner Visionary
TOA Technologies has been positioned as a Visionary in Gartner's latest "Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management" report. TOA was the only company added to this year's Quadrant and was cited for its innovative approach to filling an important gap between appointment management and Customer Relationship Management. In March, Gartner also awarded TOA Technologies the title "Cool Vendor in CRM Customer Service and Field Service for 2007." Read more on TOA's website.
Jun 21 | Permalink
Macomb County, MI Joins Carnegie Learning - RAND Study
Macomb Intermediate School District in Michigan is among the districts participating in a five-year study, funded by the US Department of Education and conducted by RAND Corporation, designed to evaluate the effectiveness of Carnegie Learning's technology-based Algebra I curriculum. Sixteen middle and high schools with 2100 Algebra students will participate in the study to evaluate whether the Cognitive Tutor curriculum is effective for a wide range of students and environments.
Jun 21 | Permalink
Johns Hopkins Researchers Give Carnegie Learning High Marks
The Best Evidence Encyclopedia, a free web resource created by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE), has rated Carnegie Learning math curricula among the three most effective programs in the category of Middle and High School Mathematics. Carnegie Learning's Cognitive Tutor is the only mathematics curriculum to have received high ratings for research demonstrating effectiveness from both the CDDRE and the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC).
Jun 12 | Permalink
Landslide Hires VP of Sales
Michael J. McCahey has joined Landslide Technologies as its Vice President of Sales, bringing with him 18-years of industry-related sales and sales management experience, most recently for Selectica, Inc. He will be responsible for leading the company's sales strategy and helping strategic sales professionals adopt a Sales 2.0 workstyle. Mr. McCahey holds a degree from University of Notre Dame, was a member of the United States Fencing Association, and participated on two United States Olympic teams.
Jun 11 | Permalink
Aethon Helps Boy's Wish Come True
With the donation of a $100,000 hospital delivery device through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, Aethon helped to realize the dream of a 7-year old boy with cancer. Jericho Rajninger, a longtime UCSF Children's Hospital patient, wished for a robot that would make taking all of the medication required for cancer treatment a little easier. Aethon and Make-a-Wish delivered RJ, a toy train-dressed verison of Aethon's TUG, which will deliver medication to the nurses to dispense to the patients in the oncology unit. Read the full story at http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/news/200706051.html.
Jun 7 | Permalink
Aethon Finds Success with Landslide
Six months ago, Aethon had a problem: how to expand the sales force, grow its prospect pipeline and customer base, and shorten the sales cycle, while making the most of it's just-received $11 million in funding. The company looked at the traditional contact managment offerings, but ultimately turned to Landslide Technologies for its solution. Landslide's product combines the capacity to define a customized sales process with the ability to provide easy access to sales collateral and documents for each selling step, then generate reports to measure effectiveness. Over the last year, Aethon has quadrupled its salesforce, manages a 75% close rate, shortened the sales cycle from 7 months to 5, and grew revenue 260%.
Jun 2 | Permalink
Landslide Officially a "Cool Vendor"
At the Symposium ITxpo, April 22-26 in San Francisco, Gartner will include Landslide when it releases its "Cool Vendor" Research Report. For Gartner, a Cool Vendor is a company that meets one or more of the following three criteria: Innovative (developed technologies and products that enable users to do things they couldn't do before); Impactful (more than just technology for technology's sake); Intriguing (developed technologies and products that have caught Gartner analysts' attention in the past 6 months). Landslide has been named a "Cool Vendor in CRM Sales". Way to go!
Jun 1 | Permalink
