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Wendia AG International Launches North America Division

Brad Baldwin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:39:21 +0000

Wendia AG International, a privately-held European software company founded in 1990, is setting up their North American headquarters in Utah. Wendia provides best-in-class Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) based service management solutions to hundreds of organizations worldwide. ITIL is the de-facto global standard in the area of Service Management, and contains comprehensive and public technical documentation for the planning, provision and support of IT services.

Wendia’s ITIL and service management solutions can readily integrate with all the major desktop management and systems management solutions including Microsoft’s SMS, CA’s Asset Management and Unicenter, BMC’s Patrol, IBM’s Tivoli, Novell’s Zenworks, HP’s OpenView, Nimsoft’s NimBUS, and Monolith Software’s mSuite ITM solution.

Wendia’s CEO and Founder Kerstin Daun talks with Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices about the business and benefits of the ITIL standards. Daun also discusses their entrance into the North America market under Hal Tueller.

IPTV: More Content, Choice and Flexibility

Brad Baldwin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:06:53 +0000

As broadband connectivity spreads around the world, IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is beginning to reshape the industry. In 2007, the number of households using telco/IPTV services grew to over 14 million worldwide (Parks Associates, April 2008). That number is expected to grow to more than 80 million households by 2011 (Strategy Analytics, January 2007). Providers who wish to survive must have the ability to deliver compelling IP based content, services, and high definition video.

Broadcast International’s President and CEO Rod Tiede gives a high-level overview of the IPTV market and the opportunity for broadcaster and cable operators, satellite, and even mobile and wireless providers. Broadcast International and its CodecSys compression technology leverages the limited bandwidth typical of the DSL networks many consumers access, and makes it possible to send up to four times the video channels over the same connection, with no loss in video quality.

Tags: Brad Baldwin, Broadcast International, CodecSys, compresssion, IPTV, RockyMountainVoices, Rod Tiede, video

DirectPointe Provides Expert Remote Computer Support to Home Users

Brad Baldwin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:49:26 +0000

DirectPointe, an award-winning managed service provider (MSP), has added a new home computer care service with its DirectPointe Home offering. Until now, computer service meant disassembly and transporting your computer into retail location where a “geek” would add your machine to a 10-day-wait queue. But DirectPoint Home changes the game with its remote expert support where users can get help 24×7x365, all without the hassle of disconnecting cords and cables.

DirectPointe Home provides three levels of service: PC Care, On-Demand and Total PC. PC Care is a preventative service that solves 80% of the most common computer problems by doing routine maintenance. On Demand provides fast support so that you can get your problem fixed now! Total PC is an unlimited package that provides everything a home computer user needs to have peace of mind when it comes to their computer, including virus protection, online security, data back-up and unlimited support.

Seth Bailey, VP of the Consumer Division at DirectPointe, talks to Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices about the offering and the benefits for retiring baby boomers or parents hoping to find relief from their mal-ware downloading youngsters.

Tags: Brad Baldwin, DirectPointe Home, PC Maintenance, Remote Expert, RockyMountainVoices, Seth Bailey, support

Bourquin Brothers on The Transition to New Media

Brad Baldwin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:35:52 +0000

Tim and Emile Bourquin are the founders and producers of the New Media Expo, the most popular convention for podcasters, online video creators and bloggers. The expo and 2,000+ attendees are heading to Las Vegas August 14-16, 2008. Registration is still open, but the special “early” rate ends June 30th.

Brad Baldwin connects with Tim and Emile at a Podcast Tuneup party where they were talk about adding more video and live streaming sessions at this year’s expo. They also discuss the transition of traditional media outlets that are adopting and incorporating new media into their content offerings.

Special thanks to the Podcast Tuneup team for use of their new recording studio for this podcast.

Tags: Brad Baldwin, Emile Bourquin, new media, New Media Expo, Podcast Tuneup, RockyMountainVoices, Tim Bourquin

What’s New: Empowering your sales force, SAVO Group

Cydni Tetro — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:00:38 +0000

John O’Donnell, a Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist with Microsoft, met with Drew at Convergence 2008 to talk about the challenge of making a Dynamics CRM solution compelling for sales people and how his company’s product (SAVO) can help drive Dynamics CRM usage by making important sales information easy to find, manipulate and rate and therefore encourage sales professionals to access and update Dynamics CRM each day.

Tags: CRM, John O’Donnell, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, S + S, SAAS, SAVO Group, USISV

Student Creates Multi-Touch Software and Table for Science Project

Brad Baldwin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:54:59 +0000

Here’s one student that takes the “Science Fair” to the next level. Bridger Maxwell, a high school student at Utah County Academy of Sciences (UCAS) decided to create a multi-touch table for his Science Fair entry–kinda like an iPhone screen, and Microsoft Surface on a budget.

The multi-touch experience allows for object movement, rotation, growing and shrinking, and even multi-hand, multi-person use. Inspired by movies like Minority Report, Maxwell leverages Apple OS X, code developed during Google Summer of Code called Open Touch, and his own code. The table, made from plexiglass and a dissembled Acer monitor, uses infrared light emitting diodes and an IR camera to detect and transmit fingertip motions as inputs.

Maxwell also expects to experience a future where multi-touch technology becomes a standard way to interact with applications, particularly for graphic manipulation and even gaming. Maxwell submitted his code back to the community at code.google.com/p/corkboard/ and has received coverage on Ars Technica and a local NBC news story.

Maxwell also expects to experience a future where multi-touch technology becomes a standard way to interact with applications, particularly for graphic manipulation and even gaming. While Maxwell didn’t get a summer internship on the iPhone team “this” year, has received coverage on Ars Technica and the local NBC news station. Not bad for a high school student.

Tags: Apple, Brad Baldwin, Bridger Maxwell, Google, iPhone, Multi-Touch, RockyMountainVoices, Summer of Code, Surface, Utah

MailShadow Syncs Outlook to Gmail and Google Apps

Brad Baldwin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:28:04 +0000

Cemaphore Systems’ MailShadow for Google Apps keeps your Microsoft Outlook environment in sync with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Gmail Contacts. Make a change in one, and the other is instantly updated to reflect the change. MailShadow for Google Apps is receiving a lot of attention since organizations can eliminate the expensive infrastructure, hardware, and co-location facilities required by Exchange, but still allow users to leverage the client-side productivity features in Outlook.

Tracy Scott, the VP of Marketing at Cemaphore, shows the beta version of MailShadow for Google Apps to Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices. And if you’re interested in giving it a try, the beta sign-up is still open.

Tags: Brad Baldwin, Cemaphore Systems, Gmail, Google, MailShadow, Tracy Scott

What’s New: IdeaBlade Agile Development in the Real World

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:20:33 +0000

Hear how IdeaBlade, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is using Agile Software Development to improve the quality of their product. In this session, William Leong, ISV Architect Evangelist, talks with Ward Bell, VP of Product Management at IdeaBlade, on how they have implemented Agile methods in their product development lifecycle. Since there are many ways to implement Agile development, it’s enlightening to see what has worked for this early pioneer of .NET application development tools.

Tags: Agile Software Development, IdeaBlade, USISV, William Leong

What’s New: Logotec Bringing Mobility to CRM

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:12:31 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a three-tier application that can help organizations manage front office processes, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, and serve as a development platform for business applications in different industry verticals. The platform aspects let you focus on your core needs by providing you rapid development toolkit, well documented SDK, outlook integration including offline access, mobile support, scalability including multi-tenancy, globalization support including multi-language & multi-currency, and power of choice when it comes to choosing deployment options. Sanjay Jain, ISV Architect Evangelist, speaks with Michal Klaja, CTO and Mark Frederiksen, BDM at Logotec Engineering to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform to provide a Software + Service based Mobile solution to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 users.

Tags: Business Application Platform, Logotec Engineering, Mark Frederiksen, Michal Klaja, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Mobile@Connector, S+S, Sanjay Jain, USISV

What’s New: Cincom Implementing Dynamics CRM

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:33:27 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a three-tier application that can help organizations manage front office processes, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, and serve as a development platform for business applications in different industry verticals. The platform aspects let you focus on your core needs by providing you rapid development toolkit, well documented SDK, outlook integration including offline access, mobile support, scalability including multi-tenancy, globalization support including multi-language & multi-currency, and power of choice when it comes to choosing deployment options. Sanjay Jain, ISV Architect Evangelist with Microsoft , speaks with Dan Nicholas, Sr. Director Product Research & Planning and Gregor Newland, Manager of Business Development & Alliances of Cincom Systems, to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform to assist their complex manufacturing customers.

Tags: Application Platform, Cincom, Dan Nicholas, Gregor Newland, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, S+S, Sales and Product Configurator., Sanjay Jain, USISV

Infopia’s SaaS eCommerce Platform for Growing eTailers

Brad Baldwin — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:00:03 +0000

Applying the right technology solutions to enhance business growth is something Bjorn Espenes, CEO at Infopia, is passionate about. As a growth company itself, Infopia delivers a SaaS (software as a service) eCommerce platform for businesses that need to manage the common operational challenges that growth creates. Things like inventory management and merchandising, order management, and shipping and fulfillment all work together in a seamless online system.

Infopia is the “next step” for many of the savviest online sellers looking to grow their business. Titanium and Platinum PowerSellers on eBay, not to mention multi-million dollar merchants who primarily sell on their Web sites, have dramatically improved revenues with Infopia.

Espenes sits down with Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices to share the Infopia story and highlight the business problems Infopia solves. Espense shows why he was recognized as one of the Top 40 Executives Under 40 and a member of vSpring Capital’s v100 Entrepreneurs.

Tags: Bjorn Espenes, SaaS, Ebay, ecommerce, infopia, inventory, online sellers, powerseller

ConnectCast: Scoble Talks About Cemaphore, Solera Raises $5M, Innovation Awards Finalists

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:01:49 +0000

Good PR gets Robert Scoble to break news for Cemaphore product. 22 Finalists named for the Utah Innovation Awards. Solera raises $5m from Canopy Group and the MWCN entrepreneur of the year for 2008 award goes to Amy Reese Andersen of Mediconnect.

Tags: Robert Scoble, Cemaphore, mediconnect, solera, utah innovations

Sendside Networks, the FedEx of Electronic Delivery

Brad Baldwin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:54:08 +0000

William Borghetti, founder and CEO of Sendside Networks, is no stranger to big ideas–he sold his last startup, Campus Pipeline, to Sungard after automating inefficient “stand-in-line” processes at Universities. Now, in the same way FedEx revolutionized traditional mail with overnight delivery, Sendside Networks aims to provide an entirely new way for individuals and organizations to interact and transact electronically. Borghetti and team see a future where businesses replace paper, postage, and delivery time. Instead Borghetti expects businesses to offer an exchange of rich, interactive messages, documents, even full-blown web applications in a trusted messaging environment free of spam, fraud, and phishing scams.

Borghetti’s shares the story with Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices and explains why Sendside created an entirely new technology offering for sensitive and confidential communication. Sendside believes SMTP and “bolt-on” solutions (like encryption) just can’t extend SMTP’s life. To protect its vision, Sendside created an IP arsenal filing 16 patents.

Want to send or receive secure messages with complete tracking and guaranteed retraction–even after someone opens it? Sendside Networks opens for public sign-up April 3, 2008.

Tags: Sendside Networks, the FedEx of Electronic Delivery

DAZ 3D’s Digital Figures and Social Marketplace

Brad Baldwin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:12:19 +0000

DAZ Productions is a market leader in 3D graphics software and content creation. DAZ may be most well known for its “Victoria” line of articulated 3D figures and their popular and active Artzone.com community, a social marketplace for sharing art and exchanging ideas.

The DAZ Studio software — available as a free download, allows anyone to create their own 3D digital figures and content. The figures can be loaded into 3D posing and rendering applications to be posed or animated and then rendered. In addition, a wide variety of clothing, hair and other accessories are available for purchase which can be applied to the figures to achieve different looks.A variety of other support content is available from DAZ as well including such categories as vehicles, buildings, trees and plants, furniture, weapons, etc.

Christopher Creek, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, describes the business model to Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices, and then persuades Baldwin to pose inside a laser scanner that creates a 3D wire-frame model of his own body in 17 seconds.

Social Media for the Vietnam War Memorial

Brad Baldwin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:00:22 +0000

Footnote.com is adding social media tools to The Vietnam Memorial, one of the most recognized memorials in Washington, D.C. For those who have visited the wall, you know finding names is not easy. Nor does a visit to the wall allow you to learn more about many people and heros who served.

Footnote.com’s new social media version of The Vietnam Memorial brings The Vietnam Memorial inside the comfort of your own home. By creating a searchable image of The Wall, now it’s easy to find friends, family or names. Once found, Footnote.com allows you to search the details about soldiers, post stories about fallen comrades and even upload pictures of service men and women. By adding social media to The Vietnam Memorial, the conversation about the individuals listed can continue and honor can be extended to those who fell while rendering service.

Tags: Footnote.com, social media, Vietnam, war, The Vietnam Memorial, The Wall

Miss America Goes Digital

Brad Baldwin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:12:38 +0000

As CMO of StoryRock Electronic Publishing, Sharlene Hawkes wants every service man and woman to have a Remember My Service digital yearbook that highlights their military experience. And this former Miss America and one of the first female, on-air, ESPN sportscasters certainly has the energy and passion to make it happen.

As Hawkes points out, the military is capturing hours of video content that isn’t being used. In addition, the tools available today to bring stories to life make it easy to create a digital publication that is interactive, engaging and far more memorable. The popularity of social networks like Facebook and MySpace are driving awareness and creating the expectation for more than a static picture book. Paying tribute to a fallen friend through a story captured on video is more personal and helpful to the soldiers, the family and to the military.

In this video podcast, Hawkes speaks with Brad Baldwin about her efforts to share the Remember My Service with military leaders, business executives and even local communities who want to gives something back to those who have served.

Tags: StoryRock Electronic Publishing, Sharlene Hawkes, Remember My Service, Miss America, social networks, Brad Baldwin

ConnectCast - Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs and UofUtah 2nd Behind MIT

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:08:20 +0000

Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly discuss the key events this week, including the release of the Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs from vSpring Capital. It is a peer-nominated and peer-selected group of individuals that the community predicts will become a CTO or CEO of a high-tech company in the next five years. This is the fifth year of the program. In addition, the University of Utah was rated 2nd behind only MIT in the number of technology spin-offs based on university research. MIT had 23 and the University of Utah had 20.

Tags: Colin Kelly, Cydni Tetro, MIT, University of Utah, venture captial, vSpring

What’s New: Client Profiles - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Adoption

Cydni Tetro — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:58 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently, is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to change deployment models over time. Sanjay Jain speaks with Kevin Wydra, vice president and director of R&D with Client Profiles, a successful ISV in the legal industry with their flagship application CRM4Legal, to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform, value addition it brings to their big customer base of law firms, their innovative approaches of utilizing Agile SDLC Methodologies and cross-collaboration between on-site and off-shore teams.

Tags: Business Application Platform, Client Profiles, CRM, CRM4Legal, Dynamics, Kevin Wydra, Law, Microsoft, Sanjay Jain, Software + Services, USISV

What’s New: Axonom - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Adoption

Cydni Tetro — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:47:35 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently, is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to change deployment models over time. Sanjay Jain speaks with William Barrow, CTO of Axonom, a successful ISV with their flagship application Powertrak CRM, to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform, value addition it brings to their big customer base, expanding global footprint and execution of their Go-Vertical strategy.

Tags: William Barrow, Axonom, Business Application Platform, CRM, Dynamics, Microsoft, Powertrak, Sanjay Jain, Software + Services, USISV, William Barrow

Optimizing Online Business with Omniture

Brad Baldwin — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:11:36 +0000

Over 2,000 of the world’s top online marketing talent — and those spending 30% of the world-wide web ad spending — descended upon Salt Lake City for Omniture’s annual Summit on web analytics. Omniture is recognized by Fast Company as one of the world’s most innovative companies (interestingly, 66% of the top 50 are Omniture customers).

Chris Parkin, Sr. Director of Genesis Solutions and former Sr. Director of Product Marketing, sits down with Brad Baldwin between sessions to talk about the trends and advances in optimizing online business.

Tags: Chris Parkin, Marketing, omniture, online marketing, Web Analytics

ConnectCast - Venture Debt, Facebook Applications and Reflecting on James Levoy Sorenson

Cydni Tetro — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:23:55 +0000

Some quick highlights in this weeks Connectcast include reflections about James Levoy Sorenson’s legacy includes inventing disposal surgical masks and an entire legacy of medical innovations. A quick discussion around Venture Debt options and when they should be considered - Innoventures a new company, UVEF tackles social media for young entrepreneurs and Paul Allen’s World Vital Records We’re Related Facebook app takes off.

Tags: innoventures, james levoy sorenson, venture debt

What’s New: Workflow discussion with Configuresoft

Cydni Tetro — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:20:13 +0000

Jared Youtsey a senior developer from Configuresoft and Warren Wilbee, a Microsoft Architect Evangelist sit down and discuss how to utilize Microsoft’s WorkFlow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation for building workflow enabled service oriented solutions. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications. WF enhances a developer’s ability to model and support business processes. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing investments.

Tags: Configuresoft, ISV, Jared Youtsey, Microsoft, US ISV, Warren Wilbee, Windows Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation

What’s New — 422 Group, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Platform Adoption

Cydni Tetro — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:16:43 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to change deployment models over time. Sanjay Jain sits down with Doug Wofford President & CEO, and Keith Beindorf VP Product Development of 422 Group to discuss their insights into build/buy/partner decision making process as well as share some key learning and experiences on developing with the MS CRM 4.0 platform.

Tags: Microsoft, 422 Group, Business Application Platform, CRM, Doug Wofford, Dynamics, Keith Beindorf, Sanjay Jain, Software + Services, USISV

Silverleaf Launches Venture Funding Arm

Brad Baldwin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:43:03 +0000

Co-founder and CEO Shane Baldwin likes to think of Silverleaf Capital as the “entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.” In its first 10 months of life, Silverleaf has already placed more than a half-billion dollars under management. With a board that includes top executives from throughout the U.S. and investors that span a variety of interests including the entertainment industry and well-known professional athletes, the company acts as a “fund of funds” to bring the right investors and deals together.

Baldwin introduces the Silverleaf Companies to Rocky Mountain Voices and discusses their venture capital strategy, including funding technology, alternative energy, and biotech companies in the mountain west.

Tags: Entrepreneur, Shane Baldwin, Silver Leaf, Silverleaf, Venture Capital

Cymphonix Prioritizes Bandwidth for Web Content and Application Traffic

Brad Baldwin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:31:09 +0000

When small and medium-sized businesses or K-12s want to manage how their Internet bandwidth is being used, they turn to Cymphonix. On average, 50% of any Internet connection is used for browsing–some critical and necessary, and some not. The other 50% of any Internet connection is used for Internet applications. Voice over IP (VoIP) and database backups are essential. However, other applications may be non-critical, like peer-to-peer, streaming media and music downloads. Cymphonix’s Network Composer is an inline network appliance that provides a secure web gateway to manage both browsing and IP application activity.

Brent Nixon, President of Cymphonix, shares an overview of the company and discusses some of the key issues IT managers are worried about, including the emergence of web apps that anticipate near unlimited bandwidth. Rather than pay for more bandwidth, Cymphonix lets IT managers see the top bandwidth users, top sites visited, and real-time data activity and manage and filter traffic through static and dynamic port filtering.

Tags: Bandwidth Management, Brent Nixon, Cymphonix, filtering, IP Traffic