Akibia, Inc. Appoints Three to Senior Management Team; Organizational Move Reflects Continued Growth of Company's flexHosting Business.Business/Technology Editors WESTBOROUGH Westborough, town (1990 pop. 14,133), Worcester co., E central Mass., on the Assabet River; inc. 1717. The town, which is largely residential, produces electronic components, tools, dyes, and other products. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000 Reflecting the continued growth and demand for its full-service, flexible approach to eCRM and ongoing application and infrastructure support, Akibia, Inc. announces the appointments of three new members to its flexHosting management team: Dane Donaldson, Vice President of Service Operations; Jeff Bartlett, Vice President of U.S. Sales; and Dan Smith, Vice President of Hosting Services. Akibia is a Total Service Provider (TSP TSP - travelling salesman problem ) for internet-enabled Customer Relationship Management (eCRM) solutions and supporting IT infrastructure. Akibia's flexHosting division provides ongoing application management and infrastructure support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services including application hosting and administration, user support, training, and infrastructure maintenance. Building upon Akibia's vast experience in managing complex UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT environments, flexHosting services are designed to leverage a customer's existing IT resources and assets in such a way that the customer pays only for those services it requires. From deciding where and how best to house application data to determining what levels of maintenance is required, this tailored, flexible approach gives Akibia's customers a level of control and customization that is key to achieving maximum success. "Our flexHosting business is experiencing tremendous growth because more and more companies are finding they don't have the time or technical expertise to commit to the ongoing application management, end user support and infrastructure maintenance that are required to manage IT environments," said Brad Waugh, president of Akibia's flexHosting group. "We have added these three talented individuals to our management team because they are experts in managing complex technical environments in a way that delivers immediate results for customers." As Vice President of Service Operations, Mr. Donaldson will spearhead the planning, design and direction of Akibia's flexHosting service delivery operations. In designing Akibia's infrastructure service and support offerings, Mr. Donaldson will be responsible for ongoing customer support and infrastructure reliability operations, including: call center and technical support services, repair service planning and field engineering, and customer and sales support. Mr. Donaldson brings to Akibia more than 25 years of diverse customer service management experience, including positions held at Philips Electronics, Motorola and PictureTel. Mr. Bartlett, newly appointed Vice President of U.S. flexHosting Sales, brings with him several years of high-level Sales and Marketing experience in the public and private sectors. At Akibia, Mr. Bartlett will oversee all U.S. flexHosting sales personnel with a charter to maintain and grow existing accounts while developing new business in the company's flexHosting division. Prior to joining Akibia, he served as the Regional Vice President at Complete Business Solutions, Inc., where he was responsible for all operations in a region consisting of 650 employees and with revenues of $104 million. Leading the Hosting Services Group, Vice President Smith will be responsible for ongoing application support and direction of Akibia's education and training groups. With more than 28 years of experience in application development and information technology departmental management, Mr. Smith's expertise lies in systems engineering and large-scale project management, successfully implementing systems on time and within budget through the use of project development methodologies, project management software and design tools. Prior to joining Akibia, Mr. Smith held senior management positions at Complete Business Solutions, Inc., Coleco Industries, and The Stanley Stanley, town (1991 pop. 1,557), capital of the Falkland Islands, S Atlantic Ocean, on East Falkland island. It is the main port and trading center of the islands. The name is sometimes written as Port Stanley. Works Company. About Akibia Akibia, Inc is the leading Total Service Provider (TSP) for eCRM solutions and supporting infrastructure. Formed in 2000 by the merging of Polaris Service and Polaris Solutions, Akibia is headquartered in Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. with principal offices in New York New York, state, United StatesNew York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Dallas, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , London and Amsterdam. The company employs more than 450 multi-talented people worldwide. Our clients include Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Inc., Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc., PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. , Bose Corporation The Bose Corporation is a privately-held American company based in Framingham, Massachusetts that specializes in audio equipment[2][3] and holds the philosophy of supporting its technological development through research (thus the company motto). , Monster.com, Citibank, Threadneedle Investment Services, Ltd., and AT&T Corp. For more information call 508-460-1800, or visit the Akibia website a www.akibia.com. |
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