BroadQuest Promotes Wendy McCaw to Vice President of Services; Former Novell Executive to Lead Business Services.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 1999-- BroadQuest, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise portal applications, today announced the promotion of Wendy McCaw to vice president of services. In this new role, McCaw will be responsible for all technology transfer, software consulting, and support services for BroadQuest products internationally. In her previous position as Director of Engineering Services, McCaw successfully deployed BroadQuest 1.0 and 2.0 at global 2000 customers. BroadQuest Services' primary goal will be to enable global systems integrators, such as Andersen Consulting, Arthur Anderson and Cambridge Technology Partners, to deploy BroadQuest's Customer Information Portal application to thousands of customers, partners, and employees. Wendy McCaw is a seasoned software industry executive with a long track record of product and customer success at Novell. McCaw brings experience with Internet product development, project management and third party development to BroadQuest. Prior to BroadQuest, McCaw was the Engineering Director of Novell's Internet Product Division, and was responsible for managing a 120-person technical staff. As Engineering Director, she focused on Internet product development, productization of Novell's Network Management, Host Connectivity and Router products, including project management, QA, third party developer support and technical documentation for customers and systems integrators. "Continual innovation of our product line to meet customer requirements is critical to our success and movement forward in the enterprise information portal See corporate portal. market, and Wendy's outstanding track-record of exceeding product quality standards and release deadlines will propel us forward," said David Thomas, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BroadQuest. "Wendy's promotion plays a big part in BroadQuest's commitment to providing clients with leading-edge solutions to improve business performance and have applications up and running in about a month." "With BroadQuest's innovative broker-based architecture, thousands of users have access to millions of live records with minimal impact on the source application systems," said McCaw. "I am eager to work with the BroadQuest team to help our customers effectively and easily begin to reap the real benefits of our application giving employees, partners and customers self-service access to live customer information." Prior to McCaw's work with Novell, she was an international marketing engineer based abroad with Excelan when Novell acquired the company in 1989. In addition to her software and systems engineering posts at Excelan, McCaw has held software programming and testing positions with BTI BTI Beverage Testing Institute BTI Boyce Thompson Institute BTI British American Tobacco (stock symbol) BTI Boston Theological Institute Bti Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis BTI BioTechnology Institute BTI Binding Tariff Information Computer Systems and Altos Computer Systems. McCaw is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university, one of the ten campuses of the University of California. , with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. About BroadQuest, Inc. BroadQuest is the leading provider of enterprise portal applications that help corporations use the Internet to become more responsive to employees, partners and customers. BroadQuest sells direct to Global 2000 companies who have invested in front-office and back-office applications like Baan (Nasdaq:BAANF), Clarify (Nasdaq:CLFY), IBM (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM), Lotus, Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Remedy (Nasdaq:RMDY), SAP (NYSE:SAP), Siebel Systems (Nasdaq:SEBL SEBL Siebel Systems, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) and Vantive (Nasdaq:VNTV VNTV Vantive Corporation (former stock symbol; now delisted) ). Announced customers include Forte Software, Novell and Wells Fargo Bank. BroadQuest 2.0 is a browser-based enterprise application that gives customers, partners, and employees self-service access to live enterprise-wide customer information BroadQuest has strategic partnerships with enterprise application software companies such as Siebel Systems and Vantive. BroadQuest has service partnerships with leading systems integrators, including Arthur Andersen LLP (KnowledgeSpace.com) and Cambridge Technology Partners (Nasdaq:CATP CATP Cambridge Technologies (stock symbol) CATP Coverage Acceptance Test Plan CATP Committee of Adaptation to Technical Process ). BroadQuest was founded in 1996 and is based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Additional information about BroadQuest, Inc. is available on the Internet at http://www.broadquest.com or by calling 888/287-5665. |
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