Centra Software Wins Inc. Magazine and Cisco Systems Growing With Technology Award.LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1999-- Awards Recognize Small and Medium-Size Businesses that Apply Networking Technology to Products, Services and Business Operations to Achieve Rapid Growth Centra Software, Inc., the leading provider of Interprise application software enabling (programming) software enabling - (Or "enabling") Modification of the design or implementation of software to allow internationalisation to take place. In particular, enabling may refer to the modification of software to support double-byte character sets, hence "Unicode live training and business collaboration, today announced that it has been honored by the Inc./Cisco "Growing with Technology" awards program. The awards are sponsored by 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., the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, in conjunction with Inc., the magazine for growing companies. Centra's 1999 "Growing with Technology" award in the category of "Start-up Companies," recognizes small and mid-size businesses that demonstrate the innovative use of networking and the Internet for increased profits, competitive advantage and company growth. Centra's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Centra 99, was chosen for its use of the Web to provide support for a full range of live Internet event formats - from on-demand selling and large-scale Web presentations to highly collaborative training sessions. Today Centra 99 is the world's most widely deployed application software solution used by companies that need a live, enterprise-class training and collaboration system. Centra will be honored at the Strategy Summit '99: Growing your Company through Technology conference (the week of May 18), in 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 , CA, and will be featured in a special section of the June 15 issue of Inc., as well as on Inc. and Cisco's Small/Medium business web sites. "Centra is honored to receive this award and recognition," said Leon Navickas, founder 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 Centra. "Live training and business collaboration over the Internet is one of the most compelling solutions for the Interprise. We are gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that industry leaders such as Cisco and Inc. Magazine recognize the strategic value that Centra plays in supplying these mission-critical Internet-based applications to forward thinking global organizations." "Cisco Systems is proud to recognize Centra with the runner-up award," said Eugene Lee Eugene Lee may refer to:
About the Inc./Cisco Growing with Technology Awards Centra was chosen by a panel of seven judges that reviewed more than 700 entries to pick 45 finalists in three company categories: Fully Established; Start-Up; and Internet/Virtual. Grand prizewinners and two runners-up were chosen in each category. Criteria for selection was based on companies that had: --Spiked revenues by entering new markets, introducing new products, or reaching new prospects --Adopted a new business model or reengineered their operations to cut costs or spark growth --Put new meaning into the terms customer support, customer feedback, supplier relations, or strategic partnership --Overcome boundaries of size, time and space --Moved from a local or regional market into a national or international market About Centra Software Centra was founded in 1995 by Leon Navickas, former general manager of R&D for the award-winning Notes product at Lotus Development Corporation (company) Lotus Development Corporation - A software company who produced Lotus 1-2-3, the Symphony spreadsheet and Lotus Notes for the IBM PC. Disliked by the League for Programming Freedom on account of their lawsuits. Quarterly sales $224M, profits $10M (Aug 1994). . Today Centra is the leading provider of live Internet application software enabling live training and business collaboration for the Interprise. Centra's customers are leading Fortune 1000 companies representing all industries, such as Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , Armstrong World Industries Armstrong World Industries, Inc. is an international designer and manufacturer of floors, ceilings and cabinets. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Armstrong operates 39 plants in 10 countries and has approximately 13,000 employees worldwide. , Clarke American, Advest, Standard Insurance and Baan. Centra has business and software partnerships with PricewaterhouseCoopers, DA Consulting, C3i, SAP, Oracle and Siebel. Headquartered in Lexington, MA, Centra has offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, New York New York, state, United States New 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 , Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, and London. |
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