Charles Crouchman Joins Opalis as Chief Technology Officer.Former CA and Cybermation Executive Tapped by IT Process Automation Market Leader TORONTO -- Opalis Software, Inc., the software IT process automation market leader with over 1,100 customers, today announced Charles Crouchman has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer. A respected leader within the enterprise systems management community, Mr. Crouchman will be responsible for driving the product strategy and development direction for Opalis during its time of rapid growth. "Charles joins Opalis just as the market for IT process automation is exploding. We are thrilled to have him on board. With his addition, we have built the strongest management team in our market - we are ready for the explosion!" said Todd DeLaughter, 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. and president of Opalis. Most recently, Mr. Crouchman was senior vice president of Development for the Cybermation business unit at CA. Cybermation was acquired by CA earlier this year. At Cybermation, he managed product development, product management, and business development during his tenure. Under his leadership, Cybermation grew from an $8 million niche vendor to a $32 million best-of-breed vendor in the systems management market, and gained favorable positioning Noun 1. favorable position - the quality of being at a competitive advantage favourable position, superiority advantage, vantage - the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me" on the Gartner Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. . "Managing critical IT processes across the silos will be one of the key areas for customers to truly link business with IT going forward," said Charles Crouchman, chief technology officer at Opalis. "Opalis' ability to automate IT processes and their ease of use with rapid time-to-value solutions leads me to believe we will be hugely successful in this market." Mr. Crouchman's appointment follows a series of key leadership additions to Opalis, including Mr. George Kellar as chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Mr. Duncan Hill as a strategic advisor, and Ms. Denise Jackson as director of Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . Last year, Mr. Yale Tankus was named vice president of Strategy and Development, Mr. Tom Siegel, was announced vice president of Worldwide Sales, Mr. Michael Tindal, vice president of Marketing, and Mr. Todd DeLaughter, CEO and president. These seasoned executives joined Opalis from industry leading companies including HP, CA, SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. , and Unisys. Opalis' IT process automation software allows customers to orchestrate or·ches·trate tr.v. or·ches·trat·ed, or·ches·trat·ing, or·ches·trates 1. To compose or arrange (music) for performance by an orchestra. 2. , integrate, and automate IT best practices, improving service delivery and service levels, while reducing operational costs. This is achieved through extensive out-of-the-box support for automating many IT workflows with the ability for a customer to modify the pre-defined workflows to fit their specific environment or create new workflows using an easy GUI-based process designer. Opalis' technology complements existing systems management products and provides integration support for hundreds of systems management and business applications. About Opalis Software, Inc. Opalis Software Inc., founded in 1999 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, is the IT process automation (the space is also commonly referred to as Run Book Automation or RBA RBA Rare Bird Alert RBA Reserve Bank of Australia RBA Run Book Automation RBA Rochester Business Alliance RBA Rights-Based Approach RBA Royal Brunei Airlines (ICAO code) RBA Relative Byte Address RBA relative binding affinity ) market leader with software that orchestrates, integrates, and automates IT operational processes. With Opalis, IT organizations can reduce costs, improve service delivery, and ensure compliance through repeatable, reliable, and standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. best practices. With more than 1,100 global customers and the most comprehensive set of integrations with leading service management tools, Opalis integrates into any system, process, or application and standardizes them into ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). best practices. For more information, please visit www.opalis.com. |
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