Former VP of Corio Will Drive Worldwide Sales Efforts with Atomz.com; Leading Hosted Web Site Applications Company Names Kevin Fogarty as Vice President of Worldwide Sales.Business/High-Tech Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2000 Atomz.com, a developer of hosted applications for building better Web sites, enhances its management team with the appointment of Kevin Fogarty as vice president of worldwide sales. Fogarty, most recently from Corio, is charged with aggressively expanding the worldwide sales team for all Atomz.com's hosted applications. Fogarty brings to Atomz.com over 15 years of experience in the software industry, specifically selling enterprise and hosted products. Previously, Fogarty was senior vice president of sales at Corio, an enterprise Application Service Provider (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ). At Corio, Fogarty was responsible for building a national sales force, and dramatically increasing revenue. Prior to Corio, Fogarty held many senior sales management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a positions, most notably at Tivoli Systems. "Atomz.com is a company with superior technology, proven success with over 30,000 customers, and is now ready to expand into other product areas. I was attracted to Atomz.com because of the tremendous need, and outstanding market opportunity to provide Web development products and services," said Kevin Fogarty, vice president of sales, Atomz.com. "Atomz.com understands the needs of Web professionals and the importance of company-wide assistance and input into building and maintaining corporate Web sites. Atomz.com provides the applications needed and delivers them through an ASP model." Atomz.com develops all its own software, enabling it to deliver best-in-class hosted applications as an ASP. Its 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. , Atomz.com Search, is the most robust and leading hosted site search service on the market today. Atomz.com's hosting architecture brings great value to its customers, including reduced time-to-market for new applications, reliability, and greater functionality at a lower cost to its customers. The fact that Atomz.com develops its own software, and delivers it as an ASP, gives it a great competitive advantage over potential competitors. "ASPs offering software they don't own - and presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. inside out - will have a tougher time than renting software designed in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. . ... Atomz.com owns all the software that it rents." Redherring.com, All ASPs aren't poisonous poi·son·ous adj. Relating to or caused by a poison. poisonous having the properties of a poison. poisonous bride's bush pavettaschumanniana. , October 11, 2000. About Atomz.com Atomz.com is the leading provider of hosted Web site applications helping Web designers, developers and IT organizations build better Web sites. The company's unparalleled technical excellence and dedication to customer satisfaction has made it a favorite among Web professionals. Its initial service, Atomz.com Search, is the leading hosted site search engine well known for its accuracy, ease-of-installation and no required banner advertising Banner Advertising A common form of advertising on the internet. The banner is an advertisement of 460x68 pixels, usually placed at the top of the page Notes: For an example, just look at the top of a page on almost any popular web site. . Atomz.com serves over 30,000 customers, including such sites as Lycos' Webmonkey site; LifeScan, a Johnson & Johnson company; O'Reilly & Associates; Cincinnati.com; Garage.com; and BellSouth Corp. Atomz.com investors include New Enterprise Associates, Sofinnova Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, and other private investors. In September 2000, Atomz.com was listed in the top 250 most visited sites, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Media Metrix, a leading Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and digital media audience measurement company. (SOURCE: Media Metrix Inc., Top 500 Report, September 2000.) For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.atomz.com. Atomz.com, Atomz and Atomz.com Search are trademarks of Avivo Corporation. |
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