Nextance's New Vice President to Help Drive Growth and Customer Service; Bill Morton brings 30+ years of experience in professional services and technology.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- Nextance Inc., the solutions provider setting the standard for enterprise contract management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ), today announced the appointment of Bill Morton Bill Morton was Chief Executive of the Scottish Qualifications Authority. He succeeded Ron Tuck, who resigned due to the SQA exams controversy in 2000. as its new vice president of professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . The technology veteran bolsters Nextance's top-tier management team with his 30-plus years of industry success and will be instrumental in scaling the business to meet increasing customer demand in the rapidly growing ECM industry. Morton brings previous experience in efficiently delivering full enterprise solutions and high levels of customer satisfaction to Fortune 100 companies. His deep cross-industry experience includes such fields as financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , manufacturing, oil and gas, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, education and technology. Further, his extensive work with Systems Integrators complements Nextance's strategy, as more top-tier integrator and consulting companies continue to join Nextance's partner community to support and extend customer investments. "I have been aware of ECM for several years, but only now are the market conditions right for this industry to really take off," said Morton. "Nextance is unique in taking advantage of new enabling technologies, such as XML databases and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. analytical solutions, to help customers better manage the risks and rewards of their contractual relationships. Improving top-line and bottom-line business performance, complying with regulations and better managing customer and supplier relationships are important goals for all organizations, and Nextance's solutions provide important capabilities for realizing these goals." Before joining Nextance, Morton served as the executive vice president of professional services at Dorado Corporation, a leading enterprise software and services company for the mortgage lending industry, where he successfully reengineered the professional services department's operations to achieve full customer and employee satisfaction. At Vantive, he built the professional services department from a one-person operation to a 300-person worldwide team. The great success of Vantive's products and services led the company to its acquisition by PeopleSoft, where Morton continued on to help PeopleSoft successfully launch its first CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. solutions. With those credentials, Morton's appointment continues Nextance's trend of building its leadership team with industry veterans who have a history of success in technology solutions and who can help the company achieve remarkable growth. Morton also held important leadership positions at companies such as ViewStar, Verity, Informix Software, Decision Products and Tymshare. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. in electrical engineering from MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from Harvard. "People are what make a company successful -- both the customers on the outside as well as our employees within the company," explained Kyle Bowker, president and chief executive officer of Nextance. "We are pleased to have Bill lead our professional services organization to ensure that all our customers' needs are met and that we have the continuing culture and excitement to drive Nextance forward to the next level." About Nextance Inc. Nextance is setting the standard for enterprise contract management (ECM) solutions, helping Fortune 1000 companies increase the strategic value and realize the full financial return of their contractual relationships. Using Nextance to carefully manage your relationships by managing your contracts helps to increase profitability, better relationships with customers, vendors, and partners, improve employee productivity, and decrease business and financial risk. Nextance customers, including Covenant Health, Eastman Chemical Company Eastman Chemical Company is a United States based chemical company, engaged in the manufacture and sale of chemicals, plastics and fibers. Eastman has 16 manufacturing sites in 10 countries, supplying its products throughout the world. , Fireman's Fund, Genzyme Corporation, Sasol, and Sun Microsystems, are using the Nextance Intelligent Enterprise every day throughout their business to tap into the value that's written into every one of their thousands of sales, procurement, IP licensing, and partner agreements. Nextance is based in Redwood City, CA, and is privately held. For additional information, visit www.nextance.com. (C) 2005 Nextance Inc. All rights reserved. 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