3PAR partners with PTC Systems for SaaS solution in Asia.

3PAR has announced a partnership with PTC Systems, a data management provider in Southeast Asia. David Scott, president and chief executive of 3PAR, said “The move is designed to take advantage of the growing demand in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia for Storage- and SaaS solutions in the region. Savvis has used 3PAR storage worldwide within its computing environments.”

GeoLearning's GeoMaestro Wins Best SaaS LMS.

GeoLearning Inc. has announced that GeoMaestro 5 Series LMS Suite has been named "Best Software as a Service Learning Management System" in the annual Best of E-Learning! Awards hosted by E-Learning! Magazine. For us to come out on top again is continued validation that the usability and flexibility of our LMS and the superiority of GeoLearning's Software as a Service delivery model creates bottom-line performance results for our customers." said Frank Russell, president and CEO of GeoLearning.

Mixpo Grabs Another $4M.

Technology firm, Mixpo announced that it has received 4 million dollars worth of funding Madrona Venture Group LLC , as well as Growthworks Capital Ltd. and Yaletown Venture Partners in an effort to grow its platform for creating local and regional advertising. The company’s SaaS platform enables publishers to offer local advertisers the ability to manage and create high value video ads. The company was founded in 2006 and has created a technology platform that enables advertisers to easily create and manage video ads to be served at the local level.

iCIMS Announces the Release of the Talent Platform v. 8.3.

The leading SaaS provider, iCIMS has announced the release of version 8.3 of its Talent Platform, a premier end to end talent management solution. This version boasts of an advanced post hire capabilities including front facing onboarding and employee portals. “iCIMS’ 8.3 platform eliminates this issue by streamlining both pre- and post-hire needs in one system without requiring additional modules or databases. This is becoming more and more attractive for small and mid-sized organizations that don’t have the resources or desire to purchase, implement, and manage multiple technologies.” said iCIMS’ president and CEO Colin Day.

DocuLex Provides Convenient Online Content Access and Management with Archive Studio Software as a Service.

DocuLex has announced the release of Archive Studio SaaS, online Web-based content management providing remote document access, permissions, printing and distribution. This service which was created for IT organizations with limited resources enables secure document warehousing and sharing for practical knowledge management and colleague collaboration.

SpringCM Enhances Privia Capture and Proposal Management Solution.

SpringCM has announced the new version of its bid and proposal lifecycle management solution, Privia. This version has support for additional content resources that can enhance opportunity management capabilities and also support for Firefox and Safari browsers. The new version is available on-premise and via SaaS as well. "Our customers and prospects are keenly aware of the potential business in the proposed economic stimulus package and our integration with Onvia and Grants.gov will deliver tremendous benefits to them. Most importantly, we continue to achieve our primary objectives of improving internal and external bid and proposal team performance, reducing costs and increasing win rates." said Steve Maier, VP and GM of the Government Solutions Division of SpringCM.

Starfish Retention Solutions, Inc. Launches Starfish EARLY ALERT - Comprehensive Early Warning and Student Tracking System.

Starfish Retention Solutions Inc. has announced the general availability of Starfish  EARLY ALERT. This system enables real time identification of students who are at-risk of dropping out due to academic, financial or social challenges. The company is a leader in providing student success systems. The current pilot program with Starfish is aimed at getting at-risk students in for help faster, increasing the number of students who are receiving support, and closing the loop with faculty that have alerted us to the issue. We are very encouraged by the feedback from our faculty and advisors that are participating in the pilot, and we look forward to measuring its impact in the coming months." said Carol Brooks, director of academic advising at Kettering University.

ILS Technology Expands secureWISE Portfolio with VSInet.

ILS Technology LLC.  Has announced the availability of VSINet which is a hosted remote services product offering based on Virtual Service Infrastructure (VSI).  VSInet enables service providers to offer cost-effective remote-product services without an upfront investment in data-center hardware, allowing them to concentrate on serving their customers instead of managing their connectivity.

SysAid Customer Service and Support Software Speeds Response Times for Small and Mid-Size Businesses.

Ilient Ltd. Has announced the availability of SysAid CSS (Customer Service Support) which is a SaaS based solution which has been designed to address customer relationship management (CRM) operations. “With SysAid CSS, we reduced our workload by almost 85 percent, enabling our agents to focus on more complex tasks yet ensuring the same level of responsiveness to our customers,” said Gary Paquette, Co-Founder and CTO, InControl Technology, a leading supplier of Web-based IT asset management solutions.

Arena Solutions Announces Winter '09 Release of Arena With New Arena-SolidWorks Integration.

Arena Solutions has plans to go live with its new Arena Winter 09’ release on Sunday, February 2009. "A tool like Arena is most effective when high-quality data is fed into it -- after all, that's the data that operations teams use to get their products to market.” said Marc Escobosa, vice president of product design at Arena Solutions.