Energy Alliance USA helps people save money and make money with an energy business opportunity - WebWire

Times are tough, and many people are wondering how to save on electricity and gas. Others are looking for an affordable energy business opportunity. Both of these groups of people are in luck. There is now an energy company that is hiring new people and teaching them how to save with energy deregulation.

Someone may be asking, ?What is deregulation of energy?? Energy deregulation is a policy that allows homeowners to choose their own energy company. This allows people to save 20 percent or more on their energy bill. This new policy has also helped people gain access to energy deregulation business opportunities.

According to Rolf D. Johnson, owner of energyallianceusa.com: ?Today, there are a lot of business scams, and it is getting harder to tell what is real. However, many people who have used this particular business can attest to the fact that it is the real thing. Saving money and making money are two things that do not always seem to belong in the same sentence. However, this new company is dedicated to helping people do both. Those who are interested should give this company a call so that they can start saving and making money.?

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Energy Alliance USA helps people save money and make money with an energy business opportunity - WebWire

Times are tough, and many people are wondering how to save on electricity and gas. Others are looking for an affordable energy business opportunity. Both of these groups of people are in luck. There is now an energy company that is hiring new people and teaching them how to save with energy deregulation.

Someone may be asking, ?What is deregulation of energy?? Energy deregulation is a policy that allows homeowners to choose their own energy company. This allows people to save 20 percent or more on their energy bill. This new policy has also helped people gain access to energy deregulation business opportunities.

According to Rolf D. Johnson, owner of energyallianceusa.com: ?Today, there are a lot of business scams, and it is getting harder to tell what is real. However, many people who have used this particular business can attest to the fact that it is the real thing. Saving money and making money are two things that do not always seem to belong in the same sentence. However, this new company is dedicated to helping people do both. Those who are interested should give this company a call so that they can start saving and making money.?

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Free Tool From Systemation Helps Organizations Determine Performance Improvement Opportunities

CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

How much money could be freed up if you made even small improvements in your project processes? You can now answer this question in five minutes with a free new online tool called the Project Performance ROI Calculator.

Systemation, one of the nation’s oldest performance improvement firms, created this tool as a community service, and it’s available to all businesses and project management professionals at no charge. You can access the calculator by visiting http://www.systemation.com/roi-calculator.

Many enterprises suffer from less-than-perfect project results. “Though slipped deadlines, blown budgets and feature creep damage the bottom line, organizations often are reluctant to mess with their project processes,” says Ben Snyder, Systemation’s CEO. Their rationale? “We are too busy getting work out the door to spend time on this” and “due to tight budgets, we need to live with what we’ve got.”

Companies keep re-using project methods that aren’t working well and repeatedly end up with stressful results.

The Systemation calculator will help you determine whether there’s a business case for change. You simply enter some rough information on:

The estimated number of projects your company completes in a year. The general complexity of those projects. The average percentage of deadline slip you experience. The amount of extra resources (overtime, etc.) you have to pour in to get your project results. The completeness of the work you deliver.

It then asks you to pick an increment of improvement. What if you improved your project processes by a meager five percent? (Your inner skeptic may be asking, “How in the world would I be able to measure that?” For the purpose of this tool, assume you can and just pick a number. Even a tiny number.)

Once you submit your information, you receive an immediate report—both on screen and via email—with an “Improvement Value.” This is the amount of money you would free up for other business activities. You could invest this money in new projects you’ve been postponing or purchase long-needed equipment.

You might even decide to spend a little on project management, business analysis, and agile development training as a way to unlock even more money for building your enterprise.

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New Efficiency Dashboard Helps Hospitals Pinpoint, Quantify Savings Opportunities

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HP Helps U.S. Storage Partners Expand Revenue Opportunities, Profitability With "100 Percent" Channel Initiatives - msnbc.com

PALO ALTO, CA — HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced two new sales initiatives that stimulate growth and expand revenue opportunities for U.S. channel partners. The new initiatives include:

The 100 Percent New Accounts Initiative drives incremental revenue and a new level of predictability for HP Storage partners by funneling all sales of HP Storage products to new U.S. accounts through channel partners.(1) The 100 Percent LeftHand and StoreOnce Initiative accelerates growth for HP partners by funneling all high-profit HP LeftHand Storage and HP StoreOnce Backup orders generated by new storage accounts or repeat customers in the United States through an authorized HP Storage partner.(1)

"The storage market continues to rapidly grow as businesses create and manage more and more information every day," said Matt Troka, senior vice president of Product and Partner Management at CDW, an HP channel partner. "By pushing all new storage business to partners, HP has demonstrated its commitment to CDW's success and, at the same time, is building additional trust and goodwill with the channel."

Under the terms and conditions of the 100 Percent New Accounts Initiative, new registered sales opportunities of HP Storage products will be fulfilled by, and remain in, the channel. This includes high-growth HP Converged Storage products, HP 3PAR Storage, HP StoreOnce Backup, HP LeftHand Storage, HP IBRIX Storage, HP X5000 Storage and the rest of the HP Storage portfolio.

The 100 Percent LeftHand and StoreOnce Initiative includes commercial emerging-growth accounts, as well as state, local and education deals.

Both initiatives drive increased sales engagement for HP Storage partners with the HP direct sales force. Whether a sales lead is identified by HP or a partner, HP will always funnel these new business and up-sell opportunities through U.S. channel partners.

More customers, more deals, more margin
The new channel partner initiatives complement the recently announced HP ServiceONE Partner Support for Storage program, which enables qualified partners to pursue new business opportunities by combining HP and partner-branded services to bolster portfolios.

With access to sales, deployment and maintenance opportunities, partners have the potential to compete for and win significant customer deals, as well as increase profit margins.

"With these new programs, HP is driving more storage sales opportunities and profitable growth potential to reseller partners than any other vendor," said Chris Riley, vice president, Americas, Storage, HP. "HP is helping partners increase revenue with HP 3PAR, HP StoreOnce and HP LeftHand products by bringing them more opportunities than ever before."

HP's premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las Vegas.

About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com.

(1) Any end-user account that HP has not sold storage to in the last three years. Deals registration is required to drive alignment. This strategic policy change becomes effective immediately for all new opportunities, whether identified by HP or by the channel partner. Implicit in this policy is the assurance that every registered Storage New Business Opportunity (NBO) is now guaranteed to stay in the channel. Outside of HP Global Accounts, opportunities where storage cannot be unbundled from the overall HP Solution, or select opportunities where HP is contractually obligated to fulfill direct, such as the public sector.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations, including execution of cost reduction programs and restructuring and integration plans; any statements concerning expected development, performance or market share relating to products and services; any statements regarding anticipated operational and financial results; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include macroeconomic and geopolitical trends and events; the competitive pressures faced by HP's businesses; the development and transition of new products and services (and the enhancement of existing products and services) to meet customer needs and respond to emerging technological trends; the execution and performance of contracts by HP and its customers, suppliers and partners; the protection of HP's intellectual property assets, including intellectual property licensed from third parties; integration and other risks associated with business combination and investment transactions; the hiring and retention of key employees; expectations and assumptions relating to the execution and timing of cost reduction programs and restructuring and integration plans; the resolution of pending investigations, claims and disputes; and other risks that are described in HP's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2012 and HP's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including HP's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2011. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

© 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.

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HP Helps U.S. Storage Partners Expand Revenue Opportunities, Profitability With "100 Percent" Channel Initiatives

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire -03/26/12)- HP (NYSE: HPQ - News) today announced two new sales initiatives that stimulate growth and expand revenue opportunities for U.S. channel partners. The new initiatives include:

The 100 Percent New Accounts Initiative drives incremental revenue and a new level of predictability for HP Storage partners by funneling all sales of HP Storage products to new U.S. accounts through channel partners.(1) The 100 Percent LeftHand and StoreOnce Initiative accelerates growth for HP partners by funneling all high-profit HP LeftHand Storage and HP StoreOnce Backup orders generated by new storage accounts or repeat customers in the United States through an authorized HP Storage partner.(1)

"The storage market continues to rapidly grow as businesses create and manage more and more information every day," said Matt Troka, senior vice president of Product and Partner Management at CDW, an HP channel partner. "By pushing all new storage business to partners, HP has demonstrated its commitment to CDW's success and, at the same time, is building additional trust and goodwill with the channel."

Under the terms and conditions of the 100 Percent New Accounts Initiative, new registered sales opportunities of HP Storage products will be fulfilled by, and remain in, the channel. This includes high-growth HP Converged Storage products, HP 3PAR Storage, HP StoreOnce Backup, HP LeftHand Storage, HP IBRIX Storage, HP X5000 Storage and the rest of the HP Storage portfolio.

The 100 Percent LeftHand and StoreOnce Initiative includes commercial emerging-growth accounts, as well as state, local and education deals.

Both initiatives drive increased sales engagement for HP Storage partners with the HP direct sales force. Whether a sales lead is identified by HP or a partner, HP will always funnel these new business and up-sell opportunities through U.S. channel partners.

More customers, more deals, more margin
The new channel partner initiatives complement the recently announced HP ServiceONE Partner Support for Storage program, which enables qualified partners to pursue new business opportunities by combining HP and partner-branded services to bolster portfolios.

With access to sales, deployment and maintenance opportunities, partners have the potential to compete for and win significant customer deals, as well as increase profit margins.

"With these new programs, HP is driving more storage sales opportunities and profitable growth potential to reseller partners than any other vendor," said Chris Riley, vice president, Americas, Storage, HP. "HP is helping partners increase revenue with HP 3PAR, HP StoreOnce and HP LeftHand products by bringing them more opportunities than ever before."

HP's premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las Vegas.

About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com.

(1) Any end-user account that HP has not sold storage to in the last three years. Deals registration is required to drive alignment. This strategic policy change becomes effective immediately for all new opportunities, whether identified by HP or by the channel partner. Implicit in this policy is the assurance that every registered Storage New Business Opportunity (NBO) is now guaranteed to stay in the channel. Outside of HP Global Accounts, opportunities where storage cannot be unbundled from the overall HP Solution, or select opportunities where HP is contractually obligated to fulfill direct, such as the public sector.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations, including execution of cost reduction programs and restructuring and integration plans; any statements concerning expected development, performance or market share relating to products and services; any statements regarding anticipated operational and financial results; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include macroeconomic and geopolitical trends and events; the competitive pressures faced by HP's businesses; the development and transition of new products and services (and the enhancement of existing products and services) to meet customer needs and respond to emerging technological trends; the execution and performance of contracts by HP and its customers, suppliers and partners; the protection of HP's intellectual property assets, including intellectual property licensed from third parties; integration and other risks associated with business combination and investment transactions; the hiring and retention of key employees; expectations and assumptions relating to the execution and timing of cost reduction programs and restructuring and integration plans; the resolution of pending investigations, claims and disputes; and other risks that are described in HP's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2012 and HP's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including HP's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2011. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

© 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.

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Data Analysis Software helps users exploit market opportunities. - ThomasNet Industrial News Room

Business users can better drive innovation, exploit market opportunities, and react to competitive pressures.

SAN DIEGO, -- Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading analytic data solutions company, today introduced Teradata Data Lab software, a self-service, on-demand workshop within a Teradata warehouse that enables businesses to rapidly explore and test new ideas and data to innovate, identify trends, or immediately react to business conditions.

Please follow this link to view the full social media version of this news release on Teradata.com

http://www.teradata.com/News-Releases...

"The Teradata Data Lab empowers business users to start building new analytics in less than five minutes," said Scott Gnau, president, Teradata Labs, Teradata. "This agility pays off for business users looking to achieve competitive advantage, while benefiting IT organizations with the lowest total cost of ownership, embedded security and privacy controls, and ease of maintenance. In addition, our customers now have the ability to easily deploy the newly-developed analytics and applications."

"The Teradata Data Lab is another critical innovation for Bouygues Telecom. It provides each business unit with a private 'sandbox' for creating experimental designs, one-time business intelligence (BI) requests, and ad hoc queries," said Marielle Vo-Van Liger, director of Business Intelligence and Customer Knowledge, Bouygues Telecom. "Once established, the BI analytic is funneled back into the enterprise data warehouse where it can be shared. IT monitors the sandbox activity to ensure satisfactory performance of strategic queries, efficient data loading, and economical reporting processes."

"Self-service analytic workspaces, or sandboxes, offer a valuable and important alternative to uncontrolled data marts for building analytic prototypes and models, and experimenting with data," said Colin White, president of BI Research. "The Teradata Data Lab introduces a valuable and powerful tool for deploying and governing these sandboxes."

The Teradata Data Lab, a self-service analytic environment, provides business analysts and IT professionals with on-demand database space and system resources for short-term projects such as ad hoc analysis, proof-of-concept, application evaluation, or quality assurance testing. The lab enables quick assimilation of new data into a separate portion of the data warehouse, where it can be analyzed along with insight-rich data already in the warehouse, to quickly prove success or fail fast, and move on.

"Self-service business intelligence is a valuable step forward, but it often pits business users, who want unfettered access to data in order to drive innovation through new analytics, against IT managers who are responsible for the environment's security, performance, and quality," said Claudia Imhoff, president, Intelligent Solutions, Inc. "Teradata Data Labs gives both communities all that they need, business users have open access to valuable assets and IT managers are able to monitor and exert oversight."

Without the Teradata Data Lab, business users struggle to integrate untested data with their business data because of data warehouse governance policies and other safeguards. When business users make requests to their IT department for temporary data loads to the warehouse the wait time may be weeks or even months. As a result, users often deploy an expensive "skunk works" data mart. The data mart requires data replication on external servers, as well as, additional software, and places a burden on company resources to support the systems. These obstacles make it virtually impossible for users to test and explore new 'what if' scenarios that can lead to breakthrough business discoveries.

The Teradata Data Lab provides customers with this capability, which drives innovation and business advancement, as these examples demonstrate:

Media Company - The marketing director for a major media company has just launched a campaign to promote the bundling of phone, television, and Internet services. He needs to analyze marketing campaign results, so he can do an analysis to understand the impact on corporate revenue. However, the IT group has a two-month backlog of requests and can't meet the director's need to get the results within hours in order to plan his next move. Instead, the director uses the Teradata Data Lab to create a workspace within the production warehouse and immediately begins his analysis and realignment of the campaign to meet quarterly revenue expectations.

Retail Chain- To accelerate holiday sales volume from its retail outlets, a business analyst wants to use location data to identify strategic locations to open temporary holiday outlets. The analyst needs to test various scenarios in order to determine the optimum locations, but he can't test this without building a prototype. The Teradata Data Lab allows the analyst to build a prototype of the geospatial application and combine the company's existing data with new location data. Within hours, the proof of concept is performed within the Teradata data warehouse yields the most advantageous locations to open temporary holiday outlets and increase revenues.

Financial Institution - A financial institution wants to expand its small business loan portfolio and customer base by acquiring another institution. To make a timely decision, a due diligence review must be performed to include analysis of thousands of accounts and many product lines offered in multiple states. The acquiring institution's business analysts used the Teradata Data Lab to quickly combine relevant data from both institutions. Although the potential take-over target looked attractive, the analysts learned that it wouldn't be a profitable acquisition, because the customers were not in the appropriate market segment and offered limited growth potential.

"Business user accessibility to the data and analytic tools must keep pace with the demands of our business," said Renee DePalo, manager, Information Management and Business Insights, Pharmaceutical Segment, Cardinal Health. "The data lab within our Teradata data warehouse is accelerating our ability to turn big data into meaningful, valuable business insights for our internal customers."

The Teradata Data Lab simplifies implementation, governance, and management, and alerts the database administrators when it approaches expiration dates, or space limitations. It is subject to workload management criteria, which ensures that rogue or complex queries don't impact warehouse production users. From design to implementation, Teradata Professional Services help guide optimal results every step of the way.

Relevant Links

1. Teradata Magazine, Freedom to Explore, Gary Ryback

http://www.teradatamagazine.com/v11n0...

2. Customer Success: Bouygues Telecom: The Intelligence Telecommunications Company

http://www.teradata.com/case-studies/...

3. Hunt for Customer Insight - Cabelas Agile

Analyticshttp://www.teradatamagazine.com/v10n0...

4. BSI episode: Fragrant Sleeper

Hithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnYkQ9...

About Teradata

Teradata (NYSE: TDC) is the world's leading analytic data solutions company focused on integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications. Teradata's innovative products and services empower organizations to integrate, analyze and profit from data for competitive advantage. Visit teradata.com for details.

Get to know Teradata:Twitter: https://twitter.com/teradatanews Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Teradata YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/teradata LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/terad...

Teradata is a trademark or registered trademark of Teradata Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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The Honest Work From Home Success Forum Helps to Stop Rip-Off of Internet Workers

The Honest Work from Home Success Forum is playing its part in keeping the internet safe for online workers. People looking for genuine online business opportunities, help and information can find it at the forum.

Blackburn, UK (PRWEB) March 11, 2012

The HWFHS Forum is continuing its fight to make the internet a safer place in 2012. The introduction of a new “Scam Beware” section of the forum is proving to be incredibly popular with members. The section has already received several hundred posts and thousands of hits. The “Scam Beware” part of the forum has several sections where members of the forum can post warnings about potential scams and their experiences with them.

Paul Lynch the founder of the forum said “We are finding that many of our new members are coming to us having lost hundreds or even thousands of Dollars on internet scams”.

A recent report from the FTC in the USA has recently estimated that just 1 in every 55 work at home opportunities is legitimate. Several high profile cases in the US have resulted in companies being fined millions of Dollars and shut down. Some of the most common scams the FTC found online included business coaching, home crafting jobs, rebate processing and conducting internet searches.

New FTC guidelines for business opportunities came into place on March 1st 2012 with the aim of providing additional protection to consumers seeking to work from home. From this date people selling and promoting work at home business opportunities have to disclose a number of key facts. These include the sellers identifying information, refund policy, claims about earnings as well as previous legal action involving the seller.

Paul Lynch said “While the new guidelines are welcome the best thing consumers can do is research thoroughly before they give anyone a cent of their money”. He went on to say “Forums like ours offer people a safe community where they exchange ideas, experiences and opportunities safely with like-minded people”.

The Honest Work from Home Success Forum was established in 2008 by Paul Lynch. It offers its 30,000 + members a safe and secure environment for those looking for genuine business opportunities.

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Cottonwood Heights helps its businesses on the Web - Salt Lake Tribune

By Steven Oberbeck

The Salt Lake Tribune

First published Mar 05 2012 06:47PM
Updated Mar 5, 2012 06:47PM Cottonwood Heights is out to give its business community a helping hand.

The city is offering the companies that operate within city limits the opportunity to have their businesses featured on the community’s website, as well as on its Facebook and Twitter pages.

"We value our businesses and want to make every effort to help them succeed," said Mayor Kelvyn H. Cullimore Jr. "And we think that offering that kind of exposure will go a long way toward helping our businesses better market themselves."

The city started sending out notices about its new program in January, along with its monthly business license renewal mailing. Invitations will continue to go out the rest of this year.

"Our program has a lot of potential," said Stephanie Archibald, the city’s public relations specialist, who along with Shelly Hanson, a city administrative assistant, came up with the idea several months ago while having lunch in a local restaurant. The program is offered free of charge.

Archibald said she and Hanson started talking about the state of the economy and how it would be a shame if the restaurant went out of business because of the tough times. "We just started brain storming about what we could do to help."

And it wasn’t long before their thoughts turned to the city’s website and its social networking pages.

"We realized that the website was already set up, along with its Twitter and Facebook pages, and that we could use them to help businesses get their names out into the public," Archibald said. "One of the big pluses was that it wouldn’t cost anything."

The city also will use the Facebook and Twitter pages to inform residents about available special promotions or discounts.

So far about 50 of the 1,400 or so businesses operating in Cottonwood Heights have signed up. "Given that the program has been available only for a short time, we think that is a pretty good response," Archibald said.

Jerry Rose, the owner of Hillside Floral, was among the first to take advantage of the program.

"I though it was a great idea. And while I can’t say that it had a big, immediate impact on our business — our volume didn’t double overnight or anything like that — in the long run I’m sure it will be a positive for the city’s business community."

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B2B Social Media Webinar Helps Organizations More Effectively Capture Online Business Opportunities - msnbc.com

TORONTO — Social media participation is a given for most businesses today, but generating revenue and ROI continues to be a challenge -- particularly for large B2B organizations with multiple business units. On Wednesday, February 29 and Thursday, March 1 Jonathan Astor, social business lead for international digital agency Valtech, and Sheldon Levine, Sysomos community manager, present "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Value." In this complimentary, one-hour webinar attendees learn how to make the transformation to a social organization that captures and leverages untapped opportunities across the business spectrum.

What:
Free Webinar -- "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Wins"
Join us for this complimentary one-hour webinar and learn about a tactile, tangible approach that can transform social business in your organization:

Open your company's eyes to low-hanging fruit that social media offers in the B2B world Discover B2B opportunities across the sales funnel Develop a sustainable workflow so valuable conversations find the right internal skill sets Find opportunities for customer service, R&D and unmet market needs Drive positive word-of-mouth among influential B2B buyers

Who:

Jonathan Astor, Social Business Lead, Valtech
Jonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce

When:

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST
OR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.

To register, please click on one of the following links:

Hashtag for this webinar: #B2BSM

About Marketwire
Marketwire advances the way the world communicates by electronically delivering news and information to traditional, new and social media audiences, including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Marketwire maximizes the power of its clients' communications by leveraging the latest in search engine optimization, multimedia, social media, monitoring and new technologies. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Serving more than 14,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $5.5 billion of investments under management. The group's investment strategy includes the active ownership of businesses in North America and Europe. OMERS Private Equity is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York and London. For further information visit: www.omerspe.com.

For more information, visit us online at www.marketwire.com and http://blog.marketwire.com, or on Twitter @marketwire.

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B2B Social Media Webinar Helps Organizations More Effectively Capture Online Business Opportunities - msnbc.com

TORONTO — Social media participation is a given for most businesses today, but generating revenue and ROI continues to be a challenge -- particularly for large B2B organizations with multiple business units. On Wednesday, February 29 and Thursday, March 1 Jonathan Astor, social business lead for international digital agency Valtech, and Sheldon Levine, Sysomos community manager, present "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Value." In this complimentary, one-hour webinar attendees learn how to make the transformation to a social organization that captures and leverages untapped opportunities across the business spectrum.

What:
Free Webinar -- "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Wins"
Join us for this complimentary one-hour webinar and learn about a tactile, tangible approach that can transform social business in your organization:

Open your company's eyes to low-hanging fruit that social media offers in the B2B world Discover B2B opportunities across the sales funnel Develop a sustainable workflow so valuable conversations find the right internal skill sets Find opportunities for customer service, R&D and unmet market needs Drive positive word-of-mouth among influential B2B buyers

Who:

Jonathan Astor, Social Business Lead, Valtech
Jonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce

When:

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST
OR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.

To register, please click on one of the following links:

Hashtag for this webinar: #B2BSM

About Marketwire
Marketwire advances the way the world communicates by electronically delivering news and information to traditional, new and social media audiences, including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Marketwire maximizes the power of its clients' communications by leveraging the latest in search engine optimization, multimedia, social media, monitoring and new technologies. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Serving more than 14,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $5.5 billion of investments under management. The group's investment strategy includes the active ownership of businesses in North America and Europe. OMERS Private Equity is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York and London. For further information visit: www.omerspe.com.

For more information, visit us online at www.marketwire.com and http://blog.marketwire.com, or on Twitter @marketwire.

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B2B Social Media Webinar Helps Organizations More Effectively Capture Online Business Opportunities

TORONTO--(Marketwire -02/27/12)- Social media participation is a given for most businesses today, but generating revenue and ROI continues to be a challenge -- particularly for large B2B organizations with multiple business units. On Wednesday, February 29 and Thursday, March 1 Jonathan Astor, social business lead for international digital agency Valtech, and Sheldon Levine, Sysomos community manager, present "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Value." In this complimentary, one-hour webinar attendees learn how to make the transformation to a social organization that captures and leverages untapped opportunities across the business spectrum.

What:
Free Webinar -- "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Wins"
Join us for this complimentary one-hour webinar and learn about a tactile, tangible approach that can transform social business in your organization:

Open your company's eyes to low-hanging fruit that social media offers in the B2B world Discover B2B opportunities across the sales funnel Develop a sustainable workflow so valuable conversations find the right internal skill sets Find opportunities for customer service, R&D and unmet market needs Drive positive word-of-mouth among influential B2B buyers

Who:

Jonathan Astor, Social Business Lead, Valtech
Jonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce

When:

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST
OR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.

To register, please click on one of the following links:

Hashtag for this webinar: #B2BSM

About Marketwire
Marketwire advances the way the world communicates by electronically delivering news and information to traditional, new and social media audiences, including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Marketwire maximizes the power of its clients' communications by leveraging the latest in search engine optimization, multimedia, social media, monitoring and new technologies. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Serving more than 14,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $5.5 billion of investments under management. The group's investment strategy includes the active ownership of businesses in North America and Europe. OMERS Private Equity is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York and London. For further information visit: www.omerspe.com.

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B2B Social Media Webinar Helps Organizations More Effectively Capture Online Business Opportunities - Market Wire

SOURCE: Marketwire + Sysomos

February 29 and March 1: Presenters Jonathan Astor and Sheldon Levine Show Attendees How to Identify Untapped Social Media Leads and Turn Them Into Concrete Business Value

TORONTO--(Marketwire - Feb 27, 2012) - Social media participation is a given for most businesses today, but generating revenue and ROI continues to be a challenge -- particularly for large B2B organizations with multiple business units. On Wednesday, February 29 and Thursday, March 1 Jonathan Astor, social business lead for international digital agency Valtech, and Sheldon Levine, Sysomos community manager, present "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Value." In this complimentary, one-hour webinar attendees learn how to make the transformation to a social organization that captures and leverages untapped opportunities across the business spectrum.

What:
Free Webinar -- "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Wins"
Join us for this complimentary one-hour webinar and learn about a tactile, tangible approach that can transform social business in your organization:

Open your company's eyes to low-hanging fruit that social media offers in the B2B world Discover B2B opportunities across the sales funnel Develop a sustainable workflow so valuable conversations find the right internal skill sets Find opportunities for customer service, R&D and unmet market needs Drive positive word-of-mouth among influential B2B buyers

Who:

Jonathan Astor, Social Business Lead, Valtech
Jonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce

When:

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST
OR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.

To register, please click on one of the following links:

Hashtag for this webinar: #B2BSM

About Marketwire
Marketwire advances the way the world communicates by electronically delivering news and information to traditional, new and social media audiences, including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Marketwire maximizes the power of its clients' communications by leveraging the latest in search engine optimization, multimedia, social media, monitoring and new technologies. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Serving more than 14,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $5.5 billion of investments under management. The group's investment strategy includes the active ownership of businesses in North America and Europe. OMERS Private Equity is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York and London. For further information visit: www.omerspe.com.

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Data Analysis Software helps users exploit market opportunities. - ThomasNet Industrial News Room

Business users can better drive innovation, exploit market opportunities, and react to competitive pressures.

SAN DIEGO, -- Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading analytic data solutions company, today introduced Teradata Data Lab software, a self-service, on-demand workshop within a Teradata warehouse that enables businesses to rapidly explore and test new ideas and data to innovate, identify trends, or immediately react to business conditions.

Please follow this link to view the full social media version of this news release on Teradata.com

http://www.teradata.com/News-Releases...

"The Teradata Data Lab empowers business users to start building new analytics in less than five minutes," said Scott Gnau, president, Teradata Labs, Teradata. "This agility pays off for business users looking to achieve competitive advantage, while benefiting IT organizations with the lowest total cost of ownership, embedded security and privacy controls, and ease of maintenance. In addition, our customers now have the ability to easily deploy the newly-developed analytics and applications."

"The Teradata Data Lab is another critical innovation for Bouygues Telecom. It provides each business unit with a private 'sandbox' for creating experimental designs, one-time business intelligence (BI) requests, and ad hoc queries," said Marielle Vo-Van Liger, director of Business Intelligence and Customer Knowledge, Bouygues Telecom. "Once established, the BI analytic is funneled back into the enterprise data warehouse where it can be shared. IT monitors the sandbox activity to ensure satisfactory performance of strategic queries, efficient data loading, and economical reporting processes."

"Self-service analytic workspaces, or sandboxes, offer a valuable and important alternative to uncontrolled data marts for building analytic prototypes and models, and experimenting with data," said Colin White, president of BI Research. "The Teradata Data Lab introduces a valuable and powerful tool for deploying and governing these sandboxes."

The Teradata Data Lab, a self-service analytic environment, provides business analysts and IT professionals with on-demand database space and system resources for short-term projects such as ad hoc analysis, proof-of-concept, application evaluation, or quality assurance testing. The lab enables quick assimilation of new data into a separate portion of the data warehouse, where it can be analyzed along with insight-rich data already in the warehouse, to quickly prove success or fail fast, and move on.

"Self-service business intelligence is a valuable step forward, but it often pits business users, who want unfettered access to data in order to drive innovation through new analytics, against IT managers who are responsible for the environment's security, performance, and quality," said Claudia Imhoff, president, Intelligent Solutions, Inc. "Teradata Data Labs gives both communities all that they need, business users have open access to valuable assets and IT managers are able to monitor and exert oversight."

Without the Teradata Data Lab, business users struggle to integrate untested data with their business data because of data warehouse governance policies and other safeguards. When business users make requests to their IT department for temporary data loads to the warehouse the wait time may be weeks or even months. As a result, users often deploy an expensive "skunk works" data mart. The data mart requires data replication on external servers, as well as, additional software, and places a burden on company resources to support the systems. These obstacles make it virtually impossible for users to test and explore new 'what if' scenarios that can lead to breakthrough business discoveries.

The Teradata Data Lab provides customers with this capability, which drives innovation and business advancement, as these examples demonstrate:

Media Company - The marketing director for a major media company has just launched a campaign to promote the bundling of phone, television, and Internet services. He needs to analyze marketing campaign results, so he can do an analysis to understand the impact on corporate revenue. However, the IT group has a two-month backlog of requests and can't meet the director's need to get the results within hours in order to plan his next move. Instead, the director uses the Teradata Data Lab to create a workspace within the production warehouse and immediately begins his analysis and realignment of the campaign to meet quarterly revenue expectations.

Retail Chain- To accelerate holiday sales volume from its retail outlets, a business analyst wants to use location data to identify strategic locations to open temporary holiday outlets. The analyst needs to test various scenarios in order to determine the optimum locations, but he can't test this without building a prototype. The Teradata Data Lab allows the analyst to build a prototype of the geospatial application and combine the company's existing data with new location data. Within hours, the proof of concept is performed within the Teradata data warehouse yields the most advantageous locations to open temporary holiday outlets and increase revenues.

Financial Institution - A financial institution wants to expand its small business loan portfolio and customer base by acquiring another institution. To make a timely decision, a due diligence review must be performed to include analysis of thousands of accounts and many product lines offered in multiple states. The acquiring institution's business analysts used the Teradata Data Lab to quickly combine relevant data from both institutions. Although the potential take-over target looked attractive, the analysts learned that it wouldn't be a profitable acquisition, because the customers were not in the appropriate market segment and offered limited growth potential.

"Business user accessibility to the data and analytic tools must keep pace with the demands of our business," said Renee DePalo, manager, Information Management and Business Insights, Pharmaceutical Segment, Cardinal Health. "The data lab within our Teradata data warehouse is accelerating our ability to turn big data into meaningful, valuable business insights for our internal customers."

The Teradata Data Lab simplifies implementation, governance, and management, and alerts the database administrators when it approaches expiration dates, or space limitations. It is subject to workload management criteria, which ensures that rogue or complex queries don't impact warehouse production users. From design to implementation, Teradata Professional Services help guide optimal results every step of the way.

Relevant Links

1. Teradata Magazine, Freedom to Explore, Gary Ryback

http://www.teradatamagazine.com/v11n0...

2. Customer Success: Bouygues Telecom: The Intelligence Telecommunications Company

http://www.teradata.com/case-studies/...

3. Hunt for Customer Insight - Cabelas Agile

Analyticshttp://www.teradatamagazine.com/v10n0...

4. BSI episode: Fragrant Sleeper

Hithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnYkQ9...

About Teradata

Teradata (NYSE: TDC) is the world's leading analytic data solutions company focused on integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications. Teradata's innovative products and services empower organizations to integrate, analyze and profit from data for competitive advantage. Visit teradata.com for details.

Get to know Teradata:Twitter: https://twitter.com/teradatanews Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Teradata YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/teradata LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/terad...

Teradata is a trademark or registered trademark of Teradata Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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Gloucestershire's LEP helps showcase Gloucestershire as a world-class business opportunity - This is Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire will be showcased as a world-class business opportunity after Gloucestershire's Local Enterprise Partnership strengthened its links with the Government department for UK Trade & Investment.

Economic development company GFirst, which drives the Local Enterprise Partnership has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the department responsible for co-ordinating foreign direct investment across the UK to promote the county as an outstanding area for business opportunity and potential overseas investment. 

Diane Savory, Chair of the Gloucestershire LEP said "This agreement will allow us to access support from UKTI to showcase Gloucestershire as a world-class business location, and to highlight to their global team of international advisers, the fantastic opportunities that exist within the county for new investors."

Martin Phelan, Director of Investment, UK Trade and Investment said: "Foreign companies seeking to locate and grow their business in the UK will now have a clear point of entry to the government's inward investment support and a single pathway right through to the local level.

"We will also work to jointly support the growth of existing investors within the LEP area. This will include offering an initial point of contact, connecting into larger networks, championing their needs locally and nationally, and seeking to identify opportunities to expand the business in that area."

UKTI will be working with the Invest in Gloucestershire team, a service which is provided by the Innovation & Investment Team at GFirst. The agreement will also highlight a central point of contact within GFirst for both UK and overseas investment enquiries. 

Jenny Pitcher, Investment Manager, at GFirst added: "This is a real opportunity to develop the Invest in Gloucestershire brand, both with UKTI and with many of the senior business leaders who have already pledged their support to promote Gloucestershire as a business and tourism destination.  Potential investors can already register their interest and receive support at www.investinglos.com and now we will be maximising this opportunity by developing complementary marketing material for use both in the UK and overseas."

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VFM Leonardo Helps Hotels Target Business Travelers - PRWeb

Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) February 17, 2012

Corporate travel will likely fuel the hospitality, travel and leisure industry in 2012, according to a Deloitte survey. Specifically, 85 percent of business travelers surveyed expect to take more or the same number of trips this year. This presents a significant opportunity for hotels to win more corporate travel business in 2012.

VFM Leonardo, technology and online media company for the global hospitality industry, is already the leader in the syndication and display of hotel visual media within corporate self-booking tools. With new agreements and those previously established combined, VFM Leonardo’s VNetwork offers hotels the broadest reach and ability to target business travelers with their visual marketing message. Notable partners include:

Click here for a complete listing of VFM Leonardo’s corporate VNetwork channels.

Hotel properties using VFM Leonardo’s VBrochure Online Merchandising System can provide an enhanced hotel shopping experience for millions of business travelers and corporate travel planners monthly. VBrochure enables hotels to better differentiate with targeted merchandising, meaning customized stories using multi-media and descriptive text focused on the specific hotel features and amenities that appeal most to the business segment.

For instance, event and corporate sales are a big part of the Wyndham Boston Andover’s business. They use VBrochure to showcase and differentiate their hotel and shorten the sales process. Kathy Martin, Director of Sales at the property says “A large portion of our business is group and event sales. VBrochure helps us differentiate ourselves from competitors. A prospect looks at our VBrochure Player and can see that we have the features and amenities that they’re looking for - making it easier to book with us over the competition.”

“A strong visual presence on corporate self-booking tools can help hotels increase bookings in the managed travel space. As business travel increases, it’s time for hotels to prepare so they can take advantage and increase revenue,” said Paolo Boni, President and CEO, VFM Leonardo.

Hotels that wish to accelerate their business bookings on corporate channels can download the The Hotelier's Guide to Targeting Business Travelers or contact VFM Leonardo.

About VFM Leonardo

VFM Leonardo is a technology and online media company for the global hospitality industry. We provide e-marketers at hotel brands, management companies and hotel properties with technology, sales conversion tools and a global travel media network that enables them to better visually merchandise their hotels to millions of in-market travel shoppers monthly. Our core products, the VScape® Digital Asset Management System and VBrochure™ Online Merchandising System, leverage the VNetwork™ - the largest media syndication network in the industry. It includes all major search engines, Global Distribution Systems, online travel agencies, travel research and supplier websites, search portals, review, travel editorial, local directories and major social media and video sharing sites. Taking advantage of VBrochure’s mobile and social media platforms, hotels can ensure that their rich visual presentations reach consumers on their mobile devices and through their social graphs. For more information about VFM Leonardo, visit http://www.vfmleonardo.com.

Connect with VFM Leonardo

Twitter @VFMLeonardo

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Toll free: 1-877-593-6634

Phone: 416-263-5446

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CCM’s Flame Retardant Report Helps You Discover New Business in China - SBWire

Guangzhou, Guangdong -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/08/2012 -- The flame retardant industry in China has maintained rapid development for more than 10 years with large-scale production. China has become a key player of flame retardants both in production and consumption.

It can produce most common flame retardants with output of approximately 600,000 tonnes in 2011, and it has witnessed domestic consumption reaching almost 400,000 tonnes in 2011, both with CAGR over 15% in the past five years. With improving living policies and standards, consumption of flame retardants in related industries is expected to soar in the future. Meanwhile, with the domestic market volume enlarging greatly in recent years, there are various commercial opportunities in China’s flame retardant industry.

Aiming to present you a detailed and accurate flame retardant industry situation in China in the past few years and make a forecast in the coming five years, CCM International has newly published the second edition report of Survey of Flame Retardants Industry in China. The report includes:

-Domestic production situation for different flame retardant types, including BFRs, PFRs, CFRs and inorganic flame retardants, aiming to discover the future prospects
-Major products and their producers in China
-Domestic consumption by application field
-Key factors influencing flame retardant such as relevant policies and technologies in China
-Future demand and output for each flame retardant type from 2012 to 2016 based on all the information
-Business environment of flame retardant industry in different products with Michael Porter's Five Forces Model and points out some opportunities

Through the above penetrations in this report, the latest dynamics and development trends of Chinese flame retardant industry will be clearly presented, which is valuable for investors, traders (both exporters and importers), technology providers, overseas competitors, etc. If you are interested in this report, please feel free to contact us at econtact@cnchemicals.com.

About CCM
CCM is dedicated to market research in China, Asia-Pacific Rim and global market. With a staff of more than 150 dedicated highly-educated professionals. CCM offers Market Data, Analysis, Reports, Newsletters, Buyer-Trader Information, Import/Export Analysis all through its new proprietary product ValoTracer.

For more information, please visit http://www.cnchemicals.com.

CCM International Ltd.
Guangzhou CCM Information Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
17th Floor, Huihua Commercial & Trade Mansion, No.80 Xianlie Zhong Road, Guangzhou 510070, China
Tel: 86-20-37616606
Email: econtact@cnchemicals.com

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Datacard Group Helps Fiserv Increase Sales Opportunities for Emerging Card Programs

Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 2:07 PM EST - U.S. Markets close in 1 hr 53 mins

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SPS Commerce's Retail Universe Helps Logistics Providers Identify New Business Opportunities in 2012 - msnbc.com

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 10, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SPS Commerce (Nasdaq:SPSC), a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, today announced the availability of the Retail Universe  SM for third-party logistics providers (3PLs). The Retail Universe is a complimentary and powerful marketing tool for logistics providers to showcase their capabilities to thousands of potential new customers.

"Drop-ship vendors are looking to the Retail Universe to identify e-commerce retailers and find 3PL partners, like Swan Packaging Fulfillment in New Jersey," said Tim Werkley, president of Swan Packaging Fulfillment. "We are delighted to be members and look forward to using it to grow our business."

Modeled after popular social networking sites, Retail Universe is a free, online community for trading partners in the retail supply chain and is accessible by more than 40,000 organizations. Logistics providers can differentiate themselves in the Retail Universe by highlighting their unique capabilities, such as support for specific fulfillment models, geographies served and specialized warehousing attributes.

"3PLs have discovered how their company can use the Retail Universe as part of their growth strategies," said David Novak, executive vice president at SPS Commerce. "Unlike other marketing and advertising vehicles, the Retail Universe is a complimentary service for qualified companies. Logistics providers use their Retail Universe listing to promote their company to the industry's broadest trading network."

SPS Commerce is hosting a live, 30-minute webinar for logistic providers looking to learn more about the Retail Universe. The 'Magnify Your Marketing with the Retail UniverseSM' event will take place on Thursday, January 12, 2011, at 1:00 p.m. Central. Registration is available at http://event.netbriefings.com/event/sps/Live/RUforLogisticsProviders/register.html.

About the Retail Universe

The Retail Universe connects thousands of members of the retail supply chain, including 3PLs, vendors and retailers, allowing organizations to identify new business partners and expand their e-commerce or traditional businesses with confidence. The free online community gives 3PLs and other trading partners that support the retail industry an opportunity to showcase their unique capabilities, including specialized transportation and warehousing attributes such as cold storage. Organizations can register online at www.retailuniverse.com.

About SPS Commerce

SPS Commerce is a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions and the Retail Universe community, providing integration, collaboration, connectivity, visibility and data analytics to thousands of customers worldwide. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a Software-as-a-Service model to improve the way the retail supply chain community of suppliers, retailers, distributors and other customers build their trading partner relationships and manage and fulfill orders. Our Retail Universe hosts profiles of thousands of retail supply chain members, and enables retailers, suppliers and 3PLs to find, connect and form new business partnerships based on product or integration requirements. The SPSCommerce.net platform features pre-built integrations used by current and new customers alike, spanning 3,000 order management models across 1,500 retailers, grocers and distributors, as well as integrations to over 100 accounting, warehouse management, enterprise resource planning, and packing and shipping applications. More than 40,000 customers across more than 40 countries have used SPSCommerce.net, making it one of the largest trading partner integration centers. SPS Commerce has 43 consecutive quarters of increased revenues and is headquartered in Minneapolis. For additional information, please contact SPS Commerce at 866-245-8100 or visit www.spscommerce.com or www.retailuniverse.com.

SPS Commerce is a registered trademark of SPS Commerce, Inc. SPSCommerce.net and the SPS Commerce logo are the property of SPS Commerce, Inc. Retail Universe is a service mark of SPS Commerce. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

The SPS Commerce logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=7184

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Any statements in this release that are not historical or current facts are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Certain of these risks and uncertainties are described in the "Risk Factors" section of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other required reports, as filed with the SEC, which are available at the SEC's Website at http://www.sec.gov.

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CONTACT: Kay Rindels SPS Commerce 866-245-8100 krindels@spscommerce.com

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SPS Commerce's Retail Universe Helps Logistics Providers Identify New Business Opportunities in 2012 - msnbc.com

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 10, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SPS Commerce (Nasdaq:SPSC), a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, today announced the availability of the Retail Universe  SM for third-party logistics providers (3PLs). The Retail Universe is a complimentary and powerful marketing tool for logistics providers to showcase their capabilities to thousands of potential new customers.

"Drop-ship vendors are looking to the Retail Universe to identify e-commerce retailers and find 3PL partners, like Swan Packaging Fulfillment in New Jersey," said Tim Werkley, president of Swan Packaging Fulfillment. "We are delighted to be members and look forward to using it to grow our business."

Modeled after popular social networking sites, Retail Universe is a free, online community for trading partners in the retail supply chain and is accessible by more than 40,000 organizations. Logistics providers can differentiate themselves in the Retail Universe by highlighting their unique capabilities, such as support for specific fulfillment models, geographies served and specialized warehousing attributes.

"3PLs have discovered how their company can use the Retail Universe as part of their growth strategies," said David Novak, executive vice president at SPS Commerce. "Unlike other marketing and advertising vehicles, the Retail Universe is a complimentary service for qualified companies. Logistics providers use their Retail Universe listing to promote their company to the industry's broadest trading network."

SPS Commerce is hosting a live, 30-minute webinar for logistic providers looking to learn more about the Retail Universe. The 'Magnify Your Marketing with the Retail UniverseSM' event will take place on Thursday, January 12, 2011, at 1:00 p.m. Central. Registration is available at http://event.netbriefings.com/event/sps/Live/RUforLogisticsProviders/register.html.

About the Retail Universe

The Retail Universe connects thousands of members of the retail supply chain, including 3PLs, vendors and retailers, allowing organizations to identify new business partners and expand their e-commerce or traditional businesses with confidence. The free online community gives 3PLs and other trading partners that support the retail industry an opportunity to showcase their unique capabilities, including specialized transportation and warehousing attributes such as cold storage. Organizations can register online at www.retailuniverse.com.

About SPS Commerce

SPS Commerce is a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions and the Retail Universe community, providing integration, collaboration, connectivity, visibility and data analytics to thousands of customers worldwide. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a Software-as-a-Service model to improve the way the retail supply chain community of suppliers, retailers, distributors and other customers build their trading partner relationships and manage and fulfill orders. Our Retail Universe hosts profiles of thousands of retail supply chain members, and enables retailers, suppliers and 3PLs to find, connect and form new business partnerships based on product or integration requirements. The SPSCommerce.net platform features pre-built integrations used by current and new customers alike, spanning 3,000 order management models across 1,500 retailers, grocers and distributors, as well as integrations to over 100 accounting, warehouse management, enterprise resource planning, and packing and shipping applications. More than 40,000 customers across more than 40 countries have used SPSCommerce.net, making it one of the largest trading partner integration centers. SPS Commerce has 43 consecutive quarters of increased revenues and is headquartered in Minneapolis. For additional information, please contact SPS Commerce at 866-245-8100 or visit www.spscommerce.com or www.retailuniverse.com.

SPS Commerce is a registered trademark of SPS Commerce, Inc. SPSCommerce.net and the SPS Commerce logo are the property of SPS Commerce, Inc. Retail Universe is a service mark of SPS Commerce. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

The SPS Commerce logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=7184

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Any statements in this release that are not historical or current facts are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Certain of these risks and uncertainties are described in the "Risk Factors" section of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other required reports, as filed with the SEC, which are available at the SEC's Website at http://www.sec.gov.

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CONTACT: Kay Rindels SPS Commerce 866-245-8100 krindels@spscommerce.com

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