TUCSON (ContentDesk) August 29, 2005 -- Bottom Line Impact, a leader in write-off recovery solutions for the utility industry, today announced that Kirby Romine has joined its management team as Vice President of Partner Development. Romine brings more than 15 years sales, marketing and partner development experience within the utility industry to Bottom Line Impact. Romine, 42, will be responsible for generating and maintaining partner relationships with strategic utility companies throughout the United States.Before joining Bottom Line Impact, Romine was a strategic industry consultant with Experian Credit Solutions, the global leader in providing value-added information solutions to organizations and consumers, focusing on selling consumer credit and marketing data, analytical and consulting services, and software/hardware solutions to major regulated and deregulated utility companies. Prior to his tenure at Experian, Romine was a Sales Executive, Partner Development at StartSmart, Inc. (dba MakeTheMove.com), an Internet company that created convenient solutions for consumers to connect to their utilities.
Romine started his career at Equifax, a global service provider, where he remained for more than ten years as a sales account executive with responsibility for selling Equifax's flagship products to many of the largest utility companies in the Southwest."With our proven track record finding hidden revenues for our customers, we are in a position to further expand our reach," said Patrick Carberry, president, Bottom Line Impact. "Kirby's vast knowledge in the utility industry, his wealth of contacts and strategic partnership experience will help us collectively propel Bottom Line Impact to the next level."Bottom Line Impact's Automated Revenue Miner uses proprietary, industry-leading algorithms to find hidden revenue for its utility customers such as Arizona Public Service, City of Orangeburg, SC, Department of Public Utilities, Dayton Power & Light, First Choice Power, Great Lakes Energy, Orange & Rockland Utilities and South Jersey Gas, allowing them to transfer balances from owing accounts to active accounts. Bottom Line Impact offers customers a No-Cost Initial ROI Assessment allowing them to sample the results the Automated Revenue Miner generates."Bottom Line Impact has achieved a great amount of success in a small amount of time," said Romine. "I look forward to being a part of this dynamic team, enhancing Bottom Line Impact's partnership base by touting their unique Automated Revenue Miner."About Bottom Line ImpactTucson-based Bottom Line Impact, with additional offices in California and Colorado, is a leading provider of write-off recovery solutions that enable utilities to discover hidden revenue within their active customer base.
Bottom Line Impact's Automated Revenue Miner is a CIS independent tool that uses sophisticated matching algorithms and data mining techniques to find customers owing money that are hiding' within utilities active customer base.
Once identified, this money can be transferred from ?owing' accounts to ?active' accounts, drastically reducing write-off expense.
For more information, visit www.bottomlineimpact.com..
New Podcast from ZapThink, Stylus Studio and Xenos Covers How XQuery Can Simplify Data Integration
Bedford, MA (ContentDesk) February 19, 2006 -- Stylus Studio (http://www.stylusstudio.com), the industry-leading provider of XML development tools and components for advanced XML data integration, today announced the availability of a new podcast entitled: Business-to-Business Data Integration in a SOA World. (http://www.stylusstudio.com/xquery_podcast.html)The one hour podcast features ZapThink analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ron Schmelzer as well as expert guest Jerry King and Patrick Smith. Jerry King leads DataDirect's XML Products group and is responsible for bringing the company's innovative XML technologies to market, including DataDirect XQuery and the Stylus Studio XML development environment. Patrick Smith is the director of product management for XML products at Xenos. Patrick oversees the product management team that is responsible for product...
New Podcast from ZapThink, Stylus Studio and Xenos Covers How XQuery Can Simplify Data Integration
Ryan Jannise to Lead Government Sales at VirtualAgility
Washington, DC (ContentDesk) June 16, 2006 -- Ryan Jannise, formerly of Computer Associates, has joined VirtualAgility as VP, Government Sales.
His main responsibility will be bringing VirtualAgilitys WorkCenter solution to large federal agencies and systems integrators.
According to VirtualAgility president, Stuart Rudolph, WorkCenters increasing momentum in the marketplace makes Ryan a most welcome addition.
His talent and experience will be invaluable in carrying the VirtualAgility story to organizations that urgently need WorkCenter to improve their interagency planning and coordination capabilities.VirtualAgilitys WorkCenter connects data sources, tools and people wherever they are, providing a shared view of operational plans and the assets needed to execute them. WorkCenter can be adapted to different market needs.
The J-OPS WorkCenter is optimized for intelligence and law enforcement applications and supports their special requirements for...
Ryan Jannise to Lead Government Sales at VirtualAgility
Clarium unveils plans to offer new data management software utilizng AI
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (ContentDesk) July 25, 2004 -- Clarium Corporation (http://www.clarium.com) today unveiled its plans to release a data management product code named "Ambience". The product consolidates information from most databases and data sources, and then compares the information using a proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine that finds trends in the data. Ambience also accepts information from traditional OLAP tools like COGNOS and SAS. "This is an exciting time for us, this new product will allow clients to take their data a step further. For example, Data Marts have allowed us to "slice and dice" data, but they don't find trends in the information.
Our clients have been asking us to find exceptions that are just impossible with traditional OLAP tools. Ambience will compare the information utilizing various dimensions already built into our code so clients can click on the exceptions as they appear," Dennis...
Clarium unveils plans to offer new data management software utilizng AI
Important: Severe Windows Security Flaw. What You Can Do Right Now To Secure Your Data
Copyright 2006 Olga Farber Becker
On 28 of December a severe Windows security flaw, WMF Flaw, was detected, in all Windows versions from Win98 to WinXP, no fixing patch exists yet. Using it, anyone can do any malicious action with your computer, steal or even erase your data.
This article will help you understand what it is and how YOU can fix it until Microsoft releases a patch.
By Washington Post: "Computers can be infected simply by visiting one of the Web sites or viewing an infected image in an e-mail through the preview pane [...] even if users did not click on anything or open any files."
"Microsoft said in a statement yesterday that it is investigating the vulnerability and plans to issue a software patch to fix the problem. The company could not say how soon that patch would be available." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/29/AR2005122901456.html
How severe it is: "This vulnerability...