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Zions Bancorporation Deepens Commitment to cfactor; Real-Time Workforce Metrics Dashboards, Comp Planning, Online Total Rewards Statements

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Saskatoon, SK (PRWEB) August 30, 2012

cfactor Works Inc. (cfactor), a leading developer of socially infused human resource technologies, today announced that Zions Bancorporation (Zions) is bolstering its commitment to cfactor by adding significant new features & functionality to its already robust solution set. Zions will be deploying online Compensation Planning / Management, Total Rewards Statements, and Workforce Insight from cfactor.

The new functionality will allow Zions to streamline compensation administration and planning from end-to-end, saving valuable time and resources by leveraging deep integrations and workflow capabilities already in place. Online Total Rewards Statements will provide Zions employees with a highly engaging, comprehensive, and up-to-date view of their total compensation from the company. Workforce Insight will deliver highly interactive, visual dashboard tools to gain a clear viewpoint into key workforce /human resources metrics & trends across the companys divisions, locations, and roles.

cfactor provides Zions with world-class technology and service, said Jeff Hansen, SVP / Corporate HRIS Director for Zions Bancorporation. By seamlessly interfacing with Zions self-hosted HRMS (ADP Enterprise), cfactor has provided us with role-based access to key HRIS data, enabling self-service capabilities across our enterprise. We are excited to add automated Compensation Planning, Total Rewards Statements, and Workforce Insight to the mix to extend these capabilities even further.

We are very proud of our great working relationship with Zions, said Cary Schuler, cfactor co-founder and CEO. We look forward to continued work with Zions to drive even further value to their organization through deployment of these strategic HR solutions.

Since its inception, cfactor has been recognized by organizations like Ernst & Young, the Canadian Innovation Exchange and the Business Development Bank of Canada for its game-changing workforce management technologies. Working primarily with mid-to-large enterprises that represent hundreds of thousands of employees across a variety of industries, cfactor consistently delivers products that are highly configurable, while driving a proven ROI.

About cfactor Works Inc. (cfactor)

For more than a decade, cfactor has been delivering agile workforce management solutions, providing collaboration, engagement and productivity tools for hundreds of thousands of employees. Every facet of the organization is passionate about the ongoing & active support of the unique needs of its customers, as well as delivering engaging, socially infused employee experiences. In doing so, cfactor leverages existing systems that are currently working and layers in cfactor to achieve best in class experiences according to its customers evolving business needs.

About Zions Bancorporation

Zions Bancorporation is one of the premier financial services companies in the United States. Under local management teams & community identities, Zions operates approximately 500 banking offices in 10 Western and Southwestern states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Texas, and Washington. In addition, Zions is a national leader in SBA lending, public finance advisory services, and agricultural finance.







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Bowling Joins AchieveIt to Develop Content Library for Execution Management and Strategic Planning Software Company

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ATLANTA, GA (PRWEB) August 27, 2012

AchieveIt, a leading provider of execution management and strategic planning software, announced today the addition of Lauren Bowling as Content Specialist to its marketing team. As the company aggressively expands across vertical markets, AchieveIt plans to develop industry specific content that will allow organizations to accelerate results through better planning and more precise execution. Bowling will be primarily responsible for developing case studies, white papers, and instructional material to aid in this effort.

Bowling holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. After graduating in 2009, she held positions at The Clutter Prescription in Birmingham, Ala., and Scopia Fund Management in New York City. She is also the author of a financial blog aimed at young women.

“Lauren will be a big lift for our team,” said Scott Regan, founder and chief execution officer of AchieveIt. “Our mission is to help organizations execute smarter, faster, and better, and developing an ongoing library of outstanding content is an important ingredient of our customer value proposition. To have someone of Laurens creative and writing talent will enhance our ability to accelerate the results curve for our clients.

In June, AchieveIt released Version 4.0 of its cloud-based software and reorganized the company to move into vertical markets outside of healthcare, where the company got its start. With Version 4.0, AchieveIt unveiled three new applications: ExecuteIt, AnalyzeIt, and ImproveIt. These applications help accelerate performance in strategic planning, strategy development, execution management, and performance improvement.

About AchieveIt

Serving more than 130 clients in 40 states and South America, AchieveIt helps organizations transform vision and goals into tangible business results by executing smarter, faster, and better. Through its suite of cloud-based strategy development and execution management applications, AchieveIt accelerates transformation through enhanced accountability, transparency, and execution. The company provides an innovative set of online tools to develop, monitor, and implement strategic and operational plans, performance and quality improvement projects, and leadership and management programs. A national thought-leader on strategy development and execution management, AchieveIt offers free execution management and strategic planning webinars and white papers on its website at AchieveIt.com.







SoftLayer Replaces Budgeting Software with Alight Planning, Achieves Significant ROI

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El Dorado Hills, CA (PRWEB) June 27, 2012

Alight Planning, developers of the first solution to make driver-based planning easy, today announced SoftLayer has achieved significant benefits by replacing their legacy budgeting and planning software with the Alight Planning solution. The full story was featured in a webinar earlier this month with the Institute of Management Accountants entitled: Case Study: Measuring the ROI of Planning Software.

Rand Heer, Alight Planning CEO, comments on the webinar, We were pleased to have over 800 finance professionals attend the IMA webinar earlier this month. The SoftLayer success story is generating a lot of buzz in the industry and third-party analyst firms are expressing interest in developing an in-depth case study that would verify the ROI which is estimated at 50x.

SoftLayer is the global cloud infrastructure platform that operates 13 data centers in the US. Given the rapid growth in this sector, the annual budgeting process was insufficient; SoftLayer took a dynamic, continuous approach to planning throughout the year. SoftLayer first replaced spreadsheets with Centages Budget Maestro software package. In 2009, the finance team began a search to replace Centage with a solution that would enable a more intuitive and integrated driver-based planning model and rapid scenario analysis in order to support the rapid growth.

While Centage was a step up compared to planning in spreadsheets, we could not create an integrated driver-based model, said Gary Kinman, Vice President of Finance and Analytics at SoftLayer, Since sales units were stored in an isolated module, sales units could not be used to drive capital expenses or operations headcount. Of course, we could drive revenue in Centage with sales units, but with Alight Planning, our driver-based model is now fully integrated. Analysis to adjust volume or pricing of a certain product that required 30 minutes in Centage was taking 3 minutes in Alight Planning. Our ability to quickly perform analysis on-the-fly with Alight Planning is leading to better decisions. We now have a better feel for the direction to take as a company.

The ROI Calculator developed earlier this year is generating some interesting conclusions about the state of budgeting and planning software, said Ben Lamorte of Alight Planning. Gary and I reflected on life before and after Alight Planning leading to a documented efficiency savings of about $ 100,000 over the last three years associated with moving to Alight Planning. The $ 100,000 is a result of doing the same things SoftLayer did with Centage, but doing them faster with integrated driver-based panning we call these type 1 benefits. Benefits of over $ 3M were associated with introducing new planning processes that were not even attempted prior to Alight Planning. These type 2 benefits included optimizing cash management and analyzing profitability by location. To our knowledge, SoftLayers implementation of Alight Planning represents the largest ROI documented in the history of mid-market planning software.

About SoftLayer Technologies

SoftLayer is the global cloud infrastructure platform provider built for Internet scale. Headquartered in Dallas, the company operates 13 data centers in the US, Asia and Europe; worldwide network points of presence; and a high-speed global network for secure, low-latency communications. SoftLayers modular architecture, full-featured API and sophisticated automation create a flexible platform that seamlessly integrates physical and virtual systems. With 100,000 servers under management, SoftLayer is the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider in the world, with a portfolio of 25,000 leading-edge customers from Web startups to global enterprises. For more information, please visit softlayer.com or call 1.866.398.7638.

About Alight Planning

Alight Planning is a true driver-based financial planning and reporting software package that automates business modeling for more accurate strategic plans, revenue projections, budgets and rolling forecasts. Its unique architectures and intuitive interfaces provide enable finance teams to rapidly build any driver-based planning model, while delivering traditional budgeting and planning structures such as line item detail, integrated financial statements and multiple-user security. Rapidly deployed and IT-independent, Alight Planning has been embraced by organizations of all sizes. Alight has over 300 customers including Kaiser Permanente, British Telecommunications, Pittsburgh Mercy Health, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, and Verizon Wireless. For more information about Alight Planning, visit http://www.AlightPlanning.com or call 800-960-7717.







Poston Joins AchieveIt to Accelerate Growth of Execution Management and Strategic Planning Software Company

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ATLANTA, GA (PRWEB) July 30, 2012

AchieveIt, a leading provider of execution management and strategic planning software, announced today the addition of Michael Poston to its executive team as the company continues an aggressive expansion into commercial markets. Poston will be primarily responsible for online and offline marketing and public relations.

Poston holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Structural Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in quantitative methods, both earned at Vanderbilt University. His 16-year career includes extensive experience in strategic planning, marketing, SEO, and product development.

“To have someone of Michaels experience and caliber join our team is humbling,” said Scott Regan, founder and chief execution officer of AchieveIt. “Michael has such a rare combination of talent that he can have an instant impact on our company. If we are the rocket, Michael will be our rocket fuel. He has that kind of potential for us.

Poston has a track record of accelerating sales growth for the companies he has worked with, which include small and large organizations, Fortune 500 companies, manufacturing companies, and technology firms. He has rich experience in business development, client acquisition and retention, digital platforms, and trademarks and patents.

In June, AchieveIt released Version 4.0 of its cloud-based software and reorganized the company to move into vertical markets outside of healthcare, where the company got its start. With Version 4.0, AchieveIt unveiled three new applications: ExecuteIt, AnalyzeIt, and ImproveIt. These applications help accelerate performance in strategic planning, strategy development, execution management, and performance improvement.

About AchieveIt

Serving more than 100 clients in 30 states, AchieveIt helps organizations transform vision and goals into tangible business results by executing smarter, faster, and better. Through its suite of cloud-based strategy development and execution management applications, AchieveIt accelerates transformation through enhanced accountability, transparency, and execution. The company provides an innovative set of online tools to develop, monitor, and implement strategic and operational plans, performance and quality improvement projects, and leadership and management programs. A national thought-leader on strategy development and execution management, AchieveIt offers free strategic planning webinars and white papers on its website at AchieveIt.com.







Ingenious Med Selects AchieveIt for its Cloud-Based Execution Management and Strategic Planning Software Platform

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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 24, 2012

AchieveIt, a leading provider of execution management and strategic planning software, announced today that Ingenious Med, a healthcare I.T. company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is the latest organization to adopt its cloud-based technology platform. Ingenious Med will deploy a full suite of tools, from scorecards to dashboards to automated email reminders and alerts, to drive accountability and execution throughout the organization.

AchieveIt offers cloud-based systems and support services designed to accelerate financial and operational results through enhanced visibility and accountability. Its suite of web-based software applications includes best-of-breed methodology, as well as a variety of business intelligence tools. Ingenious Med will deploy the technology in part to create a culture of collaboration, accountability, and execution that will produce significant business results.

Our mission is to help transform companies by enabling them to execute smarter, faster, and better, said Scott Regan, AchieveIt founder and chief execution officer. We are excited that Ingenious Med has turned to us to help accelerate its business results and to foster a true execution mindset.

Launched in late 2010, AchieveIt has quickly established itself as the leading provider of strategic planning and execution management software across many vertical markets, including healthcare, financial services, higher education, government, professional and other services, engineering, and retail. Its core applications include ExecuteIt, AnalyzeIt, and ImproveIt, which integrate into a seamless application that fosters strategy development, execution management, and performance and quality improvement.

About AchieveIt

Serving more than 100 clients in 30 states, AchieveIt helps organizations transform vision and goals into tangible business results by executing smarter, faster, and better. Through its suite of cloud-based strategy development and execution management applications, AchieveIt accelerates transformation through enhanced accountability, transparency, and execution. The company provides an innovative set of online tools to develop, monitor, and implement strategic and operational plans, performance and quality improvement projects, and leadership and management programs. A national thought-leader on strategy development and execution management, AchieveIt offers free webinars and white papers on its website at AchieveIt.com.

About Ingenious Med

Founded in 1999 by a group of practicing physicians, Ingenious Med creates all-inclusive, award-winning charge-capture and business-intelligence software. The companys cloud-based solutions can be used on the web or most smart phones and tablets, and enables physicians to capture charges, enhance documentation, increase coding and compliance, improve quality of care, increase revenue, and communicate digitally. Ingenious Med automates the revenue and charge capture processes for more than 15,000 users in more than 800 healthcare facilities across the United States.







United Nations Foundation Commits to Making the Goals of the London Summit on Family Planning a Reality

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Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) July 11, 2012

As partners from around the world join together in London to launch an ambitious effort to enable 120 million more women in developing countries access to voluntary, lifesaving family planning, information, and services by 2020, the United Nations Foundation reaffirms its commitment in support of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moons innovative Every Woman Every Child movement. This effort builds upon the Foundations long history of investment and work on adolescent girls and womens health, including the Universal Access Project, to achieve universal access to reproductive health care Millennium Development Goal 5 which leads to healthier women, stronger families, and more stable, prosperous communities.

Reproductive health issues cut across virtually all of our campaigns and initiatives, said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the UN Foundation. The London Summit — a global call to accelerate support for women and girls — builds upon the leadership and work of the United Nations Population Fund and the long-term support of the U.S. government to achieve universal access to reproductive health care and voluntary family planning. We call on all governments to prioritize this critical work moving forward.

We know that more than 220 million women around the world want, but do not have, access to modern contraception. By making a significant dent in this unmet need were not only saving the lives of women and children, but were also putting families on a path to a healthier, more sustainable and prosperous future. Voluntary family planning is one of the smartest investments that we can make said Timothy E. Wirth.

To help make the goals of the London Summit on Family Planning a reality, the UN Foundation is proud to fulfill and accelerate its $ 400 million commitment made together with partners in 2010 in support of Every Woman Every Child to improve womens and childrens health. This includes:

9Lenses Announces Strategic Planning Module

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Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 06, 2012

9Lenses announced today their strategic planning module that enables any leader of a company, division, group, or program to include anyone in the strategic planning process.

Executives have so many hurdles in their strategic planning process. We use cloud based software tools for many other key processes in our business, such as tracking our sales pipeline with SalesForce.com or SugarCRM, but we do not have the needed tools to truly include and gather all thought available for our strategic planning process, said Edwin Miller, the Founder and CEO of 9Lenses.

He went on to outline a series of problems we typically encounter in our strategic planning process:

San Francisco Event Planning Company, Blueprint Studios, Showcases Design Expertise at the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Golden Gate Bridge

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 05, 2012

San Francisco and enthusiasts across the nation recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of one of the most internationally recognized symbols in the U.S.–the Golden Gate Bridge. The premier San Francisco event planning company, Blueprint Studios, participated in the celebration held at Crissy Field on May 27 by lending its expertise in custom event design.

Blueprint Studios was commissioned by the National Parks Conservancy to design the d

strategicplanningMD Announces New Name, Corporate Strategy, and Release of Version 4.0 Strategic Planning Software

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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

strategicplanningMD announced today a new direction for the two-year-old firm, changing its name to AchieveIt to better describe the companys mission: to help organizations execute smarter, faster, and better. The name change is timed with the release of its version 4.0 cloud-based strategic planning software suite, which includes three robust applications and a comprehensive resource library.

The new name is a recognition of the size, strength, and diversity of our client base and the fundamental reason our clients and prospects turn to us for help in the first place, said Scott Regan, founder and chief execution officer. Our clients are looking to turn organizational vision and goals into real, meaningful, and tangible results. They want to improve strategy formulation and execution management, create a culture of accountability, and, ultimately, achieve their strategic and operational objectives Whatever It is, our singular purpose is to help our clients AchieveIt.

As part of the rebranding initiative, the company has adopted a new tagline that corresponds with its mission statement: Execute Smarter. Faster. Better.

The genesis of strategicplanningMD was a healthcare strategic planning consulting practice that identified the need to automate basic planning functions, tools, and methods using Internet-based applications. Formed in March 2010, the company introduced its first application in July of that year. By June 2012, the company was serving nearly 100 clients in six industries: healthcare, higher education, financial services, professional services, government, and engineering.

Seeing the opportunity to serve a market much broader than healthcare, the company felt a name change was in order, as strategicplanningMDs name connoted a healthcare planning function. In order to reposition itself for growth beyond healthcare and with a focus not only on planning, but also on execution the name AchieveIt was selected.

We are attracting attention from companies with 40,000 employees and from companies with less than 40 employees, said John Tolmie, president and chief growth officer. Our smallest client is a financial services company with 14 employees, and they have the same strategy development and execution management challenges as our largest client, Baylor Health Care system, which has nearly 20,000 employees. The fact is, in todays competitive climate, no company can afford to misfire, and our technology provides a powerful arsenal for achieving corporate objectives.

In conjunction with the name change, AchieveIt announced the release of Version 4.0, which includes the following applications, all rebranded under the new corporate direction:


ExecuteIt: The companys flagship strategy development and execution management application, with additional tools to accelerate accountability and execution, including plan scoring, automatic dashboard trend lines, and integration into the firms other cloud-based applications.
AnalyzeIt: Map data at an address level and conduct on-the-fly analysis with point-and-click technology.
ImproveIt: Now, every aspect of a companys quality and performance improvement program can be managed in the cloud, with complete visibility and transparency.
ShareIt: Unites users with online discussion boards, plus provides file sharing within companies and access to strategy development and execution management resources, as well as best-practice strategy bundles that can be directly imported into plans.

About AchieveIt

Serving nearly 100 clients in 25 states and six industries, AchieveIt is a business intelligence company that enables organizations to execute smarter, faster, and better. Through its suite of cloud-based applications and related support services, AchieveIt helps organizations transform vision and high-priority goals into meaningful, significant, and tangible results. With a focus on enhanced management accountability and timely execution, the company provides unique tools to develop, monitor, and execute a variety of plans. A national thought-leader on strategy development and execution management, the company offers free webinars and white papers on its website at achieveit.com.