Sramana Mitra: Is this a venture-funded company or did you take the proceeds from the SmarTeam acquisition and build this organically? Avinoam Nowogrodski: When it started, I was funding this company myself. We have raised $90 million today from VCs. The last round was $35 million that was announced two weeks ago. We got $35
Avinoam Nowogrodski: Many people have tried to fix this issue of how to drive collaboration that matters. As you were saying, technology has changed a lot. The real impact of cloud on companies is that it makes companies real time. If I go right now to Salesforce and I look at the report, I will understand
Sramana Mitra: You’re talking about inter-departmental bridging essentially. You are talking about CRM servicing the closing of the deal in sales and then you’re introducing a bridge into professional services on actually implementing the deal. There’s a project management and staffing that you’re now bringing into the CRM workflow. Avinoam Nowogrodski: Absolutely, you got it
Sramana Mitra: What you’re saying of course requires a lot of integration with other systems. If you’re talking about customer interactions, then you’re talking about the CRM system. Now we’re talking about some sort of a portal that brings together all of these integration elements? Avinoam Nowogrodski: Not necessarily, although you’re raising a very good point.
Avinoam Nowogrodski: What we have created in Clarizen is collaboration in context. It’s in context of getting work done and promoting work. If I would just use another term, which is a bit more complex because I come from the area of product lifecycle management, it’s all about the work-life cycle management collaboration. You need
This week, Deal Radar moves away from social media gaming and back to open source, this time with a focus on enterprise collaboration and service-oriented architecture, an area essential to the development of new ways of delivering software. MindTouch Deki, the flagship product of San Diego-based MindTouch, is an open source enterprise collaboration and community
I have written extensively about eliminating unnecessary business travel and using technology such as conference calls and web conferencing to meet with colleagues in other cities or countries. LifeSize, Telenetix and Dimdim are three Deal Radar companies working to encourage the use of such collaboration technology. One of today’s covered companies, Revolabs, offers plug-and-play systems
This week’s Deal Radar series begins with coverage of Operational Memory LLC, which launched its first solution, a social networking application for enterprises, in September 2008. Founded in 2005 by two “soccer dads” who got to know each other and their areas of expertise over several seasons of girls’ soccer, the SaaS company is based