1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: AppRiver, Gulf Breeze, Florida

AppRiver — featured in this blog in 2009 — like Agiliance, finds itself once again on Inc. Magazine’s 2011 500|5000 list. Over the past two years, the company, which was founded in 2002 by CEO Michael Murdoch and CIO Joel Smith, has more than doubled its 2007 revenue of $11.4 million to $27.9 million, giving AppRiver a three-year

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Acumatica, Bethesda, Maryland

According to CIO.com, enterprise resource planning software (ERP) is designed to integrate the functions of a company’s various departments into a single unified software program running off of one database to facilitate the sharing of information. Such integration cuts down on errors and saves time, particularly in regards to patients’ medical histories. Since the advent

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Knowlagent, Alpharetta, Georgia

Anyone who’s ever worked in a call center knows that there’s a certain ebb and flow of incoming calls. Often, during the ebb, call center agents have little or no other work to do. Alpharetta, Georgia–based Knowlagent seeks to minimize the amount of down time call center agents have.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Healthcare Interactive, Glenwood, Maryland

A report issued by the U.S. Census Bureau in September 2010 stated that in 2009, more than 50 million people living in the United States did not have health insurance. According to Wikipedia, more money per person is spent on health care in the United States than in any other country in the world. It makes

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Marc Ferrentino, CTA Of Salesforce (Part 11)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: And we are building – now I am putting my computer scientist hat on and we are designing scalable distributed systems. So, we have One Million by One Million entrepreneurs from all over the world. This is a completely virtual program that we envision as

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Child Entrepreneur David Koretz, Now CEO of Mykonos Software (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What did you charge Bertelsmann for that deal and what does your product cost today? David Koretz: We charged them very little because we really wanted the reference. Our product is an enterprise product. We start at 25 thousand dollars and it can range up to 150,000 dollars. Large organizations may have multiple

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Marc Ferrentino, CTA Of Salesforce (Part 10)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Marc Ferrentino: Yes, thank you. I have one question for you; I wanted to ask this question. I like your Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series, but I actually like your insight and your strategic blog posts much better. The reason I like them is that while

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Child Entrepreneur David Koretz, Now CEO Of Mykonos Software (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What is the story behind Mykonos?  David Koretz: We started seeing a problem inside BlueTie. It  was a huge issue; hackers were trying to break into our databases for a number of reasons. Some were trying to steal credit cards and others wanted to use us as a spam engine. The net effect

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