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News from October, 2011

Fortune 100 High Tech Manufacturer Selects Aravo to Transform Global Supplier Lifecycle Management

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Business Wire – Press Release

Aravo Solutions, the leading provider of cloud-based Supplier Lifecycle Management (SLM) and B2B collaboration solutions, today announced that a Fortune 100 high tech manufacturer has selected Aravo SLM to power its global supplier lifecycle management program. The Fortune 100 manufacturer selected Aravo to transform its supply chain systems and processes in order to proactively respond to increasing complexity and risk in their supply chain.

Manufacturers today are faced not only with increasing regulatory compliance pressures, but also with significant and growing risk of costly disruptions given increasingly global, diverse and interconnected supply chains. In order to mitigate these risks, the company sought to deploy a more efficient, comprehensive, automated supplier management system to drive increased visibility into trading partners while promoting proactive supplier management via automated dashboards, metrics-triggered alerts, and mitigation plans.  (Full Article)

Summer of Sales Intelligence: InsideView See Huge Gains in Customers & Major CRM Platforms, Delivers 8 Million Sales Triggers in Recent Quarter

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

InsideView – Press Release

Ten times more companies started using intelligence to sell better in 2011’s Q3 than any other quarter. That’s according to the latest numbers from InsideView, the leading provider of sales intelligence for the enterprise. The company also revealed it delivered more than 8 million unique new opportunity sales triggers to its customers during the same period.

Intelligence Over Data: Quality and Quantity in Harmony

InsideView’s sales intelligence provides something data simply can’t: a competitive advantage. Anyone can provide a current title, phone number or email address on a lead. Only InsideView can provide this basic information, but more. For example, a business event — like an acquisition or merger — that warrants sales outreach, or news event like a product launch, that matters to the ongoing sales conversation.  (Full Article)

Leading Solar Distributor, groSolar, Selected to Represent Xunlight

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Renewable Energy World – groSolar

Partnership Increases the Number of Solar Friendly Rooftops, Using Domestic Manufacturing

Toledo, OH One of the solar electricity industry’s most established and trusted solar product procurement & logistics firms, groSolar, has been selected to represent Xunlight, manufacturer of cutting edge and highly reliable flexible thin film solar modules. This is the first thin film groSolar has elected to represent, simply because of Xunlight’s quality products. Xunlight is now available to groSolar’s 1,500 plus independent dealers across the nation, most of whom are independent solar contractors.  (Full Article)