Business Wire – Press Release

Aravo Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based Supplier Lifecycle Management (SLM) and B2B information and collaboration solutions, announced today that a European-based Global 200 healthcare solutions company, has selected Aravo to enable their world-wide procurement transformation initiative. The selection was the result of an exhaustive analysis of the market during which the company evaluated several vendors to help it with new supplier discovery, supplier enablement, and supplier risk management. Using Aravo’s Supplier Lifecycle Management (SLM) solutions, Aravo’s customer will improve supplier information enterprise-wide, lowering operating costs, reducing supply chain risk and ensuring regulatory compliance across its global supply base.

The company offers a diversified portfolio of products delivering innovative pharmaceuticals, consumer health products, preventive vaccines and diagnostic tools. With divisions in dozens of countries around the world, a large part of their growth has come through acquisition. In response to the resulting supply chain complexity, the company has begun an enterprise-wide supplier lifecycle management initiative that will positively impact their collaborative relationships with vendors and ultimately improve customer satisfaction.  (Full Article)

Market Watch – Press Release

Aravo Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based Supplier Lifecycle Management and B2B collaboration solutions, announced today that Aravo Assure(TM) is now generally available to help buyers and suppliers transform the way that they manage their B2B trading relationships. Using Aravo Assure(TM), the industry’s first — and only — trading partner information network with a focus on risk, performance, compliance, and sustainability, thousands of companies are already reducing the cost of managing and sharing critical business information, while finding new customers for their products and services.

Aravo Assure(TM) was built to enable a new paradigm for the way that businesses engage, share data, and collaborate. In the same way that social network companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Twitter have changed the ways that we shop, communicate with friends, and search for jobs, restaurants and service providers, Aravo Assure(TM) will change the way that companies create and manage their B2B presence and relationships. Using the latest many-to-many, Enterprise 2.0 technologies delivered in an intuitive, web based system, buyers and sellers will easily discover new trading opportunities, safely and securely share critical business information, and drive down the administrative time and expense involved in managing tens or hundreds of thousands of trading partners.  (Full Article)

MarketWatch – Press Release

After tremendous growth in the US, InsideView, the leader in sales intelligence and social selling, announced today the beginning of its global expansion with its UK and Ireland Edition. Thousands of US business organizations now deploy InsideView’s award-winning company and people intelligence to increase the productivity of their customer-facing employees and improve metrics across the customer cycle, including lead conversion, win rates and customer retention and expansion.

With the UK and Ireland Edition, InsideView takes this competitive advantage worldwide, providing professionals with effective intelligence that helps them be more targeted, relevant and timely in their sales and customer management efforts. The UK and Ireland Edition of InsideView will be generally available in the first quarter of 2012, as a stand-alone application as well as a mash-up within market-leading CRM applications including Microsoft Dynamics, Netsuite, Oracle CRM On Demand, Salesforce.com, SAP, and SugarCRM.  (Full Article)

Market Watch – Press Release

InsideView, the leader in sales intelligence and social selling, today announced the launch of People Insights. InsideView People Insights allows business professionals to connect with the right person, with the right message, at the right time — ultimately driving greater productivity and revenue.

A New Type of Connection Connections are more important than ever for reaching and engaging your prospects. More than 90 percent of executives never respond to cold-call sales or unsolicited emails, while more than 80 percent do engage when referred by a connection — whether through a friend, colleague, customer or industry peer. InsideView Connections grows your reach beyond social networking sites (your personal connections) to automatically leverage your extended business network of coworkers, executives and board members, previous employers, and customers (your corporate connections). Even young professionals, who often have a limited Rolodex and professional network, can now instantly leverage their company’s extended network of corporate relationships.  (Full Article)