expressor software adds new customers, introduces ‘expressway’ methodology and expands into new SMB market to close 2009 with a strong Q4
Burlington, MA – January 13, 2010 – expressor software, the leader in semantic data integration, today announced the company closed 2009 with a strong fourth quarter that included four new licensing transactions, the introduction of its new “expressor expressway” methodology and aggressive expansion into the small-to-medium business (SMB) market served by Microsoft SQL Server during 2010. “expressor continues to gain momentum by adding new customers, building pipeline, expanding our partner network and adding top-notch talent to our team,” said Bob Potter, CEO and co-founder, expressor software. “From a strategic standpoint, the enthusiastic response we received from Microsoft SSIS users at the PASS Summit and in subsequent customer and prospect feedback during Q4 confirmed we have a significant opportunity in this large and growing SMB market.” “I am pleased that expressor closed 2009 with another good quarter from a financial perspective, without any significant improvement in the economy,” added Melinda Smith, CFO, expressor software. “Bookings and pipeline continued to grow, and we once again exceeded our cash flow and expense targets to position expressor for a very successful 2010 fiscal year.” sales and marketing momentumexpressor signed new licensing transactions in Q4 with Baseline Management, Integrated DNA, STi Prepaid and a major US health benefits company. “We are very pleased with the level of activity and interest we are seeing in expressor with new prospects and throughout our existing customer base,” said Biswa Bhattacharya, founder and CEO of Acxius Strategic Consulting, an expressor reseller and system integrator partner. “We expect that our successful deployment of expressor at a major US health benefits company early in 2010 will be the first of many during this year and beyond.” In addition to exhibiting at the PASS Summit, expressor invested in a number of complementary marketing programs in Q4 designed to build awareness and demand in the SSIS community, including sponsoring several SQL Saturday user group training events scheduled in Q1 2010 as well as a webinar to be conducted with SQL Server Magazine in March. Registrations for the free expressor eval edition topped 100 in Q4, more than triple the number in the previous quarter. The eval edition is proving a popular method for prospective customers to take expressor for a 30-day “test drive.” new methodologyIn Q4, expressor signed an agreement with its systems integrator partner Emunio to jointly develop a comprehensive methodology for the design, development, deployment and management of expressor applications – called “expressway.” Emunio is the UK’s leading data integration consultancy, and expressway is substantially based on the best practices Emunio developed during nearly a decade of experience delivering large-scale, complex and highly successful data integration projects for a large range of clients. expressor expressway will become available in Q1 2010 and will be free of charge for expressor system users. new partnersexpressor expanded its partner program in Q4 with the addition of two new companies:
key hiresexpressor software strengthened its sales team in Q4 with the addition of data integration expert Hugo Sheng, who joined the company as a director of field engineering, based in Houston. Hugo has more than a dozen years’ experience in data integration, having served most recently as worldwide technical sales operations manager for IBM’s InfoSphere group. He also worked at Torrent Systems, which was first acquired by Ascential Software in 2001 and then IBM in 2005. Hugo holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston and an MBA from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. about expressor softwareexpressor software’s smart, ultrafast and affordable ETL and data integration solution delivers 80% of the functionality of leading enterprise tools at 20% of the cost. The expressor semantic data integration system is based on rationalized business terms that enable role-based team development, business rule reuse and total project lifecycle management. expressor’s parallel data processing engine "natively" handles complex data and processes terabytes of data per hour on a single machine. expressor targets departmental data integration projects in Global 2000 and mid-market organizations across North America and EMEA. The company has customers in financial services, database marketing, healthcare and telecommunications, including American Tower, Integrated DNA, Silverlink and Sybron Dental Specialties. For more information, visit www.expressor-software.com or register for our free eval edition.
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