MetriX Real-Time Dashboard Featured in February 1, 2010 Edition of Crain's Detroit Business
February 1, 2010 – Brighton, Michigan – Crain's Detroit Business, a weekly journal covering business news for Detroit and Southeastern Michigan, featured XCEND Group's MetriX Real-Time Dashboard in its February 1 "Business Diary: New Products" section. MetriX RTD is a browser-based application that provides a consolidated view into IT and business operational process metrics, regardless of software vendor or type. For more information about Crain's Detroit Business, visit www.crainsdetroit.com.
About XCEND Group
XCEND Group, Inc. (www.xcendgroup.com) is a leading provider of Infrastructure Management and Business Intelligence solutions that increase the effectiveness of IT and unlock the power of technology. A thought leader in Enterprise Systems Management, XCEND Group provides clients with a comprehensive solutions blueprint to help IT organizations translate their vision into value. For more information, visit www.xcendgroup.com.
XCEND Group Announces Release of Free Version of MetriX Real-Time Dashboard for Dell Management Console Customers (Download PDF)
December 18, 2009 – Brighton, Michigan – XCEND Group, Inc., a leading provider of Infrastructure Management and Business Intelligence solutions for IT, announces the release of a free version of its MetriX Real-Time Dashboard for Dell Management Console (DMC) customers. MetriX empowers IT organizations by linking IT operational and business process metrics and offering a consolidated view to track and monitor any KPIs across the enterprise. With actionable KPIs that support real-time decision making, MetriX allows for greater awareness, visibility, and control over performance metrics that impact IT.
At no cost to DMC customers, MetriX RTD Starter Edition will provide real-time visibility to a number of pre-defined Key Performance Indicators, including inventory, event status, patch management, energy savings, and security management. Dell customers will subsequently have the option to purchase additional vendor-specific MetriX Packs with the Standard Edition, or unlock the ability to build custom KPIs, themes, and unlimited dashboards with MetriX Enterprise Edition.
Powered by Symantec, Dell Management Console is a systems management solution designed to provide a central console offering features from basic hardware management to advanced enterprise functionality. DMC provides a single view into the deployment, inventory, monitoring, and updating of IT infrastructure and creates a foundation for more advanced management functionality.
“XCEND is excited to be able to offer to our customers MetriX Real-time Dashboard Starter Edition, designed especially for Dell Management Console,” said Ron Schoenherr, President and CEO of XCEND Group. “Our goal is to provide our DMC customers additional value by enabling them to view critical Dell-specific Key Performance Indicators in a single custom window. The MetriX DMC dashboard will consolidate security, patch management, asset management, and event level status KPIs for all of our clients’ DMC managed servers, desktops, and laptops.”
About XCEND Group
XCEND Group, Inc. (www.xcendgroup.com) is a leading provider of Infrastructure Management and Business Intelligence solutions that increase the effectiveness of IT and unlock the power of technology. A thought leader in Enterprise Systems Management, XCEND Group provides clients with a comprehensive solutions blueprint to help IT organizations translate their vision into value. For more information, visit www.xcendgroup.com.
About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is a leading technology provider to commercial enterprises around the world. Dell listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com.
XCEND Group Ranks No. 139 on the 2009 Inc. 500 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies (Download PDF)
- XCEND Group named to the prestigious list with a three-year sales growth of 1266.2 percent AND ranks No.11 in IT services category -
August 18, 2009 – Brighton, Michigan -- Inc. magazine this week ranked XCEND Group NO. 139 on its annual ranking of the 500, fastest-growing private companies in the country. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Companies such as Microsoft, Zappos, Intuit, GoDaddy, American Apparel, Oracle, and hundreds of other powerhouses gained early exposure as members of the Inc. 500.
In addition to ranking No. 139 overall in the nation, XCEND Group ranked No. 1 as the fastest-growing private company in the Detroit-Warren-Livonia metropolitan area and No. 11 in the IT Services category of the Inc. 500 Top List of Companies by Industry. With reported sales revenue of $5.3 million, up from their 2005 reported revenue of $384,842, XCEND posted revenue growth of 1266 percent, vastly exceeding the industry benchmark of 34.8 percent as well as Inc. 500’s industry median of 152.2 percent.
XCEND Group was founded in 2004 and specializes in IT management products and consulting services, particularly on systems based on the Symantec Altiris suite of products. The company also maintains partnerships and certifications with leading technology providers like Dell, Credant, Savant Protection and Tripwire.
“The entire team at XCEND is incredibly proud of this recognition from Inc. Magazine. This honor validates our business strategies and commitment to delivering world-class services and solutions to our clients,” said XCEND Vice President of Business & Strategy, Ron Schoenherr. “Our company is driven to create and deliver innovative solutions for our clients that help reduce the cost and complexity of managing IT. We fully expect that our expansion into developing Business Intelligence Solutions for IT organizations will help us exceed our past growth targets, despite the challenges of today’s economy.”
About XCEND Group
The XCEND Group (www.xcendgroup.com) is an award-winning Symantec partner that offers IT lifecycle management products and proven consulting services to organizations that rely on technology to run their businesses. XCEND Group transforms organizations by aligning IT processes with business goals. The XCEND Group has designed and implemented IT Lifecycle Management systems for more than 350 clients, 35 of whom are in the Fortune 1000.
About Inc. Magazine
Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (www.inc.com) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 712,961, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology.
XCEND Group Partners with Savant Protection to Bring Application Whitelisting Solutions to Altiris Client Management Suite Customers
- Adds Savant’s application whitelisting and endpoint security to its portfolio of solutions -
August 18, 2009 – BRIGHTON, MI, and HUDSON, NH – XCEND Group and Savant Protection
announced today their partnership to bring application whitelisting security products to market.
XCEND, an IT lifecycle management company and National Symantec Partner in Brighton, MI. will
offer Savant’s flexible and easy to manage application whitelisting and system lockdown solution for
Altiris Client Management Suite from Symantec.
XCEND’s customers may now improve security and control of endpoints, lockdown critical areas and
prevent unknown attacks from compromising systems, while managing these functions through the
Symantec Management Console.
"We are excited to have Savant’s Enterprise Management System as an important part of our portfolio
of solutions,” said Ron Schoenherr, Vice President of Business & Strategy. “We can now bring state of
the art security and control to our enterprise clients and prospects. This is consistent with our
strategy to add value for our customers and grow the XCEND business aggressively over the next few
years.”
“We are committed to directly supporting the XCEND team,” said Paul Paget, CEO of Savant
Protection. “They are an excellent fit for Savant to bring a total endpoint management solution as an
Altiris and Savant Partner. Together with XCEND’s excellent solutions and technical services,
customers and prospects will gain the benefit of a flexible and easy to manage end point security
solution, leveraging the investment they have already made in Altiris Client Management Suite and
other systems.”
XCEND is sponsoring a series of webinars to introduce their customers and prospects to Savant. You
may get more information about the upcoming webinars at
http://www.xcendgroup.com/news_events.htm. Further information about Savant Protection is
available at www.savantprotection.com.
About The XCEND Group
The XCEND Group (www.xcendgroup.com), an award-winning Altiris partner, offers IT lifecycle
management products and proven consulting services to organizations that rely on technology to run
their businesses. XCEND Group transforms organizations by aligning IT processes with business goals.
The XCEND Group has worked with more than 350 clients in designing and implementing IT Lifecycle
Management systems. Thirty-five of XCEND’s clients are in the Fortune 1000. www.xcendgroup.com
About Savant Protection
IT professionals turn to Savant Protection to regain control of company systems and substantially
improve end point security by preventing unauthorized applications from running. Its flagship product,
the Savant Client with Enterprise Management System, is the only software based solution that
provides the flexibility for IT to control and protect applications, stops the execution of unauthorized
software, and eliminates the intrusion and spread of malware - without the management overhead, or
disruption to end users required by today’s centralized whitelist signature approaches. Savant
Protection was formed in 2006, is privately held, and is headquartered in Hudson, New Hampshire.
www.savantprotection.com
XCEND Group Joins SageCreek Partners Portfolio (Download PDF)
- Knowledge, experience, and complete understanding of IT lifecycle management space among reasons for selecting SageCreek Partners -
SALT LAKE CITY – June 29, 2009 – XCEND Group, an IT lifecycle management company and National Symantec Partner in Brighton, MI., has engaged with SageCreek Partners, a consulting company that provides "mentor capital" for technology businesses. SageCreek will facilitate XCEND Group’s growth as a solution provider and help the company achieve its next goal of becoming strongly established in the data visualization and performance management space.
XCEND Group’s first product offering, MetriX, collects data from Altiris and other popular IT management platforms and consolidates Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) into a single Real-Time Dashboard. The Real-Time Dashboard delivers the information that IT departments require in order to align IT Operational KPIs with core business initiatives.
"We have excellent technology, and we’re extremely pleased to have the SageCreek team assist us in bringing it to the global market," said Ron Schoenherr, Vice President of Business and Strategy for XCEND. "What could take us 3-4 years to execute on our own can now be accelerated to 1-1½ years with the help of SageCreek."
XCEND Group joins a growing roster of SageCreek clients in the U.S., EMEA and Latin America.
"Our goal is to leverage the experience of our team to help companies succeed and gain market share faster and more effectively," said Greg Butterfield, Managing Partner for SageCreek. "XCEND Group’s strong technology foundation, innovation, and exceptional reputation with their current customers makes them an especially good fit for alignment with the SageCreek team, and we look forward to working closely with this outstanding management team."
For more information about Sage Creek Partners, please visit www.sagecreekpartners.com or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SageCreekPartnr.
About The XCEND Group
The XCEND Group (www.xcendgroup.com), an award-winning Altiris partner, offers IT lifecycle management products and proven consulting services to organizations that rely on technology to run their businesses. XCEND Group transforms organizations by aligning IT processes with business goals. The XCEND Group has worked with more than 250 clients in designing and implementing IT Lifecycle Management systems. Thirty-five of XCEND’s clients are in the Fortune 1000.
About SageCreek Partners
SageCreek Partners (www.sagecreekpartners.com) is creating and driving a new category of service: Mentor Capital. Working as a companion to technology companies and their investment partners and boards, SageCreek Partners is comprised of seasoned executives in the U.S., EMEA and Latin America: Greg Butterfield, Dwain Kinghorn, Steve Erickson, Tracy Tolbert, Mark Bonham, Volker Wiora, Srinivasa "Venky" Venkataraman and Russ Warner, who have led multiple technology companies from launch to industry leadership to successful exit.
XCEND Group Named to Symantec's National Partner Organization (Download PDF)
BRIGHTON, Mich. – May 21, 2009 – The XCEND Group, an IT lifecycle and security consulting
firm, today announced that it has joined Symantec’s “National Partner Organization”. Symantec’s
National Partner Program consists of 16 national VARs with either a national or multi-regional
reach. Members of Symantec’s National Partner Organization service customers nationwide and
have significant involvement in many of Symantec’s largest enterprise customer accounts. The
organization was launched in FY09 as a result of feedback from Symantec’s Regional Partner
Advisory Council. Participating partners are chosen based on their cross-geographic coverage
model and their annual Symantec revenue.
“We are incredibly proud of being named a National Partner for Symantec,” said Ron Schoenherr,
vice president of sales, XCEND. “This new status with Symantec validates our effort in building a
world-class services organization that is committed to being a trusted advisor for our clients who
require support for Symantec solutions nationally, as well as globally.”
“The members of Symantec’s National Partner Organization have demonstrated a strong
investment in Symantec and a commitment to aligning with the company’s strategic direction,”
said Randy Cochran, vice president, channel sales for the Americas, Symantec. “The
organization is made up of a select group of partners that have demonstrated their success in
selling the Symantec portfolio to customers nationwide, giving them the confidence that their
information is protected wherever it is used or stored.”
Symantec Transforms Workspace Management With Endpoint Virtualization (Download PDF)
XCEND Helps Cut IT Costs
BRIGHTON, Mich. – September, 2008 – A recent study revealed many businesses are not managing their IT systems properly. The study found that a well managed system can reduce IT operating costs by as much as 36%, according to industry analysts Gartner Research.
The XCEND Group recently launched a new website to help businesses become more aware of how to maximize their investment in IT systems. “We wanted our website to do more than just tell people who we are and what we do,” explained Brian Schlueter, Vice-President of Sales.
“One of our goals is to make XCENDGroup.com “Solution-Centric” versus “Product-Centric”. When someone goes to our site they have the opportunity to input what problems or issues they might be experiencing and then we provide back the appropriate solution(s) that is comprised of software, services and training,” Brian Schlueter added.
Leveraging technology is becoming more important as businesses look to technology and IT to provide a competitive advantage. Yet many businesses are still lagging behind in how they deploy and manage technology in the enterprise.
The new XCEND website also provides insight to industry news, scheduled XCEND events and news. Our goal is to continually evolve our site, so that our clients can “define their experience” while visiting XCENDGroup.com according to Brian Schlueter
The XCEND Group is a leader in this emerging industry that is focused on helping businesses manage IT systems for a maximum return on investment. XCEND’s “Solution-Centric” approach has helped clients save millions of dollars during the past three years.
XCEND currently has more than 250 offices nationwide including offices in Pittsburgh, Boston, Chicago, Austin and Lindon, Ut.
XCEND Group Named Altiris Platinum Partner of the Year for 2006
BRIGHTON, Mich. – June, 2007 – The XCEND Group, an IT lifecycle and security consulting firm, today announced that it has been named the Altiris Platinum Partner of the Year for 2006. Despite XCEND only being in their third year of business, XCEND has quickly built a consulting organization comprised of experienced industry veterans, focused on helping organizations lower their IT operational expenses through the integration of process and technology.
Ron Schoenherr, XCEND VP – Business & Strategy, said, “Our goal when we launched XCEND was to develop a world class IT consulting firm and I believe this acknowledgement from Altiris affirms that we are heading in the right direction. The key to our success has been our ability to attract experienced, highly talented consultants, along with a seasoned sales force. This team understands how to work together to help our clients align Altiris service-oriented management solutions with their business objectives to reduce the cost and complexity of managing IT.”
Mike Samuelian, Symantec VP of sales, Altiris business unit, said, “We’re very proud of what XCEND has accomplished during such a short time. As a full-service Altiris business partner, XCEND helps us drive business at each phase of the sales cycle and then helps to ensure that our customers have the best possible experience during implementation. We look forward to XCEND’s continued contributions and success.”
The XCEND Group has delivered more than 175 implementations of Altiris solutions during the last two years for small and medium-size businesses as well as large enterprise companies.
About the XCEND Group
The XCEND Group is an information technology consulting firm, specializing in helping customers lower IT operational costs through the integration of process and technology. With a corporate headquarters in Brighton, Michigan, XCEND provides its full range of services throughout the United States. For more information, please visit www.xcendgroup.com.
XCEND Group contact:
Ron Schoenherr
810 494-7144 ext. 217
rschoenherr@xcendgroup.com
Altiris First to Integrate Application Packaging and Software Virtualization
New Wise Package Studio® software supports Altiris® Software Virtualization Solution™
to help increase system stability and manageability
Altiris, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, today announced the exclusive integration of Wise Package Studio® software with Altiris® Software Virtualization Solution™ to provide businesses with efficient software operations, increased system availability and employee productivity. Wise Package Studio 7 now supports the creation, editing and management of virtual software packages to help configure systems correctly and reduce application conflicts.
Altiris application packaging and virtualization technologies now work together to provide efficient software management only offered by Altiris. An existing .MSI file can now be virtualized for activation on SVS-enabled machines. This approach delivers the best of both worlds as the target system is appropriately configured by .MSI installation logic and the application runs virtually to avoid conflicts with other applications and the host operating system.
Dwain Kinghorn, Altiris CTO said, "Our goal is to pioneer technology that reduces the cost and complexity of IT management. Wise Package Studio 7 combined with Altiris Software Virtualization Solution is a perfect example of Altiris delivering on this goal. Together, these two technologies promote stable PCs while increasing manageability at a level exclusively offered by Altiris."
XCEND Group is an information technology and security consulting firm, specializing in helping customers lower IT operational costs through the integration of process and technology. Scott Hardie, XCEND Group VP of Technology Services, said, “We have customers that invest significant effort into application management best practices to help deliver maximum end-user productivity. “For example, we worked with a large law firm that has installed and configured Software Virtualization Solution on all of its PCs but has been waiting for the release of Wise Package Studio 7 before rolling out virtualized applications. The unique advantages of integrated application packaging and software virtualization are critical to their ability to reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise software management.
“Internally, we have been using Software Virtualization Solution and Wise Package Studio for several months through the Altiris beta program to reduce the time and complexity of managing and deploying applications to our mobile workforce.”
Other new Wise Package Studio 7 features include:
- Support for package creation, editing and management of a variety of formats such as:
- Virtual software archive (.VSA)
- RedHat* Linux (.RPM)
- Mobile device packages including support for Windows* Mobile 5.0
- Quality assurance enhancements that deliver rapid, automated and consistent package testing processes for heterogeneous environments
Wise Package Studio prepares applications and patches for deployment by properly configuring them to the unique requirements of computers in the target population. In addition to package creation and customization, Wise Package Studio also provides core functionality for managing and testing packages to help ensure reliable deployments.
SVS helps to reduce support costs and streamline software operations by providing faster, simpler and more manageable deployment of desktop applications. SVS also helps to eliminate application conflicts and delivers instant application activation, deactivation and reset capabilities.
Patent-pending SVS technology can also be centrally managed using the Altiris architecture to help customers benefit from integrated Altiris service-oriented management solutions including inventory, packaging, deployment, migration, software delivery and service management. Applications prepared with Wise Package Studio 7 help decrease the risk of application conflicts and deliver on on-demand application provisioning.
Licensing and availability
Wise Package Studio 7 will be available later this month. With the release of Wise Package Studio 7, Altiris will include 50 full licenses of SVS with each purchased copy of Wise Package Studio Professional or Wise Package Studio Suite going forward. For more information, please contact your local Altiris sales representative by visiting www.altiris.com/sales
About Altiris
Altiris, Inc. is a leading provider of service-oriented management software that enables IT organizations to easily manage, secure and service heterogeneous IT assets. Flexible solutions from Altiris help IT align services to drive business objectives, deliver audit-ready security, automate tasks, and reduce the cost and complexity of management. For more information, visit www.altiris.com.
Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including statements regarding the future availability and functionality of the Wise Package Studio 7 product. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including but not limited to, risks associated with delays or difficulties in bringing the product to market, product bugs or errors, and such other risks as identified in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2006, and from time to time in other reports filed by Altiris with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. Wise Package Studio is a registered trademark of Wise Solutions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Altiris, Inc. Software Virtualization Solution is a trademark of Altiris, Inc.
* RedHat is a registered trademark of RedHat and/or its affiliates. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft and/or its affiliates. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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