Senior housing, fully integrated with a suite of onsite assisted living services, to support independent living and serve as a model for other churches and communities.
Sandpoint, ID (PRWEB) November 15, 2007 — http://www.ecumen.org – Aging services provider Ecumen, one of the country’s largest non-profit senior housing companies, has collaborated with First Lutheran Church of Sandpoint and other Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) partners to break ground on Idaho’s first catered living senior housing development in Sandpoint, Idaho. Luther Park at Sandpoint will be physically connected to First Lutheran Church of Sandpoint and will open in November of 2008.
Catered living communities by Ecumen integrate senior housing focused on independent living with a suite of on site assisted living services. The catered living design focuses on promoting successful aging by enabling seniors to stay as independent as possible in a community they love even when they need assisted living services or memory care.
The senior housing development Luther Park is a multi-dimensional collaboration of Ecumen and its partners within the ELCA. First Lutheran Church of Sandpoint is the owner while Ecumen will develop and manage. The development’s primary lender is the Mission Investment Fund of the ELCA, with additional financing being provided by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
SPS Commerce Deploys its Multi-Tenant Services on Oracle Platform for Superior Reliability and Scalability
Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 13, 2007 – SPS Commerce, the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), announced today that it leverages the Oracle SaaS Platform, comprised of Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager, for all of SPS’ hosted supply chain services. With more than 12,000 suppliers, retailers, 3PLs, freight forwarders, sourcing companies and other supply chain partners using SPS’ services daily, SPS Commerce needed to simplify its systems integration and increase overall system flexibility, reliability, and throughput. In 2007, the company transitioned to the Oracle SaaS Platform to support its growing EDI outsourcing services.
By choosing the Oracle SaaS Platform, the company has experienced the following short and long-term benefits to its EDI services:
Allowed the company to confidently process 3 million transactions monthly and scale to meet increasing demand
Reduced processing time for individual documents by 80%
Improved error handling, notifications, and document-tracking capabilities
Minimized the workload for the tech support team by helping them easily identify problems and resolve issues
Expert insights offered in article and gathered in exclusive survey, offer insights on data and storage consolidation that are resonating throughout the IT industry.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) November 8, 2007 — Evolving Solutions, a leading data backup and recovery and storage consolidation provider is sharing crisp new thoughts on data backup with the article and corresponding survey “Is Tape Dead?”
“Is Tape Dead?” , penned by Evolving Solutions Director of Professional Services Chris Taylor, delves into the current and evolving mind swell surrounding data backup and recovery. By shining a light on the very realistic pros and cons to both tape and disc storage techniques, Taylor helps solidify a creative and practical approach to data storage that includes both.
“One way to address both the need for faster restores and a solution for longer term storage and archiving of data is to utilize both tape and disk,” states Taylor in the article. “For example, critical backup data can be stored on disk for rapid restore, a copy of the critical data can be copied to tape, and less critical data can be staged to disk and then written directly to tape. Using this method, less critical data can be staged to tape over time while mission critical data is available for rapid restore.”
Dynamic solution will let marketers create and manage campaigns without complex implementation, training or IT support.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 29, 2007 — MarketingSherpa Business to Business Demand Generation Summit (Booth #8) – http://www.Marketo.com — Marketo, a provider of affordable, easy-to-use marketing automation software that helps B2B marketing professionals drive revenue and improve accountability, announced today that it is enrolling beta test users for its new lead management software solution. Marketo’s solution for the first time will allow B2B marketers to easily create, measure, and modify marketing campaigns without requiring time-consuming implementation, training or IT support.
Marketo’s lead management software was created to help manage the growing gap between the time marketing first captures a lead and the time a prospect is ready to engage with a sales representative. Prematurely passing early-stage leads to the sales department only annoys the buyer and wastes the sales person’s valuable time, and is at the root of the age-old tension between the sales and marketing departments.
Instead, companies should master lead nurturing, the process of using the Web, e-mail, phone, social media, and other online and offline channels to build relationships with qualified prospects who are not yet sales ready, as well as the ability to monitor lead activity and understand when a lead is ready to engage with sales.
New capabilities allow landing page creation and testing without IT involvement
San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) October 22, 2007 — http://www.Marketo.com — Marketo, a provider of affordable, easy-to-use marketing automation software that helps B2B marketing professionals drive revenue and improve accountability, today added testing functionality to its landing page creation solution. This combination will make it easy for B2B marketers to create and test targeted landing pages without requiring any HTML, coding or website modification.
A landing page, accessible when a prospect clicks a link in a pay-per-click ad, online banner or direct email campaign, is a vital piece of any marketing program since it helps to ensure the click converts into a lead.
A well-tested landing page can make the difference between the prospect clicking away or becoming a lead. According to marketing research organization MarketingSherpa, a fully implemented landing page optimization solution can increase conversion rates by up to 40%, meaning savvy marketers can produce 40% more leads for the same spending.
Despite these benefits, Forrester Research reports that three out of four B2B companies do not have the technical resources to use landing pages effectively, let alone test multiple versions. Furthermore, most landing page optimization solutions typically cater to the needs of high-volume e-commerce websites, rather than the specific needs of B2B marketers who use landing pages for lead generation.
Debut of new presentation to attendees of PMI Global Congress destined to help business analysts and project managers worldwide achieve a new level of success
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 8, 2007 — Today, Watermark Learning, a globally recognized provider of business requirements analysis and project management training, will once again transform the way project professionals manage their projects with the debut of its presentation, “Oh No, You Gave Me What I Asked For! Common Pitfalls to Uncovering Expectations” at PMI Global Congress North America in Atlanta, GA.
The presentation is based on the paper of the same name by Watermark Learning principals Elizabeth & Richard Larson, both registered project management professionals (PMPs) and certified business analysis professionals (CBAPs).
Garnered from their decades of experience with both business analysis and project management training, the paper and presentation speak to the inescapable reality that any project ignoring the importance of uncovering customer expectations is susceptible to failure, despite otherwise outstanding execution.
“Uncovering expectations, at its core level, is about the art of consultative questioning,” states Watermark Learning CEO Elizabeth Larson. “As we have trained students of our project management and business analysis training programs throughout the years, mastering this art will lead to more success in analyzing, documenting, and validating customer requirements. And, it is an essential skill in discovering customer expectations about the products our projects introduce.”
Merger will allow TCP and DDL customers to achieve a new, consolidated level of packaging success.
Edison, NJ (PRWEB) October 3, 2007 — TCP Reliable, a thermal packaging solutions manufacturer and DDL, the leading package testing services firm have announced a merger, making the combined company the leading packaging engineering group specializing in the medical device and biopharmaceutical industries. DDL and TCP will continue to operate their testing and manufacturing separately with DDL as a wholly owned subsidiary of TCP Reliable.
“The true benefit of this merger for our clients is access to a wider array of services custom suited to their growing needs,” states Patrick Nolan, COO of DDL. “Particularly, our clients will be able to confidently consolidate both their testing and manufacturing objectives.”
This powerful new collaboration between packaging testing pioneers DDL, specializing in medical device testing and TCP, a full service temperature controlled packaging manufacturer, will answer the growing needs of both firms’ client bases.
Adler’s Jewelry, one of America’s premier jewelry and fine gift boutiques, located in New Orleans, is pleased to announce the arrival of the 2007 Christmas Ornament Collection.
New Orleans, LA, September 24, 2007-http://www.adlersjewelry.com-Adler’s Jewelry, the Southern Gulf’s leader in fine jewelry, announced today the release of this year’s exclusive hand-blown and painted New Orleans Christmas ornament for 2007, along with other Adler’s Exclusive Ornaments from their Holliday Collection.
“We are very excited to be able to contribute to the restoration efforts here in New Orleans by donating a portion of all proceeds from the sales of two of our Michael Storrings collection of New Orleans Themed Ornaments to the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans (PRCNO).These are just two of many products Adler’s is proud to offer that assist in the revival of this great AmericanCity.”
Adler’s has more than 75 different Christmas ornaments available in its collection for the upcoming Holiday Season many of which celebrate New Orleans life, history, and tradition. Support New Orleans by purchasing one of these Special Edition Collectors Items.
Tips developed via Ecumen’s real world experience provide organizations developing senior housing a strategic path towards achieving their development goals.
Shoreview, MN (PRWEB) September 21, 2007 — http://www.ecumen.org — Aging services provider Ecumen, Minnesota’s largest non-profit senior housing company, is helping firms or individuals who are considering taking on a senior housing development project to think through key initial steps before they make an investment decision. The non-profit has released a new whitepaper featuring key development tips.
Senior Housing Development Tips: Key Things to Consider Before Entering Into The Senior Housing Market was written on Ecumen’s behalf by journalist Frank Jossi. In it, Jossi articulates the dramatic need for more senior housing in many communities while underscoring necessary steps toward creating a successful community.
The whitepaper is based on Ecumen’s experience acquired through their own senior housing development projects with partners Pope Associates Inc., a leading architectural firm, and Adolfson & Peterson Construction. Together, they have worked on a number of senior housing developments, including The Villages of North Branch in North Branch, MN, and they will break ground on September 30 on Luther Park of Sandpoint in Sandpoint, ID, which will create a unique “catered living” community managed by Ecumen that combines independent living and assisted living services and which is physically connected to First Lutheran Church of Sandpoint.
New marketing automation platform synchronizes sales and marketing data – resulting in more timely marketing activities and improved marketing accountability.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 17, 2007 — Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference (Dreamforce Booth #140) http://www.Marketo.com — Marketo, which provides affordable, easy-to-use marketing automation software that helps B2B marketing professionals drive revenue and improve accountability, today announced the development of its new on-demand marketing automation platform leveraging salesforce.com’s Force.com on-demand platform.
Marketers are under constant pressure to drive qualified sales leads and demonstrate revenue impact. Additionally, new online channels are changing B2B research and buying processes, requiring marketers to adjust. Unlike the sales department – which has access to powerful automation tools such as Salesforce – B2B marketing professionals have not had easy yet powerful marketing automation software available to them.
The Marketo marketing automation platform will eliminate this gap by helping B2B marketing professionals drive revenue and measure results. Central to the platform is the Marketo Marketing Database, which provides marketing with all the information needed to acquire and nurture leads, forecast marketing results, and demonstrate marketing’s impact on the bottom line.
