[March 31, 2014]

Netformx Delivers Profit Acceleration and Expands Executive Team

Netformx®, the leader in sales enablement and profit acceleration solutions that help customers win more digital enterprise opportunities, announced today the addition of two industry veterans as well as new products and capabilities.

New Executive Team Members

Norman Tutnauer has been named Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. He brings more than 20 years of successful sales management experience during which he led, recruited, and managed global sales teams. His broad experience includes solution sales in the areas of contextual mobile marketing, Internet solutions for mobile operators, billing, customer relationship management, service assurance, and network management.

Matti Rosengart joins as Vice President of Research and Development and leads Netformx technological evolution and solution delivery. His experience spans web, ecommerce, diagnostics, telecommunications, and storage. He also brings in-depth involvement delivering products that meet business requirements utilizing IT infrastructure, cloud, big data, web, mobile, and telecommunications technologies.

New Capabilities Deliver Profit Acceleration

Netformx released a number of new products and enhancements to simplify the process of designing a solution and accelerating the sales cycle. Users are able to drive more enterprise deals that are bigger and more profitable. This is possible by simplifying the design process and leveraging the largest multi-vendor, up-to-date KnowledgeBase. Netformx validated solutions also ensure flawless deployments resulting in higher customer satisfaction. The latest capabilities contribute to:

• Ten times faster proposal generation.
• Cutting in half time-to-market for customers wanting to leverage new products, services, and promotions.
• Enabling to up-sell and cross-sell more effectively using up-to-date knowledge about existing deployments.

Netformx DesignXpert and Discovery

New capabilities include discovering and configuring:

• Juniper's complete catalog.
• F5 Networks BIG-IP product suite of application delivery services.
• Cisco (News - Alert) UCS Invicta Series Solid State Systems.

DesignXpert is also fully compatible with Cisco Commerce Workspace (CCW) service configuration and provides a high level of contrl over SMARTnet Services.

Discovering an existing network is now:

• Ten times faster than prior versions - taking only minutes for thousands of devices.
• Easier to extract valuable device data such as serial number, model, and configuration using new reporting engine.

Users can quickly compare actual customer deployments to records kept by service or technology vendors and identify opportunities to drive more revenue.

Netformx Data Center Designer

Netformx continues to deliver on the vision to accelerate and simplify data center designs. The latest version makes it easier for users to:

• Identify resource requirements from compute and storage to power and networking.
• Leverage application templates to design based on the operating system type and virtualization methods.
• Create custom application template packages for even faster resource allocation.

These enhancements dramatically reduce the time to generate a valid design and the knowledge required by a user.

VARcompliance - a Netformx Company

A record number of customers have taken the opportunity to on-board and drive higher profits with actionable business insights into technology vendor incentives, promotions, and certification programs. The latest version supports Cisco VIP23 and all associated promotions making it easier then ever for Cisco partners to maximize their program participation and rewards. On average customers have been able to:

• Drive an additional $5,000 in margin for every $100,000 in a Bill of Material.
• Analyze and optimize their purchasing and certification programs.

Supporting Quotes

"Netformx is uniquely impacting our customer's ability to sell more, ensure each proposal is deployed flawlessly, and improve business profitability," said Ittai Bareket (News - Alert), Netformx's CEO. "Our latest products focus on meeting the growing demand from our customers to have one solution to handle multiple technology vendors, reduce the need to rely on highly skilled engineers, and take into consideration how best to leverage all incentives offered."

Resources

• Download Frost and Sullivan's - "Error-free Design: Why Owning Service Complexity Benefits the Business".
• Watch CRN TV interview on "Data Center Designs" by Editor Kristin Bent.
• Read InterComms Magazine article "Reducing the Complexity of Data Center Design".
• Read customer case studies.

About Netformx

Netformx is the leader in sales enablement and profit acceleration solutions that help customers win more digital enterprise opportunities. Netformx's customers include service providers, systems integrators, and equipment vendors who rely on our award-winning solutions to design and sell the information, communications, and technology solutions demanded by enterprises across the globe.

Netformx has over 2,680 solution providers as customers in more than 144 countries. Customers include AT&T, Belgacom, Bell, CDW, CenturyLink, Cisco, Dimension Data, HP, Insight, Juniper, Orange Business Services, Sprint, Swisscom, Telstra, Verizon (News - Alert), and WWT. The Netformx KnowledgeBase™ is the only comprehensive multi-vendor content library for technology products, including specifications, validation rules, pricing, ordering information, and discovery mappings from top technology suppliers including Cisco, Brocade (News - Alert), HP, Juniper, Avaya, APC, Belden, Plantronics, Polycom, and TrippLite.

More information can be found at www.Netformx.com.

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