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SAVANNAH (October 20, 2005) - Winners of the Coastal Business, Education and Technology Alliance (Coastal BETA) 2005 Technology Awards were announced tonight during a gala event attended by more than 400 business leaders, educators and government officials. Color Maria received top honors, including “Outstanding Achievement by an Emerging Company” for its work on CommerceV3 (CV3), a hosted e-commerce platform.

“I’m happy to accept this award on behalf of everyone who’s had a hand in building CV3, past and present,” said Blake Ellis, President of Color Maria, “and I can promise you we’ve only seen the beginning of what this platform can do for merchants.”

The panel of judges recognized CV3’s lasting value as a development platform for web-based applications. “It is clear that Color Maria is a leader in the e-commerce space, yet their presence also extends to other cutting edge applications.” They also praised the customer-centric development cycle employed by the company. “Color Maria suggests through their technology and services that they are skating to where the puck will be for their customers.”

“The Coastal BETA Technology Awards recognize individuals and organizations for their contributions to our region’s economy and quality of life,” said David Frost, this year’s president of Coastal BETA and Director of Georgia Tech Savannah. “Thanks to these awards, people are becoming aware of the asset that these technology innovators are to our current and future economic well-being.”

Coastal BETA is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1995 to unite coastal Georgia and South Carolina’s business, education and technology communities. Coastal BETA members share a vision of Savannah and the coastal regional as an important technology center offering high-wage opportunities to its citizens.

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CommerceV3 is proud to announce the 2005 Holiday Traffic Incubator, a collection of services, webinars and training materials designed to help multi-channel merchants attract qualified web buyers during the important holiday season. The program is open to all multi-channel merchants and is specifically tailored for users of e-commerce platforms from Yahoo, Dydacomp, Miva and CommerceV3.

“This is an extremely important time of year for merchants everywhere” says Blake Ellis, president of CommerceV3, “We’ve got to attract quality traffic to our storefronts now if we have a chance of growing and maintaining that traffic through the holiday shopping season.”

The highlight of this year’s program is the subsidized use of Urchin on Demand, the premiere e-commerce analytics package offered by Google. All program participants can tap into the reporting power of Urchin for free through the holiday season. “Urchin gives us very decisive reports to consider as we try various traffic-building strategies,” says Ellis, “It helps quantify our gains quickly so we can make adjustments.”

Other program benefits include weekly web-based roundtables and collabrative reporting reviews based on actual storefront data, as well as a comprehensive debriefing session after the new year. Special topics this year include tracking of pay-per-click links and profit, taking advantage of geopositioning and the coding of online and offline media for metrics analysis.

For more information or to register for the Incubator, please visit CommerceV3.

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(PRWEB) October 7, 2005 — performancesoft Inc. is proud to announce that it is sponsoring Thought Leadership Day 2005, an event geared towards the application of real-world Performance Management.

Targeted towards professionals wanting to implement cutting edge Performance Management best practices at their organization, Thought Leadership Day 2005 has gathered experts from a variety of fields to help attendees go the next mile in Performance Management. The event will take place on Wednesday, November 2nd, at the Westin Harbor Savannah, in Savannah, Georgia.

Thought Leadership Day 2005 is a one of a kind event offering both corporate and government professionals with the opportunity to learn from some of the worlds foremost thinkers to go beyond the hype of Performance Management and into the trenches of what really needs to be done to drive success. These Performance Management Thought Leaders have combined to help thousands of Global 9000 organizations from multiple industries and diverse government agencies achieve tangible Performance Management results.

Organizations that will be presenting at Thought Leadership Day 2005 include: BearingPoint, CSC, Motorola, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Performance Institute, Salem Health Solutions, Actuate, CLG, inCentergy, Balanced Scorecard Institute, Inflection Point Solutions, Cohn Consulting Group and Promaco Consulting.

Topics will cover a variety of practical issues, including: dealing with multiple performance paradigms; how to create performance fusion; adapting performance information systems based on enterprise needs; using the concepts of the Balanced Scorecard to improve clinical outcomes in healthcare; utilizing the Logic Model to drive performance; integrating Enterprise Risk Management, Corporate Governance, and Performance Management into a single, cohesive performance grid; how to provide on-demand financial visibility throughout the enterprise; Performance Management impacts for the IT organization; and more.

œThe power of Thought Leadership Day 2005 is the synthesis of leading minds, frameworks and paradigms in the arena of Performance Management, said Daniel Kube, Vice-President, Alliances, performancesoft Inc. œThe speakers are catalysts for real performance improvement and have enabled some of the largest companies and government agencies in the world to achieve world class performance. The goal of the event is to share cutting edge thoughts and experiences with attendees to help them take the steps necessary to move towards excellence in Performance Management and to institutionalize these ideas and practices as part of their organizational DNA. The event is technology and paradigm independent as it looks to pull the best of various disciplines, and assist attendees on how to apply these often disconnected visions, governance requirements and frameworks together for real benefit and growth.

About performancesoft Inc.
Founded in 1993, performancesoft is the acknowledged leader in the Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard categories, with the richest, most intuitive and easiest to use product, and the largest number of successful deployments worldwide. Its state of the art software, practical expertise and unparalleled customer support make performancesoft pbviews the solution of choice for todays performance driven organizations, including: Motorola, Federal Aviation Administration, State of Illinois, GlaxoSmithKline, Wachovia, Verizon, Xcel Energy, County of San Diego, and many more. For additional information, visit www.performancesoft.com. For more information on Thought Leadership Day 2005, including full agenda and details, please visit www.performancesoft.com/tld.

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