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C-leveled Acquired FINTEL LLC, a leading provider of Data Services and Business Intelligence Solutions

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C-leveled

C-leveled

C-leveled announced today that it acquired FINTEL LLC, a privately held company located in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded in 1999, FINTEL offers comprehensive data analytics, business intelligence and industry benchmarking.  FINTEL has a successful history of leading clients to better business decisions by unlocking the insights contained in their proprietary data set, the largest and most reliable financial benchmarking database of privately held companies.

C-leveled provides companies with the tools, services and assistance required to launch, develop and grow their businesses.   With a bench consisting of serial entrepreneurs, C-leveled breaks through limiting barriers faced by  startups and small businesses by delivering executive-level strategies, tactical tools, practical assistance and operational life cycle services.  “We have assembled the depth of talent that comes with decades of entrepreneurial experience.  With our acquisition of FINTEL, C-leveled will offer a new and powerful toolset to further enhance our services for the business community. At its core, C-leveled is entrepreneurs helping entrepreneurs to prosper under the new rules of business engagement,” said Denise DeSimone, CEO, C-leveled.

FINTEL analytics provide a broad range of benchmarking and analytical tools to pinpoint problem areas, and provide diagnostics for improving performance. Examples of the capabilities are:  FINTEL Industry Metrics (FIM) reports is an analytics tool that offers unique and powerful insights into the financial profiles and performances of privately held companies operating across almost all industries; the FINTEL Business Scorecard (FBS) tool provides companies with a simple, quick and insightful snapshot of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) in comparison with industry peers and competitors; the FINTEL Business Analyzer (FBA) is a full package suite offering access to FIM & FBS, along with a range of analytical modules with interactive “what-if” financial modeling to improve KPIs.

HONCHO, the C-leveled business analytics and intelligence site, will offer a dynamic community for entrepreneurs to connect, share ideas and advice, and provide tools that every business can utilize to improve performance. This entire suite of FINTEL tools is being integrated into HONCHO. HONCHO will provide companies the actionable insight into their operating performance with unparalleled competitive analytics and a robust knowledge base of tools, technology and recommendations to improve performance.

Boris Nenide, Co-Founder of FINTEL, will join C-leveled as Chief Technology Officer and Board Member.  “Boris provides unmatched advisory capabilities to his clients and to us, and we are very excited to have him as a member of C-leveled,” said DeSimone.

“FINTEL has worked for over a decade consulting for small and medium-sized businesses and teaching entrepreneurs how to navigate through competitive marketplaces,” said Nenide.  “We look forward to joining C-leveled to develop and launch great concepts for clients.”

About FINTEL

FINTEL was founded in 1999 by Boris Nenide and Dr. Robert W. Pricer and is a leading provider of data services and business intelligence solutions.  FINTEL has developed a suite of Web-based tools that combine powerful techniques of financial analysis developed by Dr. Pricer, with industry benchmarking powered by the largest and most reliable database of financial information of privately held companies from North America.

About C-leveled

C-leveled, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, is a leading provider of entrepreneur services and subscription-based software tools that help businesses to launch, develop and grow their business.  C-leveled addresses the business challenges faced by start-ups, growth initiatives for established companies and funding and exit strategies for entrepreneurs.

Net Health Acquires Integritas

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net healthNet Health, the leading provider of clinical solutions for outpatient specialty care, announced today the acquisition of Integritas, Inc., a provider of integrated clinical EMR and practice management solutions for the growing urgent care, occupational health, and hospital employee health markets.

“Strategically, we were drawn to the rapidly growing and underserved Urgent Care and Occupational Health segments of the healthcare delivery continuum,” said Anthony Sanzo, Net Health’s Chief Executive Officer. “The quality of their products, their impact on patients and patient flow, and the quality of their team drew us to Integritas. With Integritas, Net Health is positioned to better serve the outpatient specialty care market. Their team’s expertise in Urgent Care and Occupational Health made them the perfect partner, and culturally, they are a great match.”

“Net Health is a great partner for both our team and our clients,” added Mary Stroupe, Integritas President. “Leveraging their infrastructure will advance our mission to provide an incredible client experience and will strengthen our expansion in the Urgent Care/Occupational Health market.”

The transaction by Net Health, a Spectrum Equity portfolio company, is the second acquisition in the last nine months designed to create a best in class platform for outpatient specialty care.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Panopto Expands Video Platform with New iPad App and Portable Video Capture Device

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Panopto

Panopto

Panopto, a leading video platform provider, today announced at Streaming Media East 2013 the release of Panopto 4.4. The update includes a native iPad app, the first ever “Panopto Certified” video capture device, and software-based video switching.

With Panopto’s iPad app, users can:
·      View presentations and videos through an interactive, touch-friendly interface;
·      Search inside videos to fast-forward to any word mentioned during a recording; and
·      Record HD videos and automatically upload them into Panopto’s video content management system, a YouTube-style portal for sharing videos.

The native iPad app brings these capabilities to the iPhone as well, automatically adapting to the iPhone’s form factor.

“Mobile video has passed an inflection point in the enterprise and education,” said Eric Burns, co-founder and chief product officer of Panopto. “With today’s launch of the iPad app, we’re bringing Panopto’s unique interactive video viewing and inside-video search capabilities from the desktop to the millions of tablets and smartphones Panopto users already own.”

Panopto Releases New Video Capture Device

Panopto also introduced a plug-and-play, integrated video capture and recording device through a collaboration with Epiphan Systems Inc., an innovator in professional audio video capture, recording and streaming hardware.  The “Panopto Certified” Remote Recorder is the first ARM-based, Embedded Linux video capture device to integrate with Panopto’s video platform, enabling customers to:
·      Record and combine an SD video (s-video/composite) camera input; an audio input; and an HD input from a VGA, DVI, HDMI display or camera output;
·      Automatically upload recordings to Panopto’s video content management system; and
·      Schedule and control recordings using Panopto’s intuitive web-based interface.

“Our customers have always appreciated Panopto’s flexibility to run on any PC or Mac,” said Burns.  “Through our collaboration with Epiphan, we now offer a best-in-class hardware option with a portable, turnkey recording device from a leader in the professional AV industry.”

“Epiphan is excited to collaborate with Panopto on this jointly-developed video capture solution,” said Mike Sandler, CEO of Epiphan Systems Inc.  “By combining Epiphan’s hardware expertise with Panopto’s video software, Panopto can offer customers the Remote Recorder as part of an integrated, cost-effective solution to video capture, management, and search.”

Online Video Editor Now Includes Multi-Camera Video Switching

The Panopto 4.4 release also introduces new functionality to its web-based video editor that is typically only found in high-end video recording and switching appliances.  The new functionality enables post-production switching between multiple video sources.

Like high-end video appliances, Panopto supports the simultaneous capture of multiple video tracks during an event or presentation.  Then, using Panopto’s web-based editor, a videographer can control and fine-tune when to transition between video sources.  The result is that organizations can get professional video post-production and playback capabilities at a fraction of the cost.

Panopto is exhibiting its new release today and tomorrow at Streaming Media East in Booth 319.

About Panopto
Panopto creates software that enables enterprises and academic institutions to record, broadcast, search and share all of their video content and presentations. Panopto is currently in use at Fortune 500 companies around the world and is the fastest-growing lecture capture solution at leading universities. Privately-held, Panopto was founded in 2007 by technology entrepreneurs and software design veterans at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. For more information, visit www.panopto.com.

Chorus Call Launches C-Meeting Conferencing Platform

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Chorus Call has released a new, all-in-one web conferencing enterprise platform designed for business and strategic meetings.

The new innovative Web site, C-Meeting (www.c-meeting.com), evolved from Concert-oh, Chorus Call’s web-based social networking application.

C-Meeting integrates audio, video and data collaboration. Features include multiple webcam streaming capability, desktop, photo and document sharing, text-chatting, polling, Outlook scheduling and virtual Q&A.

Like Concert-oh, C-Meeting allows for up to 12 webcam video participants simultaneously.  If more than 12 webcams are published, users can choose which images they wish to see. Both Web sites have been tested for up to 500 audio participants.

“C-Meeting is a convenient collaboration tool that allows anyone to host a meeting with all individuals including both colleagues and guests,” said Joseph Heuler, Chorus Call’s Technical Director. “With features such as data sharing, document sharing, document library, voting, web camera sharing, chatting and web calling, this product has it all.”

Meeting participants can connect audio through their telephone or a Web phone (VoIP). C-Meeting also incorporates recording and playback features.

Mobile and tablet applications are at the top of the development team’s priority list.

Winners Announced at Pittsburgh Technology Council’s 2013 Design, Art and Technology (DATA) Awards Gala

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The Pittsburgh Technology Council (PTC) announced the winners of the 5th Annual Design, Art and Technology (DATA) Awards at the event gala last evening. The gala was hosted by journalist, author, filmmaker and former CNN Bureau Chief Chip Walter and featured more than 40 of the year’s most inventive art and technology projects.

New to the event this year was an interactive element that allowed the public to vote and determine the winners. This year’s winners included:

 

  • i-CON: Apps & Information Architecture Award – Highmark + United Concordia: Chomper Chums

 

  • Next Generation: Kids & Creative Technology Award – The Center for Creativity: TransformED

 

  • Maker: Design & Art Award – Teletrix: Radiation Training Simulators

 

  • Media Arts: Interactive + Multimedia Award – Fireman Creative: Ricky’s Dream Trip

 

  • Joystick: Gaming Award – Schell Games + Yale University: PlayForward

 

  • Student Award – Carnegie Mellon University: Floria

 

  • People’s Choice Award – WQED Multimedia + SLB Radio Productions: iQ Kids Radio

 

The event also included an interactive exhibition party after the awards ceremony, where guests were able to interact with the innovative entries and creators. Guests also participated in a raffle of two pieces of art by Sandy Kessler Kaminski, the Art + Tech artist who created the DATA awards artwork for a number of years.

“This year’s event was definitely one of the best we’ve had so far,” said Audrey Russo, President and CEO of the PTC. “From the high level of innovation among Pittsburgh’s tech mavericks, to the new interactive public voting process, it was a bigger, better DATA Awards.”