November 2011
October 10, 2011
Gianni Truzzi
Apptio, BellevueEmployees in Washington: 120 Apptios mission is practically biblical, as in, Physician, heal thyself. While IT systems help the rest of the company control costs and performance, few tools let IT departments analyze their own operations. Apptios cloud-based services track all information technology costs to aid chief information officers in maximizing return on investment….
- November 2011
October 10, 2011
Gianni Truzzi
Alan Ramaley, thePlatform, SeattleEmployees in Washington: 130 While you can watch almost any TV program on the internet today, Alan Ramaley of thePlatform thinks about how to get them there. The CTO of the online video management and publishing company oversees all product offerings that help customers like The Associated Press, CNBC, PBS and Fox…
- November 2011
October 10, 2011
Gianni Truzzi
ExtraHop Networks, SeattleEmployees in Washington: 30+ When two engineers from F5 Networks, Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji, founded their own company in 2007, they understood how costly outages and problems could be to business-critical networks, with some estimates of downtime reaching more than $10,000 per hour. For the growing number of companies offering cloud-based services,…
- November 2011
October 7, 2011
Gianni Truzzi
Group Health Cooperative, SeattleEmployees in Washington: 9,558 Group Health Cooperative believes that better informed members will be healthier members, and its MyGroupHealth web portal helps make them so. An early pioneer of electronic medical records, Group Health is a national leader among health care providers for efficiency, cost control and improved care. Nine years ago,…
- November 2011
October 7, 2011
Gianni Truzzi
Swedish Medical Center, SeattleEmployees in Washington: 7,000 The Information Services Team of Swedish Medical Center hit a home run with a triple in the past year, successfully deploying services to three new facilities. As more people live in the communities surrounding Seattle, the 101-year-old health care provider has expanded to serve them. Swedish opened a…
- November 2011
October 7, 2011
Gianni Truzzi
Kirsten Simonitsch, Premera Blue Cross, Mountlake TerraceEmployees in Washington: 2,800 For any health insurance provider that serves 1.6 million people, making even modest changes can be a struggle. Yet senior vice president and CIO Kirsten Simonitsch has transformed not only the IT systems at Premera Blue Cross, but also the culture of the organization. Since…
- November 2011
October 7, 2011
Gianni Truzzi
They usually toil behind the scenes, and many people in information technology prefer it that way. But there is no denying the staggering importance of IT in todays tech-driven world. So join us in congratulating the developers, engineers, executives, innovators and backroom geeks who make sure your business stays in business. From dozen of nominations,…
- November 2011
October 7, 2011
Bill Virgin
Youd expect to see a lot of deals in two of the Puget Sound regions most iconic industriesaerospace and technologybecause there are so many companies within those sectors and prospects are considered good. So its not surprising that a third well known, highly regarded Northwest industrywinemakingis also getting attention from buyers. Earlier this year, Exvere…
- November 2011
October 7, 2011
Bill Virgin
Michael Butler has an effective tool for assessing the health of the mergers and acquisitions market: the number of unsolicited calls to his investment banking firm from private-equity funds looking to do deals. In the pre-recession days of 2007, Seattle-based Cascadia Capital, where Butler is chief executive, might receive 35 to 45 calls a week…
- November 2011
October 7, 2011
Anthony Adragna
Back in 2003, Marc Barros and Jason Green were undergraduates with a problem. Both were avid skiers who wanted to create videos of their exploits for friends and family, but the existing technology made that impossible. So they decided to create their own helmet camera and enter the business plan competition at the University of…
- November 2011