FatWire Software Reports 50% Increase in License Bookings

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Web Experience Management Provider Attributes Growth to Strong Product Delivery, Global Company Expansion, and New Programs

Mineola, NY – October 21, 2009 – FatWire Software, the largest independent Web Experience Management (WEM) provider, today announced that the company realized a 50% increase in license bookings from Q2 2009 to Q3 2009.

In Q3 alone, fourteen new customers joined FatWire including leading organizations across industries such as Amadeus, Bank of Western Australia, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. In addition, ten existing customers expanded their FatWire implementations, including Elsevier, the Hartford, and PostBank. FatWire further extended its global presence in Q3 with the opening of a new Latin American office located in Brazil. Through this office FatWire will serve new and existing customers including iG and Grupo Santander.     

In the last 12 months FatWire has launched new capabilities across its product suite to enable organizations to create a web presence that will drive marketing, customer, and cost efficiency success.  Recent releases include new versions of its flagship Content Server web content management (WCM) product, the Engage content targeting module, its web content Analytics module, the TeamUp collaboration platform, and the FatWire Content Integration Platform. FatWire also launched a newly enhanced Global Partner Program, as well as a Customer Rescue Program designed to help legacy Vignette and Interwoven customers move to a next-generation web platform.

Despite economy, online ad revenue grows

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Good news for sites that make a little money by allowing advertising on their pages.  Though, personally I've seen a drop in online ad revenue despite not doing too bad with the number of visitors I'm getting.

Despite an economic turndown, online advertising--and search in particular--is managing to keep its market intact, according to reports on Tuesday by an industry trade group and Wall Street analyst. 

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IT contributions to the economy

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A recent eWeek article reported that a United States "policy think tank" found that in the past decade, information technology boosted the U.S. economy by $2 trillion dollars.
"For the United States alone, what we found was that because of the digital revolution, GDP is $2 trillion larger today than it would have been had growth in the post-1995 era proceeded at the 1974 to 1995 rate," said Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D., president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.

 "We need to recognize this phenomenon and adjust our thinking to make IT a centerpiece of our economic policy--from planning and forecasting to tax policies that incent future growth."
Two trillion dollars - that my friends is a lot of money.   Hopefully, those of us in information technology will not be so hesitant in the future to ask for that raise or time off we so deserve.  Of course, there is one problem for those of us who chose careers as IT professionals.  The problem is we make the IT job look so darn easy that those guys upstairs don't quite recognize difficult IT tasks when they see it.  IT professionals contribute so much more in the business than the business managers want to admit.  I say that it's time we work on our game plan...