Worksoft® Announces New Sales and Marketing Leadership
DALLAS, TX - March 09, 2009 - Worksoft, Inc., a leading provider of application lifecycle solutions that accelerate deployments of SAP® applications, today announced the appointment of Dan Gannon as vice president of worldwide sales and marketing.
Gannon is a seasoned executive with more than 25 years of executive, sales and marketing management experience across a diverse set of technology companies. In his new role, he is responsible for crafting and executing Worksoft’s high growth go-to-market strategy which includes accelerating the expansion of Worksoft Certify™ automated testing solutions into Worksoft’s full suite of application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions for SAP®.
"Worksoft has a tremendous amount of momentum in the SAP application lifecycle market and we are scaling our business to meet this demand," said Bruce Johnson, president and CEO of Worksoft. “Dan has the experience, leadership skills and relationships to help us grow both domestically as well as internationally."
Prior to Worksoft, Dan served as President and CEO of Newmerix Corp, a multi-ISV Application Lifecycle Management application provider. Prior to Newmerix, he served as the senior sales executive for Vericept Corporation and Intelliden with responsibilities spanning global sales, business development, professional services and customer support.
"I am very excited to join Worksoft during a time of rapid growth and worldwide expansion,” said Gannon. “Worksoft's application lifecycle management solutions for SAP have proven to significantly reduce expenses associated with managing SAP applications by improving the quality and repeatability of the underlying management processes. In turn, this saves our customers both time and resources as well as aids in their compliance initiatives."
About Worksoft Certify™ Life Cycle Management Solutions
The Worksoft Certify™ Life Cycle Management Solution provides unmatched technology to maximize value of ERP investments by minimizing risk and leveraging information in ERP and peripheral systems. This patented methodology allows for point-and-click usability, so tests are easily defined, executed, and managed directly from configuration blueprints. Unlike traditional code-based automation approaches, the Worksoft Certify Life Cycle Management Solution store all assets as data that can be quickly configured, analyzed and maintained without need for technical skills or custom code. This innovative approach can accelerate the time to deployment of rollouts, modifications, upgrades and service packs by up to 60 percent, while improving operational reliability; providing a detailed audit trail of validation results for compliance; and capturing reusable business process knowledge for training, documentation and reporting.
About Worksoft, Inc.
Worksoft pioneers innovative approaches to software quality testing, and is a premier provider of lifecycle automation solutions for use with SAP® solutions to reduce the total cost of ownership for users. Worksoft's unique “scriptless” or code-free approach to creating and maintaining test cases speeds the rollout of SAP solutions by up to 60 percent; shortens time-to-value by improving reliability of business processes; and meets compliance, training and reporting requirements through the auto-generation of documentation and capture of reusable business process knowledge. Worksoft's customers include industry leaders in manufacturing, financial services, government, healthcare, retail and transportation. Worksoft was founded in 1998 and has its headquarters in Dallas, Texas.
Contact Worksoft at 1-866-836-1773 or visit their website at www.Worksoft.com
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