Previously, the hospital had used flyers and posters on easels in the main lobby and café areas to display information. In an effort to eliminate clutter and better engage the hospital community in a more direct and efficient way, Tim Mora, the I.T. Educator at Sierra View District Hospital, set out to find a solution. After researching different companies within the digital signage industry, Mora chose to work with ConnectedSign on the project.

“ConnectedSign seemed to be the most knowledgeable and have the best options for us”, Mora stated.

To the hospital staff, the elimination of posters and flyers was the obvious solution – and a change was necessary. “We felt it looked tacky and the easels cluttered the walkways”, Mora remarked. After the signage deployment, the digital screens received positive feedback. “The staff admits that they are more likely to read the information on the screen than they did on the signs and flyers. It also looks more professional and pleasing to the eye.”

The new signage system, comprised of electronic screens located in the main lobby, café, and Coffee Corner, uses static screens and video to deliver information to patients, guests, and hospital staff. The lobby signage is not only used to display announcements and bulletins, but also shows the conference room schedule for those coming in for meetings and classes.

About ConnectedSign:

ConnectedSign is a full service Digital Signage agency with more than 16 years of experience planning and deploying Digital Signage systems, interactive Digital Signage and kiosk networks. We provide Digital Signage software, hardware, content creation, content management and consulting services. More details can be found at http://www.connectedsign.com.

About Sierra View District Hospital:

Sierra View District Hospital is a 163-bed, full-service acute care facility located in Porterville, California. The hospital serves the Southern Sequoia region of California’s Central Valley and is the pre-eminent health care provider in the area. Sierra View offers a wide range of health care services featuring state of the art technologies like digital mammography; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and 64 slice Computed Tomography (CT Scan). The hospital is also home to the Roger S. Good Cancer Treatment Center, one of the most advanced facilities of its kind in the state. Thanks to an affiliation with Children’s Hospital Central California—one of the top pediatric medical centers in the country—Sierra View can also provide high-quality pediatric care to the children of our community. Sierra View’s 32-station outpatient Dialysis Center is the largest and most advanced facility of its kind in the region. By demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care safety and quality, Sierra View has earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™.

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“We are very proud to continue our organic growth in the marketplace as we moved up 33 spots on the Fast Growth 100 list for 2010″ chief executive officer Richard Tarity said in a statement. “Our ability to continue adding key associates and new services is directly attributed to the trust our customers have placed in us to provide their managed services and unified communications solutions.”

“The Fast Growth 100 are channel innovators and mavericks who are growing in considerable size and influence. As business-oriented IT consultants, these organizations work closely with customers to identify multivendor IT solutions to solve their business problems. We congratulate LiquidSpoke on their well-earned success despite current economic conditions,” said Kelley Damore, Vice President, Editorial Director for Everything Channel.

The Fast Growth awards will be presented Oct. 21 at the 2010 Fast Growth conference at the Hyatt Regency in Boston. To learn more about the Fast Growth 100, visit the Fast Growth Community at crn.community.com. The Fast Growth community is a forum for leading channel executives to exchange ideas, share best practices and engage in discussions about effective channel management programs. The forum features exclusive content such as blogs from the Fast Growth winners themselves.

About LiquidSpoke:

LiquidSpoke is a technology services firm with two areas of core competencies: design, implementation and support services for unified communications and managed services. We partner with clients in the financial, education, retail, manufacturing markets as well as other key industries to deliver global managed technology services.

Everything Channel

Everything Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, Everything Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. Everything Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about Everything Channel, visit us at http://www.everythingchannel.com.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM’s businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities – from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists – with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

Contacts:

Jill Aaronson
Everything Channel
(516) 562-7847
Jillian.aaronson@ec.ubm.com

Tricia Janthor
LiquidSpoke, Inc.
TJanthor@liquidspoke.com
(484) 654-1547
LiquidSpoke

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“Organizations are adopting virtualization and cloud computing for a variety of reasons, including more cost-effective hardware utilization, reduced power consumption, simpler disaster recovery, and faster, more flexible provisioning,” said Heroix VP of Product Development Dick Levin. “While this trend holds great promise, it also leaves many IT organizations scrambling to ensure – and document – that end users continue to receive the expected levels of service from critical applications once they have ‘moved into the cloud.’”

Longitude Cloud Edition provides a single pane of glass view into cloud environments by integrating three key monitoring perspectives: End user experience, Key performance & infrastructure metrics, and Service levels (SLAs). First, Longitude Cloud Edition emulates the experience of an end user by recording web transactions of interest, and then replaying them synthetically to assess the availability and response of the application, as well as the content of the site. If the end user’s experience indicates a problem, the next step is to drill into the virtual environment and physical infrastructure to pinpoint the root cause. Longitude provides out-of-the-box monitoring for Windows, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, VMware and Network Devices. Longitude proactively monitors key performance metrics to diagnose issues and reveal underlying causes of service degradations.

Longitude also provides pre-configured, on-demand reports and graphs of key performance metrics to help IT staff understand developing trends and ensure maximum availability. In addition, Longitude checks the availability and responsiveness of the infrastructure components that support critical applications, such as DNS resolution, file existence and content, HTTP connections and content, ping, process existence, SQL queries, and more.

Longitude’s Service Level Agreements (SLAs) integrate the end user experience and performance & infrastructure metrics, to provide a holistic view of how critical applications are functioning across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. A Longitude SLA groups together all the disparate components that work to support multi-tiered applications that underlie critical business processes, and monitors for degradations in performance or availability of the service as a whole.

For example, suppose a mission critical application depends on a web server in the cloud, a virtualized application server, a back end database housed on a non-virtualized server, and network connectivity. A Longitude service level agreement that represents the convergence of all these underlying operational components, plus the response experienced by the end user, keeps IT personnel apprised of the overall service level being provided by this application.

Pricing and Availability:

Longitude Cloud Edition is available now. Annual subscriptions start at $299 and Perpetual licenses start at $999 for 10 managed devices. A 2-week Longitude Cloud Edition free trial is available to download from Heroix (http://www.heroix.com/aspscript/demo_longitude_cloud.asp).

More Resources:

Monitoring Cloud Environments: www.heroix.com/agentless/cloud_monitoring.htm
Watch Longitude Quick Tour (5-minute video): http://screencast.com/t/Njc1ZGQyYT

About Heroix
Heroix (www.heroix.com) delivers award-winning software products that help organizations optimize the availability and performance of applications, databases, systems, and IT infrastructure running across multiple platforms. Today, with a presence in over 40 countries, Heroix has delivered performance management solutions to over 1,000 organizations worldwide, including Fallon Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Honeywell, Tembec, Motorola, Inc., and Young Broadcasting.

Heroix and Longitude are registered trademarks of Heroix. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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For most companies, a new Unified Communications system is a major decision that affects every aspect of the organization. Verteks Consulting and ShoreTel’s record of industry-leading customer satisfaction made the decision easier for United Franchise Group. “From the very beginning planning stages to the actual installation, you proved that your company was different. It wasn’t just a bunch of sales fluff, you really know what you are doing and were able to execute the plan without a hitch. You guaranteed we would be 100% satisfied, and we are!” said Jim Lehfeldt, Network Operations Manager for United Franchise Group.

“Organizations like United Franchise Group (UFG) that need easy to use, yet powerful call center systems to closely collaborate and communicate are great candidates for a ShoreTel system. On this project we were able to prove how ShoreTel’s unique design and capabilities provide practical business benefits like reduced operating costs, lower support costs – and better customer service to UFG’s clients.” said Gulling.

About Verteks Consulting, Inc.

Over the past 14 years, Verteks Consulting has become a market leader in Florida providing fast, reliable and secure voice and data networks for business and government clients. With a focus on Unified Communications and advanced networking solutions that improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase competitiveness, and improve customer service, Verteks Consulting is uniquely qualified to help its business and government clients confront the challenges of today’s dynamic marketplace. Verteks Consulting provides complete solutions that include project planning, installation, on-site training and 24×7 support services – including our leading-edge proactive support solution called ‘Total System Care’.

About United Franchise Group

The United Franchise Group consists of a number of award-winning business-to-business brands and franchise development services including some of the world’s largest industry-leading names. The experts at UFG have used their over 30 years of franchising experience to grow the franchising giant into a $500 million dollar success story with approx. 1400 franchise locations in 50 countries. The company includes franchise industry giants SIGNARAMA, the world’s largest sign franchise; EmbroidMe, the world’s largest embroidery franchise; Billboard Connection, an incredibly successful out-of-home advertising franchise; FranchiseMart / Biz1Brokers, a retail (or executive office) location for people to research business opportunities before investing and Plan Ahead Events, a home-based corporate event planning franchise.

With the combination of award-winning, industry-leading brands and unique development services, United Franchise Group is a leader in the franchise industry.

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Mr. Tarity has 11 years of overall professional experience. As the CEO of LiquidSpoke, Inc., he is in charge of unified communications, and overseeing all internal operations, finance, sales and marketing. He earned his Associate of Applied Science in Marketing from Bucks County Community College, and is a member of ShoreTel, Inc., MSP Alliance, Philadelphia 100 Group, and Liquid Help. In 2009, Mr. Tarity received an award from Philadelphia 100, as well as the Inc. 5000 Award, the CRN Fast Growth 100 Award, and the MSPmentor 100 Award.

LiquidSpoke is a multisourced managed service provider and systems integrator delivering high-end IT solutions within the context of Data and Voice Architectures. They partner with clients in the investment and financial, pharmaceutical, retail, media and other key industries to deliver managed global technology services. For more information, visit http://www.LiquidSpoke.com.

About Cambridge Who’s Who
Cambridge Who’s Who is an exclusive membership organization that recognized and empowers executives, professionals and entrepreneurs throughout the world. From healthcare to law, engineering to finance, manufacturing to education, every major industry is represented by its 500,000 active members.

Cambridge Who’s Who Cambridge Who’s Who membership provides individuals with a valuable third party endorsement of their accomplishments and gives them the tools needed to brand themselves and their businesses effectively. In addition to publishing biographies in print and electronic form, Cambridge Who’s Who offers an online networking platform where members can establish new business relationships and achieve career advancement within their company, industry or profession.

For more information, please visit http://www.cambridgewhoswho.com

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LiquidSpoke works with their clients to deliver high end solutions within the Data, Voice and Video architectures. LiquidSpoke is at the forefront of innovation in the unified communications space.

“We are pleased to have LiquidSpoke join our partner network to expand the availability of LifeSize solutions,” said Joe Vitalone, vice president of Americas sales, for LifeSize Communications. ”We realize the tremendous value our reseller partners bring to LifeSize and we are committed to providing them with a fully encompassing channel program that supports their efforts and contributes to their ultimate success. We are looking forward to working with LiquidSpoke to deliver the LifeSize HD experience to customers.”

“LifeSize is a leader in HD video communications,” said Richard Tarity, President & CEO at LiquidSpoke. “Now we are equipped with the solutions customers demand: immersive HD quality and the flexibility to easily adapt and integrate into today’s network environments. We are pleased to team with LifeSize to deliver video communications that enable face-to-face meetings with anyone, anywhere at anytime.”

LifeSize pioneered high definition video communications to deliver the Telepresence experience from the desktop to the conference room with up to Full HD 1080p video. With the ability to provide HD video communications under 1Mbps, as well as the highest resolution available at any bandwidth, LifeSize systems enable customers to cost-effectively deploy HD video communications. The full suite of LifeSize solutions is immediately available for order from LiquidSpoke.

About LiquidSpoke

LiquidSpoke is a multisourced managed service provider and systems integrator delivering high-end IT solutions within the context of Data, Video and Voice Architectures. We partner with clients in the investment and financial, pharmaceutical, retail, media and other key industries to deliver managed global technology services.

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