Deal Radar 2009: AppRiver

Deal Radar continues its analysis of the Web security landscape with App River, which provides companies of all sizes a with simple Web security solution. AppRiver’s solution incorporates the latest spam and virus protection, e-mail encryption, and Web security available. The company also provides a complete managed service for Microsoft Exchange. >>>

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Deal Radar 2009: Surgient

Founded in 1999, Surgient develops virtualization automation and lab management software. The Austin, Texas-based company, which was previously known as Surgient Networks, entered the virtual lab automation market in mid-2004 and created an internal private cloud for which it was awarded a patent in 2005. Surgient’s ‘Virtual Automation Platform’ helps IT organizations to provide self-service computing resources to users. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Trustwave

Trustwave provides on-demand data security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations worldwide.  The company helps both Fortune 500s and small and mid-sized businesses to secure their network infrastructure, data communications, and critical information assets as well as manage compliance.  Today, when cyber thieves can hack into networks of companies big and small, as demonstrated by the attacks on Twitter earlier in the year, the security measures offered by companies such as Trustwave have become a necessity for most organizations. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: SugarCRM

Deal Radar returns to open source with SugarCRM. Founded in 2004 by John Roberts, Clint Oram, and Jacob Taylor, SugarCRM began as an open-source project on Sourceforge, something that the company still maintains. The company, which is headquartered in Cupertino, California, develops CRM software in four editions: Sugar Community Edition, Sugar Express, Sugar Professional, and Sugar Enterprise. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Jigsaw Data

Today’s Deal Radar report focuses on a company with a creative business model. Jigsaw Data, a business contact exchange, has been in the spotlight before. Jigsaw sees itself as piecing data together like one would piece together a jigsaw puzzle. The exchange is a collaborative effort; each member contributes to the puzzle which the San Mateo, CA-based company fits together to benefit the member community. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: LiveOffice

LiveOfficeworks with large and small organizations to archive, discover (i.e., search for information in preparation for litigation), and manage their email. It operates under a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and helps companies to handle an issue in capital expenditure, storage, backup, networks, replication, disaster recovery, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring, and management. Gartner, Inc. recently recognized LiveOffice as the largest provider of outsourced email archiving services in North America. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Nimsoft

Founded in 2002, Nimsoft is a leading provider of service level management (SLM). It develops and sells software to monitor and manage IT systems. In October 2009, the Redwood City, California-based company extended its reach with Unified Monitoring, solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Sheet Music Plus

I have talked at length about the potential for Web 3.0. Today, we will look at a company that is doing well as a web 1.0 company, but can take its business a great deal further if it applied web 3.0 principles. SheetMusicPlus.com, located in Emeryville, CA, is the world’s largest online retailer of sheet music. In today’s digital era, this company supplies a paper product and is profitable even in the current poor economy. The site offers music from over 1,000 publishers spanning a multitude of music genres from the most specialized to the most popular for all types of musicians, teachers, and instruments. Its breadth of offerings ranges from classical to country, vaudeville to gypsy jazz and more. Clearly, an excellent identification of context. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Eloqua

Eloqua, a provider of SaaS marketing automation platforms, was founded in 1999. Eloqua integrates direct marketing, interactive marketing, lead generation, and sales force automation to turn customer acquisition into a measurable process. There are now many companies in this space, but industry experts estimate that only 10% of B2B marketers use marketing automation systems, leaving the field wide open for Eloqua and its competitors. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks offers content security products that protect organizations from email, Web, and IM threats. The company sells low-cost, on-premise network security appliances such as antispam equipment and firewalls. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Clearwell Systems

Clearwell, founded in 2004, develops the Clearwell e-discovery platform, which allows enterprises to manage their litigation, regulatory, and corporate investigations. E-discovery can be defined as “any process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured, and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case.” Corporations can streamline the processing, analysis, cull-down, and review phases of e-discovery for a single case or for hundred of cases. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Bazaarvoice

Bazaarvoice uses the strength of social commerce to help companies build their business. Social commerce employs collaborative social media tools to assist in online buying and selling; to generate user content and customer reviews; and to connect customers to one another, increasing a company’s sales and customer base. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Shoplet.com

Shoplet.com is an online store from which consumers and businesses can purchase office products. Shoplet was founded in 1994, when online purchasing for B2B products was almost non-existent. Founder Tony Ellison was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs who realized that it was a market with potential.  >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Extrabux

Extrabux.com is a comparison shopping website that combines discounts from coupons and cash back to give shoppers the lowest price for any product. The site aims to save shoppers money on everyday purchases by enabling them to search for a product and view all the stores selling that product, along with the final price. The site integrates online coupons, cash-back rebates, and tax and shipping costs to show the lowest possible prices on over 30 million products from over 1,500 top online retailers. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: AppSense

AppSense is a user environment management (UEM) software solutions provider for user profile management, optimized application response, application feature lock down, protection from unauthorized applications, reduced logon/logoff times, and virtual and contextual desktops. Founded in 1999, the company is based in Daresbury, the United Kingdom, and has offices in London, New York, Melbourne, and Munich. >>>