Emerging Growth Group, also in conjunction with the Emerging Growth Capital Fund and/or the Iowa Commitment Fund, counts the following companies as affiliates:
Sciengistics, Inc. develops and sells operations planning and budgeting software to the airline industry. The company’s initial software tool (StationApps) allows airlines to incorporate their unique scheduling and route information, operating characteristics, and customer service standards in creating a staffing plan and budget that maximizes efficiency and minimizes required resources. Its subsequent product release (RosterApps) is a web-based schedule management solution that provides employees with the means to schedule their shifts, time-off requests, overtime etc. in a self-service environment that incorporates supervisory oversight and administration.
Newsletter Ease, LLC provides email publishing and communications solutions. The company’s initial product – Newsletter Ease – is a p.c.-based software application that facilitates the creation and management of email newsletters. A second generation of the product, a .NET web-enabled version, is currently under development.
CustomerVision LLC is a company that has developed and launched a web-based application that enables a businesses and organizations to collaborate on the creation of and management of its informational content from its website. The CustomerVision solution combines the proven benefits of a content management system with innovative, emerging technologies such as wikis, weblogs and RSS.
Data Builder, Inc. delivers collaborative electronic document management software and services to the construction and property management industries. Among its product offerings are:
e-PCS™ (Electronic Project Control System™), a product that captures information at all stages of a construction project and provides an electronic file cabinet that everyone from architects to contractors to suppliers can visit through a password protected website.
w-ECC™ (Web-based Electronic Construction Closeout™), a sophisticated web-based building life cycle document management system that provides for cost-effective management of all building information for facility managers.
Proplanner, Inc. is a software and services company that provides enterprise manufacturing process engineering and management solutions to a variety of manufacturing companies throughout the world. Its suite of products is sold both as an integrated process analysis & engineering application or as a series of separate tools. The direct labor products include line balancing, workplace planning, work instructions and tuggers. Macro products include material flow analysis, strategic layout planning and materials handling solutions.
ANE Technologies, Inc. works with financial institutions to help them meet their information security needs. Offered is a turnkey approach that involves diagnosis and analysis, solution design and implementation and on-going intrusion prevention and testing.
Customer Ease, Inc. is a marketing consulting company that offers services (strategic marketing, focus groups, surveys, lead generation etc.) along with a series of product solutions that allow companies to facilitate their marketing and sales-related strategies.
ISeek developed and markets software products for the management of engineering CAD files. Its proprietary system provides the user a geometric shape-based search engine for finding and comparing files in a company’s CAD file database. In addition to the CADSeek search engine product, the company offers CADSeek Visual Navigator, a software tool that provides a view of the client’s CAD database that aggregates parts/assemblies files according to groupings of their contents’ physical characteristics and dimensions.
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Perimeter eSecurity, Having acquired EGG client company ANE in 2006, Perimeter provides on demand end-to-end security for business computer networks on a subscription basis – in effect offering a single source approach including CPE (customer premises equipment) and hosted solutions. Their offerings include more than 50 services, geographically distributed technical support offices and hardened data centers. Taking a best of breed approach, the company has acquired a number of complementary technology solutions over the last several years.
POPStar Networks, Inc. develops, delivers and supports proprietary dynamic digital signage technology (content management and display software) that replaces traditional printed signs with cutting-edge, large-format electronic screens. POPStar has developed and integrated software and hardware technology to manage the digital delivery of visual content to a network of electronic signs in what might be described as a “narrow-casting” environment. This system enables retailers and marketing managers to have centralized management and real-time control over the visual messaging presented to consumers via these “digital posters”. The company’s software solutions can flexibly accommodate the customer’s needs in managing content delivery, scheduling and access be it remotely via a web-enabled (ASP) solution or locally from a software installation on their LAN servers.
New Tech Ceramics, Inc. The company was formed to further the commercialization of a family of industrial wear materials developed and patented at Iowa State University’s Ames Lab. The core material is a formulation of Aluminum Magnesium Boride+ (AlMgB14+), that when combined with a number of other materials can be tailored to meet the specific needs of a variety of industrial applications given the materials’ intrinsic hardness, toughness, chemical inertness, heat tolerance and fine particle size. These materials are targeted to a huge market for cutting tools, wear parts & coatings.
NewCom Technologies, Inc. This company was formed to focus on further commercialization of several products (SeeCity Suite & Voyager) developed by the company during the course of its working with municipalities in providing them with basic Geographic Information System (GIS) services, data generation and aggregation. Voyager is a mobile inspection system that consists of a hardened tablet PC with integrated software, GPS & a wireless digital camera and is used to collect on-site inspection data. It includes sets of user customizable inspection & inventory forms that integrate into a central GIS database. SeeCity is a modular suite of software that manages different aspects of public & private infrastructure data. In addition to a large municipality market, these products have wide application for business with geographically dispersed assets such as utility companies & railroads.