Decision Lens, the leading provider of cloud-based prioritization and resource optimization software, announced today that its software was selected by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assist with program planning and budget execution. The VA will use Decision Lens across the administration to align program efforts in all departments.

Established in 1930, the VA employs over 118,000 health care professionals and organizes over 140,000 volunteers in VA’s Voluntary Service program, donating more than 11 million service hours annually. The VA cares for nearly 9 million U.S. veterans enrolled in the VA health care system at roughly 1,000 VA hospitals and outpatient clinics.

John Kealey, CEO of Decision Lens, said, “The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is assisting millions of families throughout our nation. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with such a significant organization."

Decision Lens software is used across government and commercial organizations for better prioritization and resource allocation. Key clients include Genentech, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Boeing, as well as state and local organizations such as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and others. Federal customers include the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Navy, Army, General Services Administration, Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Aviation Administration.

What is Decision Lens?
Decision Lens is a cloud-based prioritization and resource optimization software solution for organizations’ critical decision-making in program budgeting, IT portfolio optimization, R&D, source selection and workforce planning. Decision Lens rapidly engages stakeholders to achieve better outcomes in a resource-constrained environment.  Driven by sophisticated analytics, the software empowers organizations to identify and prioritize criteria that tie directly to strategic goals.

About Decision Lens

Decision Lens (@DecisionLens) is the premiere solution for strategic prioritization and resource optimization. Through advanced analytics and flexible, custom visualizations, organizations can quickly distinguish which investments, projects, or people will help them reach their goals.

Decision Lens improves the speed and quality of prioritization and resource optimization, while maximizing the ROI of your portfolio.

For more information, contact Decision Lens at 703-399-2100 or visit http://www.decisionlens.com/contact.

Today, Decision Lens announced that the 2014 third fiscal quarter resulted in the highest bookings in company history. Continued momentum and growth across the Commercial, Federal and Strategic Industry Sectors resulted in thirteen new customers and 2014 customer renewal rates continued to be exceptionally strong as well.

“We are proud of the consistent growth our company is seeing,” said John Kealey, CEO of Decision Lens. “As our customers remain our top priority, we are able to continue expanding our work across sectors.”

Decision Lens software is used across government and commercial organizations for better prioritization and resource allocation. Key clients include Genentech, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Boeing, as well as state and local organizations such as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and others. Federal customers include the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Navy, Army, General Services Administration, Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Aviation Administration.

What is Decision Lens?
Decision Lens is a cloud-based prioritization and resource optimization software solution for organizations’ critical decision-making in R&D, capital planning, IT portfolio planning, and budget optimization. Decision Lens rapidly engages decision-makers to achieve better outcomes in a resource-constrained environment.  Driven by sophisticated analytics, the software empowers organizations to identify and prioritize criteria that tie directly to strategic goals.

About Decision Lens

Decision Lens (@DecisionLens) is the premiere solution for strategic prioritization and resource optimization. Through advanced analytics and flexible, custom visualizations, organizations can quickly distinguish which investments, projects, or people will help them reach their goals.

Decision Lens improves the speed and quality of prioritization and resource optimization, while maximizing the ROI of your portfolio.

For more information, contact Decision Lens at 703-399-2100 or visit http://www.decisionlens.com/contact.

Decision Lens today announced that it has been selected for eleven Federal license contracts across the U.S. Department of Defense and various civilian agencies. With the closing of the third quarter, Decision Lens has posted a record number of new contracts enabling agencies to prioritize critical decisions and optimize constrained budget choices.

Dan Goslee, Vice President of the Federal Sector at Decision Lens said, “The demand signal from the Federal Government is growing, and we are honored that we can help support these Federal customers to maximize their budgets and align resources to enhance capabilities of their respective missions. We are seeing Decision Lens become a benchmark for structured decision making.”

Decision Lens software is used across government and commercial organizations for better prioritization and resource allocation. Key clients include U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Navy, Army, Air Force, General Services Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as state and local organizations such as PennDOT, MNDOT, SFMTA and others. Commercial customers include Genentech, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Boeing, among others.

What is Decision Lens?
Decision Lens is a cloud-based prioritization and resource optimization software solution for organizations’ critical decision-making in R&D, capital planning, IT portfolio planning, and budget optimization. Decision Lens rapidly engages decision-makers to achieve better outcomes in a resource-constrained environment.  Driven by sophisticated analytics, the software empowers organizations to identify and prioritize criteria that tie directly to strategic goals.

About Decision Lens

Decision Lens (@DecisionLens) is the premiere solution for strategic prioritization and resource optimization. Through advanced analytics and flexible, custom visualizations, organizations can quickly distinguish which investments, projects, or people will help them reach their goals.

Decision Lens improves the speed and quality of prioritization and resource optimization, while maximizing the ROI of your portfolio.

For more information, contact Decision Lens at 703-399-2100 or visit http://www.decisionlens.com/contact.

Decision Lens, the leading provider of prioritization and resource optimization software, is featured in TechCrunch. This story highlights the need to increase engagement of remote workers as well as the benefits of collaboration tools in the workplace.

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About Decision Lens

Decision Lens (@DecisionLens) is the premiere solution for strategic prioritization and resource optimization. Through advanced analytics and flexible, custom visualizations, organizations can quickly distinguish which investments, projects, or people will help them reach their goals.

Decision Lens improves the speed and quality of prioritization and resource optimization, while maximizing the ROI of your portfolio.

For more information, contact Decision Lens at 703-399-2100 or visit http://www.decisionlens.com/contact.

Decision Lens, the leading source of cloud-based strategic prioritization software, announced today the release of its latest software update. The Fall 2014 Release from Decision Lens delivers more visibility and control to all users, along with giving stakeholders more powerful insights and opportunity for analysis.

Three major benefits from the Fall 2014 Release include:

• Providing additional analytics, insight, visibility, and control for everyone from executives to analysts with new role-based functionality;
• Making the strategic prioritization and selection process even faster and easier with enhanced searching, importing, and exporting features;
• Empowering stakeholders with information needed for strategic prioritization and resource allocation.

John Kealey, CEO of Decision Lens said, “the Fall 2014 Release not only offers deeper insights and analytics to our customers, but it also dives further into data, ensuring data consistency and improved information sharing.”

The new search functionality within Decision Lens makes it easier than ever to find the exact data, user, or scenario users are looking for. Enhanced data import functionality has been included to offer more control over analytics. This, and a host of new user experience and user interface enhancements have been made in the Fall 2014 Release to improve strategic prioritizations efforts immensely.

Decision Lens software is used across government and commercial organizations for better prioritization and resource allocation. Key clients include Amtrak, AstraZeneca, the Maryland Transit Administration, Shell, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Navy, and Army, and the Kansas City Chiefs. Additional user roles, enhanced solution functionality, and more robust sharing capabilities make the Fall 2014 Release an indispensable solution for these organizations.

About Decision Lens

Decision Lens (@DecisionLens) is the premiere solution for strategic prioritization and resource optimization. Through advanced analytics and flexible, custom visualizations, organizations can quickly distinguish which investments, projects, or people will help them reach their goals.

Decision Lens improves the speed and quality of prioritization and resource optimization, while maximizing the ROI of your portfolio.

For more information, contact Decision Lens at 703-399-2100 or visit http://www.decisionlens.com/contact.

Decision Lens, the leading provider of cloud-based prioritization and resource optimization software, announced today that its software was selected by the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to assist with prioritizing funding for its IT and R&D portfolios. Decision Lens is used across government and commercial organizations for better prioritization and resource optimization. Over 20 clients in the transportation industry use Decision Lens for applications such as capital programming, IT prioritization, R&D, and vendor selection. Key customer organizations who license Decision Lens include Amtrak, PennDOT, MNDOT, WisDOT, Maryland Transit Administration, Utah Transit Authority, SFMTA, and BART among others.

Established in 1966, the FRA employs a staff of over 800 and is one of 10 agencies within the Department of Transportation concerned with intermodal transportation. It operates through seven divisions under the offices of the Administrator and Deputy Administrator.

John Kealey, CEO of Decision Lens, said, “The U.S. Federal Railroad Administration is quickly growing to accommodate the ever-increasing needs and burdens being placed on our nation’s railways. We are pleased to be able to work with this very important organization."

What is Decision Lens?
Decision Lens is a cloud-based prioritization and resource optimization software solution for organizations’ critical decision-making in R&D, capital planning, IT portfolio planning, and budget optimization. Decision Lens rapidly engages decision-makers to achieve better outcomes in a resource-constrained environment.  Driven by sophisticated analytics, the software empowers organizations to identify and prioritize criteria that tie directly to strategic goals.

About Decision Lens

Decision Lens (@DecisionLens) is the premiere solution for strategic prioritization and resource optimization. Through advanced analytics and flexible, custom visualizations, organizations can quickly distinguish which investments, projects, or people will help them reach their goals.

Decision Lens improves the speed and quality of prioritization and resource optimization, while maximizing the ROI of your portfolio.

For more information, contact Decision Lens at 703-399-2100 or visit http://www.decisionlens.com/contact.

Decision Lens will assist key pharmaceutical decision makers in screening and selecting future drugs currently in research and development (R&D) at AstraZeneca. Decision Lens, the leading provider of cloud-based, strategic prioritization software, announced today that it has been chosen by AstraZeneca to prioritize its company-wide portfolio of prescription medicines over a two-year period. AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical company, specializes in the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of prescription medicines that make a meaningful difference in healthcare.

The Decision Lens platform will aid AstraZeneca and its subsidiary, MedImmune, with reviewing and prioritizing the firms’ investments across the therapeutic area portfolios. Leveraging considerations such as estimated financial returns, strategic alignment, and time-to-deliver, Decision Lens will help uncover insights about the potential benefits and risks of the drugs in the portfolios to key stakeholders. 

“Selecting which drugs to continue to research and eventually take to market becomes a highly complex decision, both from a medical and a business standpoint, which is why Decision Lens’ unique prioritization platform is able to generate multiple scenarios based on the collective input of key stakeholders at AstraZeneca,” said John Kealey, CEO of Decision Lens.

The Decision Lens platform is built on a flexible, Web Services architecture. The Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model can reduce standup time to a matter of hours, and allows it to run in standard Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, Mozilla and Safari.

Decision Lens software is used across government and commercial organizations for better prioritization and resource allocation. Key clients include Amtrak, Maryland Transit Administration, Shell, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Army, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).

About Decision Lens

Decision Lens (@DecisionLens) develops progressive optimization software solutions that allow organizations to make complex decisions more effectively and efficiently. Our collaborative software platform structures decisions, quantifies intangible factors, and evaluates choices that enable organizations to reach their goals.

Decision Lens improves the speed and quality of prioritization and resource optimization, while maximizing returns, and provides accountability and transparency for how decisions are made.

For more information, contact Decision Lens at 703-399-2100 or visit http://www.decisionlens.com/contact.

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Decision Lens, the leading provider of Strategic Prioritization and Resource Optimization solutions, announced today the completion of a $6.5 million funding which included a $4.4 million Series-A Preferred round led by Vision Thinkers, LLC and $2.1 million in debt. Decision Lens will use the funds to invest in product development, marketing, and sales. The funding news follows on the heels of Decision Lens achieving 126% year-over-year growth in the first half of 2014.

Decision Lens has changed the way large enterprises make strategic decisions from capital planning projects and annual budgets to prioritizing research & development initiatives over the entire lifecycle of a product.  Decision Lens’ advanced prescriptive analytics platform is used by dozens of organizations to overhaul their decision making and planning process. The platform is in place at many of the most well-known corporate brands and government agencies in the world including AstraZeneca, Boeing, Johnson & Johnson, the California Technology Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces, and more.

“During 2014, Decision Lens has experienced its greatest revenue growth ever, and that can be attributed to our technology platform finally hitting its stride among large enterprises.  They are witnessing first-hand how invaluable the solution can be for the future of their business,” said John Kealey, CEO of Decision Lens. “Our Series-A funding will provide Decision Lens with the resources needed to meet the exponentially-growing demand for our decision analytics platform.”

Decision Lens currently has 71 employees and more than 80 enterprise-level customers. A year and a half ago, the company hired John Kealey, a seasoned business executive who successfully led his previous technology companies to acquisition, the latest being IBM’s acquisition of Big Data firm, Vivisimo.

“We backed Decision Lens because they developed a real solution to the challenges large enterprises face when it comes to making highly complex, strategic business decisions,” says Jim Lintott, CEO of Vision Thinkers, LLC.  “Decision Lens has the only product available on the market that is capable of guiding a group of executives and stakeholders to a decision using a combination of judgments, analytics, and data.”

What is Decision Lens?
Decision Lens is a cloud-based prioritization and resource optimization software solution for organizations’ critical decision-making in R&D, capital planning, IT portfolio planning, and budget optimization. Decision Lens rapidly engages decision-makers to achieve better outcomes in a resource-constrained environment.  Driven by sophisticated analytics, the software empowers organizations to identify and prioritize criteria that tie directly to strategic goals.

About Decision Lens

Decision Lens (@DecisionLens) is the premiere solution for strategic prioritization and resource optimization. Through advanced analytics and flexible, custom visualizations, organizations can quickly distinguish which investments, projects, or people will help them reach their goals.

Decision Lens improves the speed and quality of prioritization and resource optimization, while maximizing the ROI of your portfolio.

For more information, contact Decision Lens at 703-399-2100 or visit http://www.decisionlens.com/contact.