Pius, who previously served as xMatters’ Vice President of Finance, joined the company in 2006, bringing more than 15 years of financial and analytical experience with leading software and technology firms. In his new role, in addition to managing day-to-day finance activities, he will be reviewing potential acquisitions as well as providing financial and operating metrics and systems for the high growth areas of xMatters and shareholder relations.  He is the former Vice President and Controller at Evant, Inc, publicly-traded QRS Corporation and Bloomberg Financial.  Pius earned a bachelor’s degree in international management and an MBA in finance from Golden Gate University and is a certified management accountant.

Backed by over 15 years of experience in system architecture, product management, and engineering, Peete will be leading the product management function for all xMatters product lines. In his new role, Peete will develop a sustainable, accelerated roadmap for the xMatters relevance engines delivered on premise or in the cloud. He will work side by side with clients to deliver new products and services using the xMatters relevance engines. In a time where companies must choose to connect with their customer or risk becoming irrelevant, Peete will draw on his substantial product experience from Ariba, PeopleSoft, Vignette, and OnDisplay to deliver successful results.  Doug holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

xMatters has seen tremendous growth on a global scale including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Central Europe and Australia. The company continues to see increasing demand for its relevance engines in the areas of IT operations, IT service management, business continuity and risk management, crisis communications and most recently into customer contact and loyalty areas.

xMatters relevance engines deliver information, notifications, and choices to the right people and give them the ability to take immediate action. Serving more than 800 clients worldwide, the xMatters relevance engine technology enables businesses to function more quickly, accurately, and intelligently.

Building on more than 300 man-years of technical investment, xMatters on demand provides clients with the ability to build, deploy and utilize relevance engines that deliver the information that matters to people, when it matters, so they can act on the information with a capability called mass personalization.

xMatters now has hosted relevance engines designed for energy, education, telecommunications and health care organizations as well as emergency management, business continuity and risk professionals.  Additionally, numerous new features were added to this release, including the ability to quickly provision and use a relevance engine in the cloud. This new functionality improves the on boarding capabilities to reduce the time to value for clients and several additional ease of use features.

More than ever, companies must protect their customers, employees and business from catastrophes.  Connecting with the right people at the moment that matters, with meaningful information so they can act fast, requires mass personalization delivered by a relevance engine.

xMatters has also offered their on demand service free to environmental cleanup organizations working on the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, providing communication solutions to response teams.  The xMatters relevance engine will allow organizations to instantly communicate with their teams and enable response based on roles, skills, geographies, languages, etc., at no charge.

xMatters on demand is an easy to use, hosted service for people who need to communicate, when it matters.  The service is available from any location, using a dispersed, redundant architecture and web based human interface, with support for hundreds of devices including Droid, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and others.

Combined with any product or service, xMatters relevance engines deliver a capability that was not possible before.  By providing what matters and preventing what doesn’t matter to people, relevance engines deliver higher levels of efficiency, increased levels of assurance, higher customer satisfaction and greater product adoption rates.

Equal parts technology and anthropology, the What Matters Now project pinpoints exactly how people felt and what mattered to them at a specific point in time. That information is logged and stored so that visitors can search by a specific time frame and see what was happening in the world and what mattered at those moments — both on a global and personal scale. This is a major shift and provides deeper, more impactful analysis than a traditional Twitter sentiment or blog trending tool by slicing through endless data streams to recognize feeling and emotion.

For businesses, the ability to provide insight into what matters to their current and prospective customers, and then make decisions accordingly, will have a significant impact on how products are developed and marketed. When tracked over time, the Project will show major shifts in business and consumer behavior, including how certain services are being adopted and used. For consumers, the site offers a unique, interactive way to compare what matters to them, both personally and professionally, with the rest of the world.

For example, if a company wants to design and market its products to reach CIOs, they can use the site to track and analyze the issues that matter to this audience. Over the last seven days on the What Matters Now project, the terms appearing most frequently with CIOs are “cloud” and “strategy.” Diving deeper into the results shows that CIOs are concerned about the effect of cloud computing on how technologies are deployed and how their strategies should change in accordance. Armed with a clear understanding of what matters to CIOs, cloud service providers have an opportunity to be a voice of confidence and education.

The launch of the What Matters Now project coincides with a recent announcement by xMatters, which highlighted the company’s rapid market expansion and pioneering leadership in the emerging field of relevance engines.

While relevance engines were originally designed for IT efficiency and effectiveness, the company soon realized that the ability to personalize communication on a mass scale — i.e. remove unnecessary information and only deliver what matters, when it matters — had implications far beyond the IT space. Many diverse business functions, from the marketing department to the product engineering team, could benefit.

With more than 800 relevance engines now deployed worldwide, including in seven of the 10 largest Global 2000 enterprises, xMatters is transforming the way that business and consumers interact with products and services.

To experience the What Matters Now project please visit: www.whatmattersnowproject.org