Welcome Sumo Logic to the Stage

Sumo Logic, a log management and analytics solutions provider, emerged from stealth mode today, announcing their log management and analytics services that leverage Big Data to deliver real-time IT insights.  Using powerful algorithms, the service provides enterprises with operational and security insights from their log data in real time, at unprecedented petabyte scale.

The San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley /San Jose Business Journal have ranked Workday, Inc. #3 for mid-size companies on its annual list of Best Places to Work in the Bay Area. Workday is the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources, payroll, and financial management.

Employees from more than 300 Bay Area companies participated in an independent, third-party survey, ranking their companies on topics including team effectiveness, alignment of goals, trust in coworkers, trust in senior leaders, feeling valued, work engagement, and people practices. This is the fourth consecutive year Workday has appeared on the list.

Go-to survey site SurveyMonkey announced Monday that it has acquired Wufoo, an online form builder. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but sources say the purchase price was $35 million in cash and stock.

The whole Wufoo team will be moving from Tampa, Fla. to SurveyMonkey's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.

As a 2006 Y Combinator graduate, Wufoo first raised $118,000 in funding from the venture capital firm and a couple angel investors, including Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail, founder of FriendFeed and partner at YC).

Wufoo’s offering has never been particularly sexy, but it has always been a solid idea. The startup provides an HTML form builder that makes it dead simple to create contact forms, online surveys and invitations for collecting any kind of data. It doesn’t sound like much until you look at Wufoo’s feature page. Customize forms with all the fields you can dream of (file upload, mailing address with map integration, embeddable Google Maps), have entries automatically collect time entered and IP address of entrant, color it up with themes and much more. And all that without writing a single line of code.

The startup provides both free and paid versions of its software.

"Everyone at Wufoo is very excited about joining the SurveyMonkey team, and the expansion opportunities for our business that will result from this combination," said Wufoo co-founder Kevin Hale in a prepared statement. "By leveraging SurveyMonkey’s international resources, knowledge scaling infrastructure and expertise with large data collection systems, we will be able to increase the scope, performance and reliability of Wufoo's services."

Naturally, the acquisition means SurveyMonkey can give clients access to easy form building to supplement the survey creation tools already available.

SurveyMonkey just raised $100 million in debt financing this past November, so we’ll likely see more acquisitions in the coming months to flesh out the business. In January, it acquired a 49.9 percent stake in ClickTools, a survey provider on Salesforce’s App Exchange. Back in June 2010 the company bought Precision Polling, a telephone polling service.

ClearPath, Inc., the leading provider of simplified immigration filing solutions, today announced it has released ImmigrationExpress™, an intuitive, Web-based solution that empowers individuals to file common immigration forms quickly, easily and cost-effectively.

ClearPath's software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution leverages the unmatched domain expertise of former senior immigration officials to streamline the process – from preparation to review to filing. The result is greater transparency, accuracy, efficiency and security, as well as lower costs.

EndPlay, Inc., formerly Canvas Technology Inc., unveiled a new name and strategy at the annual NAB Show (National Association of Broadcasters) in Las Vegas, where it will also preview its new technology and market vision. The company also announced today that former E*TRADE Chairman and CEO Dr. Christos M. Cotsakos has been elected EndPlay's President and CEO, adding to his responsibilities as founding chairman.

The EndPlay platform currently powers the websites of more than 80 broadcast television stations in the U.S. The EndPlay platform is designed to handle large amounts of video content, text, social and other dynamic information. As its WCM solution evolves, EndPlay will partner with companies to manage the full spectrum of media publishing and monetization needs. EndPlay's platform, powered by its Intelligent Rendering technology, is being previewed by a select group of clients and media executives attending the NAB Show. EndPlay will be releasing its first major commercial product in Q4 of 2011.

SaaS billing solutions vendor Vindicia has wrapped up a partnership agreement with Idaho-based Kount Inc. for the purpose of extending the latter’s online fraud prevention solution to its customers.

Kount’s fraud mitigation solution, Kount Complete, is ideal for merchants of online, ecommerce and call center operators as it avoids the risk of being defrauded by online thieves.

Hubspan, the leading provider of cloud-scale B2B integration solutions, today launched WebSpan Manager, a new Web-based community portal that provides customers and their integration communities with critical visibility and administrative control of their interactions on the WebSpan SaaS Integration Platform. WebSpan Manager is a flexible, on-demand community portal that provides self-service administration, including secure role-based access, process visibility and intelligence, and activity monitoring.

The release of WebSpan Manager is part of Hubspan's overall strategy to provide customers with the option to independently manage their B2B integration by exposing the rich functionality of Hubspan's cloud integration platform in a self-service environment.

WebSpan Manager combines Hubspan's industry-leading cloud integration platform and solutions with a robust community portal to provide customers and their partners with self-service management and visibility into B2B integration processes. The portal provides customers a single Web destination to manage their company and user profiles, user access, on-demand reporting, transaction dashboards and trend analysis. With WebSpan Manager, customers save time by accessing a single destination for all management aspects of their integration process activity, including a quick, real-time view into the status of individual transactions.

• New Features Enhance Productivity and Collaboration Between Business and IT
• Accommodates Big Data Growth, Globalization and Business Analytics
• Wizards Simplify Integrations for Web Services, XML, Databases and Flat Files

Jitterbit, a leading provider of powerful, flexible and easy-to-use application and data integration solutions, today announced the availability of Jitterbit 4.0, the company's award-winning software for on-premise and cloud integration. Jitterbit 4.0 was designed to facilitate IT and Business collaboration, simplify cloud integration and accommodate big data requirements.

Connecting cloud, SaaS and other internal applications is a business and IT priority. Jitterbit offers a simplified approach to integration for IT and business analysts, offering easy, out-of-the-box integration to hundreds of enterprise applications and an intuitive drag-and-drop design. Its unique "no-coding" approach allows users to graphically configure and manage their cloud integration and on-premise application and data integration projects.

Electronic health records company Practice Fusion on Tuesday announced that it's raised a $23 million Series B round led by Founders Fund, with help from Artis Capital Management and Glynn Capital Management, as well as existing investors Morgenthaler Ventures and Felicis Ventures. The new funds bring the company's total raised to $30 million.

Since Obama's mandate that all medical practices switch over to electronic health records, Practice Fusion has positioned itself to be the go-to resource for the 80% of doctors who practice in groups of nine or fewer, who simply can't afford to implement an electronic health record system on site. These days only 10% of doctors have electronic health records, but as the average doctor makes $120,000 a year, that doesn't leave a lot of room for paying an IT person to manage the health record system.

Marketo, the fastest growing provider of Revenue Performance Management solutions, today announced that the company has surpassed the 1000 customer mark. Marketo passed this milestone in less than three years, adding 146 customers in the first quarter of 2011. This explosive growth rate and fast revenue ramp further strengthens Marketo’s position as the Revenue Performance Management market leader, and positions Marketo as one of the fastest-growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors in history.