Orbis Global CEO and Co-founder, Grant Halloran said, “We are very excited to have Frank join the Orbis Global team. Frank has strong experience as a Silicon Valley CFO coupled with a decade of corporate finance and M&A experience with Lehman Brothers. He joins Orbis at a time of rapid growth and he will play an integral role in helping us achieve our vision.”

As Chief Financial Officer, Frank Laurencio brings over 15 years of experience working with private and public technology companies in Silicon Valley, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Prior to joining Orbis Global, Frank served as CFO of various venture-backed Silicon Valley companies such as Smapper Technologies, Bubble Motion, and ONStor, a data storage company acquired by LSI.  Before his work with private companies, Frank served as VP of Finance at Alteon WebSystems, a publicly traded data networking pioneer acquired by Nortel Networks.  Earlier, Frank worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Lehman Brothers and he began his career as a corporate finance attorney at the law firm of Davis Polk and Wardwell.  Frank holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Princeton University.

“Joining Orbis and working with co-founders, Grant and Brett Halloran, is a great opportunity. Orbis is a fast growth company and has achieved a massive amount of success within the MRM industry. I am looking forward to working with the team during this exciting time” says Frank.

About Orbis Global

Orbis Global is one of the world’s leading Marketing Resource Management (MRM) software businesses. We are passionate about helping marketers do their work smarter and faster in every part of the world. Thousands of marketers in businesses of all sizes, use our Orbis MRM marketing software applications in over 50 countries. Gartner, a large IT research firm, has recently recognized Orbis Global as a Leader in their Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management. We operate from offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and Singapore.

REDWOOD CITY, CA (Feb 08, 2012) – Orbis Global, a leading provider of Marketing Resource Management (MRM) software, is pleased to announce it has successfully maintained ISMS (Information Security Management System) certification to ISO27001.

After completing a thorough Continuing Assessment Visit by auditors BSI, one of the world’s leading certification bodies, Orbis Global is proud to announce full compliance with ISO27001 as of Wed, 8th Feb, 2012.

“Maintaining ISO27001 certification is an extremely important result for Orbis Global. This certification demonstrates to our customers worldwide our commitment to data integrity, security and quality at all levels of our organization.” said Grant Halloran, CEO and Co-founder of Orbis Global. “This achievement means Orbis Global customers are assured that they are doing business with an organization that can meet or exceed their needs in a timely manner. Successfully completing the rigorous process required for certification is indeed clear sign that we are devoted to continually improving our quality management systems.”

About Orbis Global

Orbis Global is a leading global provider of Marketing Management software. The company’s flagship product, Orbis MRM™ delivers higher levels of efficiency, productivity and control to the marketing departments of mid to large-sized companies, ultimately leading to higher ROI on marketing investments. Orbis MRM™ empowers marketers at many of the world’s leading brands in financial services, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, telecommunications, retail, oil and gas, manufacturing and utilities. For more information on Orbis Global please contact us or email enquiry@orbisglobal.com.

Orbis Global moves from Visionary to Leader in 2012 in Marketing Resource Management

“Orbis is extremely pleased to have been elevated from “visionary” in 2011 to Leader in 2012 in the Gartner MRM Magic Quadrant for 2012″, said Grant Halloran, CEO and co-founder of Orbis. “The global MRM market continues to gain widespread acceptance as marketing teams seek to drive greater volumes and results from their limited resources, especially in light of recent staff and budget cuts.  Orbis MRM™ enables marketers to maximize their return on marketing investment by providing exceptional visibility and collaboration amongst marketing teams, while also increasing brand control and speed to market. The technology has undeniably proven itself to be a critical tool for managing increasingly complex multi-channel marketing operations.”

Best of Breed MRM Software

Halloran noted that Orbis Global was positioned as a Leader alongside 4 of the largest IT companies in the world. “Orbis Global is the only best of breed MRM company outside the big 4 IT businesses that has a truly global presence, with people, customers and hosting centers in North America, Europe and the fast-growing Asia Pacific region. We have a compelling value proposition for marketers of all sizes in all areas of the world; a proposition centered around MRM specialization and superior service designed for the way marketers like to be serviced.”

Orbis MRM™ enhances a company’s ability to coordinate and optimize the marketing resources at their disposal – whether they be people, suppliers, budgets or marketing collateral/assets. According to Gartner, MRM applications enable companies to:

• Plan and budget for marketing activities and programs (strategic planning and financial management).
• Create and develop marketing programs and content (creative production management).
• Collect and manage content and knowledge (digital asset, content and knowledge management).
• Fulfil and distribute marketing assets, content and collateral (marketing fulfilment).
• Measure, analyze and optimize marketing performance (MRM analytics).

Vendors in the Gartner’s MRM Magic Quadrant are assessed on their ability to support each of these five competency areas.

About Orbis Global

Orbis Global is a leading global provider of Marketing Management software. The company’s flagship product, Orbis MRM™ delivers higher levels of efficiency, productivity and control to the marketing departments of mid to large-sized companies, ultimately leading to higher ROI on marketing investments. Orbis MRM™ empowers marketers at many of the world’s leading brands in financial services, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, telecommunications, retail, oil and gas, manufacturing and utilities. For more information on Orbis Global please contact us or email enquiry@orbisglobal.com.

¹Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management” by K. Collins, January 30, 2012.

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2012 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

ATLANTA – Nov 02, 2011

Infor, a leading provider of business software and services serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced a partnership with Orbis Global, a leading provider of Marketing Resource Management (MRM) solutions.  The strategic partnership will enable Infor to integrate Infor10 CRM Enterprise (Epiphany) with Orbis’s MRM software to offer global marketers a holistic, closed-loop CRM solution that blends marketing, sales and service for more effective management of the marketing lifecycle.

News Points

Through its partnership with Orbis Global, Infor will be able to integrate Orbis MRM and Infor10 CRM Enterprise to:

• Enable global marketers to effectively manage the marketing lifecycle in a unified solution across all programs and channels, providing enhanced data integrity and greater insight to improve marketing performance.
• Create effective collaboration and exchange between Marketing, CRM and Sales via real-time visibility into key enterprise marketing activities, materials and developments, including budgets, spending management, briefing, critical timelines, creative review and approval, resource optimization, and digital asset management.
• Standardize data and content-centric campaigning into one environment to help ensure marketing activities run on-time and on-budget.
• Enable marketers to regularly evaluate marketing plan strategies and assess processes and programs to continually improve speed to market and marketer productivity and decrease cost waste.
• More easily orchestrate the allocation of  work tasks, manage capacity issues and automate internal controls and approvals with built-in workflow, powerful digital asset management and field marketing content localization tools.

Orbis Quote

“Marketing is undergoing a massive and rapid paradigm change. An explosion in channels has exponentially increased the complexity of managing a marketing department efficiently and effectively. Orchestrating thousands of marketing activities, processes, content creations, and the associated financial investments is a monumental challenge,” said Grant Halloran, CEO of Orbis Global. “This exciting partnership will enable the marketer to gain competitive advantage by combining upstream process efficiency delivered by Orbis MRM with the downstream marketing effectiveness generated by the Infor10 CRM suite.”

Infor Quote

“By creating a closed-loop CRM solution that bundles marketing, sales and service, we put the right tools to plan, execute and monitor multi-channel marketing campaigns at your fingertips across every point of contact with customers,” said Jackie Palmer, senior product manager, Infor. “Leveraging the best-in-class MRM functionality from Orbis Global, Infor10 CRM Enterprise will become an even more efficient marketing solution that enables fast and informed decision making across all programs and channels.”

About Orbis

Orbis Global is one of the world’s leading Marketing Resource Management (MRM) software businesses with thousands of marketers in businesses of all sizes using Orbis MRM in over 50 countries.  Orbis operates from offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore.  For more information, visit www.orbisglobal.com.

About Infor

Infor is a leading provider of business software and services, helping more than 70,000 customers in 164 countries improve operations and drive growth. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.

Orbis Global golfers took part in the 2011 Golf Classic hosted by the St George Foundation. A full field of players and great weather made for an enjoyable day of golf and fundraising, with over $30,000 raised for charity.

The St George Foundation has been helping disadvantaged children and children with a disability since 1990. Thanks to the organizers for a great day, and to everyone who took part to raise funds for a good cause.

We would also like to extend congratulations to Juan Garcia, who has been appointed our new User Experience Specialist.  Juan has shown excellent attention to detail, and we look forward to the value he will bring for our users – through both his design of software interfaces, as well as input into new product features.

Regular visitors to orbisglobal.com are bound to notice our new site design. The new site was built with ease of navigation in mind, to help you find the information you need faster. Central to Orbisglobal.com is the Learning Center, which contains free articles, e-books and videos for marketers.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, where you will find more marketing resources, links to key industry reports, and other content that is of interest to marketers. You can also find us on LinkedIn and Facebook.

We Love Marketers!

Orbis Global is thrilled to announce the latest version of Orbis MRM marketing resource management software. This latest update to our integrated marketing solution is our biggest release to date, and is packed with features to help marketers perform their work faster and easier.

With enhancements to almost every area of the system, you are bound to notice new features, regardless of which sections of Orbis MRM you rely on the most.

To find out more about the new version of Orbis MRM, fill out the contact form, or get in touch with your Orbis Customer Value Manager.

Ranked 21st on the list, 2011 marks the first year that Orbis Global has been included in the survey produced by the Great Place to Work Institute. The BRW Best Places to Work Awards are highly sought after in Australia. Companies that make the list are evaluated on factors including credibility, respect, fairness, pride and camaraderie, in addition to a Culture Audit of the organization. Orbis ranked 4th overall in the “Camaraderie” section of the survey.

Orbis Global management places a huge emphasis on the ‘people culture’ of the organisation. They believe a good company culture fosters an environment where employees are motivated and happy to come to work every day. This in turn has demonstrated a higher standard of customer service and product development.

“If there was ever a Top 50 List to be included on this is the one! We’ve built a global business from a Sydney HQ and we’ve invented everything our customers benefit from. That’s a big challenge but having a great work culture makes it enjoyable. I love working with every single person in our company and that’s a very cool situation to be in.”
Grant Halloran, CEO and co-founder, Orbis Global

Software developers, customer value analysts, and Product team members from Orbis Global were among ten thousand runners who took part in the annual Humpty Dumpty Balmoral Burn yesterday. Since its inception in 2001, the gruelling event has been raising money for children’s hospitals.

This year’s event raised a record figure of $2.3 million. Well done to everybody who took part, and we hope you’ll be training hard for next year’s race.