Product News and Announcements

Colorado Springs, CO, July 19, 2010 – Cherwell Software, Inc. (“Cherwell”), the developer of Cherwell Service Management™, today announced that its company was named “Vendor Partner” at the Campus 2010 Technology Tradeshow. Cherwell’s customer, Western Carolina University (“Western Carolina”), received the Campus 2010 Technology Tradeshow Innovator of the Year Award.

Anna McFadden, Director of Coulter Faculty Center at Western Carolina, headed up the team that used Cherwell Service Management quite extensively, primarily as a way to develop a data-driven approach to improve their services.

“We are honored to be the Vendor Partner and we are proud of how our customer Western Carolina has used our product to provide innovative services,” said Vance Brown, CEO of Cherwell Software. “Since our inception we have focused on providing organizations like Western Carolina with enterprise power at an affordable price, precisely so that the Cherwell application can easily be configured to be used throughout the organization to solve almost any business need.”

Brown continues, “Too many organizations can’t easily extract meaningful data from their legacy systems. At Cherwell, we believe that you don’t collect data for data’s sake – you collect data so you can take action – in real time. We offer an unparalleled ROI - which is making us the fastest growing Service Management software provider in the industry today. Recently recognized by Forrester Research as an “Emerging Leader,” Cherwell software is delivered “On Premise” or “On Demand SaaS.” We believe in giving our customers choice.”

Entries were reviewed by Campus Technology Innovators Judging Committee, a group of higher education tech leaders, many of whom are former Campus Technology Innovator award winners. Western Carolina will receive their award during the Keynote Session at the Campus 2010 Technology conference.

Contact Cherwell Software at info@cherwellsoftware.com if you would like a link to their recorded webinar on the flexibility Cherwell gives you to get meaningful data you need from your Service Desk so you can continuously improve the quality of your IT department.

Colorado Springs, CO, March 24, 2010 – Cherwell Software, Inc. (“Cherwell”), the developer of Cherwell Service Management™, today announced that its company was among the select companies that Forrester Research, Inc. invited to participate in its research report entitled, “Market Overview:  IT Service Management Support Tools.”  In this Market Overview, published March 22, 2010, Cherwell Software is cited by Forrester as an “Emerging Leader” in the IT Service Management enterprise space.

The report defines an Emerging Leader as, “These service desk management vendors have less visibility, less market share, and in some cases limited geographic coverage, but their scalability and functionality reach that of the megavendors. These vendors focus on the IT service desk customer and creating solutions that can be implemented relatively quickly. The solutions of these vendors have solid product functionality and features at a very competitive price.”

“We are honored that Forrester considers us an Emerging Leader,” said Vance Brown, CEO of Cherwell Software.  “Since our inception we have focused on providing organizations with enterprise power at an affordable price.”

Brown continues, “Traditional IT organizations are evolving.  Our customers will attest that the unparalleled ability to easily configure our Cherwell tool, together with its ease of use, affordable price, and choice in deployment (either On-Premise or On-Demand SaaS) are making us a market leader.”

The Forrester Report not only segmented the various Service Management Tools, it also discusses the changing role of the Service Desk and reviewed some of the key technologies being offered in leading Service Management Tools today.

Download a complimentary copy of this independent research report by clicking on this link.

Cherwell Software, Inc. (“Cherwell”) today announced that its breakthrough product, Cherwell Service Management™, received certification for five more processes of ITIL V3 (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, version three) compatibility from Pink Elephant through the PinkVERIFY program.

PinkVERIFY is the only independent certification program worldwide to recognize software that supports the definition and workflow requirements of specific ITIL version three (V3) processes. In order to achieve PinkVERIFY certification, the ITSM software undergoes a rigorous and independent assessment by a highly-qualified Pink Elephant consultant, and must satisfy 100% of the mandatory and integration criteria for a specific process.

“We are pleased to recognize that Cherwell Service Management™ has achieved PinkVERIFY status,” said David Ratcliffe, President of Pink Elephant. “Our thorough and objective assessment showed that Cherwell Software designed its software from the ground-up, with ITIL in mind. Now, with the PinkVERIFY ‘stamp of approval,’ businesses can feel confident that Cherwell Service Management will support their implementation of ITIL best practices.”

Cherwell Service Management is the first service desk solution to incorporate the latest enterprise-class scalability, configurability and integration technology at a very affordable price—making it the most compelling value on the market today. It also can be deployed On-Premise or On-Demand (SaaS). With Cherwell, organizations have choice.

With the additional five processes Cherwell Service Management now offers:

• Incident Management
• Problem Management
• Change Management
• Event Management
• Knowledge Management
• Release & Deployment Management
• Service Asset & Configuration Management
• Service Catalog Management
• Service Level Management
• Service Portfolio Management
• Request Fulfillment

“Our customers rave about our Codeless Business Application Technology (CBAT) that allows them the most configurability on the market today without writing code or scripts,” said Vance Brown, Chairman and CEO of Cherwell Software. “With these additional processes, future customers can be assured that they will get ITIL best practices out-of-the-box while allowing them to fit our solution to their unique level of ITIL deployment.”

About Pink Elephant

Pink Elephant is proud to be celebrating 20 years of ITIL experience – more than any other supplier. Operating through many offices across the globe, the company is the world’s #1 supplier of ITIL and ITSM conferences, education and consulting services. To date, more than 100,000 IT professionals have benefited from Pink Elephant’s expertise. Pink Elephant has been championing the growth of ITIL worldwide since its inception in 1989, and was selected as an international expert to contribute to the ITIL V3 project as authors of the Continual Service Improvement book and through representation on the International Exam Panel. For more information, please visit: www.pinkelephant.com

Kirklees College, Accent Group and Commensus plc, all sign contracts for the Cherwell Service Management Solution

Cherwell Software, the developers of Cherwell Service Management, has recently signed three significant contracts; in housing, education and with a managed service provider.

Tony Probert, European managing director, confirmed that the company is anticipating a successful 2010 based on recent sales and current opportunities. “UK prospects continue to be surprised by the enterprise functionality that our solution offers, particularly when they consider our realistic pricing model, the ease of implementation and minimal ongoing management costs”

Cherwell Service Management, finalist in the Pink Elephant ITSM ‘Innovation of the Year’ award, is a comprehensive ITIL v3 service desk solution which is not only easy to customise, but powerful, intuitive, and cost-effective. The software is designed for IT support professionals and offers “out of the box” functionality and unmatched customisation and configurability for users wishing to customise: screens, workflow, business processes and build new integrated applications leveraging Cherwell’s unique CBAT (Codeless Business Application Technology) platform.

Alan Cottrill, ICT projects portfolio manager at Accent Group, confirms: “As a large national group with over 20,000 properties managed by three housing associations, we face a significant challenge in providing a cohesive IT support service that will meet immediate needs and be able to grow with us as our needs change. Having looked at over 10 different suppliers Accent selected Cherwell who provided the answer to pretty much every issue by being well constructed, modern, user friendly and meeting many of our process and reporting requirements straight out of the box. In addition, it represents exceptional value for money. We plan to move towards ITIL implementation in the future so
choosing a flexible system built around ITIL principles was important to us too. Finally, we loved the capacity to build our own solutions quickly and easily without incurring significant project development fees.”

At Kirklees College, George Robertson, Director of IT also turned to Cherwell whilst overseeing the extensive implications for IT after Dewsbury and Huddersfield colleges were amalgamated in 2008. As he explained: “The entire support approach needed to be reviewed for 1,500 staff and 30,000 students and time was one of our biggest challenges. One of the most appealing aspects of Cherwell was its
ability to quickly and easily identify what service improvements could be made where. The software*s design makes it particularly easy to use and roll out. We’ve been very impressed with Cherwell*s breadth too ; I’ve had past experience of large service desk systems and Cherwell offers a vast range of functionality at a fraction of the price. For instance, reporting back to users on progress will become
far easier and users will be able to log on to track their own calls and check status all of which builds towards improved customer satisfaction.”

The third deal signed is with Commensus, which has a wide range of clients from a mixture of industries and sectors. The range of challenges presented by its clients can vary greatly depending on their individual need. Alex Parker, chief technology officer of Commensus, explains: “Having the flexibility to deal with the unpredictable is very important to us, we offer so many different solutions that support needs to be equally flexible. To meet the challenge we needed an enterprise class service and our old system was starting to look outdated. Cherwell was able to provide us with a solution that punches well above its weight; it’s a first class product at a price that can’t be matched by its competitors.”

The Cherwell Service Management solution is available via the traditional license model or alternatively, on demand in a Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription model . To ensure excellent levels of service and support, Cherwell Software is working alongside CRMWorks, IT Service Management and service desk specialists, as its full service delivery partner and is working closely with them to ensure that these contracts are delivered successfully and speedily.

Partnership Highlights Cherwell’s Commitment to Improving the IT Service Management Industry!

Cherwell Software, a leader in developing ITIL® and PinkVerified™ IT Service Management software solutions that bring enterprise-level functionality at a mid-market price, reached agreement with ServiceSphere, for formal sponsorship of ServiceSphere’s Thought Leadership Webinar Series, an on-going series of provocative, thought leading seminars on a variety of topics germane to the advancement of the IT Service Management profession. ServiceSphere is an independent industry resource organization dedicated to grassroots information for IT professionals of all levels. As an independent organization, ServiceSphere does not align itself with any Service Desk Software Vendors as resellers and is proud to be Service Desk agnostic.

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“Cherwell is delighted to become the flagship sponsor of ServiceSphere’s Thought Leadership Webinars given that these highly informative and thought-provoking sessions help the IT Industry think outside the box,” stated Vance Brown, CEO of Cherwell Software, “ServiceSphere isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo in its quest to continually examine, rethink, redefine and improve the role of IT and Service Management, and this approach fits in well with the cutting edge capabilities of Cherwell Software.”

“Not every software company ‘gets’ the seismic changes trembling below the surface of the Service Management industry,” noted Chris Dancy, Founder of ServiceSphere, “and we’re thrilled that one of those that does, Cherwell Software, is willing to sponsor our thought provoking webinars.”

About ServiceSphere

With over 20 years of experience, ServiceSphere is one of the most established and respected international providers of IT Marketing Management and encompassing IT Service Management, Customer Service Solutions and Thought Leadership. ServiceSphere now has over 100 customers around the world. Its headquarters are located in the United States, with offices in the Europe and Asia Pacific. For further information, please visit their website at http://www.ServiceSphere.com

If You Thought Flexibility was Important Today…The Future Will Demand It!

Cherwell Software’s European Managing Director, Tony Probert, has been interviewed and featured in the Thought Leadership section of the November/December 2009 issue of VitAL, Europe’s cutting edge publication for IT professionals.

The topic of the article is “The Flexible Service Desk” where Tony notes that today’s service desk and the software being used, must be flexible enough to meet the ever changing needs of customers and the business, if a service desk is incorporating best practices.

Probert argues that for an effective service, “The four key issues will be: self-service; resolution at first call; reduced cost; and improved service. The service desk has to be able to put content in place to make all this possible and without the service desk building it well, it won’t work. If the current service desk software is not offering this level of functionality, the users will look for ones that do…..it isn’t unreasonable to expect that service desk software should be flexible and adaptable enough to flex sufficiently to accommodate unexpected future demands.”

Read the entire interesting and thought-provoking article at: http://www.vital-mag.net/2009/11/the-flexible-service-desk.

About VitAL

VitAL Magazine http://www.vital-mag.net is a bi-monthly publication that looks at the various key elements, attitudes, and trends of modern IT management and the impact this has on the business. Due to the uplifting, clean, and dynamic approach of the editorial the VitAL Magazine brand has become synonymous with cutting edge content that pushes boundaries and challenges its readers.

Award Winning Industry Veteran To Champion Commitment To Customer Satisfaction And Client’s Return On Investment Through Cherwell’s Innovative Software Technology

Cherwell Software has announced the appointment of Carrie Cornella, Director of Client Relations, based at the company’s Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Carrie will be responsible for all aspects of client relations, insuring the highest degrees of customer satisfaction and support as customers utilize the innovative and tremendously powerful ITIL and Pink Verified Cherwell IT Service Management/Service Desk software to improve and mature their IT Support functions.

With over 25 years in management, customer relations, and services consulting, Carrie has worked with organizations to successfully increase customer satisfaction, customer retention and customer loyalty within diverse industries such as manufacturing, educational and professional services, legal services, and the software marketplace. Her previous experience includes serving as the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Customer Services at FrontRange Solutions, Inc. where she demonstrated success in substantially increasing services revenues while improving customer satisfaction levels. During Carrie’s tenure there, services revenues grew by more than 5000% and renewal rates increased by more than 100%.

Other notable leadership roles include positions with Intuit, Inc., Holland and Hart, and Blue Ocean Software. Her wide ranging experience also includes 13 years with TRW Inc. in management positions including video teleconferencing, program management, marketing and human resources.

“With Cherwell’s rapid and remarkable growth, we are extremely fortunate to bring Carrie Cornella into our organization at this critical juncture as the internal leader and champion of our Client Relations and Satisfaction team” said Vance Brown, CEO of Cherwell Software. “Carrie is the perfect blend of professionalism and integrity to help us maintain our core values of consistent performance based on perpetually true values and exceeding customer expectations. We know that our customers will find Carrie to be an immediate and pro-active addition to the Cherwell organization.”

“I feel so fortunate to be part of a very special team of like-minded professionals that are being assembled into a world-class organization at Cherwell” noted Carrie. “Because of the commitment to the customer demonstrated by every member of the Cherwell team, I expect that every day will be a rewarding experience for me and our entire customer base. This organization is well positioned to deliver on its promise to redefine the IT Service Management software industry and I’m delighted to be part of the team!”

Carrie’s commitment to providing exceptional and world-class customer support has been recognized in a variety of industry awards, including the Association for Service Management International’s Professionalism in Service and Support Award, the Better Business Bureau’s Excellence in Customer Service Award, and the TRW Avionics and Surveillance award for Outstanding Achievement.

IT service desks across the UK and Europe are being urged by the Service Desk Institute (SDI) to celebrate the importance of excellent customer service by taking part in IT Service Week – October 5-9.  IT Service Management solution provider Cherwell Software is a one of two marquee sponsors ssupporting SDI with the launch of the first IT Service Week in Europe.

Similar to the increasingly popular National Customer Service Week initiative which has been celebrated since 2001, the Service Desk Institute is calling all IT service desks and support teams to get involved in IT Service Week and promote the excellent service they give to their customers, both internal and external.

Activities to promote the service desk could include job swaps between frontline analysts and management, fancy dress or themed days, PC support drop-ins, IT support road shows and inviting customers to nominate their IT service ‘hero’.

The main purpose of IT Service Week is to:

• highlight the dedication of the entire service desk team – first line, second line and field engineers in delivering great customer service
• let work colleagues and customers know how vital the role of the IT support analyst/engineer is and that the IT service team committed to meeting and exceeding customer expectations
• ‘blow the trumpet’ of the IT service desk staff who work hard and go that extra mile to ensure the technology in their business continues to function
• boost the morale and teamwork of the IT service desk
• recognize and reward those teams and employees who deserve it

“We know how much IT service and support teams care about the service they provide to their colleagues and customers; now we want them to show it,” says Howard Kendall, founder and chairman of SDI. “IT Service Week offers service desks the perfect opportunity to showcase the superb work of their patient and hard-working analysts and engineers and show exactly how much they contribute to keeping their businesses, or their customers’ businesses, running.”

“Cherwell is delighted to be a flagship sponsor of the first IT Service Week” said Tony Probert, Managing Director of UK operations of Cherwell Software “we understand the challenges and infinite number of details that are required to provide excellent IT service, as evidenced by the robust capabilities and configurability of our ITIL-based IT Service Management software.”

Howard Kendall adds “SDI is committed to recognizing the talent, commitment and achievements of IT service professionals and we are delighted to welcome aboard Cherwell Software as one of our two main supporting partners, in helping us to bring this ground-breaking industry-wide initiative to life.”

About Cherwell Software, Inc.
Cherwell Software is the developer of Cherwell Service Management™ – an integrated service management software solution for IT and support professionals. Cherwell Service Management™ was designed, from the ground up, using Microsoft’s .NET technology and out-of-the-box ITIL best practices. With fully-integrated Pink Elephant verified modules such as Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Management, and Service Level Management - just to name a few, Cherwell Service Management™ provides a holistic approach to service management, allowing IT and support departments to align themselves with the businesses they support. Cherwell Service Management™ offers enterprise power with mid-market prices and ease of use. Cherwell Service Management™ customers include such companies as TV Guide, The Weather Channel, Ent Federal Credit Union, The University of Minnesota, Hallmark Services and Ohio State University.

Headquartered in Colorado Springs, with European offices in UK, Cherwell Software was founded, and is managed, by a team of industry experts – including the former CEO of FrontRange Solutions, the former Chief Architect of FrontRange’s HEAT® and ITSM™ product lines, and the original founder and past CEO of the Help Desk Institute (HDI). We are passionate about customer care, and dedicated toward “building innovative technology based on yesterday values.” Please visit www.cherwellsoftware.com for more information about Cherwell Software.

About The Service Desk Institute (SDI)
Founded in 1988 by Howard Kendall, the Service Desk Institute (SDI) is the leading authority on service desk and IT support related issues, providing specialist information and research about the technologies, tools and trends of the industry. It is Europe’s only support network for IT service desk professionals, providing service management consulting, customized training courses and qualifications.

Acting as an independent adviser, SDI captures and disseminates creative and innovative ideas for tomorrow's service desk and support operation. SDI sets the standards for the IT support industry and is the conduit for delivering knowledge and career enhancing skills to the professional community.

It also offers the opportunity for international recognition of the support centre operation through a site certification audit programme. SDI members span numerous industries and include Asda, AOL, Body Shop Direct, Bank of England, Barclays Bank, Foster & Partners, Fujitsu, IPC Media, Norfolk Constabulary, O2, T K Maxx, United Biscuits, Virgin Media TV and Vocalink Ltd. Further information about SDI can be found at www.sdi-europe.com.

Cherwell Software, the developers of Cherwell Service Management, continues to gather momentum in the UK by signing two significant contracts. The software is designed for IT support professionals and offers out of the box functionality based on ITIL v3 best practice and unmatched flexibility for users wishing to customize screens, workflow processes and build new business applications leveraging Cherwell’s unique CBAT (Codeless Business Application Technology) platform.

Tony Probert, UK Managing Director, said: “Our ITSM solution is a world away from what the UK market has experienced so far; we’re offering a full ITIL v3 tool which is not only easy to customize, but powerful, intuitive, and cost-effective.” Tony Probert was previously responsible for FrontRange’s European operations as Managing Director and can claim over 18 years in the IT service management sector.

The first of the two contracts to be signed is with Bloxx, the enterprise Web filtering company, which has purchased a solution to support its UK customer base. It anticipates extending use to its offices in Holland, Australia and the US in the near future. Mark Smith, Operations Director, Bloxx, said: “We’re swapping out an established and well-known help desk package as Cherwell promises to help us continue to improve our customer service. Not only is the software more powerful, it’s extremely flexible and makes building new workflow models easy and quick. We’re planning a number of significant improvements to our IT service management approach now we have Cherwell on board.”

Cherwell District Council, located in Oxfordshire and with no commercial connections to Cherwell Software, has also parted company with a well-known service desk solution to move to the fully ITIL centric Cherwell Service Management solution. The objectives for the District Council were to develop new procedures based on ITIL best practice with a focus on improving customer service via enhanced incident and problem management systems, improved management reporting allowing ICT management to target resources more effectively and the use of self service to bring greater efficiency to the team and improving communication to the Council’s user community.

Pat Simpson, Head of Customer Service and Information Systems, explains: “We did extensive research of available solutions before deciding Cherwell Software was the best way to go. We have a strong philosophy of continuous improvement and our old software was not up to the new challenges we were setting ourselves. As we are publicly accountable for costs we were also keen to ensure that our choice represented excellent value – which Cherwell certainly does.”

The Cherwell Service Management solution is available via the traditional license model, or alternatively, on demand in a Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription model . To ensure excellent levels of service and support, Cherwell Software has appointed CRMWorks, IT Service Management and service desk specialists, as its full service delivery partner and is working closely with them to ensure that both contracts are delivered successfully and speedily.

Provides Unprecedented Power & Flexibility in Aligning IT as a “Business Partner”

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., September 11, 2009 - Cherwell Software, a leader in developing IT Service Management software solutions that bring enterprise-level functionality at a mid-market price, will be exhibiting at itSMF USA Fusion 2009 taking place at Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Dallas, Texas September 20-22, 2009. 

The three-day convention (www.itsmfusion.com) is the largest, most comprehensive gathering of Service Management professionals. The event includes daily keynote presentations, eight tracks of breakout sessions, and more than 100 exhibits.  Additionally, itSMF USA continues to showcase the best in Service Management by bringing industry analysts from Forrester Research (www.forrester.com) and Gartner, Inc. (www.gartner.com) to this year’s distinguished panel of keynote speakers. 

"...there is no better time to highlight our unprecedented power and ROI in ITIL Service Management operations" -Vance Brown, CEO

“We’re pleased to be showcasing the power and flexibility of Cherwell Service Management at the itSMF USA Fusion conference,” commented Matt Neigh, Director of Services and Support at Cherwell.  “It’s always a delight to hear IT executives exclaim ‘You can do that? …  In less than three weeks implementation?!’, These kinds of responses make for a fun conference exhibit environment.”

Vance Brown, CEO of Cherwell suggested, “We feel right at home and look forward to participating in a conference that is focused on IT’s overall contribution to their businesses, and given the recent praise of Cherwell Service Management by the Butler Group in their Technology Audit (free download of report at Butler Group Technology Audit), we think there is no better time to highlight our unprecedented power and ROI in ITIL Service Management operations, whether the deployment method is SaaS or On-Premise.”

Visitors are encouraged to explore the many benefits of Cherwell by visiting the Cherwell team at Booth #2121 and register to receive a free copy of the $189 valued, HDI sponsored, DVD titled “ITIL and the Service Desk” by industry icon Malcolm Fry.

About Cherwell Software, Inc.
Cherwell Software is the developer of Cherwell Service Management™ – an integrated service management software solution for IT and support professionals. Cherwell Service Management™ was designed, from the ground up, using Microsoft’s .NET technology and out-of-the-box ITIL best practices. With fully-integrated Pink Elephant verified modules such as Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Management, and Service Level Management - just to name a few, Cherwell Service Management™ provides a holistic approach to service management, allowing IT and support departments to align themselves with the businesses they support. Cherwell Service Management™ offers enterprise power with mid-market prices and ease of use. Cherwell Service Management™ customers include such companies as TV Guide, The Weather Channel, Ent Federal Credit Union, The University of Minnesota, Hallmark Services and Ohio State University.

Headquartered in Colorado Springs, with UK offices in Brinkworth, England, Cherwell Software was founded, and is managed, by a team of industry experts – including the former CEO of FrontRange Solutions, the former Chief Architect of FrontRange’s HEAT® and ITSM™ product lines, and the original founder and past CEO of the Help Desk Institute (HDI). We are passionate about customer care, and dedicated toward “building innovative technology based on yesterday values.” Please visit www.cherwellsoftware.com for more information about Cherwell Software.

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