Archive for July, 2011

New Aberdeen Research Reveals that Risk Management Strategies Enable Competitive Differentiation, Cost Reduction and Growth

Monday, July 25th, 2011

VALHALLA, N.Y., July 25, 2011 – A new report published by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company, reveals that top performing companies are making the critical link between risk and performance management through the emerging discipline of risk-adjusted performance measurement.

Entitled “Managing Enterprise Risks: An Executive’s Guide to Reducing Corporate Liabilities and Costs,” the study is authored by William Jan, Senior Research Analyst of Aberdeen’s Financial Management & GRC practice.  A complimentary copy of this $399 report is made available in part by Rev2 and other underwriters by visiting:

http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30412058&cid=7139

The report finds that top organizations are 2.5 times as likely as their peers to have automated role-based or task-based risk reports to see high-level risk information, and twice as likely as their competitors to have a complete and readily retrievable audit trail of records to support analysis, internal and external audits and documentation for reporting or investigation purposes.  According to the report, top-performing companies experienced:

-       A 23% reduction in risk value – the monetary equivalent of the combined risks – in the past two years.

-       A 22% growth in new market revenue in the past 12 months.

Rev2: A Leader in the Risk Space

“It is evident that technology can facilitate the ERM process by automating risk identification, documentation, aggregation, assessments, quantitative techniques, risk monitoring, and reporting,” writes Jan.  “Having the right information delivered to the right decision-maker at the right time is critical to the successful mitigation of risk.”

“A common complaint from executives is that the volumes of data and reports produced prevent them from seeing what is truly critical,” he continues. “High-performing companies have an information technology platform capable of efficiently capturing, processing, and reporting all relevant information.”

“Rev2′s RiskView application is among this emerging class of tools that assist in simplifying the complex and overwhelming task of risk analysis,” says Jan. “Designed for C-level executives, RiskView provides adaptable risk models and a visualization engine that displays risks as outliers on radar charts. RiskView collects information from data sources across all organizational silos, enabling the identification of concentrations of risk, the materiality scoring of each risk relative to all identified risks, and rapid what-if analysis.”

About Aberdeen Group

Aberdeen is a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to educate users to action: driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis.

About Rev2

Rev2 is the leading provider of next-generation risk management solutions.  Our RiskView® Risk Concentration Analysis™ framework identifies, compares and prioritizes vulnerabilities throughout the business. Rev2 offers tailored RiskView solutions for Service Providers, Manufacturers, Financial Services, Government organizations, and other Enterprises.

RiskView solutions enable our customers to identify the risks that represent the business’s greatest vulnerabilities, and address these vulnerabilities before they impact the bottom line.  This provides them with an unprecedented competitive advantage by helping them to maximize the realization of existing business opportunities.  Our customers typically realize ROI within weeks.

Contact us today for a Proof of Concept tailored to your business: 400 Columbus Ave., Suite 240E, Valhalla, N.Y. 10595, 914.614.8600. http://rev2.com, infoatrev2dotcom.

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Copyright © 2011, Rev2. All rights reserved. The RiskView® application is a registered trademark of Rev2. The Rev2 Managing Risks That Matter logo design and the Risk Concentration Analysis(RCA) methodology are trademarks of Rev2. All other trademarks in this document are the properties of their respective owners.


Rev2 Issues Mid-Year Progress Report

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

- Lou Steinberg joins TD Ameritrade as CTO and continues as Rev2 Chairman of the Board of Directors; Steve Olyha named Rev2 CEO

- Momentum continues as annual sales revenues on track to double again

VALHALLA, N.Y., July 18, 2011 – Rev2, the leading provider of next-generation risk management solutions, today issued a mid-year progress report. After more than doubling year on year revenues in both FY2009 and FY2010, the Company announced that after the first six months of FY2011, it is on target to double again. Rev2’s fiscal year ends on December 31.

Rev2, which began shipping its RiskView application in 2008, is also on track to significantly increase its gross margins in FY2011. The self-funded Company was profitable in FY2010.

“We attribute our continued sales momentum to a rapid acceptance in new markets as well as expanded deployments within our existing customer implementations,” said Lou Steinberg, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Rev2. “Additionally, as our customer base continues to expand, we are beginning to benefit from the aggregation of maintenance renewals. We are finding that customers are hungry for risk management solutions that provide measurable return to the business.”

Steinberg said that Net Profits are being reinvested into the Company to expand the RiskView product line, to expand the Company’s geographic footprint, and to hire new talent across all areas of the business.

Transition

The Company also announced that, effective this week, Steinberg is joining TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: AMTD) as its Chief Technology Officer. TD Ameritrade is a RiskView customer. Steinberg will continue with Rev2 as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Steve Olyha, who has worked side by side with Steinberg since early 2009, will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer.

“The Rev2 team and I would like to congratulate Lou on this incredible opportunity,” said Olyha. “We know that he will perform brilliantly in his new position as he continues to play an active role as our Chairman. I’m looking forward to continuing my close working relationship with Lou going forward. We are both understandably excited about Rev2’s momentum, market position and direction.“

Investment in Continued Growth

As Rev2 capitalizes on the momentum generated by the transition, Olyha and Steinberg said the Company will continue to execute on the proven growth strategy for Rev2.

“First and foremost, we will continue to focus on listening to our customers and delivering value to their businesses by constantly enhancing the RiskView application while sustaining the continuity of our product vision,” said Olyha. “Going forward we will continue to aggressively reinvest our profits in the Company’s growth.”

About Rev2

Rev2 is the leading provider of next-generation risk management solutions. Our RiskView® Risk Concentration Analysis™ framework identifies, compares and prioritizes vulnerabilities throughout the business. Rev2 offers tailored RiskView solutions for Service Providers, Manufacturers, Financial Services, Government organizations, and other Enterprises.

RiskView solutions enable our customers to identify the risks that represent the business’s greatest vulnerabilities, and address these vulnerabilities before they impact the bottom line. This provides them with an unprecedented competitive advantage by helping them to maximize the realization of existing business opportunities. Our customers typically realize ROI within weeks.

Contact us today for a Proof of Concept tailored to your business: 400 Columbus Ave., Suite 240E, Valhalla, N.Y. 10595, 914.614.8600. http://rev2.com, infoatrev2dotcom.

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Copyright © 2011, Rev2. All rights reserved. The RiskView® application is a registered trademark of Rev2. The Rev2 Managing Risks That Matter logo design and the Risk Concentration Analysis(RCA) methodology are trademarks of Rev2. All other trademarks in this document are the properties of their respective owners.