Margaret Taylor

PeopleSoft, Inc. provides enterprise software that ties together back-office applications and databases. Its software addresses such tasks as accounting, human resources management and supply chain management. PeopleSoft has expanded its product lines to include vertical applications for manufacturing firms and government agencies. In late 2003 Oracle launched a hostile attempt to purchase PeopleSoft, which ultimately agreed to be purchased for $10.3 billion in December 2004. Oracle completed the acquisition of the company in January 2005. PeopleSoft is located in Redwood Shores, CA.

RightNow Technologies, Inc. provides customer relationship management software and services. The company offers RightNow CX, a customer experience suite for consumer-centric organizations to enable interactions across Web, social, and contact center touch points. Its RightNow CX suite includes RightNow Web Experience, which integrates into an existing Web infrastructure to provide an online customer experience providing customer access to Web self-service; RightNow Social Experience that enables organizations to listen and respond to conversations with their consumers on the social Web and to build branded communities to cultivate their own conversations; RightNow Contact Center Experience, which enables organizations to deliver consistent customer experiences across multi-channel interactions; RightNow Engage, which provides horizontal service, sales, and marketing business processes that support, span, and inter-connect the Web, social, and contact center experiences; RightNow CX Cloud Platform that provides a platform for scalability, performance, flexibility, and security; RightNow Mission Critical Operations, a cloud delivery platform; and RightNow CX Commitment, which describes the way to deliver a customer experience. The company also provides professional services, including project management and consulting services. It serves various industries, such as technology, public sector, retail/consumer packaged goods, entertainment, financial services, telecommunication, and travel and hospitality industries. The company was founded in September 1997 by Greg R. Gianforte and is headquartered in Bozeman, MT.

HireRight LLC provides global employment background checks, drug testing, education verification and electronic Form I-9 and E-Verify solutions. It also provides pre-integrated employment screening services through e-recruiting solutions. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Emagia Corp. provides computer software for cash flow performance management solutions. It delivers technology solutions to transform, automate and optimize receivables, credit and collections processes for maximizing cash flow. Emagia receivables management suite includes credit management, collections management, deductions management and customer financials portal. The company was founded by Veena Gundavelli in 1998 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Kineticsware, Inc. provides trade promotion management software for consumer goods manufacturers and distributors. It offers trade promotion, deduction, and inbound logistics management services. The company was founded in 2006 by Jeffrey S. Sampson and Richard Barnett and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA