Company

NextAxiom Technology (NxA) is a software platform and solution services company based in San Francisco, California.

As a starting point, NxA has focused its technological advantage and unique expertise on providing on-premise value to the Utility sector globally. Our solution services are often focused on software interface problems that are hard to solve. These problems typically cannot be solved within time and budget constraints using traditional SOA middleware alone. We solve these problems by rapidly and cost-effectively delivering mission-critical composite applications, integration and interface solutions around the existing core business systems. By "rapidly", we mean at least 8X faster to deploy and change and by "cost-effectively" we mean delivering an average of 60% reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) compared with traditional SOA middleware alone. Our goal is to become the preferred enterprise vendor of the Utility companies for enabling high value composite applications and software interface solutions.

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The NextAxiom platform introduces both a fundamentally new approach to software modularization and a new "metered" software licensing model, in conjunction with traditional licensing models, that breaks new ground in business agility. Composite business applications and value-added services built on these reusable components are significantly easier to modify, manage and to integrate with existing software assets. Enterprises and Software Vendors (ISV, ASP and SaaS vendors) deploy the NextAxiom Hyperservice Platform to rapidly unlock the value of their legacy software assets and unleash additional value from integrated business services.

Vision

NextAxiom's ground-breaking platform will ultimately result in the convergence of two industries, Telecommunication and Business Software. The convergence will be "key" enabled through a hosted version of the NextAxiom platform-as-a-service that is metered like electricity with Telecos as the global channel for delivering the "SaaS Superhighway":

History

NxA was founded in year 2000 and put the first version of its platform, the Hyperservice Business Platform, into live production at a Fortune 500 company in late 2002. Today, we take pride in the fact that Version 7 of our robust platform is deployed in some of the largest Utility companies worldwide. We have accomplished this without venture capital and thus have managed to preserve the integrity of our original vision and values which over eight years ago embarked us on this rewarding journey.

Technology

From a technical perspective, the Hyperservice Business Platform is a metadata driven software modularization platform that uses "in-memory services" as its elementary software building block. This results in a purely service-oriented solution with high-performance "SOA inside" where each in-memory service module can be transparently externalized as a standard-based Web service or can be automatically virtualized across systems bringing together the concepts of SaaS, SOA and Virtualization. This software modularization technique is based on a revolutionary concept in programming called Service Oriented Programming.

The SOP foundation of Hyperservices unifies integration and component development into a single paradigm and reduces the need for complex middleware. The semantic, metadata driven aspect of Hyperservices significantly reduced the time and cost to develop, deploy and modify solutions. The unique service composition technique of SOP, with "SOA inside", solves the problem of software application integration. The Hyperservice Business platform includes a Service Runtime Environment (SRE) that runs on top of the first and only Service Virtual Machine (SVM) in the software industry. It also includes a comprehensive, zero code, zero script development Studio and a suite of management and governance tools.

NextAxiom has proudly been on the cutting edge of technology with several patented and patent-pending innovations.

Key Facts

Date Incorporated: May 2000
Corporate Type: Delaware C-Corporation (Privately Held)
Financial Status: Stable, self-funded since inception with zero debt
Growth: Sustainable triple digit annualized growth since 2004
 
Business Units
Enterprise: First signed customer: Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) in 2002
ISV OEM: First signed customer: Indus International (Nasdaq:IINT) in 2004
 
Marketing Strategy NextAxiom has a competitive marketing strategy to remain a stealth company while a critical mass of customers is developing.

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  External News Items

2010-08-11 NextAxiom is a Platinum Sponsor for the Ventyx Mindshare 2010 user conference being held in San Diego, CA.

2010-08-03 NextAxiom demonstrates Condition Reporting System during CAPOG 2010 Conference in Detroit, MI.

2010-03-01 NextAxiom Highlights Customer Success in Electric Light and Power Magazine

2009-12-01 The Hungarian Power Companies Ltd. through MVMI Informatics adopted the NextAxiom platform.

2009-02-23 NextAxiom is the Platinum Sponsor for the Ventyx Mindshare 2009 user conference held in Austin, Texas.

2008-09-30 Bruce Power made a strategic decision to adopt the NextAxiom platform.

2008-07-31 July digital edition of SOA World Magazine - Metered SOA Services Model by Ash Massoudi

2008-04-17 Stratecast Research – Saas and Managed Services: Carrier-class and Beyond (NextAxiom reviewed)

2008-04-01 Exclusive SYS-CON Q&A with Sandy Zylka, Co-Founder & VP of Products and Technology

2008-03-01 SOA World Magazine - SaaS Superhighway Article by CEO Ash Massoudi

2008-02-23 Unifying Grid Virtualization, SaaS and SOA

2007-11-12 NextAxiom Selected for SOA World 2007 West Power Panel

2007-08-14 Itanium Solutions Alliance Releases Case Study on NextAxiom Innovations

2007-06-18 NextAxiom Sponsor at 2007 Ventyx User Conference

2007-04-17 NextAxiom Presents Service-Oriented Programming at 2007 Gelato ICE Conference

2007-03-26 NextAxiom Selected as a Finalist in Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Contest

2006-05-07 NextAxiom Announces Expanded OEM Agreement with Indus for Services-Oriented Architecture Development

2005-09-29 NextAxiom will sponsor IndusWorld 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia

2004-04-19 NextAxiom to Serve the Chemical Industry - Zero-coding, zero-scripting programming platform to increase business agility for the Chemical Industry

2004-02-17 NextAxiom Releases Software Infrastructure and Tools for Six Sigma - Product Suite based on Six Patent-pending Inventions Boosts ROI on Six Sigma Initiatives

2003-06-16 Enterprises take early lead in Web services integration projects

2003-05-01 Finding speed, simplicity in 'modular' Web services

2003-04-08 NextAxiom Releases Web Services Assembly Solution - Ground Breaking Product Suite Boosts Flexibility While Reducing Costs and Time to Develop and Integrate Applications

NextAxiom Technology was founded in 2000 by experienced enterprise software professionals with a vision that will bring Moore's Law to software development. They draw on their collective experience in product development, business development and professional services from companies such as, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel, AOL, Netscape, Red Pepper and OnLink.

Management Team

Ash Massoudi
CEO & Co-Founder
Ash

Ash is a proven entrepreneur and a software inventor with the vision that created a new paradigm in software automation. Ash founded NextAxiom Technology in May 2000 offering patented technology that significantly eases software automation. He played a pivotal role in successfully propelling NextAxiom through the concept, R&D production, and customer acquisition stages into its current expansion phase. Before co-founding NextAxiom, he played the key role in delivering the assimilation of Advance Supply Chain Planning products within the PeopleSoft technology platform as a result of PeopleSoft's $275 Million dollar acquisition of Red Pepper Software.

Ash holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Sandy Zylka
VP Products & Technology, Co-Founder
Sandy

Sandy is a co-founder of NextAxiom and the co-inventor of NextAxiom's seven patent-pending innovations. She has managed all aspects of the Hyperservice® Business Platform. To stay current with customer needs, Sandy participates in consulting services to NextAxiom customers as a Principal SOA Architect. Prior to NextAxiom, Sandy served as Product Manager for PeopleSoft's Optimization Applications. She led an elite team of PhD's responsible for delivering PeopleSoft's Advanced Supply Chain Planning and Optimization products. Prior to that, Sandy held positions as Principal Usability Architect and Senior Optimization Engineer for PeopleSoft. As Senior Supply Chain Consultant for Red Pepper Software, she led supply chain and integration workshops for companies such as Pepsi, Bausch & Lomb, HP, Analog Devices, and 3Com.

Sandy holds a B.A. in Neurobiology from the University of California at Berkeley. She has completed studies and research toward an M.S. in Computer Simulations.

John Manoogian
Field Operations Director
John

John is the Director of Field Operations and Strategic Customer Relationships for NextAxiom. Before joining NextAxiom, John was a General Manager at MicroAge Technology Services specializing in systems integration and custom software solutions. At MicroAge, John managed annual revenues in excess of $60M delivered through a staff of over 100 professionals.

Prior to MicroAge, John held several important field management positions at Unisys Corporation. As Regional Director for Global Customer Services, John and his staff of 65+ professionals were responsible for the design and sales of all integration solutions in nine western States with each engagement ranging from $3 to $30M annually. As a District Manager for commercial and public sector in California, John and his teams provided full lifecycle solutions for major enterprise customers including: Bechtel, Wells Fargo, KLA-Tencor, NetApp, Gap, California DOJ, and the IRS. In addition to direct customer solutions, John personally developed and hosted business partnerships with elite Silicon Valley firms promoting joint business opportunities.

John holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics from California State University, Fresno.

Dave Bakke
Principle Solutions Architect
Dave

Dave brings over twenty years of management, development and customer services experience to NextAxiom. Prior to NextAxiom, Dave was Senior Architect Specialist, for Siebel Systems where he implemented application solutions. As Web Products Development Director at OnLink, he focused on delivering browser based, guided selling software. As Professional Services Director at PeopleSoft he focused on implementing ERP and Advanced Planning Solutions. Dave has held positions as Director of Engineering Services, Project Manager, and Senior Software Engineer at Red Pepper Software, Measurex, Litton, and Ford.

Dave holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Oregon State University.

Chip Pardini
Director - Interface Solutions
Chip

Chip Pardini is responsible for strategic applications of the NextAxiom Platform with key customers and business partners. Prior to joining NextAxiom, Chip held a broad set of positions with fast growing companies focused on software application engineering, system integration and managed infrastructure services. Chip served as vice president of strategic account sales for Sylantro Systems, a telephony applications and services company and sales director at Echelon Corporation. In the area of enterprise solutions, Chip was general manager for AIS-San Francisco, a successful systems integration company acquired by MicroAge, Inc. a Fortune 500 firm. Chip has held a number of sales and management positions at Unisys Corporation including: group director for worldwide mainframe sales, district manager and regional manager. While at Tandem, Chip was sales director of the Non-Stop Software group and a director for the North American Division. Earlier in his career Chip held various software development and technical support positions at Burroughs Corporation.

Email Us

Partnerships and Business Development: bizdev@nextaxiom.com
Technical Support: support@nextaxiom.com
All other questions: info@nextaxiom.com, sales@nextaxiom.com

Location

NextAxiom Technology, Inc.
600 Montgomery St.
Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: (415) 373-1890
Fax: (415) 373-1899



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