Allegiance Strengthens Engineering and Software Development Team for Voice of Customer Intelligence Platform
Jason Taylor, formerly with Omniture and Novell, to lead SaaS development as new EVP of engineering
SALT LAKE CITY – September 20, 2011 – Allegiance, Inc., a provider of VOCi® (Voice of Customer Intelligence) technology and services, today announced that it has expanded its engineering and software development team to address growing demand for its products and services. The company has named Jason Taylor, formerly with Omniture and Novell, as executive vice president of engineering.
Taylor is responsible for all aspects of technology, product development and quality assurance at Allegiance. An experienced engineering leader for almost two decades, he previously led engineering teams at Novell and Omniture (an Adobe company). At Novell, Taylor led the engineering of products with revenues in excess of $100 million and development teams on three continents. While at Adobe, he was instrumental in reshaping the search marketing products, which resulted in more than 25 percent annual growth.
"The Allegiance VOCi platform helps mid-size and enterprise customers turn customer data into operationally actionable insights so they can grow their business faster," said Adam Edmunds, president and CEO of Allegiance. "Jason's extensive knowledge and experience in large online SaaS development ensures that we can offer a sophisticated yet easy to use platform that incorporates the latest innovations and serves customers needs well into the future."
Allegiance has also appointed Usman Mian as director of network operations and Matt Aaron as director of quality assurance. Mian, previously with Vantive and PeopleSoft, specializes in production support and system design for web applications and deployment. Aaron is a specialist in quality assurance, globalization, and agile software development. He has worked for Intel and consulted with Symantec, LANDesk, Dell, and Verisk Health.
"Allegiance's proven track record helping many of the world's best known companies has made it a leader in Voice of Customer technology and services," said Taylor. "I am look forward to working with the great team at Allegiance to develop new capabilities that make it easier for companies to centralize, share and act on customer feedback."
Scheduled speakers included Mark Hurd, president of Oracle, Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, Sohaib Abbasi, Chairman and CEO of Informatica, Tim Campos, CIO of Facebook, and Brad Rencher, SVP and GM, Omniture Business Unit at Adobe Systems, among others.
