ReadyPortal and Acteva Joins Forces to Offer Leading CMS Platform with Event Management Solutions
- 10/5/09 -
ReadyPortal today announced a partnership
with Acteva, a company that provides business-grade event management solutions along with online registration capabilities
for event professionals. Acteva’s solution delivers a quick and easy way for attendees to register and pay for events,
freeing up time for organizers to focus on other details. It also helps to minimize the administrative work typically
associated with registration, reconciliation, chargebacks, refunds, and fraud resolution.
ReadyPortal is
the industry leader for intuitive, flexible and scalable web solutions that are cost effective and easy to manage. Acteva’s
online event technology complements ReadyPortal’s integrated suite of web CMS and Social Media feature offerings.
ReadyPortal’s
Chief Executive Officer, Rajiv Chatterjee, says, “This strategic partnership is a wonderful opportunity for two established
companies to leverage our own technology solutions and expand into new areas for mutual growth.”
“I envision
even more opportunities going forward as our partnership nets new customers in a wide range of business sectors.”
Since
its inception in 1999, ReadyPortal has grown from a venture backed Silicon Valley startup to a leading web solutions platform
serving the needs of Fortune 500 Companies to Non-Profits and Trade Associations.
According to Ed
Lemire, Executive Vice President of Acteva, “We believe the ReadyPortal Web CMS platform
is setting the standard by delivering innovative, web-based solutions. With their intuitive platform, ReadyPortal’s
user-friendly application will help customers easily manage event data and event content.”
“With
an established track record of success, ReadyPortal will help ensure customers reap the benefits of our new partnership. Simply
put, ReadyPortal brings a lot to the table with their multi-faceted, multi-functional web application.”
More meeting professionals
are turning to online registration and payment solutions as a way to generate additional revenue and market their events while,
at the same time, cutting unnecessary administrative costs. The ability to offer an affordable, secure online service
to customers will help sustain many organizations through tough economic times. To learn more about this opportunity and receive
special discounts that are available exclusively to ReadyPortal customers, please visit http://pages.acteva.com/ReadyPortal.html.
The partnership
provides a range of solutions including:
·
Event Promotion – Promote upcoming events online and to a customer
base that has attended a similar event in the past
·
Reduction in Workload – Automate manual payment processing and data collection
for the entire event
·
Risk Reduction – Acteva’s 128-bit, SSL Protected, PCI Compliant
service helps ensure the integrity of all payment data
About Acteva
Acteva is the trusted leader in Online
Event Management, including Event Registration and Payment Services, Private Social Networks and Learning Registration & Management
Services. Since 1998, over 14,000 customers have used Acteva to manage more than 260,000 events
and process more than 4.6 million registrations. Acteva’s customers include Bausch & Lomb, Pfizer, SAP, Girl Scouts
of America, Whole Foods, BMW/MINI, NASA, VMware, Apple, DHL, PG&E and thousands of small to large-sized businesses and organizations.
Acteva is headquartered in San Francisco, California. More information on Acteva is available at www.Acteva.com
About ReadyPortal
ReadyPortal is a comprehensive
suite of Web functionality that lets customers create multifunctional websites where managing content, community and memberships
is easy. With ReadyPortal, clients can create a new web presence in hours or days instead of weeks or months. The ReadyPortal
Web CMS platform is user intuitive requiring no special training or programming skills to modify and maintain content. ReadyPortal
clients include City of New York, Dutch Government, Hubert Humphrey Scholarship Program, German Academic Exchange Service, Pepco Holdings, P&G Alumni Association
and the WPP Group. More information on Readyportal is available at www.Readyportal.com