Company: Adaptiva, Bellevue, WA
Company Description: Adaptiva provides IT systems management software, optimizing existing IT assets for content delivery, PC power management and client health. Adaptiva’s software transforms traditional client server infrastructures into lean distributed networks that minimize the number of servers under management, simplify systems management and optimize content distribution – lowering costs and improving ROI.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Fastest Growing Tech Company of the Year - Up to 100 Employees

Nomination Title: Adaptiva

Tell the story about what this nominated organization achieved since January 1 2012 (up to 525 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes. Begin this section with the following two lines: Year over year revenue growth (%): Year over year employee growth (%):

Year over year revenue growth of 900%.  
Year over year employee growth of 40%.

Adaptiva offers innovative software solutions to simplify the complexity of IT and rapidly improve ROI on existing systems. The Adaptiva IT Systems Management Software Suite extends the functionality of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, eliminates server infrastructure, including all secondary sites and distribution points, and significantly reduces the time, cost and hassle of managing IT. Adaptiva replaces bulky software with a fluid self-tuning, self-configuring and self-deploying software solution that is location aware, bandwidth sensitive and provides a true peer-to-peer network that can move massive amounts of data anytime, anywhere. The Suite also significantly reduces energy consumption and delivers Green IT with advanced PC power management, ends WMI issues and automatically diagnoses and repairs PCs.
 
In 2012, Adaptiva has experienced an explosive revenue growth rate of more than  900% over prior year, and has increased its install base by more than a million PCs in just the past few months. With less than two dozen employees, Adaptiva has secured contracts with some of the largest financial, retail, manufacturing and service organizations in the world. The momentum has been dazzling, with more than 2 million devices in over 14 countries now employing Adaptiva software.
 
This year has also brought industry recognition as the winner of the Red Herring Global Top 100, Red Herring Top 100 Innovative Companies in North America, Golden Bridge Award for Most Innovative IT Systems Software, a finalist for the Network Products Guide 2012 Hot Company and a finalist for the Edison Awards for Innovation.

This amazing growth has been the concerted effort of every Adaptiva employee. No one person is responsible, but rather the company as a whole. It has taken long hours, open dialogue with clients and many sleepless nights to achieve this growth. Employees have worn many hats, but with one goal in mind: the customer is king. We constantly reflect our core values: straight talk, do it right, advocate for the customer, do good business, be easy to work with, get it done and have fun. Often clients tell us that our sales process is different and easy, and our product works. Our clients genuinely like us and tell us so. We genuinely like them, too.  We are proud of our accomplishments.

Clients are amazed at the simplicity and elegance of the software. It’s easy to deploy, taking just a few minutes. And, it works, which is not always the case in software deployments. We make a promise and deliver on that promise, which is why our clients are our greatest advocates. We have eliminated thousands of servers in distributed networks around the globe and have increased efficiencies, improved productivity and reduced costs for clients—for example, one customer has eliminated their server infrastructure from 2,400 servers to seven. In addition, our software slashes PC power consumption by employing smart power management and automatically repairs networked PCs, saving clients hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. 

This year has been amazing, and we’ve just begun. We believe the possibilities are limitless. And we've had fun every minute.

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Provide a brief (up to 125 words) biography about the leader of this nominated organization:

Deepak Kumar, CTO: Dr. Kumar is responsible for strategic product direction and leads the development organization. He was the lead program manager with Microsoft's Systems Management Server 2003 team and program manager with the Windows NT Networking team. Prior to Microsoft, he was a group manager for IP Telephony products at Nortel. Dr. Kumar has received five patents related to hiswork on SMS 2003 at Microsoft and has written more than 50 publications, including a book on Windows programming. While at Microsoft, Dr. Kumar also authored the Thinkweek paper for Bill Gates that became Project Greenwich, now known as Microsoft Office Communications Server / Lync.

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