Webtrends is focused on fostering innovation and has emerged as the leading pure play in analytics and personalization, providing real time relevance and ROI to customers. As a result, the company has enjoyed record-breaking growth – in the first half of the FY2012, earnings grew by an astounding 418 percent over H1 of FY2011 and SaaS revenues were up more than 20 percent compared to H1′LY. Proving that it’s committed to driving innovation within the market, Webtrends recently announced that it will put $7 million dollars toward the hiring of more than 50 new positions, including 35 in engineering.

“We have out-paced competitors because we are focused on developing cutting-edge products and solutions, and expanding our IP footprint across the globe,” said Alex Yoder, chief executive officer of Webtrends. “The recognition by AlwaysOn OnMedia is a testament to our entire team’s efforts and I’m honored to accept it on behalf of the talented people driving this innovation within Webtrends.”

Webtrends and the OnMedia Top 100 Companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s OnMedia NYC event on February 22^st, 2012, at the Time Warner Center.

This two-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries.

“The make-up of OnMedia 100 represents forward-thinking media companies in a year charged with disruptive change.  The emergence of Web-fueled TV and the explosive growth of smartphones and tablets are challenging the media world to transform itself into a global, consumer-focused industry. Coupled with the socialization of everything, this year’s digital media and entertainment startups are boldly charging into future, ready to reinvent the establishment with new, invigoration products and services.”  says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “Web analytics are now embracing a social world, providing marketing and advertising companies with the targeted data that delivers on the promise of reaching consumers with meaningful, actionable messages.”

The OnMedia 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders.  The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2012 list.

A full list of all the OnMedia Top 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at: http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2012-OnMedia-100-Top-Private-Companies

Webtrends is making growth in the technical practices a high priority to mirror the overall corporate momentum the company has experienced in recent months. In the first half of the FY2012, earnings grew by an astounding 418 percent over H1 of FY2011 and SaaS revenues were up more than 20 percent compared to H1′LY. Webtrends was recently called out by Forrester as a market leader with distinction in specific areas of focus including mobile and social analytics, analytics across digital channels, customer support and product reliability.

“Over the last three years Webtrends has focused aggressively on out-innovating the market, particularly in rich and emerging media channels,” explains Alex Yoder, Chief Executive Officer of Webtrends. “We are the natural pure play in analytics and personalization, providing real time relevance to our customers and driving remarkable ROI. As such, we are excited to extend our commitment to accelerating our leadership position and remain in the driver’s seat of change within our industry. We will be adding more of the best and the brightest people, ranging from seasoned executives to recent graduates. Top tier talent is and will always be the cornerstone of Webtrends’ success.”

In addition to recruiting, Webtrends is expanding programs and benefits designed to appeal to new talent. To connect with emerging engineers, Webtrends is sponsoring an internship program and working with Portland State University to give students in the computer science fields real world experience. Two students will complete six month rotations completing three required tracks – software engineering, QA, developer operations, and one elective track. To foster creativity within Webtrends, the company is ramping up its Developer Days program. For one day each quarter, developers are given the freedom to work on any product of their choice and then asked to share the work they did with the rest of the company at the end of the day. Apart from providing a fun, creative and collaborative atmosphere, this program leads directly to product innovation and improvement.

Webtrends’ expansion is occurring in all aspects of Engineering (research, program management, development and QA), across all layers of our development stack from cutting edge interactive design to very large scale, real-time data collection and processing. Our growth is across our entire portfolio – Streaming/Realtime Data (eg. Kafka / Storm), Big Data (eg. Hadoop / Cassandra) architects and developers; Frontend architects and developers (eg. HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript), SDET (Software Engineering in Test); and core software developers in our Analytics, Optimization, Data Mining and Predictive Systems teams.

For additional information about the specific positions for which Webtrends is hiring please visit: http://webtrends.com/about-us/careers/

 Since joining Webtrends in 2006, Kim has served as director, corporate counsel and is recognized as a key contributor to the company’s successes. In her new role, she will oversee and manage all legal aspects for the company. She will be an active member of the executive team and will also serve as secretary to the Board of Directors. 

 “Suk has been one of the outstanding contributors to Webtrends success over the last four years and is universally appreciated for her ability to manage difficult negotiations with poise and dignity, ending in outstanding results,” said Webtrends CEO Alex Yoder.

 Kim has worked for such prestigious legal firms as Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York as well as Perkins Coie in Portland. Her range of experience includes work in intellectual property, securities, mergers and acquisitions and business law, including a focus on technology. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and is an honors graduate of Columbia Law School.