Velteo will be presenting its game changing mobile application, Nomad, which takes salesforce.com offline and on the road for field force automation. We will also be showcasing our Service is the new Sales and Marketing solutions that address social, branding, customer service and mobility. Finally, you will get the chance to meet our valued team who will help you navigate this ever changing landscape of cloud computing.

So come join us at the Sydney Conventon & Exhibition Centre on June the 14th and register here.

As a sneak peek check out the Cloudforce San Francisco launch from a few weeks ago:

Velteo is a dynamic business and is recognised as a thought leader in adopting cloud computing technologies to drive improved customer and employee engagement. 

Due to unprecedented demand for Velteo's Talent we are embarking on our next phase of hiring. Since we have a high value for our culture we expect successful candidates to be aligned to our core values. Velteo’s culture is built on 5 core values:

• Passion for growth
• Walk the talk
• Stay grounded
• Courage to lead
• Pursuit of mastery

With a recent win at the Sydney Business Awards and a Top 50 at the Cool Company awards Velteo is obviously onto something. This could be the place where you create your career in cloud computing whilst having fun disrupting tradition to create meaningful outcomes for both our customers and ourselves.

We are currently looking to fill the following role:

Salesforce.com JUNIOR DEVELOPERS

Velteo is looking for Junior Developers for our NSW Headquarters. Our Developers's are expected to understand code, cloud and people. The role requires you to provide:

• Configuration of Salesforce solutions
• Design and developing solutions in Apex, Visualforce, etc
• Ensuring solutions are delivered within project timelines
• Preparing test cases in line with the Client’s requirements
• Provide application support when required

The successful candidate will hold:

• HTML skills
• Java programming experience
• Solid database management experience
• Salesforce CRM experience very desirable but not essential
• Good communication skills

Please submit your interest here.

Due to unprecedented demand for Velteo's Talent we are embarking on our next phase of hiring. Since we have a high value for our culture we expect successful candidates to be aligned to our core values. Velteo’s culture is built on 5 core values:

• Passion for growth
• Walk the talk
• Stay grounded
• Courage to lead
• Pursuit of mastery

With a recent win at the Sydney Business Awards and a Top 50 at the Cool Company awards Velteo is obviously onto something. This could be the place where you create your career in cloud computing whilst having fun disrupting tradition to create meaningful outcomes for both our customers and ourselves.

We are currently looking to fill the following role:

Salesforce.com BUSINESS ANALYST

Velteo is looking for an experienced Business Analysts for both Victoria and NSW. Our BA's are expected to understand business, processes and people. The role requires you to provide:

• business analysis services 
• salesforce.com configuration capapbility 
• business requirements gathering
• interpreting business rules and process modelling 
• develop detailed business requirements and specifications
• facilitate stakeholder workshops, and 
• assist with the production of deployment documentation

The successful candidate will hold:

• Highly developed business analyst skills.
• Extensive experience in documenting business requirements, functional specifications and systems requirements for IT software application development.
• Experience and knowledge of enterprise scale CRM applications, especially those based on Salesforce.com.
• Salesforce.com configuration experience
• Experience analysing requirements and designing strategies to maintain data quality in database systems.
• Experience analysis requirements necessary to manage large scale projects.

Please submit your interest here.

Due to unprecedented demand for Velteo's Talent we are embarking on our next phase of hiring. Since we have a high value for our culture we expect successful candidates to be aligned to our core values. Velteo’s culture is built on 5 core values:

• Passion for growth
• Walk the talk
• Stay grounded
• Courage to lead
• Pursuit of mastery

With a recent win at the Sydney Business Awards and a Top 50 at the Cool Company awards Velteo is obviously onto something. This could be the place where you create your career in cloud computing whilst having fun disrupting tradition to create meaningful outcomes for both our customers and ourselves.

We are currently looking to fill the following role:

VICTORIA: ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Please submit your interest here.

Velteo has been named one of Australia’s ‘Coolest’ businesses in Anthill Magazine’s Sixth Annual Cool Company Awards.

Velteo has scored a place among Anthill’s Top 50 in its 2011 Annual Cool Company Awards, a national program developed in 2006 to recognise Australian companies that are doing things differently to bring about positive change.

Over 700 aspiring ‘cool companies’ were nominated for the 2011 awards, making ‘The Cools’ one of Australia’s largest business awards programs. The winners will be announced at an award’s function on Thursday 24 November 2011 and published on AnthillOnline.com.

“The Cool Company Awards are extremely egalitarian,” said James Tuckerman, Editor-In-Chief, Anthill Magazine. “Previous winners have included two-person start-ups, not-for-profit social enterprises, large private companies and publicly-listed corporations.”

“Judging takes into account far more than mere business variables, such as revenue and wealth. The criteria is geared to consider other qualities, from the disruptive nature of the product or service to the culture of the organisation.”

“Applicants either nominated themselves or were nominated by peers, work colleagues, family, friends and other ‘admirers’. A field of hundreds was examined (and cross-examined) before our judges were able to isolate three Finalists for each of our seven categories.”

What are Cool Company Awards?

The Cool Company Awards was launched in 2006 as a way for Anthill Magazine to publicly acknowledge and celebrate Australian organisations that are doing things differently to bring about positive change. In its sixth year, the awards attracted nominations from over 700 organisations, making it among the largest business award programs in Australia. 

What is Anthill Magazine? 

AnthillOnline.com is a digital business magazine that celebrates creativity, inspiration and commercial ingenuity, providing a fresh, exciting and practical perspective on Australian business in a global world. It is among the Top 50 Business & Finance websites in Australia, as ranked by Nielsen Online Ratings, and is home to the Cool Company Awards, the 30under30 and the Smart 100. It’s where ideas and business meet.

Hasten to say we were totally surprised considering our first attempt at such a competition and would like to thank all customers, partners and employee's who voted for us in becoming a finalist.

The final judging was based on such criteria as:

1. Financial results
2. Strategic planning
3. Industry innovation
4. Community participation and leadership
5. Marketing and Communications
6. Evidence of environmental sustainability planning

So winning this award is significant for our young company and an acknowledgement of our unique approach to Customer Engagement.

Congratulations to all the other category winners on the night, you are all an inspiration.

We hope you enjoy some of the pics from the event below and we welcome your continued support in helping Velteo to innovate and create magic for your business and culture.

Velteo deployed in excess of 50 projects last financial year and tripled in size, we even moved into our new funky premises at King Street Wharf in Sydney. Our vision became reality with the introduction of a mobile sales and service application and the further development of our Maturity Assessments.

As we continue to innovate through our disruptive approach we look forward to further developing our Culture Practice, Service Cloud Expertise and the development of more beautiful applications that empower our vision for a wholistic platform for customer and staff engagement.

We look forward to an even greater year by delivering the best Customer Engagement Consulting as we continue to infuse Culture, Process and Technology. 

Happy New Financial Year from the team at Velteo.

Velteo is pretty excited about our Platinum sponsorship at the biggest Cloud event in Australia this year, come and say hi and we'll show you what we've been up to.

12 May 2011 Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre 8.30am - 5.30pm

Velteo is proud to be a part of the Cloudforce 2011 Sydney event.  As sponsors of this event we'd like to extend the invitation to our own community as it would be great to see you there. Join Polly Sumner, Chief Adoption Officer, industry leaders and 1000 of your peers to discover the latest mobile, social, and collaborative breakthroughs driving success in the Cloud 2 world.  Come and experience the future of cloud computing and see for yourself how you can run any app on any device, using any development platform. Take part in this free, all-day event and:  :: See Salesforce in action in 15 role-based sessions :: Learn how to increase productivity and boost sales by 27% :: Test-drive partner solutions in the cloud expo Then, cap off your day at the Cloudforce networking reception, where you can meet 1:1 with experts, customers, and partners.  This is a free event, so seats will go fast—register now!  We hope to see you there! Polly Sumner Chief Adoption Officer salesforce.com Craig Scroggie VP & Managing Director, Pacific Region  Symantec Gary Mitchell Managing Director  BMC Software Paul Harapin VP & Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand VMware

6 Cuthbert St, King Street Wharf, Sydney NSW 2000

Global leader in integrated, on-demand software solutions, Aprimo^® Inc. has announced an alliance with Velteo, specialists in customer engagement and technology, to resell the Aprimo Marketing Studio On Demand software solution.

The partnership will combine Aprimo’s best of breed marketing automation and marketing resource management capabilities with Velteo’s technological and best practice expertise, leveraging both companies’ existing partnerships with Salesforce.com.

Regional Director of Aprimo, Dermot McCutcheon said, “As customer engagement marketing solutions become more advanced, third party experts are brought on board to become involved in the project design, integration and deployment phases.”

“In addition to offering Aprimo Marketing Studio On Demand, Velteo will deliver implementation and consulting services supporting the integration of Aprimo and Salesforce.com to help companies achieve better alignment between marketing and sales departments.”

“This strategic alliance will allow us to combine both Aprimo and Velteo’s key strengths as well as allowing us to work with our customers to establish best practices,” said Mr McCutcheon.

CEO of Velteo, Con Georgiou said, “This alliance is a great opportunity for us to combine our holistic approach to improvement with Aprimo’s marketing automation and resource management capabilities. Repeatable success is now even more realistic with this alliance.”

“We are looking forward to a strong relationship with Aprimo,” said Mr Georgiou.

Aprimo Marketing Studio On Demand provides modular marketing solutions that allows marketers to capture their target audience, engage them in more relevant and meaningful dialogue, convert them to customers and cultivate the lifetime value of each customer relationship.

About Aprimo
Aprimo is a leading global provider of marketing software and services that enhance the productivity and performance of marketing organisations. The company’s integrated marketing software enables marketers to take control of budget and spends, eliminating internal silos with streamlined workflows, and executing innovative multi-channel campaigns to drive measureable ROI. Founded in 1998, Aprimo is headquartered in Indianapolis with offices worldwide. http://www.aprimo.com

About Velteo
Velteo is a leading customer engagement consultancy. The company's holistic approach to customer engagement covers people, process and technology for sustainable and repeatable success. The integration of best practices with innovative technology platforms such as Aprimo and salesforce.com provides real value to customers who need an agile and effective way to gain, win and manage customers whilst empowering the workforce for increased effectiveness and productivity. 

Founded in 2009, Velteo is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. http://www.velteo.com

At Velteo we have discovered and are harnessing what we call the Velteo DNA:

This is critical to all aspects of our business because it determines how we hire, how we engage, how we communicate and build relationships and how we operate. The top two critical DNA characteristics are Hunger and Customer Awareness. These traits cannot be taught, you either have then or you don't. 

In defining Hunger I mean the drive to achieve and improve time and time again, true hunger though requires alignment to a vision, its then that it becomes inspiration and we have a lot of that at Velteo.

I define Customer Awareness as an innate ability to know what a customer wants and respond from that intent. Customer intimacy being the ultimate end state predicates that you care first and solve second.

The second two DNA characteristics can be learned. They are Commercial savviness and technical or business competency. Being Commercial at Velteo requires thinking like an owner and managing your own time while holding yourself accountable and understanding the bottom line implications of your efforts and top line potential of your value.

The final characteristic is what most people term 'skill' or competency. This can certainly be taught and with the right integrated learning method and support environment can be taught rapidly. Whether it is Force.com development competency, technical Business Analyst work or Business Process Improvement Consulting these skills can all be learnt.

However, before any DNA strain can form it must be built on a solid and holistic Cultural Backbone. This is where talent is found, developed and harnessed. Velteo's Cultural Backbone is one of transparency, genuineness, accountability and empowerment otherwise known as a Tribal Culture or family.

I can honestly attribute Velteo's performance thus far to its people. The Velteo DNA and culture must be working as we seem to be attracting talent to us, even with customers who once they get a taste of the Veltean way want to engage further. So regarding that skills shortage issue, I believe if you have the right culture you will attract the right people, if you set the right intent and vision you will always have the right people on the bus and the benefit of gravity on your side.

We are planning rapid growth during 2011, if you feel you are a Veltean and need a supportive organisation who can help you achieve a meaningful career, please contact us at Iwantvelteo@velteo.com.