IT process automation firm names CTO

The chief technical officer responsible for driving product strategy and development direction for Opalis, a software IT process automation provider, is now Charles Crouchman.

Opalis Software, the software IT process automation market leader with over 1,100 customers, has announced Charles Crouchman has joined the company as chief technology officer (CTO).

A respected leader within the enterprise systems management community, Crouchman will be responsible for driving the product strategy and development direction for Opalis during its time of rapid growth.

"Charles joins Opalis just as the market for IT process automation is exploding.

We are thrilled to have him on board.

With his addition, we have built the strongest management team in our market - we are ready for the explosion." said Todd DeLaughter, CEO and president of Opalis.

Most recently, Crouchman was senior vice president of development for the Cybermation business unit at CA.

Cybermation was acquired by CA earlier this year.

At Cybermation, he managed product development, product management, and business development.

Under his leadership, Cybermation grew from an US$8 million niche vendor to a US$32 million best-of-breed vendor in the systems management market, and gained favourable positioning on the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Crouchman commented: "Managing critical IT processes across the silos will be one of the key areas for customers to truly link business with IT going forward.

Opalis' ability to automate IT processes and their ease of use with rapid time-to-value solutions, leads me to believe we will be hugely successful in this market." Crouchman's appointment follows a series of key leadership additions to Opalis, including George Kellar as chief operating officer, Duncan Hill as a strategic advisor, and Denise Jackson as director of Professional Services.

Last year Yale Tankus was named vice president of Strategy and Development, Tom Siegel, was announced vice president of Worldwide Sales, Michael Tindal, vice president of Marketing, and Todd DeLaughter, CEO and president.

These seasoned executives joined Opalis from industry leading companies including HP, CA, SAS, and Unisys.

Opalis' IT process automation software allows customers to orchestrate, integrate, and automate IT best practices, improving service delivery and service levels, while reducing operational costs.

This is achieved through extensive 'out-of-the-box' support for automating many IT workflows with the ability for a customer to modify the pre-defined workflows to fit their specific environment or create new workflows using an easy GUI-based process designer.

Opalis' technology complements existing systems management products and provides integration support for hundreds of systems management and business applications.

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