Today's featured member, OmniStrat, simplifies online business management.

Today's featured member, OmniStrat, is a powerful online tool that dramatically improves and simplifies the way you manage your business - through an intuitive planning and execution app with rich social collaboration features.
OmniStrat was founded in 2009 to redefine how small- and medium-size businesses plan and execute their strategies. Matt Johnson, founder of Boston-based OmniStrat, spent more than a decade working in the business intelligence industry, realizing that the critical need was not more reports, but a simple, effective and economical way to manage the planning and execution process. OmniStrat is his vision.
Thanks to Matt's "wicked good" pitch, his company earned one of our three DEMO scholarships. If you're at DEMO this week, make sure you look for Matt (that's his pic). Read more about how OmniStrat can help you, and check out Matt's winning video pitch!

Enterprise Social Collaboration Done Right – OmniStrat beta release article, originally posted here.
(Boston, MA) - OmniStrat, a web-based business planning and execution software announced its launch from beta with the release of new key features. OmniStrat, a pioneer in social business planning and execution software boasts a wide array of features from group planning, collaborative decision-making, to execution visibility.
Focused on people, OmniStrat is designed to help small and medium sized businesses relieve the pain of business planning and execution. OmniStrat founder and President Matt Johnson said “Our whole objective is to help small to medium sized business become more organized in their planning process and be able to easily monitor the executing of a business plan whether it’s for a new product launch or expansion into new market. With our social collaboration tools built into the application it allows the entire company to plan and execute in real time – and have a company’s plan actually “exist” for employees.”
Features
Refinement of the SocialStrat panel to make social collaboration intuitive and easy across the organization. Full drag and drop editing of Objectives, Initiatives and Actions. Tool tips added across the app to help get users get up to speed faster. Click to add Requests and Actions to your personal calendar, works with Google, Outlook and iCal.
“We believe that effective planning and execution can be the difference between success or failure, however, the pain and effort of managing a formal planning and execution process in small and mid-sized businesses have made it a rare practice in many companies,” said Matt. “Our goal is to improve the ease at which planning and execution is managed, and to make companies successful.”
Matt continues “What I’m most excited about is our new SocialStrat panels. We spent a great deal of time working on how to make social collaboration more effective within the enterprise. We feel we have achieved that by putting social interaction into context. Conversation is still spontaneous by its guided by what a company needs to execute on, not just random conversation about anything.”
With these newly added features OmniStrat emerges from its beta testing and opens its entire platform to new users.
If your startup is not yet a member, what are you waiting for? (It's free and you get access to really cool stuff!)


