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deCarta Names Murat Erdem Vice President, Operations and
Professional Services
deCarta Names Murat Erdem Vice President, Operations and
Professional Services
San Jose, Calif. -November 13, 2006 – deCarta (formerly Telcontar), the leading supplier of software platforms and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry, today announced it has appointed Murat Erdem to its newly-created Vice President, Operations and Professional Services post. Erdem will assume full management responsibility over deCarta's Hosted Web Services, Developer Zone, and Professional Services to ensure the products and services transparently scale to customer and developer requirements.
"With the growth in the location industry, we are engaging with many applications which need high-reliability scalable services," said deCarta President and CEO J. Kim Fennell. "Murat brings us deep experience and skills to ensure we have the necessary resources and best-practice service environment in place well in advance to meet those needs and maximize our value to customers."
"deCarta has built an enviable reputation delivering powerful developer solutions and enabling technologies, for the LBS marketplace," said newly appointed Vice President of Operations and Professional Services, Murat Erdem. "With over 650 developers using the company's Developer Zone, and growing customer deployment of deCarta's Hosted Web Services, I look forward to make certain we continue our tradition of exceeding developer and customer expectations."
Erdem comes to deCarta from Voxify, a voice recognition company, where as Vice President of Customer Operations he managed teams responsible for the implementation and integration of Voxify's Automated Agent products and services. Previously, he was Vice President of Application Management Services and Operations for Corio where, prior to its acquisition by IBM, he built the global service organization responsible for managing hundreds of Global 1000 accounts.
Erdem also held key management positions at Bechtel Corporation and PeopleSoft where he managed the Application Development Team in the company's Global Support Center. He has a Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering from Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey and an MBA from University of California, Davis.
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About deCarta
deCarta is the leading geospatial software platform that powers today's most successful Location-Based Services (LBS) applications such as those deployed at Google Maps, Yahoo, Ask.com, Verizon and Sprint. The company's unique, patented technology is ideal for high-volume LBS applications for use in Internet, mobile, personal navigation and telematics applications where scalability, speed, and reliability are vital. Its Drill Down Server geospatial software platform, Rich Map Engine and Hosted Web Service is preferred by application developers and service providers who also want the flexibility to customize map styles, utilize unique routing capabilities and self-brand. deCarta customers and technology partners include AND, Appello, Ask.com, ATX, Google, Local Matters, Maps.com, Motorola, NAVTEQ, Networks In Motion, Pharos, Rand McNally, Tele Atlas, TeleNav, Yahoo! and Zillow. deCarta is privately held and headquartered in San Jose, California with international offices in the UK and China. www.decarta.com.
deCarta, the deCarta logo, Rich Map Engine and Drill Down Server are trademarks or registered trademarks of deCarta, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other company, brand and product names are marks of their respective holders.
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MSR Communications
415-987-0662
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deCarta Company Contact:
Robert Young
Director, Marketing Communications
deCarta
408-625-3567
ryoung@decarta.com
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