HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- WorkXpress Platform as a Service (PaaS) today announced that George Fischer has been named to the company's Board of Directors.

Fischer is the executive vice president for Worldwide Sales and Operations for CA Technologies, a world leader in IT enterprise management and security software and solutions, where he is responsible for sales, services and customer satisfaction in more than 130 countries in which CA Technologies does business.

"I have been watching the PaaS space for some time now and have witnessed WorkXpress improving their product, while gaining worldwide attention from major analyst firms and clients," said Fischer. "I see WorkXpress as a leader in this space and am excited to be serving as a Board member for this growing company."

Treff LaPlante, WorkXpress president and CEO said, "Among PaaS products on the market today, WorkXpress has the potential to be the most disruptive. Our customers regularly experience between 75 percent and 90 percent reductions in time and cost to deliver custom software applications. George has the industry insight, creativity and business sense to help us make that disruption happen. We are very excited for George to contribute his talent and insight to help guide us in our growth."

In addition to joining the Board, Fischer has also invested in the company.  The investment by Fischer acknowledges WorkXpress' growing profile in the PaaS, cloud computing market.

"With access to a skilled and stable workforce, great quality of life and easy access to the Northeast corridor, I expect to see even more investment in high tech coming to Central Pennsylvania," said Fischer.

The PaaS space is rapidly expanding and is garnering attention at all levels. Gartner Inc. has projected that, "By 2015, most enterprises will have part of their run-the-business software functionally executing in the cloud, using PaaS services or technologies."

WorkXpress PaaS has been featured by major analyst firms Forrester and Gartner as a leader in the Platform as a Service space. The company offers organizations the opportunity to quickly and inexpensively customize software to match their internal business processes. Stefan Ried, a Forrester Research analyst, called WorkXpress, "disruptive," in a Twitter post. SaaSChronicles listed WorkXpress as a Top 50 SaaS company.

About WorkXpress PaaS

WorkXpress is the world's only 5GL (fifth generation software language) PaaS (Platform as a Service). Using WorkXpress, professional developers and non-programmers alike regularly build sophisticated business applications while saving over 75% development time and cost. They achieve these amazing results by leveraging an intuitively visual, drag and drop, point-and-click, secure, web-based environment. WorkXpress eliminates the need for coding, data modeling and database querying, while automating common systems administration tasks such as maintenance or disaster recovery. These time and cost savings are all possible without purchase of additional hardware or software. Additionally, WorkXpress offers full integrations with 3rd party applications and the latest web-based technologies.  Some examples include SMS, Email, FedEx, DocuSign, Google Maps, currency conversions, IVR, Google language translation, FTP services, and many more.

Press contact:

Jake Burns
1-717-609-0029
jburns@workxpress.com.

SOURCE WorkXpress