Parature CFO Robert Aldrich has been named CFO of the Year – Business Services in the Washington Business Journal 3rd Annual CFO of the Year. The award honors the Greater Washington region’s top chief financial officers for outstanding performance in their roles as corporate financial stewards.

Parature has been named to the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 ranking at No. 235 with five-year sales growth of 565%.

Software Magazine ranks Parature as one of the world’s largest software companies with 63% growth. The Software 500 is a revenue-based ranking of the world’s largest software and services suppliers targeting medium to large enterprises, their IT professionals, software developers and business managers involved in software and services purchasing.

Parature has been honored by the Web Marketing Association (WMA) with ‘Standard of Excellence’ awards in the computer software and technology industry categories during its 13th annual WebAward Competition for website development. This premiere website award program received entries from more than 2,000 sites from 45 countries that were adjudicated in 96 industry categories during this year’s competition.

Parature’s corporate website www.parature.com was judged by an expert panel of members of the media, advertising executives, top website designers, content providers, and webmasters on seven different criteria, including design, copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, and use of technology. Judges designated higher than industry average scores on all criteria for Parature’s website in the computer software category.

Parature has been named to the third annual ‘Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Nation’ ranking at No. 1139 with a three-year sales growth of 277%. Parature also ranked No. 70 on the magazine’s top 100 software list.

The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy - America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs.

Parature has been selected as a Hot 100 Private Software Company by JMP Securities.

JMP Securities selected Parature as a Hot 100 private software company based on data collected by their research team’s work in the software segment. They identified companies that are involved in key trends, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), those who have received recognition for their products and services, venture capital investments from top tier firms, and those who are leaders in their segment.

Parature has been honored with the 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award

The Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2008 were selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

Parature named a 2009 CRM Service Rising Star by CRM magazine.

Parature received this award for recognizing the value of the small opportunities, as well as the large; for including the user in user support; and for giving its customers the customizable service-and-support product the industry deserves.

Parature Customer Service™ software has been named a recipient of a 2009 CRM Excellence Award.

Based on hard data, The CRM Excellence Award relies on facts and numbers demonstrating the improvements that the winner’s product has made in a client’s business. The Tenth Annual CRM Excellence Award winners have been chosen on the basis of their product or service’s ability to help extend and expand the customer relationship to become all encompassing, covering the entire enterprise and the entire lifetime of the customer.

Parature has been named a Software & Information Industry Association’s 24th Annual CODiE Award finalist.

Parature Customer Service™ software is a finalist in the “Best Relationship Management Solution” and “Best Postsecondary Enterprise Solution” categories.

Duke Chung has been named to the ‘Washington SmartCEO Smart100’.

The Smart100, assembled by an independent selection committee, is an exclusive group of 100 CEOs selected for their leadership, strategic vision and character.

Parature has been named to the ‘Washington SmartCEO Future 50’.

The Future 50 program recognizes the 50 fastest growing companies in the Greater Washington area based on employee and revenue growth over a three year period. Future 50 winners will be recognized at a soccer themed black-tie dinner event on January 29, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda in Bethesda, MD.