Web site offers new features and functionality to make Silicon Slopes more resourceful

OREM, Utah – May 21, 2009 – Silicon Slopes, a community initiative providing exposure for Utah technology companies, today announced the release of a new and improved version of their Web site SiliconSlopes.com.

Silicon Slopes offers a free community platform allowing tech companies and their supporting ecosystem to gain exposure.  The new SiliconSlopes.com Web site offers a wide variety of new and improved features that can help Utah tech companies, investors and job seekers. The new site includes the following key features:

• Updated Company Profiles -- expanded to include competitor information, online interviews, company videos, key people, jobs openings, press releases and news
• Searchable Deal Flow -- allows users to find, add and update information about who has received funding, from what participating investors, what service providers contributed and the amount of funding they received
• Job Board -- includes free job posting and applicant tracking that ties in the Utah Technology Council job board and also pushes jobs to other sites like indeed.com, simplyhired.com, jobster.com and utahpulse.com.

New features to SiliconSlopes.com also include a friendlier user interface, expanded content to cover Utah resources, activities, environment, an expanded community information section for recruits and an organizations database where user groups and other organizations can add their information, meetings times, events and history.

“Utah is becoming widely recognized as one of the greatest states of opportunity for business,” said Lex Watterson, President of MountainWest Capital Network. “The MountainWest Capital network and Silicon Slopes make doing business in Utah easier for people both inside and outside the state by identifying and supporting the individuals, investors and companies who are creating or taking advantage of the rich opportunities available here.  The new Silicon Slopes Web site is a powerful way of getting a comprehensive look at deal flow in Utah.”

“The new SiliconSlopes.com Web site offers many added benefits to tech companies and users alike,” said Josh James, CEO, Omniture.  “Those who actively use this site will benefit greatly from this resource. The new Silicon Slopes Web site helps raise the visibility of Utah tech companies, and promotes the state as one of the great technology sectors.”

Silicon Slopes was started in 2007 to recognize the great technology that is being developed in the Utah area. The goal of Silicon Slopes is three-fold: increase awareness for the great things that are going on in Utah, recruit talent to come or remain in the Utah area and increase investments in Utah technologies and companies. 

Silicon Slopes is sponsored in large part by Omniture, Zions Bank, Hummer Winblad, WSGR and UTC. For more information about Silicon Slopes, visit www.siliconslopes.com.

Silicon Slopes Press Contact

Mark Boothe, 801-722-7000 xt.1262, mboothe@omniture.com