About Us – Helping Leaders Lead
Proofpoint supports Collaboration...
| 80% | of CEOs say collaboration is critical | } | a 30% collaboration gap |
| 51% | say their organizations collaborate well | ||
Proofpoint's analysis suite provides a collaborative, dynamic, change environment | |||
Proofpoint supports Innovation... | |||
| 66% | of CEOs say they are targeting business model and operational innovation | } | |
| 61% | fear a competitor's business model could radically change the industry landscape | ||
Proofpoint's Organizational Performance Systems help leaders discover—then drive—innovation | |||
Proofpoint supports Change... | |||
| 65% | of CEOs envision fundamental change in the next 2 years | } | a 50% change gap |
| 15% | feel they have been 'very successful' at managing change in the past | ||
Proofpoint's Organizational Performance Systems provide transparency and a structured change process for use at any level | |||
Proofpoint supports the CIO...
by providing a high security, low Total Cost of Ownership, social business platform that supports key CIO concerns.Here's what CIOs and IT VPs are saying are their greatest opportunities

Source: InformationWeek Analytics 2008 Tomorrow's CIO Survey of 720 senior business technology executives
Other key technology issues include
- Business process management
- Metadata management
- Virtualization of the workplace
- Development of web platforms and WOA (web-oriented architecture)
- Universal access to information – Real World Web
Proofpoint supports the CFO...
by providing a means of justifying new programs, initiatives, and procurements; ensuring those investments are aligned to the right priorities; and providing instant access to critical decision making information and the responsible executive leaders.Every project has a measurable, and visible, ROI.
Survey on Workforce Productivity

Source: CFO-IT Survey, Fall 2005 (n = 170)
Proofpoint supports the CLO...
by ensuring training, education, and competency development is linked to, or supported by, other critical performance support investments. The development of human capital can skyrocket.Survey on Major Areas of Focus for CLOs

Source: ASTD/University of Pennsylvania Chief Learning Officer
Profile Research Report, 2005 (n = 92)
Proofpoint supports continuous performance improvement...
For any CPI system to be successful, three elements are needed:
Information + Methods + Enabling Technologies
Most CPI approaches have effective methods and information (and their own legion of converts!), but they lack sustainable enabling technologies. This means critical data and important results get lost over time.
Whether you use a popular method (for example, Deming, Ishikawa, JIT, McKinsey 7-S, Quality Trilogy, Six Sigma, TQC, TQM, Zero Defects), your organization's homegrown CPI method, or have multiple approaches in use across your enterprise, we can help.
Proofpoint's patent pending, method-agnostic CPI approach uses industry standard terminology and many helpful tools and templates to give you an easy way to systematize your unique processes. That leads to more accurate analysis and much faster time to measurable results.
By getting all your project information in one place, you'll help your organization:
- Reduce redundancy and the suboptimization of projects
- Increase cross-project awareness, information sharing, and collaboration
- Track progress
- Improve your use of quality resources (people, time, money)
- And much more



