The Pittsburgh Business Times recently published an article about the region’s positive hiring outlook in 2013. In the article, they featured Rhiza as one of the growing software companies that is looking to hire quite a few people in 2013.

We’re feeling quite confident about both our company’s growth in 2013, but also the broader economy. All of the data we’ve seen is pointing to a strengthening economy and increased demand for highly skilled employees, such as software engineers and interaction designers. If you know of someone who would be a fit for our team that can help fill some of our open positions please let us know!

Read the full story on their website (paid access) or download a PDF version.

The country’s leading media and location intelligence software company’s meteoric growth recognized by local business community.

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) August 24, 2012

Leading media and location intelligence company, Rhiza, announced today that it has been named a Pittsburgh 100 company. This annual list, published by the Pittsburgh Business Times, includes the region’s 100 fastest growing companies, based on sales growth between 2009 and 2011. As part of the list, Rhiza ranked in the top 10 of all technology companies and in the top 50 in growth of the thousands of companies in the region.

Rhiza’s recent growth can be attributed to its launch of its web-based Rhiza for Media platform, which marries stunning design with advanced data science to help traditional and online media companies sell highly targeted advertising more effectively. Rhiza’s tools are also used to help analyze audiences more precisely, allowing better decision making around marketing, content selection and brand performance. Rhiza has become the tool of choice among cable and large media companies, such as Comcast.

“At Rhiza, we help our customers transform Big Data into actionable intelligence, which improves decision making and generates a huge return on investment,” said Josh Knauer, the company’s President & CEO. “We’re honored to have our growth recognized by our local business community, and are excited to continue expanding our impact.”

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About Rhiza Labs, LLC

Rhiza is turning the business intelligence software industry on its head by making Big Data actually relevant and meaningful to executives and other decision makers within companies. The Rhiza team is obsessed with building incredibly simple to use, yet powerful software that allows its customers to sell smarter and make better decisions by being able to easily sort through massive amounts of data to find just the answers they need. Rhiza’s web-based applications have become the data analysis and visualization tools of choice throughout the media industry.

Rhiza has its headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, with satellite offices in Seattle, WA and New York City, NY.

A new documentary film produced by Kirsi Jansa incorporates maps and charts Kirsi made using Rhiza Upshot. Gas Rush Stories is a series of documentaries that explore the issue of Marcellus shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania, and people’s attitudes about it. In Part 6: A Private Pilot, Kirsi flies with amateur pilot Steve White to look at the impacts of drilling from above, and has an engaging conversation with Steve about the changes he’s witnessed in the landscape from a pilot’s view.
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Axiom News wrote a feature article that highlights how Rhiza’s socially responsible business practices have helped it to be resilient and succeed in this tough economy. You can read the full article here.

From our friends at Pitt’s Center for Healthy Environments and Communities comes news that several researchers have won awards as a result of their work with FracTracker.org, which is powered by Rhiza Insight.

The researchers and their projects were:

• Samantha Malone, BCHS – “Implementation of FracTracker.org: A GeoWeb platform to manage and communicate shale gas information” – Poster | PowerPoint
• Drew Michanowicz, EOH – “Temporal Trends and Spatial Distribution of Air Quality in Western Pennsylvania in the 2000s” – Poster
• Kyle Ferrar, EOH – “Natural Gas Wastewater Treatment: Effluent characterization” – The case study mentioned in Dr. Volz’s recent Senate Hearing Committee presentation.

On the day of the Deans Day awards ceremony, April 15th, Samantha received the Rosenkranz Award for the project judged to be the most significant contribution to the public health field, as well as the overall Dean’s Day third place award in the doctoral category. Drew received the EOH Keleti Award for environmental excellence. Congratulations and keep up your important work!

If you’d like to learn how you can win awards by using Rhiza Insight software, please contact us and we’ll be happy to let you know how to get started!

We love it when our customers sing our praises! A really interesting non-profit organization in Toronto, Canada called Framework has been using our Rhiza Insight software to help in the mapping and measurement of people’s Civic Footprint.

You can read about their experience using Rhiza Insight to take all of the 2010 Calgary Vital Signs data to see emerging trends for the city. It’s great to see our software being used by so many innovative organizations in the non-profit, for-profit and government sectors!

If you have something to say about your experience using Rhiza Insight, please let us know!

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has announced a partnership with Rhiza’s client, the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities at the University of Pittsburgh (CHEC), to publish maps and data from their Rhiza-powered website, FracTracker. With over a million readers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is considered one of the leading newspapers in the world. Their coverage of the Marcellus Shale boom on the web will now be powered by Rhiza Upshot because of the excellent data and mapping work of CHEC and the ease of use of Rhiza Upshot. FracTracker is also starting to appear in the print edition of the newspaper, where a map and well data was published in the very popular Sunday Edition on February 27, 2011.

We at Rhiza are thrilled to see this type of use of Rhiza Upshot’s technology. We’ve designed our web-based mapping tools to easily allow our customers to gather data from lots of sources, create map-based analyses of that data, and then share the results with the world on the web, in presentations and in print, and it’s great to see how creatively our customers are using them! If you’d like to see how Rhiza Upshot could be put to work for your company, organization or agency, please contact us to let us know!

Here are some screenshots from the Post-Gazette’s new Marcellus Shale Community website, called Pipeline:

Congratulations to our friends at the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities for having their Rhiza Insight-powered website, http://fractracker.org be featured in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. The article, Program aims to educate public on shale drilling highlights the work that CHEC and its partners have been doing to track the environmental, health and economic impacts of the natural gas industry’s hydro-fracking practices.

To learn more about this important issue, please visit http://www.fractracker.org

For the second time this year, Rhiza Labs has graced the pages of Inc Magazine. In the latest article titled, The Art of the Spinoff, writer Leigh Buchanan explores Rhiza’s origins as a spinoff of MAYA, an innovative technology research lab grows by cell division, spinning off new companies as needed.

It’s been a busy media week for Rhiza Labs, as our client’s FracTracker.org project has been covered in USA Today, National Public Radio and lots of local media throughout NY, PA and WV.

John Dawes, Executive Director, the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds

The Heinz Endowments has posted on their blog a great interview with John Dawes, the Executive Director of the Foundation for PA Watersheds. In the interview, John talks about how working with Rhiza Labs has helped his foundation.

Here’s a quick excerpt:

Q: What new initiatives has your organization started?

A: In addition to working to renew Growing Greener, we have embarked upon a program with Rhiza Labs, located in Pittsburgh, to put our entire grant-making history online. This will house project profiles, contact information for our grantees, photos of site specific restoration projects, a project location map and outcomes based upon progress reports turned into our foundation.
The wonderful thing about Rhiza Labs is that it aggregates outcomes to compile the amount of money that we have granted. Then the funding can be broken down by program area, year, county or legislative district. It also aggregates the total project cost, which includes the amount of money that we have leveraged. Currently, Rhiza’s findings show that we have more than $90 million in project cost, while we have awarded about $7.5 million. So it’s a wonderful way to tell a story.

We love working with visionary clients like John who are bringing transparency, accountability and data driven decision making to the foundation world! Read the full interview.