Big Band Software is a holding company for B2B SaaS software. Today, it announced its second purchase since it began in 2023. Big Band Software has completed the acquisition of Workzone, a top project management platform that businesses, colleges, and hospitals use to manage large amounts of important work.
Users ranked Workzone as the best project management product on Capterra (Gartner). The company is known for mixing cutting-edge technology with personalized customer service to help businesses reach their strategic and tactical goals. Workzone has industry leaders from higher education, healthcare, financial services, marketing firms, retail, and consumer goods as customers. The average customer stays with the company for seven years, and the longest-tenured customer stays for 21 years.
Leading executive and co-founder of Big Band Software, Kevin McArdle, said, “When we set out to create a revolutionary holding company, our main goal was to find companies that shared certain core values that we could build upon.” ” The people in charge at Workzone have not only built a strong SaaS business but also a great team.” Workzone is different from other places where customers and workers are too often treated like numbers. Their workers have been with the company for an average of nine years, and hundreds of businesses have been with them for a long time. This says a lot about how strong the company is and how good the Workzone offering is.
Workzone was one of the first online project management tools when it was created by Rick Mosenkis and Allan Kalish in 2002. Over time, the site became the “go-to” project management tool for teams working on big, multi-step projects. Then, Workzone added a hands-on customer success and training component to help customers drive change management and make the project management process easier. As a company that has done many “firsts,” Workzone’s Project Management Platform is now used by teams in operations, marketing, human resources, IT, and leadership roles.
“I’ve met with some of the same leaders at Workzone once a week for more than 20 years.” “Today is really sad for me because we’ve shared a mission and a vision, as well as our lives,” said Rick Mosenkis, co-founder of Workzone. “I’m excited, however, to leave the organization in capable hands who not only value what we’ve created but have a vision of taking it to unprecedented heights.” During the change, Rick will continue to help Big Band and Workzone’s new CEO.
Big Band and Workzone are pleased to report that Ash Didwania has been named as Workzone’s new CEO. He will help the company plan its next phase of growth. Ash has a history of leading exponential growth and growing transformational products at B2B SaaS startups, scaleups, and Fortune 500 tech companies. This makes him the perfect person to lead the way forward. Ash is the first generation of his family to be Indian-American. He has more than 14 years of experience in tech and going to market. Most recently, he was the chief revenue officer of Resilia, a venture-backed tech-for-good company where he oversaw the business side of things.
“Workzone is a great place to work.” There is a huge amount of potential because the product has been around for a long time, the team and customers have been with you for a long time, and the industry is growing quickly and wants to make work easier,” said Ash Didwania. “By using both technology and human help for project management, we can help businesses completely change how they handle a lot of important work while also helping their teams find a good work-life balance.” I’m excited to work closely with our customers and teams on this exciting journey, and I’m going to double down on Rick’s method of making products that focus on the needs of customers.
Workzone has had a great start to 2024. They signed one of their biggest deals ever with a big hospital group to help them run their business more efficiently. As part of its plans to keep growing, the company will release an updated product in the first quarter of 2024. This will offer more up-to-date project management features while still maintaining the personal customer service it is known for.
