London, UK. – October 23, 2012 -- As a rapidly growing number of educators turn to Apple’s iPad to support instruction, Netop today introduced Netop Vision™ Mobile, a new app for iPad classroom management. The worldwide leader in classroom management software is unleashing the power of the tablet to support instruction with a new free app for teachers that puts the full power of the desktop computer onto teachers' iPads. Available today from the App Store, Netop Vision Mobile allows teachers to access all of the educational resources on their desktop PC from iPad.

With the download of this new app and Netop Vision Mobile Connector for the PC, iPads suddenly become robust classroom management tools, allowing teachers to move freely around the classroom as they make presentations, provide individual students with guidance and access content to support instruction. If they are teaching in the school library or multi purpose room or even in a faculty meeting, they can quickly and easily find any resources they need with a swipe and tap on their iPad. And when used in combination with Netop Vision or Netop Vision Pro, this iPad teaching app lets teachers actively manage and monitor individual student computers, wherever they are in the classroom.

Educators who tested a trial version of Netop Vision Mobile had high praise for the ways it provided them with access to powerful classroom management tools on the go. Already, 12 UK establishments are trialing the Netop App.

Commenting on Vision Mobile, Jeff Buchanan, a business teacher at Andale High School in Kansas, said, “This product is a great addition to my classroom structure. I can easily move around the room and help students, but also display a student’s work to the rest of the class quickly and easily without having to go back to the front of my classroom to complete the task. Even when I am away from my classroom, I can still see exactly what is going on in my computer lab. It is a great tool that helps keep my classroom efficient and productive.”

Like an iPad environment, the Vision Mobile touch-screen lets teachers move through resources with the familiar and intuitive iPad gestures: tap, swipe, flick, pinch open and pinch close. It also puts standard desktop controls at their fingertips: drag and drop, full keyboard, hot keys and right/left mouse button control. When combined with Vision or Vision Pro, it provides full iPad classroom management functionality from the Vision dashboard. And like all Netop classroom management products, Netop Vision Mobile provides highly reliable connectivity and the highest levels of security.

“As schools explore the potential that tablets, such as iPad, have for improving the learning experience, Netop Vision Mobile transforms the devices into powerful classroom management and instructional tools for teachers,” said Kurt Bager, CEO, Netop. “With the download of our app, a teacher with an iPad and a PC is now teaching in a connected learning environment, with the full complement of teaching resources from the PC available at a quick tap wherever in the classroom or school they may be.”

After downloading the Vision Mobile app, free on the App Store, teachers must download the Vision Mobile Connector for their PC at www.netop.com/visionmobile. The Vision Mobile Connector is included free with Netop Vision Pro classroom management software or can be purchased separately from Netop. For more information, visit www.netop.com/visionmobile.

About Netop Solutions A/S
Netop develops and sells market-leading software solutions that enable swift, secure and seamless transfer of video, screens, sounds and data between two or more computers. The company has three business areas: Secure Remote Control, Classroom Management and Live Chat.

Netop Remote Control is the most secure, trusted and scalable remote support solution on the market today. Used by half of the Fortune 100, it helps businesses reduce support costs and meet security and compliance standards. In Classroom Management, Netop is the world leader in software, helping teachers in 75 countries make teaching with technology easier and more effective. Higher efficiency and better grades are some of the results. And in Live Chat, Netop Live Guide is the live chat solution that helps companies provide better customer service, increase efficiency and sales, and turn website visitors into customers.

Headquartered in Denmark, Netop employs 130 people and has subsidiaries in the United States, Great Britain, China, Romania and Switzerland. The company sells its solutions to public and private clients in more than 80 countries. Netop Solutions A/S shares are listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange OMX. Read more at: www.netop.com.

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London, UK – October 23, 2012 -- Netop today announced an update to its Remote Control application, Netop Remote Control Mobile for iOS, which improves usability and security for mobile support personnel. The application, available for download from Apple’s App Store for iPhone and iPad devices, provides support teams with real-time screen transfer and control over the keyboard and mouse of any machine running a compatible version of the Netop Remote Control host on Windows desktop and server operating systems. The updates optimise the app for use on the recently released iOS 6 and compatible devices, including the iPhone 5 and the new iPad.

Keeping up with the latest iterations of mobile remote control technology, the update also offers Closed User Group (CUG) licenses, an addition which provides an added layer of security. With it, IT support personnel can use a special license key within their Netop Remote Control applications to connect to target devices, also configured with CUG licenses. This adds to the multiple levels of security and verification already inherent to Netop Remote Control Mobile. The update increases the already robust safety and security of interactions between mobile devices and remote controlled systems.

“We recognise that for support personnel to effectively monitor, control and troubleshoot guest machines, they require apps that are specifically designed for use on popular mobile devices, while also giving enterprises the security they require to achieve and remain compliant,” said Kurt Bager, CEO, Netop. “The updates we’ve released for Netop Remote Control Mobile improve the experience for the dedicated IT people who support a global and mobile workforce.”

A recent survey of Netop customers who use Netop Remote Control Mobile for iOS found that two-thirds of customers choose the app for its functionality in accessing Windows-based target machines, and more than 91 percent of respondents need to provide remote support to users over the Internet. The upgrades to Netop Remote Control Mobile improve the support experience by giving teams the quick access and control they need while taking advantage of the latest enhancements to Apple devices.

“We monitor our wastewater systems constantly throughout the day and the Netop Remote Control Mobile app provides an ideal combination of mobility and security,” said Chandler Johnson, CTO, World Water Works. “Even when not near a computer, we can quickly login to a remote system via an iPad and obtain the information we need. The iOS application enables us to be more flexible in our work environment.”

For more information about Netop Remote Control, visit www.netop.com.

About Netop
Netop is a provider of market-leading software solutions that enable swift, secure and seamless transfer of video, screens, sounds and data between two or more computers through its Secure Remote Control, Classroom Management and Live Chat offerings. Headquartered in Denmark, Netop has subsidiaries in the United States, Great Britain, China, Romania and Switzerland. The company sells its solutions to public and private clients in more than 80 countries. Netop Solutions A/S shares are listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange OMX. Read more at: www.netop.com 

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London, October 23, 2012 — AIIM, the global community of information professionals, and Alfresco announced today the election of Alfresco Co-founder, CTO and Chairman John Newton as the new chairman of AIIM’s board of directors. As the trusted and proven advocate in enterprise content management (ECM), Newton is a veteran with more than 25 years experience developing enterprise software to address the needs of global companies and is considered one of the early pioneers of ECM by industry experts.

“I have spent half a lifetime in content management seeing it through from its earliest origins to where it is today. It's exciting to see how far it has come and to participate in its future path as chairman of AIIM’s board,” said Newton. “AIIM has been a trusted resource and forum for the content management industry and through its collaborative membership, I’m excited to partner together to redefine what content management means in the 21st century.”

The next few years will continue to bring some of the most significant changes in technology seen to-date. A new generation is embracing these changes and drastically altering the way global organisations use information as consumers and in the enterprise. Both Alfresco and AIIM are uniquely positioned to not only embrace new technologies and ideas, but also together can positively impact organisations, employees and customers looking to effectively embrace this historic technology evolution.

In 1990, Newton co-founded, designed and led the development of Documentum, the leader in content management acquired by EMC. For the next 10 years, he invented many of the foundational concepts and technologies widely used in the industry today. In addition, he built Documentum's marketing and professional services organisations in Europe, has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital and was one of the founding engineers at Ingres where he helped develop the world's first commercial relational database.

“As one of our industry’s most inspiring luminaries, John brings important insight into the new era of engagement and has a deep understanding of the relationship between content, engagement systems and business performance,” said AIIM President John Mancini. “We look forward to having John take a strong leadership position on our board as we enter a pivotal phase in our growth and expansion to reach new audiences.”

For more information, please visit: http://www.aiim.org/.

About AIIM
AIIM has been an advocate and supporter of information professionals for nearly 70 years. The association’s mission is to ensure that information professionals understand the current and future challenges of managing information assets in an era of social, mobile, cloud and big data. Founded in 1943, AIIM builds on a strong heritage of research and member service. Today, AIIM is a global, non-profit organization that provides independent research, education and certification programs to information professionals. AIIM represents the entire information management community, with programs and content for practitioners, technology suppliers, integrators and consultants.

About Alfresco
Alfresco is how great businesses share, organize and protect content. Nearly seven million people in more than 180 countries use Alfresco Enterprise, Cloud, Mobile and Community to manage over three billion files worldwide.

Whether on the go or in the office, Alfresco empowers today's teams to do great work.

Founded in 2005, Alfresco is headquartered in London with U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information about Alfresco, please visit: http://alfresco.com.

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Veeam Software Group, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Windows Server Hyper-V, today announced strong results and a new milestone in customer growth for the third quarter of 2012. Total bookings revenue grew 43 per cent in the third quarter of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011, and new license bookings revenue increased 30 per cent over the same period. At the same time, the company reported reaching the milestone of 50,000 customers worldwide.

“We’re very happy to have reached the milestone of 50,000 customers just six years after our founding, as this represents strong validation of the quality and innovation in our products,” said Ratmir Timashev, Veeam President and CEO. “It’s great to see the success our customers and partners are having, especially with our Backup & Replication product, the industry leader for VMware and Hyper-V backup and data protection.”

Highlights of the third quarter include:

• Customers – Veeam added 7,000 new customers in Q3 and reached the 50,000 customer milestone worldwide during the quarter.
• Awards – Veeam products and customers’ success were recognised with several awards  at VMworld :
  • Veeam Backup Free Edition won “Best Free Tool” from Virtualisation Review
  • Veeam customer Tiger Wheel & Tyre won “Best virtualisation and server consolidation project” as well as overall “Best of Show” at VMworld Europe
  • Veeam customer Catalent Pharma Solutions won “Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project” at VMworld Europe for its use of VMware vSphere 4.1 and Veeam Backup & Replication 
  • Products – At VMworld Europe Veeam announced that Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 will be available in Q4 of this year. The new version will include new restore capabilities for Microsoft Exchange, and HP StoreVirtual VSA and LeftHand snapshots. Another significant addition is support for VMware vSphere® 5.1 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, making Veeam the first vendor to support both new hypervisor platforms.

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About Veeam Software
Veeam® Software develops innovative solutions for VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, and virtualisation management. Veeam Backup & Replication™ is the #1 VM Backup solution. Veeam ONE™ is a single solution for real-time monitoring, resource optimisation and management reporting for VMware and Hyper-V. The Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) and Smart Plug-in™ (SPI) extend enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and HP Operations Manager. Veeam also provides free virtualisation tools. Learn more by visiting www.veeam.com.

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Reading, UK – October 23, 2012: Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Windows Server Hyper-V, today announced its intention to continue expanding its UK channel presence, as it celebrated the 4th anniversary of its European launch and the announcement of Independent IT Solution and Service Provider Spherica Business Solutions as its 1,000th partner in the UK & Ireland. The anniversary comes in the wake of a number of additions to Veeam’s flagship Backup & Replication product range, designed to provide the channel with more revenue streams. These include the launch of a Free Edition of Backup & Replication to give potential customers an easy entry point: increased support and capabilities for Microsoft Hyper-V giving customers more choice in which hypervisor they choose to adopt: and the ability to explore and restore individual items from Microsoft Exchange, meaning partners can offer a low-cost way to provide e-discovery capabilities.

“While 1,000 partners is an important milestone for Veeam, we believe there is still much more for us to do in the market,” said Ian Wells, Director Northern EMEA, Veeam. “The simple fact is, virtualisation is a tool for everybody. From the largest enterprises to the smallest of SMEs, everyone can benefit from the improvements in scalability, efficiency and data protection that virtualisation presents. In the past 4 years, our presence in the UK and beyond has grown exponentially thanks to a willingness to provide what both the channel and their customers need. However, we have no intention to stop now: we will continue to expand and forge new partnerships, making sure that the channel can make the most from virtualisation.”

Veeam signed Spherica at the end of September, following a 2-month search to find the vendor’s 1,000th UK and Ireland channel partner. Since entering the European market in September 2008 Veeam has steadily grown its partner ecosystem, from distributors to resellers. While Veeam’s flagship Backup & Replication data protection software and monitoring and reporting solutions have been available for all that time, it has recently added extra capabilities designed to make virtualisation and related tools even more profitable for partners. These include:

• Low Point of Entry: The introduction of a free edition of Veeam Backup & Replication, as well as existing free tools, means that the channel can offer potential customers a fully-functional management and data protection suite with virtual infrastructure for no additional cost, a powerful incentive.
• Greater Hypervisor Flexibility: Veeam’s solutions can be used with both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, providing consistent management and data protection across both products. As a result, the channel can support customers in using hypervisor best suited to their needs without worrying about the compatibility of value-added services.
• Expanding Virtualisation’s Potential: Veeam is pushing virtualisation’s capability to provide services that add even more value for users. For example, in July 2012 Veeam launched Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange, which leverages Veeam’s Backup & Replication technology to explore and recover Microsoft Exchange items and archives. Included in Veeam Backup Free Edition, this provides a cost-effective alternative to specialist tools for tasks such as e-discovery and so further incentive to take up virtualisation.

Veeam also offers channel partners a wide variety of support from its ProPartner Programme, from marketing materials and discounts to training and product support. As a result, the channel can be sure it has a full range of tools to persuade customers of the value of virtualisation.

“We are delighted to be Veeam’s 1,000th partner in the UK and Ireland,” said Steve Jennings, Director, Spherica Business Solutions. “We were attracted to Veeam for a number of reasons. There was the support it offered to its channel partners, such as discounts, support and training. More importantly, there was the fact that Veeam allows us to open up entirely new revenue streams in helping customers manage and protect their virtual infrastructure. By offering these capabilities across hypervisors and across different sizes of business we can ensure that we have fully-fledged offerings to provide to potential and existing customers regardless of their situation.”

“We rely on a mix of customers, from the largest enterprises to SMEs,” said Joe Brady, Senior Infrastructure Architect at Veeam partner, managed services specialist Hibernia Evros. “As a result, we need to be able to offer services that will appeal across the market. Veeam’s technology has been perfect for this: its breadth of functionality in its products, scalability and compatibility with both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V mean that we can provide the exact requirements that each of our customers need. At the same time, Veeam’s channel programme and support mean we have complete peace of mind that we can deal with any issues that might arise with the minimum of headaches.”

Veeam’s “1,000 UK and Ireland Partner” programme ran from August to September 2012: as the 1,000th UK and Ireland partner Spherica Business Solutions wins a paid-for trip to St Petersburg as a guest of Veeam. For more information on Veeam’s channel programmes and the opportunities for new partners, please visit http://www.veeam.com/propartner.html?ad=menu

About Veeam Software
Veeam® Software develops innovative solutions for VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, and virtualization management. Veeam Backup & Replication™ is the #1 VM Backup solution. Veeam ONE™ is a single solution for real-time monitoring, resource optimization and management reporting for VMware and Hyper-V. The Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) and Smart Plug-in™ (SPI) extend enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and HP Operations Manager. Veeam also provides free virtualization tools. Learn more by visiting http://www.veeam.com/.

23 October 2012 – Chicago/London/Sydney – ThoughtWorks, Inc., a global leader in custom software development, today announced the availability of its Technology Radar for October 2012. Created out of the lively debates held among ThoughtWorks’ Technology Advisory Board, comprised of senior technology leaders from across the globe, the Technology Radar provides the latest perspective on emerging trends.

The report is aimed at providing CXOs, business and IT executives with insight into the techniques, tools, languages and platforms that are driving next-generation software development from ThoughtWorks’ perspective. For each item on the radar, ThoughtWorks provides a recommendation about the use of that item by placing it into one of four classes: Adopt, Trial, Assess and Hold. The report is divided into four quadrants that cover Techniques, Platforms, Tools and Languages & Frameworks.

According to the latest report some of the strategic trends the study identifies are:

• Mobile design and testing
• Readily accessible analytics
• The need for simple architectures
• Cloud driving reproducible environments
• Data persistence done right

Techniques
Significant shifts are taking place within mobile. As mobile increasingly becomes the primary way of accessing the internet, this needs to be factored in to new enterprise application and product strategies, through to implementation – from “mobile first” design all the way through to a new breed of testing tools.

Accessible Analytics is being driven by the explosion of interest in Big Data and analytics. But Big Data does not have to equal big budgets. A combination of open-source tooling and cloud-based infrastructure provides a more readily accessible analytics and visualisation approach.

Tools
Simple architectures continues to gain traction, including both techniques for building and composing applications, as well as infrastructure-based techniques to enable simple deployment, failover and recovery.

Reproducible environments (and the tools to support them) feature prominently in the Technology Radar and has established itself as a viable alternative in development, test and production environments.

Tools supporting the standardisation, set-up automation and co-ordinated management of development, test and production environments for both internally hosted and public cloud environments feature prominently on this edition of the radar.

Platforms
With the growing acceptance of “NoSQL” databases, the concept of Polyglot Persistence (an alternative way to store information using multiple data stores) has emerged as a viable enterprise option. Its growing acceptance is illustrated by the Neo4J platform being identified in the Adopt circle, and Riak, MongoDB, Couchbase placed in the Trial circle.

As NoSQL databases mature and gain acceptance, an understanding of the patterns for use (and abuse) become even more imperative.

Languages & Frameworks
The industry is undergoing a seismic shift in programming languages with functional hybrids, including Clojure and Scala, identified in the Adopt circle for the first time. Reaching maturity are also a number of JavaScript frameworks, including Require.js, Angular JS, Knockout and Twitter Bootstrap.

Light Table, a simple and revolutionary new way of composing code, has also been included in the Technology Radar for its potentially revolutionary approach to programming.

“There are a lot of industry buzzwords out there, and it can be hard to keep up with the latest trends and innovations in software development,” said Neal Ford, director and software architect at ThoughtWorks. “To help our customers and the industry keep apace, our Technology Advisory Board meet twice a year to debate the latest trends and share their thoughts on a host of technologies. Their conclusions and recommendations are reflected in the latest Technology Radar. At ThoughtWorks, we are proud to be at the cutting-edge of technology and business developments, and our Technology Radar helps us and our customers to focus on staying ahead of the latest trends.”

To read the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, please click here. 

London, 23 October 2012 - Interoute Application Management, an application managed services specialist and progressive cloud services provider, is partnering with Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Hireserve, to sell Hireserve’s iCams product suite via Interoute’s cloud as part of its Software as a Service (SaaS) Acceleration Programme. This brings enhanced disaster recovery and security to Hireserve’s application, and Interoute’s programme offers the business additional support for marketing and selling initiatives.

iCams is Hireserve’s e-recruitment platform which supports the entire recruitment process and allows organisations to manage their recruitment process from the initial vacancy posting through to screening, selection and hiring. It also provides integration with social networks, online testing, mobile platforms and internal systems such as HR. Being part of Interoute’s SaaS Acceleration Programme reduces the time, complexity and costs of implementing the application, and ensures that Hireserve is able to meet ad hoc demands from customers who continue to need increased security and flexibility. iCams is already used by organisations including Oracle, the RNLI, eircom, the General Medical Council and Deloitte.

Hireserve has been working with Interoute Application Management for a year now and all existing customers have been transferred across to the new model, ensuring they are experiencing the benefits of the SaaS Acceleration Programme alongside new customers. For Interoute customers using iCams, the new level of service wrap means they have access to a wide range of applications which they can easily and quickly choose from, safe in the knowledge that there will be no integration issues as they are delivered via their usual network.

Jeremy Ovenden, Hireserve’s Managing Director, commented: “During the last year, Interoute has developed a strong understanding of our iCams e-recruitment platform and its strengths in the market which it serves. They have worked with us to support our business objectives and refine the infrastructure to meet the requirements of our specific application. We are delighted to join a mutual partnership with Interoute and look forward to enjoying a successful future together.”

Steve Mace, Head of Cloud Services Sales, Interoute Application Management commented: “Our SaaS Transformation Programme serves a dual purpose; to provide ISV partners with the technology and business support to meet their own customer demands for SaaS delivery and to offer our 10,000+ customers a range of top applications seamlessly integrated within their own network. As such, we will only work with top quality applications which we know our customers will be interested in. We are very pleased to be able to offer our customers Hireserve’s iCams product suite as our e-recruitment platform of choice.”

Maidenhead, UK – 23 October 2012 – Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that it has added big data profiling for Apache Hadoop to its next-generation integration platform, enabling organisations to discover and understand data stored in Hadoop clusters, and to take the guesswork out of finding and identifying problem data. The solution addresses one of the most significant big data problems facing companies today: poor quality data costs U.S. businesses an estimated $700 billion a year due to the inefficiency it causes and the loss of customers, sales and revenue.[1]

Data quality issues are endemic in most organisations. Duplication, incompleteness and inconsistency all play a part in undermining operational efficiency. Data profiling – the process of gauging the character and condition of data stored in varied forms across the enterprise – is a vital step toward gaining control over organisational data. Data profiling is also an emerging, but critical, big data best practice. Without the ability to assess big data and its relevancy to their needs, organisations are likely to accumulate data that is at best irrelevant or at worst detrimental to their use of Hadoop and other big data platforms.

“If organisations are not careful, their big data investment can degenerate from a strategic asset into an unmanageable burden,” said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder and chief technical officer, Talend. ”Understanding data is essential to using it effectively and improving its quality. To achieve these goals, Talend provides exploratory profiling capabilities to understand the structure and level of quality of data stored in big data platforms such as Hadoop. As the first open source provider of data quality solutions, our ability to summarise details about large data sets from different angles makes Talend a powerful tool for business analysts and data scientists.”

For many businesses, data profiling projects remain stuck in neutral, thwarted by the time demands of building data profiling tools in house, or the steep costs of purchasing a proprietary solution. Talend Platform for Big Data includes a new set of capabilities that provide deep, organisation-wide visibility into all big data in its many locations and forms. These include:

• Profiling allows users to analyse their data in their Hive database on Hadoop. Profiling is performed “in place”, meaning data does not need to go through the time-consuming process of being extracted from Hadoop before being profiled.
• Talend data profiling leverages the power of the Hadoop cluster, allowing users to scale up with additional servers to boost performance and deal with increases in volume.
• Analysis provides a custom graphical report on the level of quality of organisations’ data. Data quality analysis includes standard tests that apply to all types of data like empty/missing values, number of duplicates, length of data and shapes of data. It includes further tests for specific data domains such as e-mail validation and phone number validation. These tests can be customised and extended as needed.

Beyond data profiling, the Talend Platform for Big Data delivers data cleansing, data enrichment, data migration and data synchronisation functionality for Hadoop platforms.

[1] Ovum, " *Best Practices for Evaluating Data Quality Tools,” October 2010.

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Talend big data profiling will be available in November 2012 as part of the release of Talend v5.2.  Additional information and regular updates can be found by following Talend on Twitter at @Talend and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/talend.

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Talend is the recognised market leader in open source integration solutions. The company’s enterprise integration platform helps organisations minimise costs and maximise the value of data integration, ETL, data quality, master data management, application integration and business process management, while supporting their shift toward the Cloud and Big Data.  More than 3,500 paying customers worldwide, including eBay, ING, The Weather Channel, Deutsche Post and Allianz, subscribe to Talend’s solutions and services. With over 20 million downloads, Talend’s products are the most trusted integration solutions in the world. The company has major offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners.  For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.

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London, October 23, 2012 - cVidya Networks, (www.cvidya.com) a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for Telecom, Media and Entertainment service providers, announced today the detection of a large scale bypass fraud scam in APAC through the implementation of cVidya’s Fraud Management solution, FraudView. The call bypass systems implemented are said to have incurred fraud losses in the millions of dollars. cVidya’s FraudView detected the illegal simbox use within hours from the solution implementation. With the information gathered by FraudView, authorities were able to locate and apprehend the fraudster immediately.
FraudView detected and located the person behind the fraud ring using its innovative bypass fraud system. The accused man was arrested in his home by local authorities. The operator filed the complaint with the authorities after discovering a very high volume of international calls made from a single location where the suspect lived. This FraudView system currently covers thirty million subscribers and detects thousands of bypass cases daily.  The fraudster was found with various types of sophisticated telecom fraud equipment in his home which were seized by authorities. Bypass fraud allows for an international call to look like a local call so that telecom operators are not able to receive long distance charges and other fees.

“We are proud to see that our clients are benefitting from our solutions and that justice is prevailing,” said Along Aginsky, CEO and president of cVidya. “cVidya is ranked by leading research firms among the top RA & FM vendors worldwide. With our award-winning software and amazing team of specialists we were able to uncover this scheme. Quite simply, our solutions work, and in this case, even better and faster than our client had expected.”

FraudView is the leading fraud management solution for Telecom providers. It identifies traditional and next-generation fraud patterns and performs real-time subscriber risk management to prevent fraud losses across all business lines and services. FraudView introduced the first 3G and VoIP fraud solutions as well. FraudView identifies all types of fraud patterns including bypass fraud, internal fraud, and subscription fraud and has been shown to consistently reduce fraud by as much as 90%. In addition, FraudView identifies mobile money fraud and is capable of enhanced link analysis over social networks as well, all with location-based fraud detection.

About cVidya Networks
cVidya Networks is a global leader and innovative provider of revenue-intelligence solutions for telecom, media and entertainment service providers. The company’s product portfolio helps operators and service providers maximize margins, improve customer experience and optimize ecosystem relationships through revenue assurance, fraud management, operational risk management, sales performance management and pricing analytics. Backed by a team of highly skilled professional experts and consultants, cVidya’s solutions have a proven track record of achieving rapid ROI and lower TCO. With over 150 customers and an extensive network of regional offices in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and APAC, cVidya has one of the largest installed bases of revenue-assurance and fraud-management implementations worldwide.

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Vasanta announces strategic deployment of Stibo Systems’ STEP product information management solution to help deliver efficiency and new levels of service to customers

Reading, UK - 23 October 2012 - Stibo Systems, the Strategic Information Management Technology and Solutions Company today announces a partnership with Vasanta Group, the largest B2B distributor of office products in the UK and Ireland. Vasanta will implement Stibo Systems’ STEP platform to manage strategic product information across its national operation.

With over 25,000 products offered in a variety of brands and categories, Vasanta manages a complex flow of information between its suppliers and customers. The implementation of STEP will ensure that the company can meet the growing demands for comprehensive product information, made available online via ecommerce websites, via its extensive range of mailers and catalogues, and via ecatalogues for resellers.

Alison Holmes, Head of Master Data Management at Vasanta commented, “The increasing demand for enriched and granular data supported by high resolution imagery has led us to invest in a long term data solution. The growing complexity of managing product information in today’s business environment means that it is more important than ever for The Vasanta Group to carefully consider information management in the context of delivering superior product information to customers."

The investment in STEP will serve to strengthen the existing relationships Vasanta has with customers in the reseller community, which requires access to detailed, accurate product information. STEP will help manage Vasanta’s delivery of strategic product information to resellers, thereby empowering them to provide their own customers with an improved buying experience.

“Stibo Systems has a proven track record of working with B2B distributors in a strategic capacity and is delighted to welcome Vasanta to its customer community. Our STEP solution will form a critical element of Vasanta’s newly-upgraded IT landscape, enabling them to achieve their business objectives. We look forward to working in partnership with Vasanta," said Mark Thorpe, Managing Director UK, at Stibo Systems.

Nassau, Bahamas, 23 October, 2012 - International Private Banking Systems (IPBS, www.ipbs.com), the specialist provider of wealth management software for the Trust and Private Banking sector, has announced that Commercial Trust Limited of Hong Kong has licenced the complete suite of IPBS software for its wealth management operations in the Far East and Europe.

The IPBS system has been deployed under a flexible business model with the Trust Company implementing the IPBS/Business Manager, IPBS/Private Banking, IPBS/Investments & Safe Custody, Mutual Funds and Share Registry and IPBS/eBanking modules. This will enable Commercial Trust to provide its clients with access to account and investment positions from a flexible and robust, integrated wealth management platform.

Commercial Trust provides statutory trustee and custodian services for private trust and foundation accounts, asset managers, private estates, and entrepreneurial individuals. It provides custody and transactional support through HSBC Global in Hong Kong, and is a clearing correspondent of ABN-Amro Bank, Amsterdam. Commercial Trust wanted to replace a legacy back office system with one that would support its long term business and technical requirements.

Bruce Raine, Founder and President of IPBS said, “By investing in a modern, sophisticated private banking and wealth management system, trust companies can ensure they benefit from greater levels of operational efficiency and straight through processing while enjoying lower on-going maintenance overheads. The latest version of the IPBS system allows companies to free up staff time to be spent on more productive client relationship management activities and builds on our heritage of providing our clients with innovative solutions that enable real and sustained competitive advantage. The system is proven in a number of different jurisdictions and I am delighted that we are continuing to experience expansion of our client base in the Far Eastern market.”

Latest ByteMobile Mobile Analytics Report Provides Operators With Details on Subscriber Behaviour by Device Type, Content and Time of Day

Santa Clara, Calif, October 23, 2012 – Citrix (Nasdaq: CTXS) published the ByteMobile Mobile Analytics Report today for the fourth quarter of 2012. This report provides insights into the profile of the mobile data network, application traffic patterns and subscriber quality of experience (QoE) on operators’ networks – including how subscriber behaviour results in content-specific busy hours on mobile networks, how usage of mobile apps differs by device type, and how the mobile video user experience varies by network and region.

This quarter’s Mobile Analytics Report highlights different subscriber behaviours from a variety of device types and operating systems. Citrix found that Android smartphone and tablet data consumption patterns are very similar in volume, with media players and Internet browsing consuming 70 percent of mobile data volume from devices running the operating system. In comparison, media players, iTunes and browsers such as Safari make up the majority of iOS mobile data volume accounting for 75 percent of data volume for the iPhone and 95 percent for the iPad. The analysis further illustrates how subscriber interests and content patterns change throughout the day. The results identify certain peak hours of content consumption, which negatively impacted network performance by as much as 30 percent.

“This report serves as a vital resource for operators by demonstrating when capacity is strained throughout the day and what applications subscribers are using most,” said Chris Koopmans, vice president and general manager of Service Provider Platforms, Citrix.  “For example, we observed that subscribers generate greater demand for mobile video in the late evening hours of 10 to 11 p.m., which coincides with a social networking busy hour of 10 p.m., and differs from the 4 p.m. busy hour for consuming news, weather and maps. This type of data can be used by carriers to really understand subscriber behaviour and, in turn, improve their quality of service.”

In the report, mobile messaging applications were analysed to show subscribers use Skype twice as much on the iPad than on the iPhone. In contrast, iPhone users use Facebook Messenger three times more often than iPad users. To validate the use of messaging applications on the iPhone, the report indicates that 94 percent of subscribers use one of the top four messaging apps: Skype (30 percent), WhatsApp (24 percent), Viber (22 percent) and Facebook Messenger (18 percent).  

In a recent announcement from Facebook, the social media frontrunner has reached 600 million active users on its mobile application, accounting for 60 percent of its total user base. Today’s Mobile Analytics Report indicates that the popular mobile application from Facebook is instrumental in driving user traffic to other sites which generate 77 percent of overall Facebook mobile data traffic volume. The five sites that generate the majority of this data traffic are YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, Yahoo and eBay.

Additional data in the report examines mobile video traffic worldwide. The majority of mobile network data traffic is from video and web traffic, with an average of 75 percent across the globe. The findings revealed that North America and Europe have similar mobile video traffic patterns, while South America and Asia have slightly lower video content consumption on mobile devices. The Middle East has the highest average of mobile video traffic by volume.

The findings in the Mobile Analytics Report are generated from Smart Capacity™ Mobile Analytics, the company’s mobile data traffic reporting solution. The Mobile Analytics Report anonymously sources data traffic statistics from 3G and 4G networks of the Citrix ByteMobile global tier-one customer base and provides insight into the current state of the mobile ecosystem. Its findings have been cited widely by industry market research firms and the media. 

The RAPid cloud platform simplifies self-service data discovery, empowering IT and business users to collaboratively create and share insights on-demand

London, 23 October 2012: Weeks after launching the world’s first integrated cloud app development and analytics-as-a-service platform, Rosslyn Analytics today announced it has signed Cockpit Consulting, one of Europe’s fastest growing emerging business intelligence consultancies, as a new strategic partner.

Cockpit Consulting is the second UK-based consultancy (after Differentia Consulting) to join Rosslyn Analytics’ fast growing cloud analytics partner programme within the month.

“Rosslyn Analytics has developed a first-to-market cloud platform that enables Cockpit Consulting to accelerate and improve the development and management of the enterprise analytical apps our clients need to enhance their decision-making capabilities,” said Philippe Perret, CEO of Cockpit Consulting.

Under the terms of the agreement, Cockpit Consulting will help its clients reduce the time-to-deployment of enterprise analytics from weeks to days using Rosslyn Analytics’ revolutionary all-in-one cloud-based app development and analytic platform, RAPid.

Cockpit Consulting will also monetize its repository of pre-built apps – one of the largest in the United Kingdom – by progressively adding them to the RAPid platform for use by Rosslyn Analytics’ customers and partners.

“We are excited that Cockpit Consulting has joined our popular partner programme,” said Charles Clark, CEO, Rosslyn Analytics. “Together, we will provide Cockpit’s clients with the right tools they require to exploit the value of enterprise data to enhance business performance in the cloud without the high cost and complexity of on-premise business intelligence solutions.”

RAPid: Self-Service Analytics in the Cloud
With RAPid, customers can collaboratively develop, manage and share interactive dashboards and reports within minutes of loading data (watch video). There is no more software or hardware to buy.

RAPid eliminates the need for customers to write scripts or schedule the transfer of data for real-time analysis and reporting. This is possible only because RAPid provides each client with its own cloud-based application and data repository that they can access 24/7.

RAPid gives users a market-first self-service platform in which to progressively enrich information. This includes combining disparate data sources, removing inaccuracies, classifying information and much more to create on-demand the better information they require to make smarter decisions.

Patented Innovations in LANDesk Management Suite and Security Suite enable IT to Maximise User Productivity while Reducing Cost, Complexity and Risk

London - Oct 23, 2012 - LANDesk Software, a global leader in integrated systems and asset management, endpoint security, end-to-end mobility, virtualisation management and user-oriented IT service management, today announcedversion 9.5 of its Management Suite and Security Suite products. Significant upgrades have been incorporated into both suites, including enhanced cross platform support, innovative software license management and virtualisation management. These changes will further enable LANDesk’s vast ecosystem of customers and partners to gain better control of their endpoints and in turn, further maximise user productivity in a secure manner.

With Gartner stating that the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon is “the most radical shift in the economics of client computing for business since PCs invaded the workplace,” IT administrators need to change the way they manage devices. LANDesk is enabling this shift with cross-platform support offered by the 9.5 product families. These features mean IT administrators can manage any number of devices a user brings into the corporate environment, from tablets to iPhones to Windows 8 laptops. These multiple platforms across multiple users can now be managed anytime, anywhere.

In addition to more extensive platform support, further upgrades to the 9.5 product families include enhanced software license management features. These features provide the capability to automatically discover software; group software to create licensable units; reconcile license usage; and track software usage. Management Suite 9.5 also provides IT administrators with the capability to monitor software usage in a virtual desktop interface (VDI) environment. These enhancements give IT the tools they need to be compliant and audit ready, along with saving on costs.

“Management Suite and Security Suite 9.5 were created in order to help solve the pain points we heard our customers voicing,” said Steve Workman, vice president of product management, LANDesk Software. “With these products, our current and prospective customers now have the tools they need to maximise user productivity in a secure and cost-effective way. This will become increasingly important as BYOD invades the workplace and security threats continue to proliferate on a daily basis.”

LANDesk is also further enabling its current and prospective customers through continued collaboration with a number of major hardware providers. With dozens of hardware choices and hundreds of software programs on the market today, figuring out which software solutions make the most sense across a vast hardware environment can be a daunting task for IT administrators. In order to make this task easier and reduce complexity across the enterprise environment, LANDesk has embarked on joint ventures with HP, Intel and Lenovo.

HP’s custom innovation is evident with 9.5’s ability to automatically collect information from across the entire enterprise of devices and store this business-relative information in a database. This information includes power consumption per device, the health of notebook batteries and the activation status for mobile broadband cards: all of which can be viewed with custom tailored HP reports.

9.5 also includes zero touch provisioning via the LANDesk console and Intel’s host-based provisioning for vPro enablement. A simplified system defence policy enables remote control of a machine from the network as a right-click function within the LANDesk menu, all the while maintaining Intel vPro access.

9.5 customers can also more easily manage Lenovo devices fleet-wide. With this release, Lenovo and LANDesk created access connections that enable IT administrators to graphically and securely manage and switch network connections between Ethernet, wireless LAN, and wireless WAN. In addition, Lenovo Power Manager enables monitoring of electricity consumption and enhanced rescue and recovery features allow administrators to deploy updates, recover from crashes and provide remote access if a system will not boot or if it fails to function when booted.

Additional Features in Management Suite 9.5

• Virtualisation Management: With the release of 9.5, LANDesk customers can manage both physical and virtual desktops from a single console. For virtual desktops, LANDesk embraces both persistent and non-persistent scenarios and enables easy deployment of the management agent.
• Application Virtualisation: 9.5 also broadens LANDesk’s application virtualisation support. This solution provides agnostic support of application virtualisation packaging, regardless of vendor (Microsoft App-V or other standard application virtualisation packages), allowing customers to take advantage of industry standard technologies without complexity or hassle.
• Full cross-platform support (Windows, MAC, iOS, Android, Unix/Linux). New Operating Systems added include:
  • Windows Embedded Standard 7 Enterprise
  • Windows Embedded Standard 09 Enterprise 
  • Retail Point of Sale 7 
  • Retail Point of Sale 09 
  • HP ThinPro 
  • CentOS 6 32/64-bit 
  • RHEL 6 32/64-bit 
  • SLES 11 32/64-bit
• SmartVue Dashboards: This tablet application provides a global view of the Management Suite/Security Suite environment. This application allows administrators and directors to use the data to plan capacity and justify value in a conversational setting.
• Profile Migration for Provisioning: Management Suite 9.5 introduces actions in provisioning that simplify the capture and deployment of the user migration across physical and virtual environments.
• IT Productivity Tools: HTML5 Remote Control allows administrators to deliver secure, high-performance remote desktop sharing over the web by taking advantage of the latest web technologies. This is the industry’s first HTML5 remote control client that requires absolutely no plugins and is faster than any Java remote control client. Windows and Mac machines can be accessed from any HTML5-capable device. LANDesk has also made improvements to the Console Inspector, which contains 15 specific inspectors for console items, improving speed/performance of important console tasks for administrators. In addition, implementing third-party tools to systems management solution sets increases deployment time and cost.
• Power Manager: Power management now allows clients to auto-update power usage policies if core server and client policies are not the same. New policies are now wrapped as patch content and included with a client update.
• UEFI Support: 9.5 includes the latest version of WINPE, 64-bit WINPE support, and PXE booting capabilities.
• Native Support for App-V: 9.5 introduces the deployment of App-V packages.
• Wake-on-WAN: Management Suite 9.5 features the ability for a peer on the subnet to be elected to “Wake-Up” the machines by sending “Magic Packets” on the local subnet. This allows for WOW to function even when the network is configured to not forward broadcast packets.

Additional Features in Security Suite 9.5

• Patch Management Autofix by Scope: The 9.5 release of Patch Management features Auto-Fix by Scope that includes granular control of install policies.
• Core Auditing: Security Suite 9.5 allows auditing administrators to determine what functions need to be audited. Auditing information is stored separately from the LANDesk data, and can be sent to the event log as well. Auditing can also be queried and information can be archived and restored as needed.
• Credant Integration (Encryption Status): Administrators can open the LANDesk console and can determine what devices are encrypted from within the LANDesk Inventory. Administrators can run a report of protected and/or unprotected devices.
• Kaspersky Lab Standard Endpoint Agent 8.0: Security Suite 9.5 will include the Kaspersky Lab Version 8 Standard Client.

Availability
LANDesk Management Suite and Security Suite 9.5 will be available for purchase on Oct. 31, 2012. Customers can inquire about industry-leading pricing information from a LANDesk representative.

Tuesday 23 October: Eben Upton, co-creator of the Raspberry Pi, will provide nine IT jobseekers with advice on how to get ahead in their careers, as part of an exclusive event being run by IT recruitment specialists CWJobs.co.uk.

Kicking off from today, IT jobseekers will be asked to submit their career questions for Eben through Twitter and the newly launched CWJobs Google+ page, for a chance to join the IT expert in a Google+ Hangout on 23rd November and have their questions answered.

As a champion for enhancing ICT education in schools - as exemplified by the creation of the Raspberry Pi device to teach primary school children the basics of programming - Eben hopes to provide additional support the generation of jobseekers now working in the industry.

Eben Upton, co-creator of the Raspberry Pi and co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, explains: “The Raspberry Pi Foundation is taking steps to invest in grass roots talent, for the benefit of the industry in the long run. However, those trying to enter or progress in the IT industry now still need support to ensure they can develop their career and gain the skills needed to deliver the achievements that will make the UK IT industry a world leader.”

Richard Nott, Website Director, CWJobs said: “IT is one of the fastest moving and most future-proof industries – which makes it a wise career move for candidates. Because of the industry’s agile nature however, jobseekers need to ensure they remain ‘skilled-up’ and on top of latest trends if they are to remain competitive and help to drive the industry forward. We hope our event will provide jobseekers with a platform to gain advice from an expert within the industry who knows exactly what it takes to excel.”

The attendees for this exclusive audience with Eben, will be selected on Friday 9th November 2012, questions received after this date will not be considered. Those entering a question, but not selected to join the hangout, will still be able to watch the event live on 23rd November.

Jobseekers should visit http://anaudiencewithebenupton.eventbrite.com/ for more details.

Notes to Editors

About the competition
CWJobs is giving 9 lucky jobseekers the chance to have their IT career questions answered by Raspberry Pi co-creator Eben Upton.  To enter, jobseekers must submit the questions they’d really like answering through CWJobs’ Google+ page, Twitter or via email cwjobs@lexispr.com [quoting Google+ entry in the subject header].  Entries close on Friday 9th November 23.59 GMT.  Eben will then select the winners, who will be contacted within 5 days if successful.  Winners will then be provided with further details on how to join the Google+ Hangout with Eben on 23rdNovember 2012.

About Eben Upton
Eben Upton is co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation – a charity founded in 2009 to promote the study of basic computer science in schools, and is responsible for developing a single-board computer called the Raspberry Pi. 

About CWJobs
CWJobs.co.uk is the leading specialist IT recruitment website serving contract and permanent IT jobseekers throughout the UK and Ireland. The site draws over 437,000 unique users each month, attracted by the opportunity to search an average of more than 11,500 IT job opportunities at any one time.

With Secure User Management Suite, LANDesk is the Only Vendor to Enable Complete User Management from a Single Console, for One Price

London - Oct 23, 2012 - LANDesk Software, a global leader in integrated systems, asset management, endpoint security, end-to-end mobility, virtualisation management and user-oriented IT service management, today announcedLANDesk Secure User Management Suite. This industry-first solution set is aimed at helping IT professionals gain control of a mixed environment of users, devices and platforms, regardless of location, through a single console and low cost IT infrastructure.

In today’s complex end-user computing environment, IT managers are facing a growing number of challenges. They must enable increasingly self-reliant users that are spending more time working remotely via a multitude of devices, while at the same time attempting to safeguard critical infrastructure and reducing costs. LANDesk Secure User Management Suite provides a flexible, adaptive IT delivery model that connects and extends the technologies IT managers need in order to gain control of these converging forces. While it is possible to gain this level of control via existing market technologies, several point products are needed to do so, which is costly and inefficient. With LANDesk, multiple functionalities come together in one console, providing a single point of data aggregation, organically integrated into a one suite solution. This helps to automate policies and synchronise information and eliminate time-consuming and error-prone IT tasks, while reducing complexity and operating costs.

In an industry first, LANDesk has made this solution available at one price, regardless of the type of user or how many devices or platforms they may have. The user-based pricing model offered by Secure User Management Suite was designed for the future of user-driven computing. With a recent survey reporting that the average enterprise user will have 3.47 devices by 2015 and 6.58 devices by 2020, the standard device-based pricing model will only continue to become more costly. With Secure User Management Suite, LANDesk customers pay one low price to manage a user and can scale up without additional costs.

“Value has always been a differentiator for LANDesk; we understand that many IT departments are cash-strapped and must accomplish sizeable goals while delivering industry-best TCO,” said Steve Workman, vice president of product management, LANDesk Software. “And while we have always maintained a low TCO, with the new Secure User Management Suite, we are changing the game and once again leading the industry with our vision for the highest ROI and lowest TCO. We believe that a user-based pricing model will be much more effective and efficient for businesses of all types and sizes and will continue to lead the way in helping organisations make this shift.”

LANDesk customers have long reported significant value and rapid returns on their investment in LANDesk solutions. AnIDC survey of LANDesk customers recently found that those surveyed reported an average yearly cost savings of $32,022 per 100 users. In addition, the survey found that organisations typically recouped their LANDesk investment in less than five months, with an average ROI of 698 percent over three years. With Secure User Management Suite, LANDesk customers will continue to see these benefits and more. This solution provides the lowest infrastructure costs available on the market today. Reduced infrastructure costs coupled with user-based pricing provides customers with the lowest total cost of ownership possible.

LANDesk products included in Secure User Management Suite are Management Suite, Security Suite, Mobility Managerand Data Analytics.

Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organisations, today announced that Dyer Engineering Ltd, a UK-based sub-contract fabrication and specialist engineering company, has selected the Epicor next-generation enterprise resourcing planning (ERP) solution, to replace its existing end-to-end ERP solution.

Dyer Engineering has always been an early adopter of advanced technology, and the company has used its existing ERP solution since 1999. While ERP is already embedded in all departments there are areas of functionality missing, or unable to perform in the way the management team requires to help reach the company’s growth target. The company currently has 95 employees and plans to employ a further 30 over the next three years. The ERP system replacement project forms part of a major investment in technology and machinery throughout the business.

“We have always had challenges with capacity planning in the existing solution,” said Jim Athey, operations systems manager at Dyer Engineering. “We have developed in-house reports, but we want capacity planning to be at the heart of our manufacturing business as we grow. We want our production planning to recalculate resourcing and material needs as new orders are created, or supply chain delays encountered.”

Additionally, Dyer Engineering plans to use dashboard features within Epicor to give much more control and information to the engineers on the shop floor, allowing them to use touch screens to interact with the information they need for their role, such as job cards, or outstanding orders, as well as update the status of items as they are processed. All Dyer Engineering employees interact with the ERP system every day whether it be purchasing raw materials or providing traceability of the manufacturing process.

“It was essential to us that we selected an ERP solution with a heritage in manufacturing that could support our business processes,” added Athey. “Many of the solutions we looked at had started as finance systems, then added some stock control, then tried to add some MRP features. With Epicor, it was clearly a complete manufacturing system first and foremost, with excellent support for other business areas woven into that core.”

Dyer Engineering’s project team was particularly impressed by the flexibility offered by Epicor through features such as user-customizable application screens, its ability to interface with and connect the shop floor to the ERP system, as well as process flexibility through business process management (BPM) logic. BPM allows a customer to modify or develop new business logic rules that can be triggered by or trigger other events based on specified criteria. For example, a BPM could be used to trigger a supervisor to be e-mailed when a manufacturing job overruns its scheduled time by a specified percentage, so that remedial action can be taken.

“Business expectations of ERP have changed dramatically over the past decade,” said Malcolm Fox, vice president, product marketing at Epicor. “In today’s world all employees can be consumers or users of ERP and may each have differing requirements. The core functionality to drive efficiencies within the business needs to be there, but equally important is the ability to provide the insight and flexibility demanded across the organization. Epicor ERP was designed from the ground up to give todays users the best of both worlds – mature embedded functionality across the business aligned with the tools for today’s mobile and information-hungry user.”

For more information contact
Duncan Gurney
The PR Network (on behalf of Epicor UK)
Email duncan.gurney@theprnetwork.co.uk
Tel  +44 (0)7912 495630

Mobility experts will tour 20 cities in November and December, offering practical advice on saying ‘YES’ to BYOD and other common enterprise mobility challenges

23 October, 2012 – Aruba Networks, a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise, will be visiting 20 cities across Europe and the Middle East as part of its ‘Mobility Matters’ Roadshow 2012. The tour, which kicks off in November, will see Aruba executives delivering technical sessions on the latest WLAN and BYOD solutions in each city.

“We are in the middle of a mobility revolution – and unsurprisingly, the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud based applications have the potential to cause a Wi-Fi meltdown or security nightmare for those tasked with managing enterprise IT networks,” said Chris Kozup, Senior Director, EMEA Marketing at Aruba Networks. “However, mobility creates a significant opportunity for enterprises and the efficiency gains can be infinite – if done correctly. The aim of this Roadshow is to help as many people as we can to realise these benefits and make sense of the new technologies that are changing the face of enterprise networking for the better.”

Designed for IT managers, architects and engineers across any industry, each session will be packed with demonstrations that offer practical advice on the latest mobility challenges, and how businesses can exploit the latest wireless technologies to overcome these issues.

Aruba will visit the following locations throughout November and December: London, Paris, Munich, Berlin, Madrid, Stockholm, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Kiev, Mechelen, Moscow, Oslo, Cairo, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Milan, Riyadh and Dubai.

For tour dates and to register for a city near you, please visit: http://page.arubanetworks.com/WLANRoadshow_RoadshowLandingPage.html

For further details on the Mobility Matters campaign, please visit: http://www.arubanetworks.com/mobilitymatters/uk/

Maidenhead, Berkshire – October 23, 2012 - Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today a significantly enhanced compliance management solution for application producers such as ISVs (Independent Software Vendors), Software Developers and Enterprises building and developing their own applications. The enhanced solution will help maximise software revenues and eliminate missed revenue through the support of increasingly popular usage-based, “trust but verify” models as the industry grapples with the growing demand for subscription-based software.

This latest version enables application producers to automate compliance management for usage-based, trust but verify licensing models, and helps them to capture actual customer software usage, accessing that data through a portal, reconciling it against the license agreement terms to determine a compliance position, and if appropriate, send the data to an external billing system to invoice the customer for licensing fees owed. Enterprises also have access to a portal that presents customer usage data, usage trends and compliance status.

Automating Software Compliance and Enforcement
Application producers can monetise their software through a variety of licensing models outlined in the license agreement (i.e. Named user, concurrent use, node-locked and transaction-based), which are designed to capture the value of the software and dictate its permissible use. Noncompliance occurs when actual use exceeds licensing terms, in which case the license agreement may provide the enforcement options available to them.

Increasingly, application producers are shifting from strict enforcement models (i.e. denial of service) to trust but verify and subscription offerings, such as SaaS, and are implementing usage-based models as a means to monetise their products. Visibility into their customers’ actual software usage and the ability to compare that to the license agreement terms and conditions, is critical to supporting these new license models. As it’s difficult to have visibility into customer usage, determining a “single version of the truth” is virtually impossible, which makes fair enforcement and/or re-negotiation of licensing terms difficult at best, and marked by suspicion, mistrust and animosity with customers, at worse.

“Flexera’s solution automatically provides the hard data to prove to both the application producer and customer whether usage has exceeded the license agreement terms, by how much, and if additional payment is warranted, the means to accurately bill customers for the difference,” said Mathieu Baissac, vice president of product management at Flexera Software. “With this ‘trust but verify’ capability, application producers have flexibility to implement the most appropriate licensing and enforcement mechanisms for their business – knowing they will have the data needed to verify use and get paid for their intellectual property.”

“Software licensing continues to evolve. Driven by the demands of their customers and competition, application producers increasingly are implementing new models, many of which are usage-based,” said Amy Konary, Research Vice President - Software Licensing and Provisioning at IDC. “Having the flexibility to support the full spectrum of software licensing models is a competitive advantage.”

Monetising the Full Array of Usage-based Pricing Licensing Models
Fully and accurately monetising traditional software licensing models has always been hugely challenging for application producers. But usage-based models have grown more prevalent and popular in SaaS, virtualised and cloud-based deployments and are pushing many application producers beyond their capabilities. For instance, by offering usage-based pricing options (i.e. charges based on number of gigabytes of data stored, peak usage, pay per use or burst of use, to name a few), application producers can simultaneously create new software revenue streams, cater to new and emerging markets, and address changing demands for how customers want to consume software. However, most software companies lack the flexible licensing, usage tracking and billing capabilities to accommodate the growing licensing and software monetisation options available to them.

Flexera Software’s compliance management solution now enables application producers to overcome this limitation by supporting the full array of software licensing models and metrics across the licensing spectrum. They can now can quickly and easily create different licensing models for their software, or package specific features and functions to sell under different licensing models.

The compliance management solution will compile a statement showing actual usage, entitlements compared to the product use rights in the license agreement, and a compliance statement accessible to both the application producer and its customer via a portal, making it easy for them to easily track individual customers’ software usage, as well as that of the entire customer base. Moreover, the compliance management solution manages the back-end operations associated with collecting and reporting on usage data, as well as sending that data to the appropriate billing systems for collection.

“New licensing models are constantly emerging, which if leveraged can open up significant new markets for producers,” said Baissac. “However manually building out the infrastructure to accommodate these licensing models is complex, costly and constantly changing. Keeping up diverts precious resources from a company’s core software development competencies. With our compliance management solution, application vendors can now quickly and easily implement any software licensing model that makes sense for their business, without having to worry about how to implement the licensing model or bill for software use.”

Flexera Software’s compliance management solution is built upon FlexNet Embedded and FlexNet Operations On-Demand, which are part of the FlexNet Producer Suite. FlexNet Producer Suite is comprised of:

• FlexNet Embedded: FlexNet Embedded empowers intelligent device manufacturers and software vendors to unlock new revenue streams by utilizing software licensing, pricing, and packaging to monetize intelligent devices and equipment using embedded software, as well as offer virtual appliances.
• FlexNet Operations: The most comprehensive entitlement management solution empowers software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers to support new revenue models easily and efficiently while streamlining and automating complex back-office processes.
• FlexNet Delivery: Provides electronic software delivery and electronic software distribution to eliminate physical fulfillment costs and ensure that customers downloading software are entitled to do so.
• FlexNet Connect: Automates business processes, lowers operational cost and increases customer satisfaction through electronic delivery of software updates, patches, data and messages directly to end-users' systems without IT involvement.
• FlexNet Publisher: Makes it easy for software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers to monetize, manage, secure, enhance, and grow market share through flexible software licensing, pricing, packaging, and software IP protection.

Further Information

Managing Director
Tel: +44 (0)1522 883640
Email: enquires@webitpr.com

Warsaw – 23 October, 2012 – NextiraOne Poland has won the award of Genesys Best Performing Partner in Central Europe. This prestigious award was granted in recognition of the company’s success in sales and implementation of Genesys Contact Centre solutions in the Polish and European market.

NextiraOne Poland is an experienced long-term Genesys partner. The company successfully creates technologically advanced implementations that support multi-channel and comprehensive customer service solutions, integrating the related processes of time and workforce management and the intelligent distribution of tasks within a contact centre. The Genesys intelligent Workload Distribution (iWD) solution implemented by NextiraOne for T-Mobile Poland was presented as an example of a powerful and successful implementation during the G-Force annual meeting of Genesys partners and customers.  NextiraOne received the award for Best Performing Partner during this event.

"We are very proud to have achieved the Genesys Best Performing Partner award, which we see as confirmation of the effectiveness of our activities. We have built a strong team of experienced and certified Genesys experts and our knowledge and expertise in contact centre solutions are unique in the market. Our close working relationship with Genesys in Poland enables NextiraOne to offer advanced and innovative solutions such as intelligent Workload Distribution (iWD) and Cross Channel Communications, which provide our clients with tangible business benefits," said Piotr Żygadło, Group Director of Contact Centre products and applications, NextiraOne Poland.

The Best Performing Partner award is further confirmation of NextiraOne Poland’s capabilities and experience in the implementation of Genesys solutions. The company has already achieved awards for the highest level of implementation of innovative projects, for its significant contribution to the sale of Genesys Express solutions for mid-sized businesses, and has achieved a strong position in the integration of large contact centres.

"Working with NextiraOne is very important and valuable for Genesys. NextiraOne is the only partner company in this part of Europe which has achieved the highest partner status. It is also one of our largest and most innovative partners throughout EMEA. The Best Performing Partner award for the NextiraOne Poland guarantees its customers the highest level of expertise and services offered within Genesys portfolio," said Marcin Spychała, Senior Account Executive Genesys.

NextiraOne Poland holds the status of Gold Certified Genesys Partner.

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