London, October 11th, 2012 − Madison Logic, the top provider of data, lead generation and nurturing solutions for enterprises and media companies, today introduces two new products for marketers and sales people: Data Match™ Behavioral Analytics and Data Match™ Lead Retargeting.

Data Match™ Behavioral Analytics is designed to analyze buyer intent behavior and push data into marketing automation systems and CRM systems; while Data Match™ Lead Retargeting can be used to target prospects with multi-touch marketing tools.

Used in combination, Madison Logic’s new products offer an unmatched form of lead nurturing that allows businesses to target buyers and influencers along the buying process from a pool of over 20 million users.

"In the last month and at Dreamforce, we previewed Data Match Behavioral Analytics and Retargeting to our existing customers and they were excited to start building campaigns with the products," said Erik Matlick, CEO of Madison Logic. "The marketing software industry is expanding and companies are looking for smarter, more aggressive tools to bolster their demand generation initiatives. These two new products from Madison Logic are unrivaled in the industry."

Over 400 publishers use Madison Logic’s Lead Focus platform today to target prospects in the technology, energy, marketing, manufacturing, government, business and finance, human resources, retail, ecommerce and construction verticals.

Commenting on the launch, Paul Woods, Managing director of Madison partner, Astute.com said: 
"Marketing automation is an important part of our offering and is a crucial growth business. At Astute we are already managing instances of Eloqua and Marketo. By using Madison's new Data Match Product we will add an extra layer of behavioural analytics and intelligence to our marketing automation platform.

This is going to be really valuable for us and our customers as it will give unique intent data about a user that will make further profiling and nurturing efforts more accurate."

"We are very excited to be a launch partner for Data Match in the UK as no-one else is providing this kind of real-time analysis on the same scale as Madison can offer.

We will be shortly running a pilot with one of our existing customers that is using our services within its marketing automation platform."

"Madison Logic's new offerings add two key tools to the B2B marketing toolbox. First, this finally gives marketers a view into the full spectrum of content their prospects are interacting with. Second, it extends the idea of behavioral targeting, a staple in B2C marketing, to data that B2B marketers really care about,” said Eric Whitlake, Sr. Director of Media at Babcock & Jenkins, a B2B marketing agency. “These are big, and much needed, changes in the B2B marketing landscape."

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United Bank UK has selected Checkprint Ltd, a member of the TALL Group of Companies, for the provision of securely printed documents. Under the agreement, the security print and secure payments specialists will supply cheque and credit books for corporate and personal customers at United Bank’s six branches in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Bradford, Ilford and Birmingham.

The solution will take advantage of the TALL Group’s secure online ordering process (SOOP), which provides United Bank with a simple and effective way to replenish and manage cheque and credit book requirements. All online orders are placed via a secure SSL-encrypted web form and enable multiple orders to be uploaded to streamline administrative processes and achieve time saving.

United Bank will process on average twice-weekly orders via SOOP, with the TALL Group printing and mailing the cheque and credit books within a four-day period to meet the bank’s service level agreements to its customers. The solution will also include a stock management system to ensure base stock is replenished when running low to avoid any disruption to the service.

Azeem Ul Hasan, Head Operations Manager at United Bank commented: “We needed a preferred supplier of secure documents that would meet our precise requirements and integrate their processes with our own internal procedures. We have worked closely with the TALL Group to develop and implement an effective solution that provides transparency, simplicity and flexibility, delivering high levels of service to our customers.”

Martin Ruda, Managing Director of the TALL Group of Companies said: “Our innovative printing solutions are designed to meet the precise needs of financial services organisations such as United Bank. We work closely with an increasing number of new, expanding and established organisations to provide a high quality service that saves time and money, whilst improving efficiency."

London, 11 October 2012 – “The Digital Agenda can energise our economy, generate jobs, and save public money. But none of it can happen without fast broadband and quality digital services,” said Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission in a recent blog entry, ahead of her Keynote at next week’s Broadband World Forum. And she hit the nail on the head.

Ms Kroes will open the Broadband World Forum conference and exhibition next week by giving a presentation on connecting Europe to build the e-EU. Kroes is a key driver in the Digital Agenda and recently has publicly spoken about how innovation in broadband can help public administration for the 21st Century, how mobile Apps can help cut CO² emissions, and how investment is crucial for the future.

Today’s technology is so tightly woven into the fabric of society that broadband has the ability to impact the quality of life through increased access to services. Broadband is no longer considered a luxury, but instead is a ‘fourth utility’ for most people, with the potential to transform daily lives – the need to meet this demand is driving service transformation and broadband innovation throughout the industry, and is a central theme at the event.

The subject of fulfilling the connected consumer is echoed further with a raft of key speakers, including the likes of Gerry Pennel, CIO of the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, who will speak about the successful delivery of a connected Olympic Games. During his presentation, Pennel will explain how their event App and WiFi connectivity played a key role in meeting visitor and athlete expectations.

Eelco Blok, CEO of KPN, and Hunter Walk, Director of Product Management at Google, will also explore the theme of broadband transforming lives discussing the new services possible with ubiquitous broadband and the way broadband enabled media platforms like YouTube are transformative for the human condition.

This year’s event includes new features that are specifically focussed on transforming lives through broadband, including the App Workshop with Appsterdam, which emphasises the growing role, relevance and importance of the App in the developer world. This busy show also features targeted workshops led by industry associations and stakeholder groups, including the Internet Society hosted IPv6 Workshop, HGi’s digital home session, and the ONF tutorials on SDN and Open Flow.

In addition to the exciting programme highlights, 2012’s interactive exhibition includes demo trucks, where for the first time, live demos will be provided by Cisco, Huawei, Cienna and Infinera, to show the full power of broadband and its potential in today’s world. Start-up showcases are also arranged to take place throughout the three-day event which are targeted at those looking to invest in innovative new start-up businesses who are leading the way in broadband technologies and services for tomorrow.

The Broadband World Forum will take place at the RAI Exhibition Centre in Amsterdam on 16-18 October 2012. To plan your visit or to view the full event programme and register for Broadband World Forum, please visit www.broadbandworldforum.com or call +44 (0) 20 7017 5506. Alternatively, keep up to date with the event on Twitter @BBWorldForum or using #BBWF.

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Shanghai, China – 11th October 2012 – Codethink, a provider of software engineering services for mobile and embedded devices, has unveiled and demonstrated Baserock Embedded Linux at the GENIVI automotive industry trade association meeting for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) standards in Shanghai, China. Codethink showed a full upgrade of a Linux system image kernel from version 3.2 to 3.6 in less than 10 minutes showing how the engineer tool saves vast amounts of developer time.  The Linux 3.6 kernel is the latest stable kernel released on 1 October 2012.

"I'm very excited to be able to take the wraps off Baserock Embedded Linux for the global GENIVI community meeting," says Paul Sherwood, Codethink's CEO. "Baserock's all-native, fully traceable workflow and direct-from-upstream design makes it an ideal solution for tracking the developing GENIVI Baseline requirements, particularly now that GENIVI aims to accelerate its Baseline cadence to six-weekly releases."

Steve Crumb, Executive Director of GENIVI®, a non-profit industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) open-source development platform said, "GENIVI is pleased to have Codethink join the growing base of tooling options available to organisations and developers enhancing and adopting our open platform
for automotive infotainment systems."

"We believe this is the first embedded Linux development tool chain to be designed from the ground up to take full advantage of the Git distributed version control system,” said Rob Taylor, Codethink's CTO.  “By leveraging Git's speed and traceability we can create, deploy and maintain whole Linux-based systems with much less friction and stay closer to upstream than ever before.  This saves developer time and, consequently, helps to contain cost.

Baserock Embedded Linux builds on the Baserock open source project originated by Codethink with core architecture design and development by leading Free and Open Source Software (FOSS: contributors:)

• Lars Wirzenius (Debian, Piuparts, Obnam)
• Daniel Silverstone (Linux Kernel, NetSurf, Launchpad)
• Ben Dooks (Linux Kernel)
• Jannis Pohlmann (XFCE)
• Javier Jardon (GNOME)

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At the recent Service Management Expo, held at the NEC, Birmingham visitors were most interested in driver safety, reducing carbon emissions and boosting productivity according to Telogis.   At the event Telogis was showcasing its Platform for Location Intelligence solutions for managing mobile workers and assets which provides the industry’s only true end-to-end enterprise platform for strategic and dynamic routing, real-time work order management, telematics, navigation and mobile integration.

While visitors to the stand were interested to see demonstrations of the products, as Sergio Barata, Head of EMEA at Telogis explains; “This is a mature marketplace saturated with telematics and route optimisation systems.  What people were most interested in was talking about how our customers are using the solutions, rather than seeing a demonstration of a vanilla product on the stand.  In particular people wanted to hear about business benefits other organisations had achieved, particularly around increasing productivity, managing customer experience with planned v actual and driver behaviour and safety.”

Sergio Barata continued; “Intriguingly people were not so interested in seeing the system working on an iPad or tablet, they all assumed that any new system would work on the latest form factors.  This is a prime example of a mature market where most organisations are looking to optimise their operations with a more integrated approach to their mobile assets.  Rather than keeping silos of information separate, many of the organisations we have been speaking to are looking at a fleet management system that is fully integrated with route and traffic ensuring that vehicles are used most efficiently.  When this is combined with job allocation and workforce planning, and with powerful reporting and dashboards that deliver an ‘at a glance’ live situation, organisations can really start to make huge improvements to the customer experience, while improving productivity and ensuring compliance with environmental and staff safety legislation. 

“This approach has been the norm for several years now in the US, we are delighted to see that the UK and EMEA markets are now starting to approach the management of mobile assets looking to leverage location intelligence in the same way.”

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About Telogis
Telogis Inc., the platform for location intelligence, is dedicated to enhancing the value of its customers’ businesses through intelligent integration of location technology, information and services.

Telogis was established in 2001 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., with offices in Europe and Latin America as well as development centers in Austin, Texas, Toronto, Canada and Christchurch, New Zealand. Telogis’ products and services are used and distributed in more than 60 countries worldwide.

Telogis has been established in the UK since 2010, and already has several customers using its Telogis GeoBase geospatial platform.

For more information please visit www.telogis.co.uk 

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Employees at business software solutions provider m-hance have helped raise £2,500 for leading charity Action on Hearing Loss by communicating through its internal Social Business system instead of using traditional email for one working day.

Action on Hearing Loss works to improve the lives of the 10 million people in the UK who have hearing loss. To support the charity, m-hance’s 240 staff situated in the UK, Ireland, the United States and India used only the company’s Social Business enterprise social networking (ESN) system and relevant social media platforms for internal communication purposes. For every relevant post, reply or tweet made, 25p was donated to Action on Hearing Loss.

Andrew Hayward, Managing Director of m-hance, explains, “Since switching to our Social Business product we have noticed a significant improvement in the way that our staff communicate and collaborate with each other which has improved our bottom line. As a natural extension, m-hance employees were keen to raise awareness and money in support of a charity that has communication at its heart which made Action on Hearing Loss a natural choice.”

m-hance Social Business (msB) helps organisations to drive more profitable communications by increasing collaboration. The system offers secure out-of-the-box connectivity to financial management, CRM, SharePoint and other SQL and Oracle based applications, enabling employees to easily access, comment on and share valuable knowledge from a single integrated system. Organisations using mSB can increase staff productivity levels by up to 8% per user and increase employee engagement by up to 5%, aiding revenue growth and increased efficiency.

Hayward continues, “Just as a person suffering from hearing loss struggles to keep up with conversations, companies are finding it harder to stay connected by the sheer volume of background ‘noise’ that is being generated by the amount of emails and information created on a daily basis. By using m-hance Social Business, employees can easily filter out conversations and information that is relevant to them to improve productivity and dramatically reduce time spent on email by up to 30%.”

Peter Robson, Executive Director of Corporate Resources at Action on Hearing Loss, comments, “We are very grateful to m-hance for its support, which not only demonstrates how effective social networks can be as communication tools, but this also raised much-needed funds to support vital services. This contribution could pay for the equivalent of 400 calls to our helpline – which is a point of contact for practical advice and emotional support – helping people to manage their hearing loss or tinnitus effectively.”

mSB, which can be deployed in just two weeks as an on-premise or hosted solution, is available on smartphones and tablet devices with its accompanying app. The solution has been rolled-out to a number of early adopters including Central YMCA.

Notes to Editors

About Action on Hearing Loss www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk

1. Action on Hearing Loss is the UK’s largest charity taking action on hearing loss. We want a world where hearing loss doesn’t limit or label people – and where people value their hearing enough to look after it.
2. For further information about Action on Hearing Loss or to become a member, visit www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk, contact the Action on Hearing Loss Information Line on 0808 808 0123 (Freephone) or 0808 808 9000 (textphone) or email informationline@hearingloss.org.uk .

About m-hance www.m-hance.com
m-hance is a UK-based company providing innovative and functionally rich business software solutions to 2400 mid-market sized organisations including Innocent Drinks, RFU, Viridor, Millennium Hotels, Make-A-Wish, Hewden and Endsleigh Insurance. m-hance’s core solutions offering consists of financial management, CRM, enterprise social networking, SharePoint, HR & Payroll, managed services and software development in a variety of vertical markets including distribution, manufacturing, not-for-profit, professional services and infrastructure.

m-hance has been formed following the acquisitions of Calyx Software, Gyrosoft, Trinity Computer Services and elements of MentecPlus, Touchstone Group and Maxima Holdings plc. m-hance is currently supported by 230 staff from offices in Manchester, London, Loughborough, Dublin, Glasgow and the United States. m-hance also has offshore development capabilities in India.

In September 2012, m-hance was ranked in the Tech Track 100 league table as one of the fastest-growing private technology companies in Britain after achieving record sales growth of over 45%.

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Maidenhead, UK – 11 October, 2012 — Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, today announced that more than 10,000 components and tools support RAD Studio allowing developers to build a vast array of applications for multiple software architectures and multiple platforms including Windows, Mac, mobile and cloud. Embarcadero’s technology partner products include both integrated and standalone developer tools, visual and non-visual components, libraries, source code, books, videos, database drivers, multi-tier architectures, reporting and PDF components and generators. These products integrate and add value to RAD Studio, giving developers a vast array of tools to satisfy any business, system and application requirement. 

The new RAD Studio XE3, including Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, Embarcadero Prism, and HTML5 Builder, acts as a developer force multiplier, easing the shift to Windows 8, Windows and Mac code generation from a single codebase, and multi-platform mobile development with HTML5.

“The RAD Studio XE3 platform is a truly modern development environment that inspires companies like us to extend our range of feature-packed productivity component offerings,” said Bruno Fierens, president of TMS Software, a Belgium-based provider of productivity components for software developers. “Now application developers get the choice and flexibility needed to target multiple platforms with a single code base. We are eager to help customers build great applications for any platform they want to target with RAD Studio XE3.”

“A vibrant technology partner ecosystem helps our customers be more successful,” said Michael Swindell, Embarcadero senior vice president of marketing and product management. “This is especially important as developers face the growing challenge of multi-platform support.”

In addition, three renowned application development experts and authors are writing books that will provide instruction and deeper understanding of languages and developing solutions using RAD Studio XE3, including Delphi and C++Builder. Book availability will be announced separately on these websites:

• Marco Cantu, http://www.marcocantu.com/books/store.htm
• Bob Swart, http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/drbob42
• Cary Jensen, http://www.jensendatasystems.com/cdsbook

Information about the Embarcadero Technology Partner programme and the partner directory is available at:http://tp.embarcadero.com/.

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Bristol, October 11th: Brightpearl, the commerce acceleration platform, today highlighted the growing risk of smaller businesses relying on technologies to manage their back office that are often not fit for purpose or duplicate tasks. In speaking to its customers and prospects, Brightpearl uncovered an alarming trend of either outdated technologies or ones that are being asked to perform tasks beyond their design.

Another particularly common trend pointed to entry level accounting systems being used for inventory control and even CRM, leading to frequently poor visibility of stock and very poor, untimely or misdirected customer communications. Too often businesses are relying on spreadsheets and other non-automated tools to perform business critical tasks, which can have a severe impact on the business either in terms of time or lost sales.

“A modern economy relies on the productivity of its people and businesses to thrive, especially in constrained times,” said Chris Tanner, co-founder of Brightpearl. “Yet we find numerous businesses wasting valuable resources and man-hours on admin related tasks due to a lack of modest investments in IT to replace outmoded or miss-used applications. This type of approach will ultimately put businesses at risk, as they buckle under the work load and pressure.”

As a result of its extensive interviews with customers in the United States and United Kingdom, the following common themes emerged:

• a reliance on single function accounting systems to manage all contacts records
• no connection between systems involved in the order fulfilment process
• no central repository of data for products, customers or suppliers
• non-integrated ecommerce sites causing frequent double selling of items
• hours of manual data entry to key in order, customer details or the production of invoices
• spreadsheets used in lieu of any integrated customer management system
• contact databases relying on discontinued operating systems with no migration plan

Brightpearl will launch an education programme in November aimed at helping retailers to uncover where a consolidated IT approach can help them to achieve efficiencies in their businesses based on the real world experiences in its customer base.

Brightpearl is available from $99/£69 per user per month.

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London, 11 October 2012: Saffron Digital, the global leader in multi-DRM and online video platforms for the digital entertainment industry, has today announced the appointment of Yoel Marson.

Yoel is the latest addition to the leadership team at Saffron Digital. As Chief Technology Officer, he will be responsible for directing the company’s technology strategy; steering the development of new client solutions and bolstering existing offerings with enhanced capability.

He will work closely with the other executive team members to ensure Saffron Digital’s products remain innovative, consistently meeting client expectations and requirements. Saffron Digital is known for its ability to provide clients with a profitable, Multi-DRM digital video service; used by millions of end-users worldwide. Yoel will push the capabilities of Saffron Digital’s technology forward, creating pioneering features and original user experiences.   

Yoel has held several technology leadership roles including that of Director of Engineering of Yahoo Answers. He had been the only global technology leader for Yahoo! outside of the US, improving on one of the world’s busiest websites, boasting over 200m unique users and over 1.5 billion page views per month.

Jason Keane, CEO of Saffron Digital, said “Yoel is an excellent new addition to the team. Having worked with him at Yahoo!, I have witnessed firsthand his passion and drive for innovation and global platform technologies. His expertise and experience will help us to expand our offering to clients and drive overall growth of the company; further cementing Saffron Digital as a leader in cloud based secure video delivery for the Digital Entertainment Industry.”

Yoel Marson added, “It is an exciting time to be in the Digital Entertainment Industry; a number of changes on the horizon could revolutionize the way end-users interact with video content. However, these changes will bring additional challenges; Saffron Digital is at the forefront of tackling these challenges, providing customers with flexible and secure online video platforms. For a technologist it’s a great place to use my expertise to help build the next generation of world class digital entertainment”.

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m-hance, one of the UK’s fastest growing providers of business software solutions, is a finalist in the 2012 British Accountancy Awards. m-hance has been shortlisted in the ‘Software Product of the Year’ category for its innovative enterprise social networking (ESN) solution, m-hance Social Business (mSB). The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony held at Old Billingsgate Market in London on 21 November 2012.

The British Accountancy Awards recognise excellence in the accountancy community. The judging panel of leading industry experts were called upon to ensure this year’s entries reflected the latest breakthroughs and triumphs in the accountancy profession, making them the most relevant and prestigious awards in their genre.

Andrew Hayward, Managing Director of m-hance, comments, “mSB is the only solution of its kind to have reached the final of these respected industry awards. This reflects that more and more finance professionals are recognising how ESN technology can cut costs and deliver measurable efficiency gains throughout the business as well as within their own departments.”

mSB is an internal networking tool that provides secure and seamless out-of-the-box connectivity to financial management, CRM, SharePoint and other SQL and Oracle based applications, enabling employees to easily access, comment on and share valuable knowledge to drive more profitable communications. mSB can be deployed on premise or as a private hosted managed solution, providing flexibility and security over company data.

Key benefits of m-hance Social Business for finance professionals include:

• Increases productivity by an average 2% per user providing efficiency savings ranging from £70,000 per year (based on 100 users) to £350,000 (based on 500 users) through reduced email ‘noise’
• Enables finance teams to be perceived as more trusted advisors
• Helps to reduce costly financial mistakes
• Reduces ‘push reporting’ to allow more time to be spent on strategic activities
• Moves systems of record to systems of engagement

Hayward comments, “ESN is one of those defining technologies that will command business’ attention whether they like it or not. Today’s younger employees will expect it and increasingly finance professionals will demand it to improve productivity so they can focus more on key strategic tasks and receive alerts to enable them to quickly address issues before they arise.”

Hayward adds, “As a supplier we firmly believe in taking our own medicine and have a real need to keep our lines of communication open as a rapidly expanding business. Since adopting mSB internally m-hance’s finance team is saving two days each month that were previously spent on answering queries and processing administrative tasks. This has helped us to reduce our debtor days and tighten our credit control procedures, directly benefitting our bottom line.”

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About m-hance www.m-hance.com
m-hance is a UK-based company providing innovative and functionally rich business software solutions to 2400 mid-market sized organisations including Innocent Drinks, RFU, Viridor, Millennium Hotels, Make-A-Wish, Hewden and Endsleigh Insurance. m-hance’s core solutions offering consists of financial management, CRM, enterprise social networking, SharePoint, HR & Payroll, managed services and software development in a variety of vertical markets including distribution, manufacturing, not-for-profit, professional services and infrastructure.

m-hance has been formed following the acquisitions of Calyx Software, Gyrosoft, Trinity Computer Services and elements of MentecPlus, Touchstone Group and Maxima Holdings plc. m-hance is currently supported by 230 staff from offices in Manchester, London, Loughborough, Dublin, Glasgow and the United States. m-hance also has offshore development capabilities in India.

In September 2012, m-hance was ranked in the Tech Track 100 league table as one of the fastest-growing private technology companies in Britain after achieving record sales growth of over 45%.

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PR Manager
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e: ben.carey@m-hance.com

UK company Citicus® Limited has appointed Seoul-based WiNoble, Inc as its Distributor in the Republic of Korea. Based in Seoul, WiNoble is one of Korea's leading providers of end point security, a major provider of log monitoring solutions and local market creator in security risk management.

Announcing the appointment, Marco Kapp, co-founder of Citicus Limited says: "In Korea there is strong demand for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) and our industry-leading Citicus ONE and Citicus ICS risk and compliance softwares provide ideal foundations for setting up an ISMS in particular environments."

"WiNoble is a vital partner for us since doing business in Korea requires a strong local presence. WiNoble has a strong track record of providing world-class information security solutions to private- and public-sector enterprises in Korea – including many in the Manufacturing, Food, Financial Services and Public sectors whose activities demand protection.”

“We're confident that their local staff understand the way to do business in Korea, can talk with Korean customers in their own language, and have the enthusiasm and motivation to sell ISMS solutions to organisations in Korea."

“They can also provide first-line support in local language to our end-users in Korea.”

Thomas J. Rhee, President and CEO of WiNoble adds: “Citicus offers a systematized and scalable approach to risk management which is easy to deploy and treads lightly on end-user organizations.”

“Their Citicus ONE software comes pre-loaded with the widely-used standards and frameworks needed to assess compliance with good practice (eg ISO/IEC 270001, ISF Standard of Practice, PCI/DSS), and it can be easily configured to measure risk and compliance in other important areas (eg SCADA, compliance with Government policies). Its reporting capabilities are also outstanding, including its ability to track remediation activity through to completion."

“Its configurability means we can easily load it with the Korean equivalent of ISO 270001. Thus we're really pleased that we can now add Citicus software to our product range.”

What are Citicus ONE and Citicus ICS? 
Citicus ONE is a web-based, risk and compliance management system. It measures the risk posed by information leakage, lack of integrity or unavailability and can be used to measure and manage the risk posed by large or small-scale office systems, public-facing systems, payment systems, industrial control systems and IT infrastructure (eg data centres, networks). It can be applied equally well to other areas of operational risk (eg projects, sites, suppliers).

Citicus ICS is a specialized version optimized to measure the risk posed by industrial control systems (ICS), eg SCADA systems common in the process control environment.

Citicus ONE and Citicus ICS both measure risk and compliance via a continuing managed process using a methodology called FIRM that reflects 20 years of research into the factors that drive risk up or down and those which make risk programmes successful. This enables private and public sector organisations to measure the risk posed by their critical systems and compliance with good practice in a highly-efficient, objective and business-oriented manner.

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London - UK, October 11, 2012: Adaptris, the integration expert, today announced the launch of Adaptris ECX, an independent Electronic Data Management hub set to transform the international construction and building sectors. Filling the gap that traditional EDI systems have left behind, this third generation eTrading hub delivers immediate ROI and leverages the investment in a firm’s existing back office systems by making them ‘open’ to the supply chain. Demonstrating its support for Adaptris ECX and its commitment to the construction sector, Adaptris has formed a new division and appointed Matthew Jones - a former director of COINS – as managing director.

Commenting on his new role and the introduction of Adaptris ECX, Matthew Jones said: “This is an extremely exciting time to join Adaptris. Until now, attempts to harness electronic data integration for the entire construction sector have been very difficult to realise, with the majority of buyers and supply chain partners still unable to make the move to integrated e-commerce. However, with the launch of Adaptris ECX, Adaptris is now perfectly placed with the right leadership team, unrivalled systems agnostic technology and the ambition and drive to enable all supply chain partners to swiftly and easily roll out this game changing solution set. It is now possible for trading partners to be up and running within 24 hours of the first documents being received.” He continued: “We are committed to keeping things simple for all supply chain participants and in Adaptris ECX, we have a rapid roll out solution that’s relevant, carefully considered and tailored to the precise needs of its target market. I am confident that Adaptris ECX will prove to be a technology turning point for international construction and building sectors, helping them to drive and realise significant efficiencies.”

Adaptris ECX is independent of any construction sector solutions provider and has been designed to be flexible and agile, with rapid roll-out capabilities, making it applicable for the smallest of companies to the largest. Open to all, the ‘Integration Anywhere’ platform is not limited to any one back office system and its unique focus on creating a set of open adaptors mean that it can be integrated into all major back office systems. Adaptris ECX facilitates all aspects of the purchase and pay cycle, to deliver the benefits of joined up procurement and electronic invoice presentment and payment (EIPP). The increased accuracy of electronic data drives swifter processing of business documents, cutting costs and improving both process efficiency and business margins. By allowing all supply chain partners to participate, irrespective of size and systems capability, the complete automation of inefficient paper-based tasks is achievable, thereby releasing employees and businesses to focus on higher value, business-critical tasks.  

Powered by Adaptris integration technology, the Adaptris ECX eCommerce hub builds on the company’s experience in many different sectors and utilises the latest technology to significantly simplify the process for buying organisations as they drive their supply chain onboard. Its simplicity, ease of use and straightforward onboarding process are designed to quickly and efficiently set up all participants, who will also enjoy access to a wealth of support and training literature. With a wide variety of cost entry levels and a scalable managed services option, all organisations are able to benefit from the value add qualities of e-invoicing and e-procurement. 

With increasing focus on environmental considerations, Adaptris ECX also enables the construction industry to focus on its corporate social responsibilities and sustainability goals, due to the move away from physical paper-based processes to electronic alternatives.

Valued at over £125 billion per year, the UK construction industry accounts for a massive seven per cent of the UK’s GDP. However, the disparity in terms of size and technical capability between the 300,000 buyers and suppliers in the industry is immense. Adaptris ECX aims to bridge this gulf, enabling all players access to a full purchase and pay platform. The new all-inclusive service gives access not only to contractors and house builders, but continues right through the complex and interconnected spiders web of the construction supply chain, connecting all buying organisations and suppliers, right down to the small independent one man band.

Nick Evans, CEO of Adaptris commented: “At Adaptris, we believe in ‘Integration Anywhere’; it embodies everything we do, from simple application adapters running on premise, right through to SaaS adapters running in the cloud mining data warehouses. We feel that through the all-inclusive nature of Adaptris ECX, we are indeed delivering Integration Everywhere to everyone in construction.” He continued: “Our customers understand that having the right information at the right time is the difference between winning and losing out to competitors; and in the current climate, no link in the construction supply chain can afford to be left behind.”

Virtustream, Inc., the leading enterprise cloud solutions provider, today announced that Open Solutions Inc., the leading provider of collaborative enterprise technology to community-based financial institutions worldwide, has chosen to build and deploy its development environment on xStream, Virtustream’s enterprise class cloud solution. Open Solutions’ decision to move its existing, virtualised systems to the cloud will provide the increased flexibility and agility needed to enhance the performance of its software solutions so that it can better serve the financial services community with its radically different technological innovations.

“Open Solutions is dedicated to providing community banks and credit unions with the most powerful and innovative solutions possible. To do so, we require a development environment that offers unparalleled flexibility, security and speed of deployment – that is why we chose xStream,” said Michael Calabrese, director of corporate systems infrastructure at Open Solutions.  “And because Open Solutions enjoys a long-standing and successful partnership with Virtustream on projects including active disaster recovery for our internal corporate production systems, we are confident in Virtustream’s ability to deliver.”

For Open Solutions, the flexibility, agility and cost-savings Virtustream offers distinguished the company from other cloud solutions providers. xStream can easily support dozens of copies of the same systems running simultaneously, enabling developers to work separately on the new systems without interference. And since customers are only billed for what they use, Open Solutions estimates that it will be able to reduce costs by migrating their development systems to xStream. xStream will provide initial capacity supporting hundreds of servers and tens of terabytes of high-performance storage, with scalability to thousands of servers and hundreds of terabytes.  The infrastructure is easily accessible to any number of developers at any given time.

“The move by Open Solutions to select Virtustream to advance its developer environment is a testament to the strong relationship we have built with them over the past year,” said Rodney Rogers, chairman and chief executive officer of Virtustream. “We are pleased to provide Open Solutions with a flexible and reliable solution that can keep pace with their aggressive, ground-breaking development initiatives.”

The Virtustream xStream cloud platform delivers an innovative approach to private, virtual private and hybrid clouds, enabling customers to deploy mission-critical applications in the cloud, backed by application SLAs. Powered by Virtustream µVMTM technology, xStream delivers enterprise-grade security and compliance, multi-tenant efficiency, application performance SLAs and consumption based charging for both legacy and web-scale mission-critical applications.

About Open Solutions Inc.
Open Solutions Inc.® helps community-based financial institutions around the world enrich their local economies by providing innovative technologies and insights that enable them to operate more profitably, efficiently and collaboratively.

Industry pioneers, Open Solutions revolutionised enterprise technology with DNA™, the first open, relationship-centered core banking platform built for global collaboration. This radically different approach to enterprise technology enables banks and credit unions around the world to leverage the power of community through DNAappstore™, the first-ever collaborative marketplace for user-created core enhancements.

Extending the power of DNA further, Open Solutions offers a full range of complementary software solutions for payments, item processing, distributed capture, internet banking, mobile banking, CRM, business intelligence, loan origination, financial accounting, account analysis, wealth management, digital document and interactive voice response. It also offers complete hardware solutions, plus independent industry insight and guidance from Raddon Financial Group. For more information, visit Open Solutions at www.OpenSolutions.com.

About Virtustream
Virtustream is a leading cloud innovator offering enterprise class cloud solutions for enterprises, governments and service providers. Virtustream simplifies moving complex IT to the cloud - whether private, public or hybrid – while delivering the full economic and business benefits of the cloud. Virtustream offers xStream: a secure, high availability, enterprise class hybrid cloud solution, delivering application level SLAs for mission critical applications (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and thousands more). xStream is available as software for existing data centers and as a managed service from Virtustream's cloud – all backed by professional services to design, migrate, and manage clouds.  Virtustream offers xStream worldwide; owns data centers in the U.S. and EMEA; operates an international Cloud Exchange; has offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Toronto and Dublin and has partners in Asia and China. 

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Reading, Berkshire., - October 11, 2012 - C2C, a leading provider of email, file and messaging management solutions, today announced that its ArchiveOne Enterprise email archiving and management platform now provides centralised support for private and hybrid cloud storage services. As a result, companies focused on optimised eDiscovery, data preservation, and disposition can benefit from a comprehensive email archiving solution that features dynamic and consistent policy enforcement for data that is live, residing in Exchange, or archived on premise as well as archived data stored in the cloud.

“Archiving is an ideal application to benefit from the advantages of the hybrid cloud, especially if policies can be uniformly enforced across all data sources, including live data, locally retained data and data that has been deployed to the cloud for lower cost management,” said Sheila Childs, managing vice president, Gartner. “When consistent policies and eDiscovery processes can be run across all data sources, then you achieve optimum benefits in flexibility, cost savings and control.”

ArchiveOne Enterprise uniquely centralises the management and control of all email data, regardless of whether it is retained on premise or in the cloud. This enables IT to continue to manage data at the source to enforce retention and compliance without having to move it all to the cloud to perform policy enforcement. The ArchiveOne Enterprise model minimises cloud security concerns by giving IT control over the software implementation and access.  Most importantly, ArchiveOne Enterprise enables comprehensive searches across all data sources and provides rapid response to discovery requests on live and archived data.  This eliminates the need to discover across disparate environments, reducing both time and cost.

When Chris D’Orazi of Central Garden and Pet needed to alleviate a storage burden on Exchange without sacrificing historical data, ArchiveOne Enterprise was able to solve his problem.  Lacking the physical space to implement an on-premise email archiving solution, he considered a cloud solution but did not want to be locked in.  

“ArchiveOne Enterprise Cloud provides us with the best of both worlds – the elasticity of the cloud with the freedom and flexibility of an on-premise solution,” said D’Orazi. “The on-premise server provides policy control of live and archive data, while the cloud storage options provide unlimited archive storage.” D’Orazi also notes that C2C has “a proven track record of success” where many of the cloud providers are new and do not have the years of experience that C2C offers.

C2C’s ArchiveOne has been designed for the “real world” where email data may reside on Exchange servers as well as network file servers and end user systems, and, where it is not feasible to archive all email data before enforcing retention or searching messages. This “real world” approach separates ArchiveOne Enterprise from the competition because it aligns with IT organisations and drives efficiency into their daily activities – rather than change them.

With its support for hybrid cloud environments, ArchiveOne Enterprise allows users to maintain control of their email archive while leveraging their own cloud accounts, such as Amazon’s S3, as their cloud storage infrastructure without feature restrictions.

“Hybrid cloud environments can deliver impressive advantages for achieving high scalability and reliability at a low cost,” said Dave Hunt, CEO, C2C. “ArchiveOne provides customers with the optimum set-up for on-premise data management that encompasses security, flexibility and ease-of-use all behind the firewall and enables them to benefit from hybrid cloud storage to achieve lower cost of storage. It’s ‘real world’ archiving using ‘new world’ technology in the cloud.”

A live online demonstration, references from ArchiveOne users, and a 30-day trial are available at: http://uk.c2c.com/resources. 

About C2C
C2C Systems has earned the trust of its four million software users since 1992 by consistently delivering high-value, dependable core messaging system enhancements. Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint®, and Windows® File Server form the heart of C2C's commercial and governmental customers’ businesses worldwide. C2C’s ArchiveOne® product family is the trusted choice for email and file archiving, eDiscovery, compliance management, legal forensics and storage management tools to enhance these platforms. For more information about the Company, visit www.c2c.com.

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Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany – The premium offset printing assortment of the onlineprinters.com online shop now includes stationery and matching envelopes for Christmas mailings. Choose from a great variety of print templates with different motifs for festive stationery, envelopes, and greeting cards. “It has never been easier to create personalised Christmas mailings,” Julia Voigt, Marketing Manager of Onlineprinters GmbH, is glad to comment on the online shop's offer. The large selection of motifs makes it easier for companies, freelancers, associations, and private customers to create their own Christmas mails. “As the year draws to a close, business partners, customers, or friends exchange Christmas greetings which are increasingly personal and well-designed,” the Marketing Manager observes. Stationery with seasonal motifs offers more space for longer and more individual text. The motif selection of festive stationery is complemented by folding cards for a short Christmas greeting message. The www.onlineprinters.com online print shop addresses its print template service for Christmas mailings to online shoppers all over Europe.

Free download of motifs for Christmas stationery
“With our free Christmas mailing print templates we accommodate our customers' wish to facilitate the creation of personalised Christmas mail for everyone by offering a large selection of motifs and Christmas stationery with matching envelopes,” the Marketing Manager explains further. The templates can be downloaded for free at www.onlineprinters.com/christmas-stationery. Using a layout programme, customers can personalise their Christmas mail by adding a personal letterhead, logo, or an individual motif or text. In the online shop, detailed information is available for every print product regarding bleed, colours, fonts, and format proposals, which easily allow the creation of print files. Customers then upload the printable file in PDF format to the online shop, select the desired printed product, and simply complete the ordering process online,” the Marketing Manager outlines the online ordering process.

Matching envelopes with Christmas motifs for stationery
Envelopes in a matching design are available for Christmas stationery. Full bleed envelope printing is available. “This enables brilliant designs and striking effects to be printed on the envelope front and back,” the Marketing Manager is happy to comment on the envelopes' varied uses for business and Christmas mail. onlineprinters.com is one of the first online print shops on the market to offer the sophisticated and punchy full bleed printed envelopes in DIN long format. Thanks to the use of state-of-the-art printing machines and the latest printing technologies, the German online print shop can process every order for its European customers efficiently, quickly, and at low cost.

San Jose, CA - October 11, 2012 — Zscaler, the leader in secure cloud gateway solutions, announced today the results of an analysis from ThreatLabZ, the company’s security research arm, which reveals that up to 10 percent of mobile apps expose user passwords and login names, 25 percent expose personally identifiable information and 40 percent communicate with third parties. The analysis was done using the new Zscaler Application Profiler (ZAP), a free online tool that makes it easy for users to assess mobile apps for security risks.

There are over one million mobile applications, and more than 1,500 new apps being released every week. Users who download these apps, even from trusted sources, assume security measures are built in. However, the new research from Zscaler ThreatLabZ shows that is not always the case. The ThreatLabZ team analyzed hundreds of applications, and found that many popular apps leave user names and passwords unencrypted, while others are insecurely sharing personal information—such as names, email addresses and phone numbers—as well as communicating with third parties, including advertisers.

“App stores have strict guidelines about which logos and colors developers can use, yet application security remains largely unenforced,” said Michael Sutton, vice president of Security Research at Zscaler. “Using ZAP, mobile app developers, users and corporate IT organizations can easily assess the security risks of apps before they are installed, and analyze installed apps for privacy violations.”

Zscaler’s Application Profiler is an easy to use online tool where users can search the name of any iOS or Android app, and receive an instant assessment of its security and privacy risks, along with an overall risk score. Users can also use ZAP to scan traffic from an app installed on their device to see whether their own data is being exposed. No security expertise is needed to use ZAP. As more users submit mobile apps for analysis, Zscaler’s ThreatLabZ team adds the results to the ZAP database, in effect crowdsourcing the security profiles of thousands of mobile apps.  A blog post with video walkthrough on how to use the tool is available at http://research.zscaler.com/2012/10/introducing-zap.html.

Long Crendon, UK – 11 October 2012 – Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, today announces the winners of its outstanding sales and revenue performance awards for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The gold certified level partners that achieved the highest sales in the past 12 months were recognized during the 2012 EMEA Channel Partner Conference which took place 8-10 October in Cyprus.

Thales has long recognized the value of partnerships to deliver world class security solutions that satisfy critical customer requirements. As customers increasingly demand integrated and secure business solutions Thales works closely with its partners to design, market and deliver innovative and industry leading security solutions, tools and programs that enable businesses to protect and manage their critical business assets.

The Thales Partner Program ensures that Thales solutions integrate seamlessly with leading applications and hardware. Through the support of resellers and system integrators, Thales’ portfolio of data protection, key management and payment transaction hardware security platforms have met the security needs of organizations in different verticals across the globe.

Presenting the awards John Stephens, vice president global sales, Thales e-Security, said: “Our partner program is an essential element of Thales e-Security’s ongoing growth and success. It is designed to support and reward our partners who are continually developing their security expertise, as well as driving new sales opportunities. We are delighted to recognize and award our leading sales partners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa who have helped expand the reach of our solutions to deliver comprehensive security that meets the needs of our combined customers.”

The 2012 Thales EMEA Channel Partner Award winners are:

EMEA Distributor of the Year 2012 – Wick Hill Limited 
Established in 1976 in Germany, the International Wick Hill Group is an award-winning value-added distributor with a channel-only model and a specific focus on delivering market growth for its vendor and reseller partners. www.wickhill.de

EMEA New Business Distributor of the Year 2012 – DNA Distribution  
DNA Distribution is the official distributor for Thales e-Security in Russia and CIS and one of the largest IT distributors in the Russian market. www.dna.ru

Northern Europe Reseller of the Year 2012 – Avensus  
Avensus is a Netherlands-based ICT company specializing in security and managed services. www.avensus.nl

Eastern Europe Reseller of the Year 2012 – ALTAIR-775 
With a 25-year-plus track record for product design, advanced engineering software, on-demand computing technologies and enterprise analytics solutions, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to more than 3,000 corporate clients representing the automotive, aerospace, government and defense, and consumer products.

Southern Europe Reseller of the Year 2012 – PayLogic  
Morocco-based PayLogic provides electronic payment solutions that include ATM/POS and debit and credit card issuing.www.pay-logic.com

Middle East, Africa and South Asia Reseller of the Year 2012 – Altech Card Solutions 
Altech Card Solutions, a division of South Africa-based Altech Information Technologies (Pty) Ltd, is a key component of the Altech Group Technology division, and was formed in 1993. Altech is now firmly established as a leading player in the secure electronic transaction market. www.acs.altech.co.za

Safesign Reseller of the Year 2012 – Computel  
CompuTel, is a Russian system integrator and the market leader in information infrastructure system management.www.computel.ru

keyAuthority Reseller of the Year 2012 – OSYS AG  
Since 1978, Switzerland-based OSTS has provided services in the area of data center infrastructure, systems engineering and software development. www.osys.ch

Defence and Government Reseller of the Year 2012 – P&C Communications  
P&C Communications Limited, founded in the UK in 1991, specialises in the provision and management of secure local and wide area voice and data networking solutions. www.p-ccomms.com

New Business Solution Reseller of the Year 2012 – AriadNEXT 
AriadNEXT is a French-based provider of innovative solutions for electronically capturing and securing data.www.ariadnext.com

Supporting Resources:
Thales e-Security Partner Program: http://www.thales-esecurity.com/Partners.aspx
Thales e-Security: http://www.thales-esecurity.com/

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The MLX90809 is a highly accurate, AEC Q100 qualified relative pressure sensor specifically targeted at 1 Bar applications.
The company’s proprietary piezo-resistive MEMS technology combined with a high accuracy sensing element, low noise analog front end and 16-bit sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC) delivers superior performance. The resulting sophisticated analog chain provides the necessary amplification and offset compensation for the sensing element. The built-in 16-bit microcontroller unit (MCU) deals with temperature compensation and supplies the diagnostic
mechanisms required for safety critical applications.

An integrated fully programmable EEPROM memory allows different configurations to be supported, such as independent setting of diagnostic functions for over-voltage or under-voltage supply conditions and over-pressure or under-pressure conditions, as well as selectable digital filter settings to further reduce output noise or alternatively to decrease sensor response time. It also permits sensor compensation data and unit identity to be stored.

“As the MEMS technology employed is fully compatible with standard CMOS processes, we have been able to fabricate a completely monolithic sensor, where the sensing element and its signal conditioning circuitry are processed on the same wafer,” Laurent Otte, Product Marketing Manager for Pressure Sensors at Melexis, explains. “This gives the device a huge advantage over non-integrated pressure sensor offerings, where the signal conditioning is normally several millimeters away
from the sensing element and therefore exhibits inferior signal integrity and greater susceptibility to electro-magnetic interference (EMI). It also allows us to reduce the die area to less than half that of our previous generation of
integrated MEMs based pressure sensors.”

Offered in a highly robust, plastic molded, 16-pin surface mount package, the MLX90809 sensor device can deliver pressure data via an analog output voltage ratiometric to the supply voltage or using the SENT digital protocol. It has an operational temperature range of -40 °C to +150 °C, enabling it to cope with the most demanding
automotive environments.

Intellectual Property (IP) specialist Joshi & Welch is using technology to sharpen its service to clients and to turn off the “dripping tap” of lost time.

From the outset the London-based firm, which operates as an Alternative Business Structure, set out to use IT to differentiate itself in the marketplace when it was formed in 2006.

That meant constant scrutiny of the service it provided to its clients, which range from multinationals to SMEs and individuals, and making a concerted attempt to keep track of lost time, which is traditionally a major challenge for IP lawyers.

Last year Joshi & Welch, which advises on all aspects of IP, from registered trade marks and registered designs through to copyright, other related rights and unregistered IP rights, opted to go live with the SOS Connect legal practice and case management system from Solicitors Own Software.

The firm uses SOS Connect alongside its hosted trade mark management software. All clients and prospective clients are entered onto SOS Connect, which is used for file creation, document management,
time recording, billing and disbursements. In addition to its office-based staff in the City, Joshi & Welch has an administrator who is able to access the system and update records from her home office in Oxfordshire.

“Our approach is to be knowledgeable, forward-thinking and proactive and for us, technology facilitates this. We intentionally started out with technology being at the core of the business – to enhance how we work and to differentiate us in the marketplace,” says trade mark attorney and co-founder of Joshi & Welch, Duncan Welch.

“By 2011, the time had come for a proper, integrated system to better manage our files, centralise information and further sharpen our client service. With SOS Connect we definitely offer a more
efficient, client-centric service which, in turn, enables our clients to keep ahead of the game.

“We also keep better track of time and communications. A big problem for trade mark attorneys is that we can lose time like a dripping tap. This is because of the sheer numbers of files we can be working on (which can be thousands) coupled with the multiplicity of work we will be doing for each client.

“Time recording and document management in SOS Connect has revolutionised this; it is so easy to set up a record in 30 seconds and immediately start billing and then log all forms of contact with clients.”

Duncan Welch adds that SOS Connect has also helped to eliminate another bane of many lawyers’ lives: searching for missing paperwork.

“On a logistical level, office space is at premium in the City and it pays to be organised,” he says.

“SOS Connect helps us to keep paper down to an absolute minimum so we pay less on space; we don’t procrastinate behind huge piles of cases on our desks and have a lean number of filing cabinets.

“A favourite expression is that ‘electronic files don’t sprout legs’, meaning we’ve eliminated the mindless search for missing paper files that many firms still endure due to an outdated love of paper.

“In the short term we wanted SOS Connect in and up and for the whole team to be using it and capturing information - we rapidly hit that goal. In the longer term, we will continuously polish how we use the software to gain even greater efficiencies.”

David McNamara, managing director of SOS, said: “By their very nature, law firms such as Joshi & Welch need to be agile and adept at using technology to their maximum advantage. SOS Connect is
an integral part of the firm’s processes and it will continue to evolve and grow in line with its needs.”

Appointment-Plus, the worldwide leader in mobile and online scheduling, has announced the release of native mobile scheduling apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets, making “on-the-go” appointment- and reservation-scheduling from mobile devices even easier and more efficient.

The leading provider of online scheduling solutions is now the only major and universal online appointment scheduling system to offer the value of native mobile apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets. The apps are available free to all Appointment-Plus clients.

Appointment-Plus determined that native apps would be the most beneficial to clients’ scheduling needs, as they’re faster and more easily accessible than mobile web apps. The result is even more efficient appointment and customer management.

Appointment-Plus is not alone in its view of native mobile apps. Responding to his company’s decision to focus on native apps instead of a mobile HTLM5 web app, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated, "Native is going to be the approach that we go with for iOS and Android” at the September 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

“Appointment-Plus continues to be the trend-setter in the scheduling industry with this exciting mobile announcement,” says Bob La Loggia, CEO of Appointment-Plus. “The future of the Internet and cloud-based applications like ours is through mobile, and we’re proud to offer our clients the mobile apps they need to run their businesses even more successfully and productively.

“Regardless of whether our clients use an Apple product like iPhone, iPad or any Android product, Appointment-Plus has a mobile app for them.”

Both the Apple and the Android version of the mobile scheduling software application allow clients to instantly view and manage their schedules, staff and customers by clicking on the Appointment-Plus icon button placed on their mobile device after downloading the app. This includes booking a new appointment, changing the time or canceling an appointment, adding new customer information or simply viewing their business service appointment schedule at a glance. All apps feature a clean and easy-to-navigate interface that makes administrating the booking process from mobile devices much easier and quicker than accessing a Web page or using commonly-available mobile web apps.

Additionally, Appointment-Plus is currently developing a “customer view” scheduling application for Apple and Android as well, which will further simplify the scheduling process for its clients’ customers, patients and students. The company anticipates an end-of-year release for these apps.

The Appointment-Plus mobile apps can be downloaded from the App Store (for the iPhone and iPad) and the Google Play store (Android phones and tablets).

The worldwide experts in online scheduling software solutions since 2001, Appointment-Plus appointment scheduling software provides businesses and organizations of all sizes with the Web-based tools they need to simplify, automate and improve their appointment-booking processes. These include online customer scheduling, automated e-mail and text message reminders, online payment-processing, e-marketing and the industry’s largest collection of plug-ins, syncs and integrations in its Marketplace.

“Today’s business owners and their staff are relying more and more on mobile devices for conducting tasks, including appointment-scheduling,” La Loggia adds. “Appointment-Plus is leading the way in providing the perfect mobile-scheduling solution for managing this important component of their operations.”